Maybe I should have been clearer that this isn’t my dock! That’s phone, messages, camera, music.
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I love Merlin Bird ID! (though, it's not on any of my home screens. like most apps, I just launch it with spotlight)
I do a phone to phone migration and everything is the same when done. I do not want to hunt down applications. My bottom 4 icons have been the same and same order for years and years.
I have one screen with 3x wide Siri app suggestion widgets on. Tends to show what I want when I want it. It’s become my launcher.
oooh I thought we were talking about the dock, that’s my dock. Well, your dock is wrong fyi
For me the dock has to be phone, messages, music, orion. This is the same on my mac - finder, phone, messages, music, orion, then other junk to the right of those.
I also turn off the autocorrect suggestion strip above the soft keyboard. Takes up vertical screen space and is unnecessary because I know what I want to write and how to spell it.
I also turn off the autocorrect suggestion strip above the soft keyboard. Takes up vertical screen space and is unnecessary because I know what I want to write and how to spell it.
Messages, notes, safari, music. It took many years but recently, I realized that the phone app is used so rarely these days, why not remove it and put it on a secondary page even? i’m still getting used to it for the rare times I use it (phone calls), and i’m old enough to prefer phone use to texting, but, almost no one else agrees so … 🤷🏻♂️ what can you do?
How the hell do you sleep at night? I’m twitching just seeing that number of unread mails. I normally have no mail at all in my personal inbox and no unread emails in my work inbox.
LOL!
Because I use my email account to store the mail I don't want to lose. Emailed receipts, etc. Since most of the time it's self-evident what the email contains ("Receipt for your payment of 'X', etc), I usually don't open them. So the number of unread emails climbs.
Long ago, I used to dump my mail folders onto my computer and then burn a disk when I had enough to fill a CD. But, with the fact that a lot of email providers eventually went to unlimited storage I haven't done that in a long time. If I need something, it's just a search away.
Too, email has gotten less and less important as a means of communication. I deal with a lot of work communications through Google Chat rather than email now (and that unread email count includes multiple email accounts). So, some stuff just isn't ever touched.
I do delete spam though, usually when I see it come in or shortly thereafter. I don't need/want THAT hanging around.
And finally…as I've said about other things around here, I'm Gen-X and quite capable of ignoring 'distractions'. And my email count isn't even anything I'd consider a distraction.
I’m Gen X too and if it isn’t read and stored in a folder I ain’t sleeping
LOL. Then maybe it's down to environment or maybe just me. I was alone a lot and while the TV was often on to provide 'company' it was very easy to ignore when I was involved in something.
If there is no sense of urgency to reply, then I'll just deal with it whenever - if a reply is warranted. I don't see where I have to open/read/reply to an email that's about a receipt or anything like that. I saw it - that's enough.
I don’t think I’ve ever changed the Dock configuration on iPhone.
Phone, Mail, Safari, Music
In my defense, I do use these frequently enough.
Agreed that I wish we could get rid of it. I don't have anything in the dock.
I was in a crowded coffee shop once. Someone's iPhone went off and it was the default ringer. About 20 people or so checked their pockets all at once. And everyone in there knew EXACTLY who had an iPhone.
It was amazing to see just how stock people leave their Apple devices. SMH.