“(1) Multi-touch procedures to mute phone”
When I go to sleep at night, it needs a multi-touch method to turn down the ring volume for alarm sounds.
Grrrrr.
Depends on what “most technologically advanced” means. If we are talking devices, sure Apple is a player. Their tech is anything but first to market or innovative. Not one thing they do now is revolutionary, from screen tech to facial recognition they are a “me too” company. The iPhone 8 is a major disappointment with most of the tech articles I have read. It’s warmed over 6-12 month old “innovations” in a poor crafted phone.
Now you have to see what Microsoft has been quietly doing. They own the world of software innovation right now. Cloud computing, geo-fencing, machine learning, business intelligence, petabyte data storage with faster access than your 10 year old SQL blade server. I have never seen such exciting times when it comes to real innovation. The iPhone is a nice gadget, but without the infrastructure and computing power to support 100’s of millions of concurrent users accessing Facebook in the cloud, it’s really just an iPod. Apple is to technology what Toyota and Honda were to cars in the 70’s through the 90’s , solid, dependable and marginally innovative. But an innovative giant...umm no they are not.
Do you go to sleep at close to the same time every night? Set the Do Not Disturb to go on and off on your schedule. Or set the Do Not Disturb for 9PM every night and allow calls from 8AM . . . and allow calls from your VIP list. Anyone that calls twice in a row can still get through the Do Not Disturb.
Want to set it Do Not Disturb at another time? Swipe up from the bottom of the lock screen, tap the moon button. Done. To turn it off, swipe up from the bottom of the lock screen, tap the moon again. Done.
If you want a quieter alarm, that's possible too. Select an alarm tone that is subdued, and keep a loud ring tone. Problem solved.
It's amazing how people keep telling us about things that irk them which THEY CLAIM IS IMPOSSIBLE or REQUIRE an extraordinary number of clicks to do something when it is actually super simple to do what they want to do.