iPhone apps S/D

+ ukp35/mo

: / tht's expensive

cutty when writing a txt sometimes you have to stop in the middle if something else comes up. yes, if the txt is for one of your previous txting companions you can go find the last txt they sent you, and enter it there, and then it's saved for later, but i often txt to multiple ppl so that doesn't work.

gbx haha i know.. but it's pretty lame given that sideways is THE way to watch video or play a game (unless you're watching one of your own vertical videos!!) .. the only way around it would be to make the screen rotate the OTHER way for video. not sure why it doesn't, TBH.

the thing about the case makes sense - the silent switch ends up being basically flush with the case? maybe i'll finally get one.

if your texts are so long that its a pain for you to rewrite them you should reconsider how you use texting imo

(xxp)

Er, it does. It rotates whichever way you turn it, you can have the volume rocker on the top or the bottom, it's up to you.

that would make more sense yeah

I think I would be way more confused/frustrated if the buttons suddenly REVERSED functions when I rotated the phone tho!

JimD not for Youtube videos. And not for games.

Well, the youtube app is broke in many ways. Games vary, I've found most will let you rotate either way.

if your texts are so long that its a pain for you to rewrite them you should reconsider how you use texting imo

exactly. this is like complaining that twitter doesn't let you write enough crap. write an email, dude!

maybe if i had started txting ON IPHONE i'd be trained in its spartan rigors but i have been using the SMS drafts folder since like 2003

yeah YouTube app works MAYBE ten percent of the time, I usually never bother, I gave up on it as a feature wihin the first week

btw email is a bourgeois affectation

you've been using SMS wrong since like 2003

i've sent more text messages than you've had hot dinners, friend

maybe you should write a novel in SMS

or maybe your life story

tracer are you like CORRESPONDING with people via text message or like TRANSCRIBING THE BIBLE on your phone or what

oh shit I would totally do a Twitter Bible

dan if u do it someone will blog u and you'll get a book deal guaranteed

but I think John d should help

@corinthians

moses RT @jhwh 10 commandments #lawsofgod 3000 years ago from tablet

:D

i love it when a so-called design defect turns out to be a human defect ;)

I don't think it's a defect at all. Safari pulls up the last web page you were using; all the Twitter apps I've used will save a Twitter message in progress if you were typing something when you exit the program. Notes app does too. The Voice Recorder even lets you exit the program and continue recording. Almost all other apps save where you're at whether the task itself is short or not; I don't know why Apple wouldn't incorporate a stress-free solution for txt msgs too, especially since every phone since the big brick Nokias with interchangeable faceplates has had that feature.

You can save drafts in SMS, you just quit the app or hit back to save. You can have multiple drafts going at once, in different conversations.

but if your SMS is not part of a previous conversation it doesn't work. or if you just start typing a new SMS willy nilly without first designating who it's going to.

i.e. hit "cancel" and it's gone. in mail app if you hit cancel it gives you the option to save.

Just quit the app and it does still save it, at least. Are you saving drafts to strangers? Note app might be a better place.

just throwing this out there--i really cant believe were having this discussion--if your texts are so long that you need to save drafts of them you are fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of text messaging

my old phone always said "saving to drafts" whenever i cancelled or whatever and i was all "... ok, whatever." never went back to an old draft.

listen if God wanted you to send shorter text messages he would have made the character limit smaller

smoke em if you got em imo

god showed you that he wants you to send shorter text messages by telling me to tell you

show me the text message where he told you to tell me

max they're not particularly long. but it happens that a few things are on the boil at once. i.e. writing a text but a new text comes in while i'm typing that i need to respond to immediately.

although yes i have been known to write some epic texts.

ok but tray

1) how "immediately" do you need to respond to the other text that you cant spend 20 seconds finishing the text you are working on

2) how much of a trial is it for you to spend 40 seconds re-writing what you were already writing

Am confused. The only time you can't save a draft in this case is if you're starting a totally new conversation with someone you've never messaged before *and* a new text that you must reply to instanto comes in while you're typing. Is that common? All the other cases it'll save the draft.

GOD TRACE

FUCK. ok stet start typing a text to somebody you've texted before. no, don't go find the "conversation", just start a new text, address it to them (or don't) and start typing. now cancel. it is gone. no i do not want to redo shit i've done before and yes it often happens that i'm interrupted in the middle and need to respond to another text. THANK YOU AND FUCK YOU VERY MUCH.

lol at americans trying to figure out texting.

no, don't go find the "conversation", just start a new text,
UR DOIN IT WRONG. If you want to save drafts, find the conversation and add to it.

How are you starting these things? Whatever way you're doing it is slower than just opening the SMS app, finding their thread and adding to it.

lol at iPhone rage

you're basically using the SMS app in the only way you can use it so that it won't save a draft and then complaining that it won't save a draft.

open SMS, hit the "write" icon in top right, what a weirdo i fucking am jesus christ

if you cancel by pressing the home button or wtf it's called, rather than pressing cancel, it's still there when you go back.

The only time you should do that is if you're texting someone for the first time. Otherwise just find them in the list and it'll save the draft. Please? xp

You're not a weirdo, Tracer; it's a really stupid usability flaw that only people who have trained themselves away from it don't get.

ftr this is why I am completely single-threaded while texting

yeah just hit the home button tracer

it automatically adds to old threads anyway dan