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for iphone users… doesn’t listening to a voicemail mean you’ve been made aware of a recent call?

i’m playing tennis. i miss an incoming call. the caller leaves a voicemail. when i’m done playing tennis, i check my phone, and see that i have a recent call and a voicemail. i listen to the voicemail… which means i’m aware that that person called, yes? so why do i have to go to ‘recent’ to clear the you-have-a-recent-call notification?

you might argue that someone might have called me from an unrecognized number… but how often does that happen? and, even if it did, i can always choose to check the time and date of an unrecognized recent call against the time and date of my voicemails.

so is that a recent call AND a voicemail? of course… but listening to a voicemail should turn OFF the corresponding ‘recent call’ flag and adjust the count of un-looked at recent calls. voicemail flags and counts should not change until the voicemails are listened to.

drives me crazy.

UPDATE: found this discussion online… apparently i’m not the only one tweaked by this issue: http://www.cooper.com/journal/2009/07/dear_mr_jobs.html


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