To quote the Saw movies: "Hello, Mark, Paul, Amanda, Zep, Adam, Dr. Gordon. I want to play a game." While navigating the modern world of technology can sometimes feel like you're caught in the trap of John Kramer, aka Jigsaw, it seems Apple really wants us to put us there with a hated feature.
While we won't get into the whole Apple vs Android debate, the former is once again in the spotlight thanks to the recent release of the iPhone 16 and upcoming rollout of Apple Intelligence.
The tech giant keeps us buying its products by trying to prove we need a new iPhone every year, and although there's some impressive stuff going on under the hood of the iPhone 16, users are begging Apple to change one older feature that was seemingly designed just to test us.
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Cue the legendary Saw theme music because we're sure we're about to trigger something with two simple words. Voicemail...playback. Taking to Reddit, iPhone users are explaining their harrowing experience with trying to listen to voicemail playback.
We all know what it's like when someone leaves a voicemail and quickly rattles through the number you need to call them back on. Unless you're Rain Man, chances are you need to rewind and listen to the number again. Good luck with that because everyone knows Apple has made the voicemail playback slider the size of a pin prick.
The OP says the voicemail slider is 'worse than being in a Saw movie,' and it seems a lot of you agree.
Another frustrated techie wrote: "What? You don’t like endlessly trying to drag the dot that may never move, but when it does it’ll move to the wrong place?"
A third chimed in: "This is probably one of the most annoying things on the iPhone. The whole voicemail UI hasn’t changed since 1960."
This isn't the only problem, as someone else mused: "Also the terrible delay between hitting play and the message actually starting. I can never tell if its on speaker or not and I hit the play button to test it and wait like 3 seconds before any sound comes out of the earpiece or the speaker."
Worringly, it's not just an Apple problem, with someone else concluding: "Android user here. both my iPhone and Samsung device does this. wtf."
When one person said that we should leave Apple CEO Tim Cook a voicemail about it, someone else joked that they did, three years ago. He just never got it. The whole thing has been called 'sadistic,' and even as Cook hypes the importance of Apple Intelligence, we'd just like an overhaul to voicemail, please. And you wonder why younger generations refuse to call people nowadays.