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by tpmoney 819 days ago
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
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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.