will profiles ever be available?

[Kadman]

I agree with many of the profile options already mention. However, the one profile feature I've REALLY wanted is a decent car profile. For this I would want fewer, but larger icons to show up on the display, just 2 in the dock (phone & iPod) and two rows of two at the top, enough for GPS, Slacker (or other audio app) and a couple of others. These would be "Car" profile pages that you could configure through the new interface that would only show when you are using that profile.

My goal is to minimize the amount of distraction while driving and be able to only see the things really needed while in the car and make them easy to hit while the phone is in it's car mount. In this mode I would also likely turn off Wi-Fi (not for power reasons but for notifications of hot spots it sees while driving that I don't mind any other time but are useless while driving), maybe different brightness settings or sleep/auto lock settings, Bluetooth on for car, but off when using normal profiles, etc.

The biggest problem with all of this is that it would benefit the customer only and doesn't bring more revenue to Apple, therefore it will likely never happen.

 

[sinsin07]

I wish Apple would add something I understand the Blackberry has. The ability to reject calls after a pre-programmed time of night (and possibly only allow certain important numbers to ring through) without turning the phone off.

I agree with many of the profile options already mention. However, the one profile feature I've REALLY wanted is a decent car profile. For this I would want fewer, but larger icons to show up on the display, just 2 in the dock (phone & iPod) and two rows of two at the top, enough for GPS, Slacker (or other audio app) and a couple of others. These would be "Car" profile pages that you could configure through the new interface that would only show when you are using that profile.

My goal is to minimize the amount of distraction while driving and be able to only see the things really needed while in the car and make them easy to hit while the phone is in it's car mount. In this mode I would also likely turn off Wi-Fi (not for power reasons but for notifications of hot spots it sees while driving that I don't mind any other time but are useless while driving), maybe different brightness settings or sleep/auto lock settings, Bluetooth on for car, but off when using normal profiles, etc.

The biggest problem with all of this is that it would benefit the customer only and doesn't bring more revenue to Apple, therefore it will likely never happen.

+1
Two very good ideas.
It could be pitched to Apple as a Safety Car profile or something.

 

[twisted-pixel]

I'm surprised you would post this, with your attention to detail. Its obvious you did not spend to much time trying to understanding the usefulness of profiles, especially since the iPhone has settings for items that are inconvenient, like turning bluetooth and wireless.


There are lots of reasons people might want profiles other than on and off.

What if I'm in a meeting but I want to know if I get a text alert but not a phone call.
My iPhone vibrates when I get a text, vibrates when it starts "ringing" when in silent, I simply press the sleep button and it stop vibrating while the phone "continues to ring".
What if I want to get phone calls but not a text alert?
See above
What if I want my ringer to be one volume daytime and another at night?
Use the volume button?
What if I want vibrate on during the day but not at night
I assume yours is set to ring and vibrate? if so, then I see your point on this one.
What if I want to create permutations of all the above
Perhaps there's a point there as well.
What if I want to control aspects of wifi/3g/edge based on where I am
Interesting thought, but I can't even do this on my curve. Combined with the above this would be a nice feature.
And what if I want to do all of this with one switch as opposed to having to set/reset several settings?
How do you propose switching multiple permutations of profiles with a simple on/off switch?

The one on/off button, as you say, isn't enough.


Again, another clueless person. You're what I call an iTunes only person. Some people would like to have more business like features. Try thinking outside of the Apple crate.





I am not sure why MyProfiles is not workng either of you. I have been using them for about 3 months.
I have a going to work profile, which turns on at 7:00 am, it switches wifi off, bluetooth on.
Then I have a profile for when I arrive at work, turns off bluetooth, turns on wifi and connects to my companies wifi network.
Going home I have a leave work profile that turns off wifi and turns on bluetooth.
At 6:00 pm my profile turns off bluetooth, turns on wifi and connects to my home network.
I never have to go into settings to turn on and off these things, it just works.
I have not experimented with SMS and other things, but I will give it a try.

I'm the same, the profiles don't get activated.

I have a timed profile that switches to flight mode at 10.30...only it doesn't
It ends at 6.30 in the morning (where I assumed it would go back to the previous profile - or even the default)...but it doesn't
I have a work profile that's set to 8.00 to 5.30...but..same as before..it doesn't switch

that's what I mean about it being unreliable.

 

[GfPQqmcRKUvP]

...and without it, there isn't enough of a reason to upgrade.

How about because it's free, takes a short period of time, makes your iPhone more stable, and adds a couple of features?

 

[VulchR]

What would be awesome (and very Apple) is if they pulled something off where it was location-aware...so you set it for "within .25 miles of X location, use profile 1, for y location, profile 2..."

There are programs for Windows Mobile that I think can do that via GPS.

+1
Brilliant idea.

-1
Mentioning Windows Mobile

Bad idea: donating blood through rugby

 

[ntrigue]

There's a lot of Windows users in this thread.

Spend a moment here:
http://minimalmac.com/

 

[MacGiver]

Agree with the OP...that would be helpful in some siuations. But Apple will wait for it, they keep these little easy things to implement in order to have something to say during keynotes Otherwise what could they say other than "we are ahead of everyone in terms of sales, we sold xxx trillions app within 2 days, now we will demo you a new game..." but what about the phone itself???
My feeling is that the iPhone is soon reaching a mature stage/lifecycle but to keep the "new features" impression from their customers they add simple things slowly so some people continue to think they are inventive (and it works) "wow darling, have you seen that Apple implemented copy/paste! I really need to get one"

Personnally i would prefer to have everything now and would not mind that during several keynotes they do not release anything spectacular...but when i see them being proud of releasing MMS & copy/paste it just makes me laugh...

So next time we may have profiles, sms receipt notification or a flash for the camera...

 

[ucfgrad93]

While I have never used profiles on the previous phones I've had, I see where some people would like them. Just something else to wonder why it is not in the Apple software.