The decline or accept buttons on the banner would do exactly that.
TRANSPARENT IPHONE INCOMING CALL SCREEN TEMPLATE FULL
More of a distraction rather than a full interruption. This way, there’s a far smaller interruption of my task. Maybe the banner would look something like this: Ideally, I would like iOS to ditch the incoming-call screen altogether and just present an actionable banner notification when I receive a call (like other notifications, it would be customizable to appear as an alert box instead). Once the call automatically went to voicemail, the banner notification would disappear like normal as I continued my task. Though I wouldn’t be able to swipe up on the notification to dismiss it, I would be able to swipe down on it to reveal action buttons: If I tapped the notification, I would return to the incoming-call screen. While other banner notifications can be swiped up to dismiss them, this one would remain pinned to the top. While the call continued until it automatically went to my voicemail, the banner would remain at the top of the screen. But unlike when I press the volume buttons, I could resume the interrupted task.īecause phone calls-and the incoming-call screen-get an intrusive level of priority, the banner notification would as well. Like when I press the volume buttons on the side of my iPhone, the ringer would silence, and the call would continue until it automatically went to my voicemail. If I tap the new “Minimize” button, the screen would animate out of view while a notification banner would animate on: So now when someone calls, the screen would look like this: Let’s take that middle button and add it to the incoming call screen.
When a FaceTime call fails, iOS presents a screen with three buttons: “Call Back”, “Cancel”, and “Leave a Message”: If I decline the call, it sends the caller directly to voicemail letting them know I’m on the other end and deliberately ignoring them.Ĭhoosing the latter, though, means I have to stare at the incoming-call screen until the call automatically goes to voicemail when I just want to get back to the task I was performing.īut what if I could dismiss or minimize the incoming-call screen without taking or declining the call? That’s what I propose. Or if the caller is an unrecognized number like from a marketing call, the caller may think the number isn’t actively used. With the ringer-silencing option, the caller may think I’m unavailable. When I receive a call I can’t (or in some cases don’t want to) take, I choose the latter. Although my phone stops sounding or vibrating, the call continues and after a period of time automatically goes to my voicemail. With the hardware side buttons, I have another option: silence the ringer. I can accept the call, I can decline the call and send the caller straight to my voicemail, I can send the caller a text message, and I can set a reminder (with the last two requiring further steps). On the incoming-call screen, I have a few options to deal with the call. JH: Of course! I can let you know when my appointments wrap up. Yeah, so I just checked, and I’ll have the afternoon free. Care to meet up? I should have time in the afternoon. A text conversation might go something like this: Let’s say my friend John Appleseed is coming into town and wants to meet up. So how can the screen be just a bit less intrusive? I have an idea. Whatever the task, the incoming call commandeers my screen and forces me out of the task I was performing.īecause the device is a phone and making and receiving calls is a primary function, let’s assume the incoming-call screen is here to stay. Or maybe I’m editing a video and trying to precisely trim the end of it. Or maybe I’m looking up which train I need to take home to leave me enough time before I have to be on my way somewhere else.
While I’m typing, I’m suddenly interrupted, I lose control of my screen, and I can’t finish what I was doing. My friend is coming into town, and he messaged me to see about meeting up. This originally appeared on my blog in Dec 2015.
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