• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I couldn’t even tell you what my ringtone or sms alert sound is. I can’t be sure the speakers in my phone have ever been used. I’ll return your call/text on my time.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah my best friend is that way, absolutely unreachable by phone even though he keeps it on him at all times. He tells me “any time you need anything or there’s an emergency I’m there” but the few times anything really important has come up he’s terribly unreliable to reach. I’ll send a message to him and he may reply 3 days later?

      It’s at a point where I’ve given up considering him an emergency contact, even as he claims he wants to be. I hope you never get burned by your “I can’t be reached unless I decide I’m in the mood to reply” policy.

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      1 year ago

      “I love you babe, the plane is going down. I just wanted to hear your voice one more time”

      Edit downvotes:

      'uh it’s my time how dare you"

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      1 year ago

      people like you are the reason we, as a society, spend so much time playing phone tag

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    1 year ago

    This is the exact reason I set up my phone to go on ring mode at full blast whenever someone truly important calls me. I know they’d only call me whenever it’s important (because I’ve told them beforehand that this happens, so they text if it’s not important).

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    1 year ago

    My fucking life with my wife and son. I honestly hope I get into a car accident with the steering column impaled in my chest so I can call them with my dying breaths to say I love them, only to have them not pick up because their ring is on mute. Then I’d come back as a total DICK of a ghost saying ‘See? I told you to turn your ring volume up!’

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    1 year ago

    Brah mine every time.

    She loses her phone like 15 times a day and asks if I can help find it, im like yeah I’ll just ring it knowing full well she has the fucking thing on silent, and she replies with its on silent… Welp I tried to help looks like you’re on your own with this one, good luck in your search, to which she replies something along the lines of go fuck yourself

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    1 year ago

    One time there was a real emergency and couldn’t reach my wife. So I activated find my iPhone on her phone. It will ring at full volume no matter what. Not to abuse but useful in times of emergency.

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      Good to know, thanks. Wife also forgets to unmute her phone and she only answers the phone if it’s me, so if she’s aware of where I am and doesn’t expect me to be calling, she ignores any call.

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        1 year ago

        I believe there is a feature on both ios and android that chosen contacts will be unaffected by do not disturb

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    1 year ago

    Yep, mine too… She also searches it like 20 times a day. I got her an Apple Watch -> Problem solved

    But, to be honest, it took her a while to understand she likes it.

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    My wife has 2 sisters and they are always in like 3-6 different chats for various parties to be present or both when talking about someone/drama. so she keeps it in silent or else the gd notification sounds go off like a constant alarm. and she wont change her notifs sound to something soft its always some tone where the novelty of it wears off after hearing it once.

    that being said, my notif and ringer sounds are from Death Stranding alerts. cuz im wicked cool and kicking rad yo.

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOP
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      I get the notification thing. I can’t stand abrasive notifications, but do not disturb schedules are a thing and can be set to allow certain people through (at least on Android).

      Mild sidebar: I switched from a decade’s long iPhone use to Android. They’re so much more customizable. Tell me again how my phone is better? People are there ridiculous blue bubble cult, smh.

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    1 year ago

    Why TF do they keep their phone on silent is beyond me.

    Is this a worldwide wife plot, or what?