[actionfromafar]

Try hanging up a call on your smartphone and your counterpart hanged up a a fraction of a second before you. Now you call someone (pretty deep down) in your recent call list.

Or click "Connect to Bluetooth headset" in Windows. Congratulations, your headset just connected itself, so you now you disconnected it.

Just brilliant, overall.

[m463]

My mother got her first iphone years ago and was just petrified of the phone app.

I couldn't blame her. You touch ANYTHING, even the spam caller in recent calls, and it immediately calls.

why oh why can't there be a setting - on by default - confirm before dialing?

[tpmoney]

It’s not the specific solution you want (and that would be a good one to have) but one option might be enabling the touch accommodations in the accessibility settings and increasing the touch delay slightly so that it takes a more deliberate touch to activate. Downside is that it applies across the whole system and applies to typing on the keyboard too

[newaccount74]

It won't help at all. The problem is that Apple seems to hate explicit buttons, so you never know what tapping something will do. Here's an example in the phone app:

- in the contacts tab, tapping a contact will show details

- in the call list tab, tapping a contact will call them

There is no way to know ahead of time. You have to try it out, and then remember that the two tabs behave differently.

I have accidentally called people when I just wanted to look at their contact details more than once, and I've been using an iPhone for 15 years or so.

[actionfromafar]

I mean, the horizontal middle of the screen could be "dead" and a call only only initiated to the left or right.

Or whatever. There are many solutions and they chose to go for one of the most frustrating designs possible.

[sfjailbird]

My favorite is watching TV and pausing a video in Netflix or whereever, then resuming and wanting the controls to disappear. If I 'cancel/return', they are removed. If I wait a while, they disappear by themselves. But if I 'cancel/return' the splitsecond the app removed them by itself, boom I just stopped the player. Just ignore input for a moment after the auto-remove ffs.

[averageRoyalty]

> Try hanging up a call on your smartphone and your counterpart hanged up a a fraction of a second before you. Now you call someone (pretty deep down) in your recent call list.

I do this daily and it infuriates me.

I am also a fast typer on both touch and physical. As a result I often type into an auto complete box (e.g. kagi, gmail, etc) and see the result I want come up midway through my type. As I'm going to click or tap it, I am often in the 200ms window where that result is replaced by another or the list is reordered in some way.

Dynamically loading webpages are also a plague of the last decade for the same reason. They load an initial layout, often interactable. Then as you're going to click or tap, they dynamically load other elements or content, reordering and moving things around the page!

If you don't have anything n̵i̵c̵e̵ ̵t̵o̵ ̵s̵a̵y̵,̵ ̵d̵o̵n̵'̵t̵ ̵s̵a̵y̵ ̵a̵n̵y̵t̵h̵i̵n̵g̵ ̵a̵t̵ ̵a̵l̵l̵ ready to load, don't load anything at all.