• ignJojo@toast.ooo
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    8 months ago

    I just put my phone into airplane mode when I don’t want to pick up. I think it’s better than just declining or waiting for the call to time out.

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    I just allowed my voicemail to fill up and kept terminating the app for that and now no one can leave me a voicemail.

    Everyone who ever left me a voicemail would tell me what the problem was in that then when I called them back, they told me everything they already said in the voicemail.

    Well why leave a voicemail at all if you’re just going to tell me all of that all over again?

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      8 months ago

      Because they expect you to listen to the voicemail and then call back at your convenience. If you hate it, get a visual voicemail app to transcribe them for you.

      That way, you’ll at least be able to side-eye it and consider helping when your mother calls because she has fallen in the tub.

      • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
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        8 months ago

        If you hate it, get a visual voicemail app to transcribe them for you.

        visual voicemail uses cellular data and won’t go through wifi. At least not on any smartphone I’ve ever had not that I know of anyway.

        And most people I know who still leave voicemails don’t speak clearly enough to be understood by that speech to text system so it comes up as a bunch of nonsense 99% of the time.

  • weeeeum@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Put your phone on airplane mode. The call will end immediately and the caller will see “call failed”

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    8 months ago

    Everyone in my family has voicemail message that says “Sorry I missed your call, I don’t check voicemail, please text.”

    I hate phone calls. Never answered the phone before the rise of cell phones, avoided getting a cell phone until they were wee computers, because the last thing I want is to be perpetually available by phone, still don’t answer the phone.