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- 98 - 97: A victory in the clone warsSat, 04 Aug 2018 - 04min
- 97 - 96: The Mac beyond SteveThu, 07 Jun 2018 - 04min
- 96 - 95: RIP StormFri, 01 Jun 2018 - 05min
- 95 - 94: iOS 12 wish – Siri self-awarenessThu, 24 May 2018 - 04min
- 94 - 93: iOS 12 wish – a better phone
WWDC 2018 is fast approaching and Apple-watchers everywhere are preparing their iOS feature wish lists. There’s plenty of low-hanging fruit available to make the iPad and iPhone better internet communicators and content-creation and content-consumption devices. But what about making the iPhone a better phone?
I know. “Who uses their phone as a phone?!” Like email, voice phone calls have become a bizarre, legacy, mostly inbound communication channel. As Google controversially pointed out recently, sometimes a phone call is the best or only way to find certain information or accomplish a task. But 90% or more of the calls to my iPhone are junk.
Apple must have realized that spam calls were of rising concern to their users, as they added call blocking capabilities in the CallKit API introduced in iOS 10. This led to an explosion of call-blocking apps in the App Store, some of them scammy in their own right, requiring access to all your contacts in order to function. A few are above-board, not needing your private data. One of them is WideProtect, which I’ve been using for several months now.
These mass blockers are useful for the latest pattern in spam calls here in the United States: spoofing a number similar to the one being dialed, in hopes that it will look “familiar” and get you to pick up. I started by blocking numbers that were extremely similar to mine, differing only in the last three digits. That didn’t stop enough of the spam, so I expanded the range to anything differing in the last 4 digits — 10,000 numbers in total. That seems like a lot, but I’m only using 1% of WideProtect’s blocking potential! CallKit allows each blocker extension to cover 100,000 numbers, but apps can have multiple extensions. WideProtect has 10 extensions for a maximum of 1 million total blocked numbers.
Blocking extensions are far more effective than my old tactic of putting repeat offender numbers into a single contact named “spammers”, but they don’t eliminate the annoyance. CallKit blocking prevents the phone from ringing, but voicemails still come through as notifications. These too are predictable: most are just 2 or 3 seconds of dead air, while others are a robot reading a script about senior care medical devices they want me to purchase. Needless to say, these are the most garbage-y notifications I receive on any given day.
So why can’t iOS eliminate them entirely? Smart handling of voicemail has always been part of the iPhone’s “revolutionary mobile phone” features (Visual Voicemail, as it was then called, was truly unheard of in 2008.) Today, iPhones analyze voicemails on-device to create transcriptions, which are available within notifications via 3D touch. Using that transcription data to suppress notifications could be dressed up as fancy machine learning, but really all that’s required is the type of basic pattern matching that has powered email spam filters for decades. And any good spam filter needs a safeguard against false positives, so offending voicemails could be sorted into the separate Blocked Messages view in the Phone app, rather than being blackholed entirely.
Perhaps the average iPhone user is accustomed to their device being a constantly buzzing annoyance box, and a couple spam calls per day are nothing amongst their dozens of _other_ spam notifications. But I try to keep those annoyances as close to zero as possible. So even though the phone is, most likely, the least important part of the iPhone, robust spam filtering would help it be the best phone available.
Tue, 22 May 2018 - 04min - 93 - 92: Alto's OdysseyThu, 17 May 2018 - 03min
- 92 - 91: Seeing double with regular expressions
Followup to Ed's appearance on MPU #380: How to rearrange and duplicate text found with a regular expression.
Sat, 24 Jun 2017 - 04min - 91 - 90: Envisioning a Mac Pro-boWed, 14 Jun 2017 - 04min
- 90 - 89: Does Apple need a branded design language?
Apple's new look for iOS 11 doesn't have a name, like Google's Material Design or Microsoft's Fluent Design System. Should it?
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 - 03min - 89 - 88: Genesis of the Touch BarFri, 11 Nov 2016 - 04min
- 88 - 87: Apple's emoji – one font fits allSun, 06 Nov 2016 - 05min
- 87 - 86: Picomac, season 2Tue, 01 Nov 2016 - 02min
- 86 - 85: Adjusting photo timestamps with ExiftoolWed, 10 Aug 2016 - 02min
- 85 - 84: How not to use in-flight Wi-FiMon, 08 Aug 2016 - 03min
- 84 - 83: A drought in the App StoreThu, 28 Jul 2016 - 03min
- 83 - 82: Trapped Flickr geotag dataWed, 27 Jul 2016 - 02min
- 82 - 81: Hot and cold on HomeKitTue, 26 Jul 2016 - 02min
- 81 - 80: Accessible by designMon, 25 Jul 2016 - 03min
- 80 - 79: Keyboard clicksThu, 21 Jul 2016 - 02min
- 79 - 78: Improved data detectorsWed, 20 Jul 2016 - 02min
- 78 - 77: iOS 10 – What's new, anyway?Mon, 18 Jul 2016 - 02min
- 77 - 76: Indexicals are hardThu, 14 Jul 2016 - 03min
- 76 - 75: Big, buggy appsWed, 13 Jul 2016 - 03min
- 75 - 74: Entering betaTue, 12 Jul 2016 - 02min
- 74 - 73: Mind the gap – 2 months with the Veil XTMon, 11 Jul 2016 - 03min
- 73 - 72: Apple TV audio to the EchoThu, 30 Jun 2016 - 02min
- 72 - 71: Pasting with TextExpanderWed, 29 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 71 - 70: Flow in Airmail 3Tue, 28 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 70 - 69: 1Blocker for MacMon, 27 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 69 - 68: Where to tune inThu, 23 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 68 - 67: The scale of a Siri audio APIWed, 22 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 67 - 66: Icons on the modern MacTue, 21 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 66 - 65: TwiddlingMon, 20 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 65 - 64: WWDC 2016 – The TVFri, 17 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 64 - 63: WWDC 2016 – The iPhoneThu, 16 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 63 - 62: WWDC 2016 – The MacWed, 15 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 62 - 61: WWDC 2016 – The WatchTue, 14 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 61 - 60: Fixing FinderThu, 09 Jun 2016 - 02min
- 60 - 59: A more comfortable Apple TVWed, 08 Jun 2016 - 02min
- 59 - 58: Opening files with HazelTue, 07 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 58 - 57: My first Spotify billMon, 06 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 57 - 56: Increasing connections for BittorrentFri, 03 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 56 - 55: Getting back to a MacThu, 02 Jun 2016 - 02min
- 55 - 54: A Genius idea for SiriWed, 01 Jun 2016 - 03min
- 54 - 53: Open app indicatorsTue, 31 May 2016 - 03min
- 53 - 52: The need for smarter remindersThu, 26 May 2016 - 03min
- 52 - 51: .mov to .gif – a lessonWed, 25 May 2016 - 02min
- 51 - 50: Resizing windows with modifier keysTue, 24 May 2016 - 02min
- 50 - 49: A better app switcher
Building a better iOS app switcher for everyone: power users, ordinary users, and compulsive quitters.
Mon, 23 May 2016 - 03min - 49 - 48: Leaving Fantastical for MacFri, 20 May 2016 - 03min
- 48 - 47: Custom LaunchBar search templates
How to set up custom search templates in LaunchBar, inspired by Stephen Hackett's Alfred workflow for Giphy.
Wed, 18 May 2016 - 02min - 47 - 46: Hazel 4 first thoughtsTue, 17 May 2016 - 03min
- 46 - 45: iOS spring cleaningMon, 16 May 2016 - 03min
- 45 - 44: Project automation with Airmail, Workflow, and OmniFocusThu, 05 May 2016 - 03min
- 44 - 43: Waiting for a better iPad Pro OSWed, 04 May 2016 - 02min
- 43 - 42: Spotify Connect on iOS and EchoTue, 03 May 2016 - 02min
- 42 - 41: Back to the robotic coreMon, 02 May 2016 - 03min
- 41 - 40: Visualizing millions of iPhonesThu, 28 Apr 2016 - 03min
- 40 - 39: Welcome home, Amazon productsWed, 27 Apr 2016 - 02min
- 39 - 38: It's not you, it's email.Tue, 26 Apr 2016 - 03min
- 38 - 37: Airmail for iOS – first thoughtsMon, 25 Apr 2016 - 03min
- 37 - 36: Springboard imitationsThu, 21 Apr 2016 - 03min
- 36 - 35: An invisible Mission Control featureWed, 20 Apr 2016 - 02min
- 35 - 34: Siri's cuteness problemTue, 19 Apr 2016 - 03min
- 34 - 33: Live updates to tvOSMon, 18 Apr 2016 - 03min
- 33 - 32: Checking in on FoursquareThu, 14 Apr 2016 - 03min
- 32 - 31: TextExpander backtracksWed, 13 Apr 2016 - 02min
- 31 - 30: The Internet of Twitter LoginsTue, 12 Apr 2016 - 02min
- 30 - 29: Mystery meat MENUMon, 11 Apr 2016 - 03min
- 29 - 28: Apple TV's killer appThu, 07 Apr 2016 - 03min
- 28 - 27: Turn that Smile upside downWed, 06 Apr 2016 - 02min
- 27 - 26: Just the good appsTue, 05 Apr 2016 - 02min
- 26 - 25: Health in the App StoreMon, 04 Apr 2016 - 03min
- 25 - 24: Tallying up the App StoresThu, 24 Mar 2016 - 03min
- 24 - 23: iOS at nightWed, 23 Mar 2016 - 02min
- 23 - 22: Drawing linesTue, 22 Mar 2016 - 02min
- 22 - 21: Not today's new iPadMon, 21 Mar 2016 - 03min
- 21 - 20: March Madness on tvOSThu, 17 Mar 2016 - 02min
- 20 - 19: Overcast 2.5 first impressionsWed, 16 Mar 2016 - 02min
- 19 - 18: Waiting for the future of TVTue, 15 Mar 2016 - 02min
- 18 - 17: Plastic for allMon, 14 Mar 2016 - 02min
- 17 - 16: Picomac review – 3 months with SenseThu, 10 Mar 2016 - 03min
- 16 - 15: Please don't enter the iCloud passwordWed, 09 Mar 2016 - 02min
- 15 - 14: Scraping the web with PDFpenTue, 08 Mar 2016 - 02min
- 14 - 13: iOS app obesityMon, 07 Mar 2016 - 03min
- 13 - 12: My save dialog workflowThu, 03 Mar 2016 - 02min
- 12 - 11: App switching with Keyboard MaestroWed, 02 Mar 2016 - 02min
- 11 - 10: QuickType's quirky collocatesTue, 01 Mar 2016 - 02min
- 10 - 9: Which Siri are you?Mon, 29 Feb 2016 - 02min
- 9 - 8: Blue Apron's shared experienceThu, 25 Feb 2016 - 02min
- 8 - 7: El Capitan's Finder sidebarWed, 24 Feb 2016 - 02min
- 7 - 6: The Siri button – you're pushing it wrongTue, 23 Feb 2016 - 02min
- 6 - 5: UnreasonableMon, 22 Feb 2016 - 02min
- 5 - 4: To move or to split?Thu, 18 Feb 2016 - 02min
- 4 - 3: Wearing out an Apple leather caseWed, 17 Feb 2016 - 02min
- 3 - 2: A dilapidated storefrontTue, 16 Feb 2016 - 02min
- 2 - 1: I'm a Magic Keyboard convertMon, 15 Feb 2016 - 03min
- 1 - 0: What is Picomac?Mon, 15 Feb 2016 - 02min
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