Ever since I’ve been utilizing an iPhone to make calls, I’ve been by chance calling individuals. Generally my fingers simply fumble on the decision checklist, typically I’m making an attempt to view somebody’s contact card and miss, different instances it’s as a result of I faucet to hold up a cut up second after the opposite particular person has already ended the decision, and I name somebody on the backside of my Latest tab.
Regardless of the purpose, I must both rapidly hold up or sheepishly clarify to the particular person on the opposite finish that I didn’t imply to name them. Not anymore. In iOS 26, there’s a brand new toggle that eliminates the potential for ever tapping a current name to dial somebody by mistake.
As noticed by Aaronp613 on X, the brand new Telephone app in iOS 26 comes with a brand new setting to “Faucet Recents to Name.” Because it sounds, flipping the toggle on will hold the identical habits as earlier than and “begin the decision as quickly as you faucet a reputation or quantity within the Recents checklist.” You’ll wish to flip the characteristic off should you don’t wish to name somebody by chance. Now, as an alternative of robotically calling somebody, tapping a reputation on the Recents checklist will go straight to their contact card, the place you may really name them in order for you.
Granted, it’s costing you an additional faucet, so should you like issues the outdated means, you may at all times hold the toggle flipped on. But it surely’s nonetheless faster than explaining to somebody why you by chance known as them.
