iOS 17 is available today
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Apps want to access contacts and it’s all or nothing right now. But Contacts also is quite integrated and is better if you fill in more details such as addresses and birthdates.
So an app requesting access gets everything if you grant it.
For Apple‘s pro-privacy stance, this oversight is quite painful.
iOS 9.0+. The blunder is Apple not deprecating CNContactStore, but then many apps really only work if they get your full contacts list (e.g. knowing when a friend joins Snapchat)
Too bad for those apps. They should be able to work whether I have 1000 contacts, 0 contacts, or any number in between.
If they want to have a cool feature like alerting me when a friend joins, they are more than welcome to persuade me to provide my full contacts list so I get the most out of a feature.
Offering a privacy-preserving alternative to that would be a huge iOS feature. It seems like Apple even already has most of the necessary pieces for that in place (e.g. the contacts app already knows whether my contacts have FaceTime enabled, Messages knows who has iMessage etc.)
- Access to all contacts
- Access to selected contacts
Additionally, for any of the two options above:
- Access to all details
- Access to selected details (e.g. phone, email)
Lastly:
- Access to all labels
- Access to selected labels (e.g. home, work)
So, finally, all Germans will be able to sleep at night knowing that they gave WhatsApp only permission to access their friends’ non-work phone numbers and nothing else.
LOL
I'm not saying the end-user shouldn't be able to ignore this, but as part of these controls that would be great. I don't need or want a shadow-profile on Clubhouse or anything else.
A standard pattern for social apps is to ask for access to your contacts to see if anyone you know is on their app. This is important to creating a healthy and diverse ecosystem of social software, because these apps are really up against the natural network effects of existing offerings.
Contact matching is the best shot app creators have at bootstrapping new social offerings, but right now the experience sucks. Just to see if you like a new social app you have to either a) give up lots of private data in perpetuity to an entity you don't know, or b) have a subpar experience of manually finding people.
One solution may be for Apple to offer an API that helps social apps match users. Apple acts as the escrow system to match contacts so that the apps never have access to private contact data, and the apps just get notice when there's a new contact match to offer the user.
On the user side, the user has a simple privacy setting that says 'find matches once' or 'always look for new matches when app is open'. Users may also toggle whether they wish to be discoverable by others.
In a world with this feature, we get to try new social apps without concern, and apps only have access to an anonymized user ID for our contacts that are also using the app.
Small indie developers are the majority of developers in Apple’s ecosystem. If they are to be screwed over as well (for example, with the upcoming sideloading feature unlocking piracy for everyone), it doesn’t seem fantastic.
Sometimes bending to the user is to the detriment of developers who create the ecosystem your users appreciate in the first place.
iOS is the singular OS in the world where the user's freedom is curtailed in such a heavy handed manner.
You know this and I know this.
> iOS is the singular OS in the world where the user's freedom is curtailed in such a heavy handed manner.
Pointed out that isn't the case across the planet, moved goalposts to only 5 OSes, ignoring the supposed rest of the world
> There are three dominant desktop and two mobile operating systems...
Apparently the world is too big to make a point.
No subscriptions, no servers required to use. It is very rare now. Apple made this ecosystem it possible by being an intermediary between you and your customers, ensuring they do not run cracked versions of your work to save money and rip you off. It would suck to see it go.
Note who lobbied for this law. Not coincidentally, not the companies that actually did the above (selling software to own), just big corps with competing platforms.
Additionally, it would be great to not share metadata about contacts (ie, don't share that I have this person listed as my sister).
It's quite difficult to have a privacy preserving API system that's on-device because people could pre-compute a rainbow table (phone numbers are only 10-ish digits long). If the API is provided by Apple using their servers, this might work.
If I book an event let an app save it and read it’s own data, but not every event ever.
Someday, they’ll start focusing on the rest of the world and we’ll see real advancements in this space…
But as we can observe - Big Tech can totally ignore multilingual support and still make billions of dollars!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States
This is great! I assume prediction gone wrong on "tiền". :)
It matches my experience as well, to the point that I also have it turned off.
Just look at this: https://www.apple.com/v/ios/ios-17/a/images/overview/music/p...
The only thing it has going for it is general ecosystem integration (and lossless), which still is the deciding factor for me unfortunately, despite the qualms above.
The reason to make it harder to navigate your own library is so you don't navigate your library at all and just put on a channel. Amazon did this also, to favor their subscriptions. It is now frustratingly difficult to play your music. Searches return results not in your library, even when you were searching... your library.
It's the same reason Google and Bing are so much worse than they once were. The apps aren't serving the users, they're serving the customers (shareholders and advertisers).
I am floored by just how untrue this statement is
As you mentioned, it's full of bugs. Bugs happen, but they seem to have gotten out of control lately.
Top issues:
- 3/5 tabs use lazy load and anything less than great cellular/wifi means waiting to see anything.
- Speaking of cell/wifi, it really shows that this app was designed in a lab under perfect conditions. Music just... stops if the connection is weak when streaming. Was it another bug? My airpods? My car's bluetooth? Who knows, and who needs feedback anyway.
- Listen now tab can show a grand total of one (!!) full item before needing to scroll. On my phone with 1,483,776 pixels. It's also sorted in an arbitrary order that I cannot change.
- The Browse and Radio tabs are not at all personalized to me, so I don't have much to say about them and are mainly ignored.
- My library tab, my mainly used tab, is littered with album views of "Recently Added" in favor of adding a bunch of taps to things I actually want to listen to (Playlists> Playlist Name> Song/Play button) requires 3 taps.
- The album view in Recently Added makes no sense outside of downloading complete albums, which seems exceedingly rare. The music topping the charts is a bunch of singles and maybe EPs, not full albums. Even if one is not into pop music, adding music from a newly discovered artist, it's probably not a full album, rather a song or maybe a few tops. On top of this, it requires two taps or a long hold gesture to play it!
- Search is weirdly segmented for no reason, and is a step backwards from what Apple already solved with Spotlight. I always want results from my music first, and Apple Music second. A "no results" screen is useless for me, just show me Apple Music results, don't add yet another tap. Oh and search has Browse categories of course.
I could go on for a lot longer, but these issues grate me every day. Everything just requires too many taps or scrolling to get what I want.
All said, I’d say it’s a UX disaster.
Unfortunately, the poor design extends even to Apple TV. My favorite - the “Now Playing” screen doesn’t have a visible Play/Pause button. Seriously.
But I also bought the Marvis Pro iOS app. It’s like $10 or something. It’s fantastic and the developer is incredibly active/responsive online. Worth checking out if you’re unfamiliar
At least to non-native English speakers, Siri is really atrocious. Most of the time, it doesn't even get the simplest queries right.
Which means Apple is likely going to just replace it entirely with a new LLM based system which we know they are working on.
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/03/15/apple-engineers-working...
For the most part, these issues don’t have a big impact on end users, except when web developers choose to target Chrome-only.
It's plain stupid.
From my perspective iOS already has pretty good call/text blocking. Are you sure you know all the existing features?
For calling, there’s a built-in contacts only mode behind a single opt-in switch, this is what I use. There’s also a privacy preserving app system that allows you to install third party apps which provide block lists and labeling to the phone app.
Messages is similar, except with unknowns being put in a separate list and an older and simpler static block list, though it does also support reporting the message as junk which presumably means all iOS devices have a bit of a shared message spam filter.
Messages going to a different list helps little when iMessage is full of 0-day exploits that happen as soon as your phone receive the message.
It’s not a well known nor heavily advertised feature - I learned about it from carrier commercial who provides app of their own.
For context I'm comparing what's in place in iOS with what Android has had for at least a couple releases. With that familiarity, iOS's anti-spam features appear rudimentary at best.
> For calling, there’s a built-in contacts only mode behind a single opt-in switch
Contacts-only incoming calls and texts is a clunky design. Businesses (doctors offices, delivery services come to mind) frequently use random 1-800 numbers for their outgoing calls. Having those _and_ spam clutter up one's voicemail is far from ideal; the expectation is that the user will spend their time going through voicemail and delete spam. Live voicemail is definitely an improvement but even if I choose to block an incoming spam call, the voicemail is still left on my phone. Android lets one end the call as soon as spam is detected and there's no action needed after the fact.
> There’s also a privacy preserving app system that allows you to install third party apps which provide block lists and labeling to the phone app.
This is what I was referring to in my original post. On Android suspected spam calls and texts are labelled as such by default. Why does Apple expect users to install third party apps for this? It should at least be an opt-in feature that ships as part of iOS.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph203ab0be4/io...
Probably the best change imo
I alternate between a Google Fi sim, and an AT&T business.
For example, I once had a lot of automated alerts sent by SMS to my phone for the early rollout of an IoT device I was working on. My regular unlimited voice and data plan was very cheap but only included a couple hundred SMS per month and I was going to blow past that during alpha testing, so I got a SIM from an MVNO with unlimited messaging for ~$5/mo and sent all the alerts to that number and had the company pay that bill, which was a nice way of isolating the expense as well.
It's also great if you are an international jewel thief and need a second line for taunting the Interpol agents hot on your trail without having to add them to your friends & family plan.
People who travel a lot usually have their "native" sim as the eSIM and just grab whatever prepaid they can get for the country they're travelling in. Easiest way to avoid insane roaming fees.
It also a diversification for telco shenanigans. Just to give an example, Singapore regulator just ordered telcos to stop accepting incoming SMS from entities not registered with local regulator. This affected a lot of overseas services OTP.
I'd already opted in to share my phone's and watch's location. It was beyond annoying that I couldn't opt in to share a specific AirTag's location, too.
Mostly the usual battery/heat issues, the frequent app crashes (1st and 3rd) and the annoying hidden keyboard bugs that lasted through several public beta releases that required force quitting and restarting apps before it would show up again.
Rather than re-hash, /r/iosbeta is a good indicated of the tribulations of each release.
I'm not saying it was bugfree, just that the apps I use most were in decent shape from the start. (But I still acknowledge that you or anyone else might've had a very different experience from mine.)
I’m glad to see that they’ve seemed to upped the limit or don’t count the shared AirTags against that limit anymore.
16 seems like a lot, but if you’re traveling with a couple of items you want to track and share with your party as backup, you start hitting it pretty fast.
But the real new shift is resizable windows and such on ipadOS 17 and watchOS 10 looks really nice on my series 7.
It's been, what, at least five years(?) since predictive text was launched. I never expected to be the first to be supported, but starting to feel a bit ridiculous when some languages with a few tens of percents more speakers have had support from nearly the start.
Meanwhile third party keyboards have had support for ages. I'd rather use the stock keyboard, but can't bear it in its current state.
It does also seem to have grammar improvements, and doesn’t seem to be so happy to “correct, but actually make incorrect 5 words back” as the prior keyboard would frequently do after apple stopped giving you the option to stop that.
The beta before release had significant alarm issues with alarms definitely not going off. So I hope those are sorted out.
(I did not manually correct any of the above)
But seriously! Typing is sooo bad on iOS, that it has almost made me move back to Android.
The big failure of Siri isn't the lack of AI, it is the lack of programming useful simple functionality.
I got so annoyed with autocorrect that I turned if off entirely. But it's hard to type accurately without it :(
I can’t remember the last time I said “fuck this stupid fucking keyboard”, whereas I said it with the iOS 16 keyboard every time I had to use it.
It's been more than a year—and every time I type "Good night" it still suggests my ex-girlfriend.
ARGHHHH
AFAIK every app that uses the ImageI/O api is effected by it, which includes every app you mentioned. You often don't need to even open the message for the image to be decoded.
From my understanding most vulnerabilities are from either the image decoder, text decoder, or webkit which again, effects nearly all apps. All apps can only use the webkit view, which affects nearly all of them to some degree.
I think you might be confusing the attack vector - messages is the easiest to attack since you just sent a regular text. Even if you don't normally use messages, it'll parse the image and you'll be hit by the 0 day. In theory this will work with most messaging apps.
They still do security fixes for iOS 15 which is the iphone 6S in 2015 so 8 years.
The last security update for iOS 12 was 7 months ago too.
IMO that's a generous period for security updates.
Their usefulness is honestly more limited by app developer's support of the old api's, and the increasing bloat of web apps rather than Apple's support. It would be better of course if we could homebrew on them after that but I'm not sure I'd call it pitiful.
FWIW, iOS 15 updates are still being released for these devices. A. week ago[1], in fact.
I have a 7.5 year-old iPhone SE and it has gotten two security updates this past month. In other words, the 5 years you mention is ONLY for entirely new OS versions which old hardware simply can't support. Older phones continue to be supported.
But even if we allow that, that’s a completely distinct topic, and my point stands; your Python/Ubuntu comparison was still clearly unreasonable.
If/when this XR dies or is no longer supported and another old-but-good gift phone is not in the works I'll probably look for a cheap-enough, good-enough Android and stop paying for Apple One. As I get older and the desire for novelty is replaced by the expectation of consistency and reliability for communication, information (a web browser), and a decent camera, I just want this device that I'm used to to keep working.
I bought an iPhone 11 Pro four years ago and still like it. Occasionally I'm tempted for a newer iPhone, but there's no compelling reason to buy a newer model.
I'd gladly take a thicker SE with a more robust battery. It isn't a fashion item anyway anymore.
In this case, it's XS and up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_17
Thankfully, older devices (like my iPhone 8) continue to receive security updates, which suits me just fine as none of the new features interest me.
I assume you can operate the insulin pump without any app? Or do you depend on a functional smartphone on-hand?
Does the pump itself not have built-in safety features that the app shouldn't be a critical component?
The ability to bolus (administer insulin) from the app is fairly convenient, that's all. Since that's the biggest area of risk, that's the feature they disable until they've validated the OS version.
when you die and no one knows your password what happens ?
whereas a notebook - people can easily read or try to if your handwriting isn't legible.
the notebook will remain the same 200 years from now. if humans can still read handwriting.
sometimes no-tech is the best tech.
iOS 17 has a Legacy contact option for death scenario
Don’t know if it’s new but I was just prompted for it
A notebook isn’t nearly as meticulous as every semi anonymous post I’ve ever made to Reddit or discord or whatever, plus my meme image collection, my browsing history, etc
Why should my kids and future generations get access to my shameful secrets just because I’m dead? If i wanted that information hidden, shouldn’t it stay that way?
To that end I suppose it’s just the philosophical argument of “is it shitty to read someone’s diary after they die?” but with the stakes increased a bit due to the nature of greatly increased data collection
I just want a toggle for the flat UX so I can know what items are interactive.
I've done the increased contrast for a few releases.
It funny, I remember the ad and what was going through my life more than the phone itself. I don't know how apple ads seems to do that to me. I can say that for a lot of their ads.
Even now im looking back and loving that Champagne Gold color with the creme white back. It evokes thoughts of the flavors white chocolate and champagne cola. Two things I love. All of this in a phone that was an afterthought (since Apple launched the iPhone X at the same conference).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0py91Y0bLo
Making half decent products could get you to 1 trillion dollars market cap but making ads that cause desire is how you get to 2 trillion I guess.
I was really looking forward to making FaceTime calls on my Apple TV with my parents who live halfway across the world. But of course, they restrict it to only Apple TV 4K 2nd gen and above. What possible reasons could there be to not support this feature in the 1st gen hardware? Is it just a money grab?
In these cases they usually just gate the feature to the latest hardware versions.
Probably one (or both of those) aren't good enough to do what is necessary for the FaceTime.
I'm not sure the the A10, say nothing of the A4, could reliably handle group calls. To be fair to the A4 and A10, group calls weren't a feature of FaceTime until 2018. Could the A4 handle an audio or low-res video call? Probably.
You have a great recall of the timeline. I thought that it came out much earlier but I was mistakenly thinking of iChat AV. "In June 2003, Apple announced iChat AV . . ." [1]
This is almost always a limitation of the hardware. Keep in mind the AppleTV has really old SoCs compared to iPhones and iPads of similar vintage. The AppleTV 4k 1st edition has an A10X SoC while the 2nd edition has an A12. The A10 is the same CPU as the iPhone 7 but was sold up through 2021.
Sometimes this feels like they're trying to force people onto newer hardware, but Apple also supports old hardware for a long time and regularly adds things to devices that are 3-4 years old, so... it's not actually that one-sided AFAICT.
> And it [Communication Safety] extends beyond Messages to include content sent and received in AirDrop, ..., and third‑party apps.
This distorted Apple's vision of privacy is not news to me, but extending their invasive policy to third-party apps is crossing the line. However, I'm not sure whether this means that they are going to forcefully intercept all content from 3rd party apps, or introduce an API to app developers that will allow them to flag content as sensitive. If anybody knows more about this, please let us all know.
I know on a personal level the executives and experts of the entire privacy division. There might be some very US-centric agenda items in what they do (the CSAM detection fiasco which cost them a dent in their reputation) but generally speaking I’ve rarely seen a team more motivated and driven than that one.
Also still no touchID buttons from the iPad and iPad mini. Booo.
I sincerely cannot tell if that's satire or not.
This is why I’m still on the 12. I only got that because it had a little more screen real estate than the one I had before, but still mostly fits in my pocket.
It’s valid for a customer who had generally been happy with a company (or in this case a division) to complain that they haven’t given them a reason to do so in a long time.
Before ios16 it would always work. Now half the time it just makes a full screenshot and saves it without any UI feedback that it did anything. So I tap the buttons longer and get the pop-up for editing.
iPhone 15 iPhone 15 Plus iPhone 15 Pro iPhone 15 Pro Max iPhone 14 iPhone 14 Plus iPhone 14 Pro iPhone 14 Pro Max iPhone 13 iPhone 13 mini iPhone 13 Pro iPhone 13 Pro Max iPhone 12 iPhone 12 mini iPhone 12 Pro iPhone 12 Pro Max iPhone 11 iPhone 11 Pro iPhone 11 Pro Max iPhone XS iPhone XS Max iPhone XR iPhone SE (2nd generation or later)
Still having good support right?
Btw, I feel like Apple is gradually improving small thing in their built-in apps base on other 3rd-party alternatives' advantages. It's good for Apple ecosystem and its users.
And they are investing in their core apps because the code base is increasingly shared between iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch and soon to be Vision Pro. Apps that aren't tend not to get as much love.
also headphone jack ;)
I want to create a “meta” profile for accessing meta’s webpages but don’t want to give them access to bookmarks/history whatever except their own.
Fuck you, Apple!
- groceries lists in reminders should create automatic sections, it doesn’t work
- photos should automatically detect pets, it doesn’t work
- hey siri was supposed to become just Siri, it doesn’t work (maybe it’s English only?)
At least sharing AirTags works.
Edit: the custom contact picture doesn’t appear to work either…
This took a short time to kick in for me after I updated. Make sure the list is set as a "Groceries" list type, and try adding something to the list.
Pet detection requires a bit more time as it builds the ML model and crawls through your photos, progress towards that is typically only done overnight while it’s on the charger.
Siri trigger word is English only (Australia, Canada, UK and US).
Main one on release day being load balancing on the servers.
It also doesn’t help that major releases are typically done by downloading the full image instead of your typical delta update.
Add onto that the process where it creates a compressed backup of your current version for rollback purposes and the verification process to check that your download didn’t end up corrupted and it’ll keep your iPhone busy for a while.
Having to long press anywhere on the screen and then swipe side-to-side between lock screens is weird. Just let me swipe sideways on the handle thing at the bottom like for swiping between apps.
Aside from that, my iOS 17 beta impressions are fine, I've been running it since dev betas on my iPad and since public betas on my phone. Only issue was the camera locking up and crashing once.
However, it isn’t surprising or malicious for Apple to optimise their software for modern hardware. They still seem to do a significantly better job supporting old hardware than anyone else.
Perhaps some components in your phone are dying? If you go into Battery settings, has Peak Performance Capability been reduced?
2) Nobody should ever evaluate anything on a .0 release. Wait a few point releases.
3) I've found the last few iOS/OSX releases to have better performance as their moved to pushing services based revenue.
- Automatically deleting text-based and email-based 2FA codes
- Adaptive Transparency with AirPods Pro 2
- Live Voicemail. This one's huge. You can hear and read the VMs that people are leaving and use that context to decide whether to accept or ignore their call. Android's had this for a while; glad to see it in iOS.
There are others, but I can't think of them right now.
Multiple timers. Run several timers on iPhone simultaneously, perfect for when you’re cookingWhy was this so hard to implement? Or they just never felt like many people needed it? This has always seemed like a really basic missing feature. I'm surprised it took so long.
In my view, it didn't make Siri useless for setting timers, it meant there was no universal sleep timer, as I refused to use the "Stop Playing" feature.
I'd love to see another Clock feature: let me choose a new timer/alarm sound _without_ immediately previewing the sound. At this point I know a handful of my favorites that I like to choose from, and I don't want to hear them at full alarm volume just because I'm changing the noise. A preview button trailing-aligned in the list would be perfect spot for a quick way to listen to an alarm sound.
And a related feature: include Alert Tones (ie Messages alert sounds) in addition to Ringtones as timer/alarm noises.
I kept waiting for the Apple Watch to have its iPhone 3GS moment, where they came out with one noticeably thinner and with the same or better battery life. But it never came. Is anything they’re a tiny bit taller than the original. Instead they went with a smaller and larger version which is not quite the same.
I still struggle with keeping it on while doing anything that requires work gloves. Make it thinner already.
By itself this feature is not a very big deal: Opera Mobile/Mini had it for quite some time before iPhone, I certainly used it a lot. But the whole package the iPhone brought was a game changer for the industry.
When the iPhone 12 came out in 2020, we got a new design language. Sharp flat edges were back. Every year since then we’ve been waiting for the watch to get a design update. But still in 2023 it’s the same old fat bubbly design which looks _very_ dated.
I wonder if Apple is waiting for some piece of tech to get better (batteries?), so they can launch a sleeker flatter watch.
Like how many devs need to recompile their old apps to keep them "compatible", or how the network stack keeps changing destroying our VPN and stuff, or how even programs like Office sometimes won't work.
Grammatical inflection is interesting, though. I'd prefer formality over gendered though, like the difference between du and Sie in German.
10-13 (haven't used v14 yet) were all just completely forgettable (mostly UI changes, no significant new feature).
Basically a lot of really dark patterns were killed. A free casual game reading all your files. A game with media access being able to "track" you from location information in your photos, without any file or location access. A social media app could be pasting your password from clipboard to their servers. A messaging app which you gave cam/mic access once to could be recording you while it's in background, and converting your audio information via their speech to text.
So a lot of the changes have been around making this behavior really visible. Sure, any app can access your cam/mic, but there's a green light every time it does. Sure, it can copy/paste from clipboard, there will just be a little notification each time.
It looks like there's now a feature you can enable that uses a classifier (I'm guessing?) to identify dick pics, and let you choose whether you want to see it or not. The last slide[0] in the last carousel on the linked page has an image of the dialog.
I bet that was an interesting team to work on.
edit: Obligatory Silicon Valley ref: pt1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACmydtFDTGs pt2: https://youtu.be/dvn-hpZdElo?t=28
[0]https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/2023/09/ios-17-is-avai...
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/10/22613225/apple-csam-scann...
Ugh, the responses are just depressingly ignorant for a tech site. The iPhone has NEVER had them: https://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-...
Now go to the nearly-identical settings screen for Phone. NONE.
Here's a post about it. Older, but still true today: https://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-...
Clearly the explanationn is needed. Most of us didn't understand what you meant. After grasping what you're asking for, I get your request, and I think it'd be nice if Apple implemented this for you and others, but I don't think iOS is broken, nor would I enable such an option if it were implemented – it wouldn't solve a problem for me.
You might try to understand that you are in a minority in wanting this, and that the current behavior is actually acceptable for the vast majority of iPhone users.
1. Take the time to speak up about it 2. Speak up about it in a forum that you're aware of
Another problem is the diminishing number of people over time who were exposed to more-functional products that were standard in the past. The obvious feature requested here was present on millions of telephonic devices for decades, including cell phones. Android phones have it. But the iPhone is now 15 years old, like many of its users.
The Web is rife with requests for this feature. I posted a tiny sampling of them above.
Yeah that one is for texts only so far.
But lost calls show up as notifications too. It’s just that they won’t pling again.
So yes, this is the whole problem. The fact that Apple finally added audible notifications, but only for texts, is just infantile pettiness on their part. Truly incredible, since the settings screens are otherwise nearly identical.
iOS's notification system is shockingly bad. Android is leagues ahead here, both in features & configurability.
Missed-call notifications were a standard feature on cell phones way before the iPhone (the StarTAC, for example). Not to mention answering machines. Even microwave ovens beep periodically if you forget to take the food out.
But if you miss a call on Apple's $1000 handheld Unix computer/phone, it doesn't make a peep. You don't even have the OPTION to make it do so. That's simply dumb.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251972613 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251039398 https://community.verizon.com/t5/Apple-Archive/Why-no-repeat... https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7470555 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250513009 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254081341 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254081315 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253503860 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2242972
And on and on...
Edit: they want the "Repeat Alerts" setting that "Messages" has but for "Phone" which is missing the option. Settings > Notifications > Messages > Customize Notifications > Repeat Alerts
Here's what Apple added for missed TEXTS, but not for phone calls: https://i.imgur.com/nhCrOcL.png
If you can tell me where to find it for phone calls in iOS, I'll appreciate it.
EDIT: Seriously, I got notified about the update the day they premiered iPhone 15, I thought that's their standard operating procedure to release software on the same day as hardware. Reading about iOS release today was really confusing.
Is there any "early access" program that I could have unconsciously signed up to, so that's why I did receive it early?