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I'd like to see the unit test for this bug
“Sean—”
“Aaaaaaaaaah!”
“—it's time to get up … oh dear. I have to scrape you off the ceiling again.”
“No problem—just give me a moment to get my heart started again.”
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I'm convinced I've found a bug on the iPhone.
I use my iPhone as an alarm clock. It's there, and I can set multiple alarms
to remind me of various tasks other than waking up, such as scrum mettings
[1].
I also tend to keep the ringer off my iPhone, due to the sheer number of spam
calls I receive (during the week, it's not uncommon for me to receive a few
spam calls per day—so far three today, but the most I've received up to
seven). But having the ringer off does not mean the alarm is silent—it still
goes off (loudly). It's just that anyone calling won't wake me.
So now we come to the bug—if I receive a call at the same time as the alarm
goes off, no sound is emitted! And with no alarm, I keep sleeping until my
backup alarm, Bunny, comes in and scares the XXXX out of me.
I could solve this by setting silence as a default ring tone, but alas, the
iPhone does not come with silence as an option for a ring tone (hint hint!).
So I would have to sample John Cage's 4′33″ [2] to use as a default ring
tone.
Yeah, I know, first world problem. But only if something was being done about
spam calls [3] …
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/03/05.1
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4′33″
[3]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO0iG_P0P6M&t=15m59s
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