Speed dial - a usable alternative

[Astonished]

Having the poops with no speed dial on the phone (my 6 yr old passat had 6 speed dials needing only one touch!), and even voice command when it works perfectly is a multi step process.

So, what I tried was setting my top 5 or so numbers in the iPhone as:

01 Wife
02 son
03 daughter
04 Home
05 Office
Etc etc (using whatever names I wanted, such as real first name etc etc)

I set these numbers in front of the first name as I have the sort by first names, so if you sort by surname then put the numbers on the surname.

Then when selecting "directory" the first lot of names that come up from the top down are the ones you want as speed dials. Sure it's still not a single step process but it is really easy and liveable. I can bare it with this setup and the missus reckons I'm "fairly anal". I think she's too polite to call me OCD!



Good luck

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What about this

Open safari.
Navigate to
(Telephone number).tel.qlnk.net

Eg
123.tel.qlnk.net

Press go
Press cancel
Press the share arrow
Press 'save to home'
Enter name

Done

You now have an icon on the home screen that'll prompt to call when clicked.
It doesn't need Internet connection - the qik page saves an entire web page as a data url string and the phone picks up the link.

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As for ocd.

[neilparf]

What about this

Open safari.
Navigate to
(Telephone number).tel.qlnk.net

Eg
123.tel.qlnk.net

Press go
Press cancel
Press the share arrow
Press 'save to home'
Enter name

Done

You now have an icon on the home screen that'll prompt to call when clicked.
It doesn't need Internet connection - the qik page saves an entire web page as a data url string and the phone picks up the link.

+1 been using this Nate True hack for some time before Siri. Placing the links in a folder keeps my OCD in check.

Alternatively, I have the dash mooted phone cradle (yes I know, it's a chunk but I find it useful) and press and hold home to invoke siri and speak through the bluetooth mic to call 'Home'...

[neilparf]

Phew. Corrected.

[jjdsyd]

Sorry, but does anyone not think it is insane that Audi has shipped so many units of this MMI with no speed dial!?

[Graeme4130]

My iphone has favourites on one screen
It takes as long to pick my phone up, hit two buttons and then let the car do it's thing as it does to try and fumble through the mmi, no ?

[jjdsyd]

Yeah but illegal to touch the phone here in Aus. 4 pts off licence - my wife just got done. And again, Audi, stop the madness. It's no solution to have us fumbling for our phones...

[Astonished]

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Phew. Corrected.

Phew ... I can relax now. I nearly had to ask the name of the establishment so I could ring them and let them know

Or ...

Was it really just a test ?

[Astonished]

Yeah but illegal to touch the phone here in Aus. 4 pts off licence - my wife just got done. And again, Audi, stop the madness. It's no solution to have us fumbling for our phones...

Yeh, just silly.

And when the system is quite smart with touches like the voicemail and allowing tone responses you'd think the regular old standard of speed dial would be a given.

Is it just German logic ?