r/Millennials • u/watermelon_fries Millennial • Aug 14 '26

Meme Always on silent

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u/Toezap Aug 14 '26

Sorry, I am the exception. I want to know when people are trying to reach out to me.

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u/Obtuse-Posterior Older Millennial Aug 14 '26

I have a ring tone for my contacts and one for everyone else just so I can tell if I want to answer my phone without looking.

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u/Notios Aug 15 '26

I miss the little blinking lights you could set on some phones. Different colours for different notifications/apps/contacts. Meant you could see if you had a message and who it was from without even going near your phone

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u/SarahKath90 Aug 15 '26

I miss individualized text tones

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u/313ctro Aug 15 '26

You could and can still do that on iPhones. Just edit the contact (in the Contacts app) and scroll down a bit and you’ll see both Ringtone and Text tone options.

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u/SarahKath90 Aug 16 '26

I have an android

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u/Obtuse-Posterior Older Millennial Aug 16 '26

I do too and I have customized text tones

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u/SarahKath90 Aug 16 '26

I just looked and found it, thank you!!

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u/Scarbane Aug 15 '26

This and automated call screening (on iPhone at least, not sure about Android).

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u/Vektor0 Aug 15 '26

I have it on my Google Pixel. I am impressed and appalled whenever I look at my phone app and see how many spam calls Google automatically rejected for me.

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u/EdmondDantesInferno Aug 15 '26

Yes. I get less than one spam call per month that gets through my Pixel's filter.

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u/randomwanderingsd Aug 15 '26

It’s even easier for me. If you call me without coordinating it via text first, I don’t want the call and ignore it.

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u/TheWizardOfDeez Aug 18 '26

This is the way