Phone app recommendation

DeletedUser313

Well the only thing good on iOS is privacy and it still has controversies like the Siri spying incident. iPhones are practically toys compared to Android in terms of functionality

NetRunner88

DeletedUser313

Which privacy is there on iOS ?

DeletedUser313

NetRunner88

iCloud Advanced Data Protection and it went to court to prevent a backdoor from being installed.

https://apnews.com/article/apple-iphone-britain-privacy-cybersecurity-encryption-5bc43477bee8cf32cbd81cd88a9463bd

It also has the Secure Enclave which is apparently equal to Titan. iMessage is built in, iirc RCS is still quite unstable. Apple was caught recording Siri conversations though so I don't trust it that much.

iudnu

Call Recording is an essential feature for me, and though GrapheneOS supports it, it seems like it's only from within the GOS dialer. I'd like a more feature rich dialer app, but not at the cost of losing my recording ability!

andrej567

I'd be perfectly fine with the default phone app if it would be able to use specific sim card per contact. I am using some third party app now, paid, it used to work, recently it forgets the settings. I am not sure whether it is related to contact syncing and the info is wiped or what.. annoying but it is as it is.

mar2112

+1 for carrying a work phone. I found that it's really not that big of a deal to carry two phones during work hours. Except when on travel, I do not use my work phone after hours. My employer has an emergency contact if they need me after hours, otherwise that is my time and not work time so my work phone is powered off.

DeletedUser313

mar2112

Did you buy it or did the employer? Do you also carry a wallet?

mar2112

DeletedUser313
Sorry for the delayed response. My employer provided the phone. In fact work email is not accessible from my personal phone.

Yes, I carry a wallet which only has my drivers license and one credit card.

Drum1973

gaffka

Let me add some more "feature requests" for dialer app which I noticed that are missing when I switched from Samsung to Graphene OS.

When searching for contact with dialer (numbers), default number is some arbitrary number. It doesn't use marked "default" number or mobile phone number. If I remember correctly, on Samsung, when you click on contact, it's calling default number and if there isn't default, it's calling mobile (if available).
When having SIM and e-sim in phone, you cannot pick from which to make a call. You need to go to setting and change default if you want to call from another sim.
There is no bluetooth on/off in call. Was nice when I forget to turn on BT when I'm in car, I could just turn in on when in call and it connects to car.
When in call, I get no notification that someone else is calling me.
When phone is unlocked and I'm using any app, if I receive call there is popup on top. That's great, but if I don't want to answer call right now, I cannot just remove that popup. On Samsung you could just push it aside and it goes to notifications without rejecting call, ringing is silenced.
Rescent calls list is hard to read when you have a lot of calls. Missed calls are hard to see.

I know it's a few months old thread, but lets keep it for future reference is GOS team decides to upgrade app at any time. :)

Drum1973

Drum1973
More items that got on my mind:

There is no "speed dial". If you don't know what it is, you just hole one number, for example 2, and set it to your desired contact number. Next time you hold it, it speed dials that number.

DataScienceDIY

Hate to necro a thread, but I have had similar problems finding a simple phone app replacement. In addition to the above issues, it would be very useful to me to see what TIME a past call was made in the "Recents" section, especially if that call was more than 24 hours ago.

It was said above, but my biggest issue with the current app is being unable to edit a contact from the contacts tab.

Thank you to everyone at GrapheneOS for the hard work you do!

gaffka

The Goodwy phone app that was suggested here has been working for me since this discussion. It's not without issues, but eases most of the pain points I pointed out. It only shows the date of a call in the history list, but you can see the time if you open up the entry itself.

I was using the Goodwy messenger app as well for quite a while but the handling of media items was atrocious so I'm back to the default. No way to scroll through or save multiple items from a message. You have to download and view one at a time. I contacted the author, but he didn't seem interested in improving that aspect of the app. It's a crying shame since it does almost everything else incredibly well. One of my favorite features was being able to mark a message as unread with a swipe. If you don't care about those things, I'd suggest you pick that up as well.

Good luck and let us know if you discover anything else.

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