Hi!
From UX’s standpoint, Jolla made a nice move when the phone’s reply became horizontal swipe, and vertical reject the call.
That helped to more instinctively reply a call.
Shouldnt the same UX be applied to Alarms: snooze vertical and stop horizontal (or vice versa)? Because current ‘stop’/‘snooze’ UX in clocks, alams is similar to the one that the phone app used before (both pull menus up or down, vertically), and was replaced as confusing.
If so, please make it optional. As author of the patch returning the UX change in the incoming call screen back to pull menus up or down, I still receive requests from users asking to update the patch which doesn’t work after some SFOS update (since 4.2 ?) because they still don’t like the change of UX in incoming call screen.
I too agree those screens needs a new freshening up. But one problem to solve though is where to fit the snooze action.
While i don’t understand why people would want to silence a phone call and not simply hang up - the progression is very natural (silence, then hang up) and the consequence of only getting silence is basically none. However; for snooze/off it is not as clear cut - i really do want to immediately choose one, and there are consequences to the choice.
@Kuba77
No way they’d maintain to versions.
Some people will always want the old one, regardless of how it was. It is a fact of life.
Before i would hang up by accident; that’s never happened now. I don’t even think i have silenced a call by accident. Do you use the patch yourself?
(Its been since 3.4 BTW).
But some gestures can be optional (like quick access to camera or notification center, rotating homescreen), why not this? Ability to configuration gestures of alarm and incoming call screen in settings, some user choose up and down, another user choose left/right and bottom or another combination. For me it feels more natural to pull down / up than the new version. Yes, I used the patch until it stopped working after some SFOS update, which was probably 4.2.
Singular gestures, sure - whole pieces of UX/UI is a very different thing.
It’s for privacy.
If you hang up, the caller gets that you hear the call and push it away because call ends after 1 or 2 rings.
If you mute, the caller doesn’t know anything. Maybe you’re don’t hear the ringing, are away from the phone, or anything. After 4 or 5 rings the caller comes to the mailbox, not knowing what’s the real cause for you not answering.
Yes please! (Vice versa)
Phone swipe could be more intuitive.
Idea:
Answer call: swipe top to down, “to me”, inviting gesture.
Reject call: swipe up, “away from me” gesture,
Mute call: side sweep, “not now, no time, don’t disturb me atm., …”
Is it possible to tweak the swipe behavior? (I think I’ll have to dive deeper)
Hmm, on my side, not sure after all.
I always find difficult to disable an alarm.
But finally, if the alarm is too easy to disable, one can do it while still asleep.
In the way it is now, the advantage is that I have to wake up a little bit better to disable ringing.
Still don’t see the case for it. It even seems counterproductive. For an unheard call it is reasonable to try again, but for a dismissed one it is generally not.
It could be counterproductive if your intention is for the other party to stop calling you, but it depends on who’s trying to reach you and why. Dismissing a call is a free confirmation that someone is actively using the phone (number), whereas a muted call provides no info. Conversely, after getting dismissed a couple of times, the other party could infer that they’re getting dismissed because of their phone number, and just start ringing with a different phone number to improve their chances, whereas after getting nothing whatsoever a couple of times, the other party could infer that your phone number exists but is not actually in use (as in no one’s really checking on the device) and stop trying to reach you altogether.
Not to mention muting a call for a suspected telemarketer/scammer wastes more of their time than quickly dismissing it.
From UX perspective this is a disaster, since to confirm one makes a gesture that is awkward on nowadays huge and wide devices and make it prone to being dropped. I would welcome a reverse decission.