I get a call, it's a telemarketer or some survey (877 number, some out of state number or 800 number) so I send it to voicemail. Of course they leave me a voicemail so I have a notification in my phone app for them. And yes, before you make stupid obvious ignorant suggestions, I do tell them to not call me. But they call anyway because they warned me it would take 30 days. That's not what this thread is about so go join a philosophy forum if you want to talk about things that have nothing to do with an iPhone.
But here's the problem:
Checking call history doesn't clear the notifications, at all. Even when it is working properly. You HAVE to click the tiny, small, easily missable letter I with a circle around it in order for the phone to be like, "Oh okay, he knows he missed this call."
Even then, it doesn't work. Some times it takes hours or even days or a restart to get the number to clear. It's obnoxious. Do I have to restart my phone every time I want a clean phone icon?
And why do we have to click the little I to begin with? Give us an option to swipe our notifications clear. It's such a stupid concept that we have to either call back people we didn't answer from because, we didn't want to talk to them, or click their little information icon. What purpose is that? Oh even though I see the number on my call history, it makes perfect sense that I want to click the little information icon so I can see all the notes I have on this person.
In fact, I think we should be able to disable alert numbers entirely in Settings. Not all of us have such terrible brains that we need a red number to remind us that an app wants to give us information we don't want. And the fact that the number itself is entirely inconvenient and annoying and obtrusive to remove defeats the ENTIRE purpose of a "convenience" feature such as the red number to begin with.
This is like replacing a home door lock with an "easy to use swipe card" but requiring a fingerprint scan, blood sample and physical verification with a security guard two floors above you in order to use the swipe card.
But here's the problem:
Checking call history doesn't clear the notifications, at all. Even when it is working properly. You HAVE to click the tiny, small, easily missable letter I with a circle around it in order for the phone to be like, "Oh okay, he knows he missed this call."
Even then, it doesn't work. Some times it takes hours or even days or a restart to get the number to clear. It's obnoxious. Do I have to restart my phone every time I want a clean phone icon?
And why do we have to click the little I to begin with? Give us an option to swipe our notifications clear. It's such a stupid concept that we have to either call back people we didn't answer from because, we didn't want to talk to them, or click their little information icon. What purpose is that? Oh even though I see the number on my call history, it makes perfect sense that I want to click the little information icon so I can see all the notes I have on this person.
In fact, I think we should be able to disable alert numbers entirely in Settings. Not all of us have such terrible brains that we need a red number to remind us that an app wants to give us information we don't want. And the fact that the number itself is entirely inconvenient and annoying and obtrusive to remove defeats the ENTIRE purpose of a "convenience" feature such as the red number to begin with.
This is like replacing a home door lock with an "easy to use swipe card" but requiring a fingerprint scan, blood sample and physical verification with a security guard two floors above you in order to use the swipe card.