Re: The iPhone Dial Pad, Back on Top, After All These Years!

[Alan Lemly]

Richard,  Thanks for the clarifying details regarding the phone app and its behavior with respect to remembering the tab with focus upon exit when you open the app again.  Alan Lemly  Sent from my iPhone On Oct 7, 2024, at 1:23 PM, 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote:  So, rather than wait for Mark to duplicate this, I went ahead and replaced one of my quick actions with phone.  As I suspected, that only opens to the keypad in the phone app if you left it in keypad the last time you used the phone app. It always remembers where you left it. So, just remember to leave it on the Keypad tab and anytime you open the phone app, whether from the lock screen or the home screen, it will open immediately to the keypad.       Richard, “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” – Jane Wagner, from The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.   My web site: https://www.turner42.com       From: 'Richard Turner' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 7, 2024 7:44 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: The iPhone Dial Pad, Back on Top, After All These Years!   The Phone app, for me at least, has always remembered the tab I had left it on. So, if I open the phone app, and select the Keypad tab at the bottom, exit the app, use other apps, reboot the phone, whatever, the next time I open the phone app, it is on th keypad. If on the other hand, I am in favorites, or contacts, etc., and exit the app, when I start the app again, it will be exactly on the tab I left it on. I suspect, and I have not done this, but if say you use the quick launch on the lock screen, and after your call, look up someone in your contacts, and close the app; the next time you use the quick launch, you may find yourself in the contacts tab having to select the keypad again. Perhaps you could test this Mark.     Richard, “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” – Jane Wagner, from The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.   My web site: https://www.turner42.com       From: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sunday, October 6, 2024 11:15 PM To: VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: The iPhone Dial Pad, Back on Top, After All These Years!   Hello Everyone, Well, with iOS 18, it is, once again, easy to access the phone dial pad on a Smartphone. Younger people may not know this but, once upon a time, the primary purpose of a mobile phone was to actually make a phone call using a dial pad (smile). And, as we old-timers will recall, eons ago, it was possible to make a call on a Smartphone after only having to wake up the device. These days, actually making a phone call, on a Smartphone, is neither a primary or secondary purpose of these amazing little devices. Be that as it may, with the ability to customize a quick launch button on the iPhone lock screen, one can now easily access the phone dial pad after only having to essentially wake up the device. Scenario:  I want to call a number that is not in my Contacts list on my iPhone 14 Pro Max running the latest release of iOS 18.   1. Wake the phone which is automatically unlocked with FACE ID.  The lock screen is now displayed. 2. Activate a lock screen quick launch button.  The phone dial pad immediately appears, ready for action.  It’s just that simple. I believe there is an AppleVis podcast on how to customize a lock screen but I will provide the broad strokes on how to set the phone app as one of the quick launch buttons via VoiceOver: 1. With the lock screen currently displayed, single-finger triple-tap on the Time wiget, located near the top center of the lock screen.  (This places you in to lock screen edit mode.) 2. Touch the center of the phone screen to place focus on the lock screen.  (Use only one finger to do this.) 3. Single-finger swipe from left to right until you land on the Customize button and activate the button. 4. Using the swipe gesture, find and select the customize the lock screen button. 5. Using either explore by touch or the swipe gesture you will need to remove either or both of the currently active quick launch buttons.  Actually, you don’t need to remove them.  You can simply single-finger, double-tap on either of them in order to bring up a selection screen from which you may choose a different app. So, let’s say that one of your currently active quick launch buttons activates the flashlight and you want to change the flashlight app to the phone app.  In this case, in the selection dialog box, you will select the option that reads, Open App.  This will open yet another dialog box that will have the default wording of, Choose.  Single-finger, double-tap on the Choose button and a list of all of your currently installed apps will be listed.   6. Select the Phone app. Now, as of this writing, there is a VoiceOver bug that will not allow one to close the currently open dialog box; at least, I could not find a way to close this box via VoiceOver as there is no visible close option.  My solution?  Using the back tap option, quickly disable VO and touch the display in the corner of the quick launch button.  This will close the dialog box.  Turn VO back on and proceed to the next step. 7. Select the Done button located near the upper right corner of the display. 8. Finally, exit lock screen edit mode by single-finger double-tapping the time widget. 9. Now, launch the phone app via the quick launch button.  The first time you do this, the phone app will open to the favorites screen. 10. Select the dial pad tab and close the app. 11. On the lock screen, again, activate the quick launch app and now you will see that the phone app opens with the dial pad, ready for action. 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