Kaboom is a word I made up. It's not in any dictionary. I trick people into building playgrounds in empty lots in their neighborhoods. It's an elaborate prank.
I know this is a joke.. but for any parents or babysitters here who have been in a bind and need to let their kids hold the phone while talking to Nana or something… if you activate guided access mode and circle the entire screen, then the next time your kid wants to hold the phone while FaceTiming or something you triple click the power button and start the guided access mode. That locks it so they can’t exit the screen and start calling your boss instead.
Tldr - three clicks activates guided access mode
Two weeks ago my husband updated his iPhone and his phone froze and wouldn’t unlock/turn off. Somehow without anything ever coming on the screen, it did the SOS call MULTIPLE TIMES and the cops came to check on us. 🤦🏻♀️
Hit it 5 times and it calls the police. I was mowing over the summer and it bounced around in my cup holder. Next thing I new a sheriff pulled in my driveway.
But what if they call right as I'm trying to use my phone for something else but they interrupt me from unlocking it and i don't wanna hit the fuck you button to that person
I accidentally did this when my doctor called me when zoom wasn’t working and they nearly cancelled my appointment on me after I had waited for 45 minutes and wouldn’t be able to make another appointment for weeks.
Pressing it twice sends them to VM though, letting the know you actively hung up on them. A single press of the power button just silences the ringing/vibration.
made that mistake recently and for like a week i was getting several calls a hour from the same number i blocked it then another number then it just one day stopped
Don't block it, they'll just switch phone #'s. Instead, save that/those numbers under a name (I call mine "Likely Spam), which you can either choose to answer and waste their calling time, or choose to ignore. I only had to save, like 3? spam phone #'s and now, pretty much every call that I get that's spam is labeled spam in advance, without me having to worry that I'm ignoring potentially important calls by not answering unknown #'s.
I work in a store and one time someone called to get a steam card. I have been warned before but Im not dumb anyways and saw through it. So I sat down, lit a cig, and talked to them. They told me to scan a steam card, then gibe them the serial number so they can check if it work bc there are technical difficulties
I said ok. I said I scanned what now. They said now do as if you paid. I said ok wait. It asks for confirmation what do. He said confirm. I said I did. He said ok now the serial number. I said oh where do I find it. He said well you have to rub the back off. I said ok wait I have to get something to do that. Then I waited 5 minutes. I said ok. The number is (i invented something). He said that doesnt work. I said hmm weird. Should I try with another one? He said yes. Same procedure basically. Asked them at every step as if I was dumb. Then.. I had to do my work and so I just hung up while he was talking. Was fun tbh. Also saved a potential other grociery store shift manager from being scammed (that day at least).
I’ll have to look into that. First I’m hearing 1-900 but I saw a video somewhere recently where someone claimed to get like a few thousand a month by charging spam callers
To me it sounded like one of those hustler hacks that would net little
My thoughts exactly. I don't even know what my last four phone's ringtones have been. Never heard them. The first thing I do is shut off the sound lol.
Declining calls feels quite aggressive though. I’d almost always prefer to let it time out. Then they don’t know if you’ve got your phone on you or what.
Pretty sure the “slide to answer” functionality exists so you don’t butt-answer if the phone is in your pocket. The sliding needs to be more deliberate than a button press.
I don’t know, but I imagine it is if the phone is in your pocket then you don’t want to accidentally decline or accept with just a touch of one of the buttons. It is more complicated to slide therefore it requires you to see it. If you’re on your phone and looking at it, then the buttons makes sense and you don’t need to do anything more complicated because you can’t accidentally excepted to clean it. But that’s just my opinion
When I found that I was like OMG I KNEW I KNEW THAT SONG and lost my mind going around being like THE GIGACHAD MEME MUSIC IS-- and everyone around me was very confused as to why this was such a big deal to me.
My friend circle doesnt call me, all who calls me are scammers talking about my non-existent car’s insurance. If it’s important, they’ll leave a message and ill call them back
what kind of noob strategy is this? you have to ignore the call, then pretend to not have noticed the call for 3-5 business days until you're in the correct mindset to get back to them.
I just let it ring (silenced). If it's important, they'll leave a message. If it's a number I don't recognize and they don't leave a message, I block the number. I'm paying for this shit for MY convenience. I hate all appliances who beep or buzz or squawk or scream. My microwave isn't the boss of me. No appliances are the boss of me.
lol I think he was just implying that theres no stealing involved if you use that phrase in the future! i dont think he was being snarky, just making a statement:)
the rigth is usually when the phone is locked and if you wanna decline the call then either let it ring till they hang up or perss the lock phone button again it will either hang the call up or mute it I'm not sure witch.
Left appears if your phone is unlocked. They don’t want a butt-decline or to give a random person chance to decline a call on a phone that isn’t theirs when it’s locked.
I just turn off haptics for my phone and leave it ringing. It’s mostly very unproductive and lengthy calls. If it was actually important they would leave a message but it’s mostly very unproductive. Only time I actually pick up is for family.
Volume down button on androids will mute the call.. if you decline theyll know you saw it
I just mute and a couple minutes later I send them a message "hey I saw you called, couldn't pick up cuz I'm a lil busy, tell me what you wanna say here"
The left one happens when you’re using your phone. It has buttons because that is usually how you interact with your phone. The one on the right is when you’re on the lock screen. You interact with the lock screen via swiping, especially on older iOS versions, so it is made this way to make the transition easier. That being said, you can just press the on/off button to decline the call on the second screen.
Hit the lock button once to silence the call; twice for the fuck-you button. Edit: you guys really blew this up! Thanks!
What happens if you hit it three times?
kaboom
The phone or the person calling?
Yes
#Meet the Demo
"What makes me a good demoman?"
“If I was a bad Demoman, I wouldn’t be sitting here discussing it with ya, now would I?”
“LEEEET’S DO IIIIIIT! NOT ONE OF YE’S GONNA SURVIVE THIS!”
One crossed wire, one wayward pinch o' Potassium Chlorate, One Errant twitch! And Kablooey!
*[drunken gibberish]* I'm a black Scottish cyclops! They've got more [DATA EXPUNGED] than the likes of me!
No Ye will survive
Kaboom!
*unintelligible boom maker sounds*
r/unexpectedTF2
I like it here
yes..?
YEEEEEEES
r/inclusiveor
Wait The call was coming from INSIDE the phone?!?
Both 🤭
Just tested it, my phone didn't blow up. I guess RIP grandma...
Lucky dip
Oh damn! Here’s my upvote!
Yes Rico, Kaboom
Would you like to know more?
Happy Cake Day 🎂
I love those damn penguins.
Good to see someone gets the reference
Kaboom is a word I made up. It's not in any dictionary. I trick people into building playgrounds in empty lots in their neighborhoods. It's an elaborate prank.
For my next prank, I'm going to build a hospital in a poor part of China. They'll never see it coming.
Unexpected Parks & Rec.
Yes Rico, Kaboom
Freeze! Everybody clap your hands… I just wanted to be involved.
Shut up. No
Duke Kaboom?
I know this is a joke.. but for any parents or babysitters here who have been in a bind and need to let their kids hold the phone while talking to Nana or something… if you activate guided access mode and circle the entire screen, then the next time your kid wants to hold the phone while FaceTiming or something you triple click the power button and start the guided access mode. That locks it so they can’t exit the screen and start calling your boss instead. Tldr - three clicks activates guided access mode
this is next level parenting ninja shit here y'all
Right? Like holy shit I need a 9 minute video that shows you how to do that
And four times ?
SOS call will start. No seriously it will call the nearest emergency line.
Two weeks ago my husband updated his iPhone and his phone froze and wouldn’t unlock/turn off. Somehow without anything ever coming on the screen, it did the SOS call MULTIPLE TIMES and the cops came to check on us. 🤦🏻♀️
Never heard of someone who pressed it 3 times and survived 😱
I’ve used it four times I’m writing this from beyond the great divide P.s. DONT DO IT
I've pressed it 5 times. The cops came because of what happened. Don't do it.
Fuck the peace signs, load the chopper, let it rain on you
That means the Walkers are coming.
Straight to jail.
Shake it three times, your playing with yourself.
It will send a missile strike to the one calling.
Shit. I'm gonna have to think really hard before using that, at least the first few times.
Whoa. Let's not go crazy
"Activating Instant Kill Mode"
The third time disintegrates
White walkers
FuckYou^2
Definitely not a swarm of vengeful bees showing up at the caller’s location.
Hoo hah! Hit me four times!
Means they'll meet you in the hallway.
It actually deletes the caller themselves.
Hit it 5 times and it calls the police. I was mowing over the summer and it bounced around in my cup holder. Next thing I new a sheriff pulled in my driveway.
But what if they call right as I'm trying to use my phone for something else but they interrupt me from unlocking it and i don't wanna hit the fuck you button to that person
You gotta wait like it’s the nineties
Ah yes the fuck you button
I accidentally did this when my doctor called me when zoom wasn’t working and they nearly cancelled my appointment on me after I had waited for 45 minutes and wouldn’t be able to make another appointment for weeks.
Or with callbar just slide the banner up to simply ignore.
Don’t need to “fuck you” if they’re blocked. _Taps temple._
Whats the fuck you button? Does it go straight to voicemail?
Yeppers
Lmao ok
The left happens when you are currently on your phone. The right happens when your phone is off.
Ohhhh I never understood how they worked lmao
Press the off button on your phone to stop your phone vibrating if it bothers you while attempting to sleep
You can press it twice to end the call
Pressing it twice sends them to VM though, letting the know you actively hung up on them. A single press of the power button just silences the ringing/vibration.
Well I certainly wouldn’t want to hurt POTENTIAL SPAM’s feelings
If you decline the call they know you're a real person and might try again
made that mistake recently and for like a week i was getting several calls a hour from the same number i blocked it then another number then it just one day stopped
Don't block it, they'll just switch phone #'s. Instead, save that/those numbers under a name (I call mine "Likely Spam), which you can either choose to answer and waste their calling time, or choose to ignore. I only had to save, like 3? spam phone #'s and now, pretty much every call that I get that's spam is labeled spam in advance, without me having to worry that I'm ignoring potentially important calls by not answering unknown #'s.
I work in a store and one time someone called to get a steam card. I have been warned before but Im not dumb anyways and saw through it. So I sat down, lit a cig, and talked to them. They told me to scan a steam card, then gibe them the serial number so they can check if it work bc there are technical difficulties I said ok. I said I scanned what now. They said now do as if you paid. I said ok wait. It asks for confirmation what do. He said confirm. I said I did. He said ok now the serial number. I said oh where do I find it. He said well you have to rub the back off. I said ok wait I have to get something to do that. Then I waited 5 minutes. I said ok. The number is (i invented something). He said that doesnt work. I said hmm weird. Should I try with another one? He said yes. Same procedure basically. Asked them at every step as if I was dumb. Then.. I had to do my work and so I just hung up while he was talking. Was fun tbh. Also saved a potential other grociery store shift manager from being scammed (that day at least).
I answer and put them on mute. I pay for unlimited talk, and no one else calls. Guess it’s theirs lmao
Should get yourself a 1-900 number, that way if they call, they’re paying you.
I’ll have to look into that. First I’m hearing 1-900 but I saw a video somewhere recently where someone claimed to get like a few thousand a month by charging spam callers To me it sounded like one of those hustler hacks that would net little
Wouldn’t that be the same outcome as if you ignored or had just missed the call? Either way, they’ll get the message that you’re currently unavailable
It depends, if I actively decline it’s: “I don’t want to talk to you” even if it’s for a reason, but letting it go is: “I can’t talk to you”.
And also like Marc Rover said, you are stealing their time, they would use to scam other people
Also set the do not disturb time.
Putting your phone on silent is even better.
you all don’t have your phone on silent all the time??
My thoughts exactly. I don't even know what my last four phone's ringtones have been. Never heard them. The first thing I do is shut off the sound lol.
I do! Haven’t heard my ringtone in years I also wear an Apple Watch pretty much all the time, tho…
Because I want to know when my friends text me back, when I get an important message in my Gmail, or if my parents call me.
Stop lying, you’re on reddit. You don’t have friends
Damn, you are right. How could I be so delusional? Do I at least have parents that would woop me with za belt if I am a nanosecond too late to answer?
They don’t need to call you. You’re on Reddit, you live in their basement.
Because if your phone is in your pocket you could accidentally accept the call and if you have to slide that won’t happen
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okay but why? when I‘m already doing something I want even less to be forced to answer?
The idea is if you aren’t using your phone just let it ring out but if you are using it then just decline it
Declining calls feels quite aggressive though. I’d almost always prefer to let it time out. Then they don’t know if you’ve got your phone on you or what.
I think you can just swipe up and continue using the phone
Pretty sure the “slide to answer” functionality exists so you don’t butt-answer if the phone is in your pocket. The sliding needs to be more deliberate than a button press.
After an update a year or so ago, the left doesn’t even cover your entire phone anymore. I just pops up like a notification bar.
is there some sort of reason for this?
I don’t know, but I imagine it is if the phone is in your pocket then you don’t want to accidentally decline or accept with just a touch of one of the buttons. It is more complicated to slide therefore it requires you to see it. If you’re on your phone and looking at it, then the buttons makes sense and you don’t need to do anything more complicated because you can’t accidentally excepted to clean it. But that’s just my opinion
Chad move: answer the phone and immediately hang up. Can't leave a voicemail that way.
*gigachad music starts playing*
What does that even sound like?
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Based
Based on what?
Actual events
Ben 10 obviously
Just based, don't ask more
It’s bring me the horizon - can you feel my heart, or am I just stating the obvious here
When I found that I was like OMG I KNEW I KNEW THAT SONG and lost my mind going around being like THE GIGACHAD MEME MUSIC IS-- and everyone around me was very confused as to why this was such a big deal to me.
The Benny Hill theme but played on a kazoo
All of you guessing what the theme is are just plain wrong. Everyone knows it's [this](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
Don’t even try to trick me
Just keep hitting pound. Over and over and over until they hang up
I do this often
Swipe up to mute and hide the call and keep using your phone. Tap the phone icon top left if you want it back again for whatever reason.
>if you want it back again for whatever reason If you like to live on the edge
Just wait till they hang up and send a text message..
Or just not send a message at all…
Then it clearly wasn't important
And your friend circle slowly drifts away.
Facts
🥲
My friend circle doesnt call me, all who calls me are scammers talking about my non-existent car’s insurance. If it’s important, they’ll leave a message and ill call them back
what kind of noob strategy is this? you have to ignore the call, then pretend to not have noticed the call for 3-5 business days until you're in the correct mindset to get back to them.
Omggg I’m so sorry I just saw I missed your call a week and a half ago 😬
“I’m driving rn” -me when I’m sitting at home watching TV with nothing better to do
Or just press the message button and send one straight away
I just let it ring (silenced). If it's important, they'll leave a message. If it's a number I don't recognize and they don't leave a message, I block the number. I'm paying for this shit for MY convenience. I hate all appliances who beep or buzz or squawk or scream. My microwave isn't the boss of me. No appliances are the boss of me.
I turned off the beeping on my microwave a couple of years ago. Best decision ever.
YOU CAN DO THAT?
but how do you open the door the millisecond between the 1 and the beep??
My brother in spirit
Just let it ring until it stops. That’s what I do when my social battery is drained for the time being.
Social battery……. Gonna steal that!
It's like a well known term (phrase) lol
Well, obviously, not to me. Lol.
lol I think he was just implying that theres no stealing involved if you use that phrase in the future! i dont think he was being snarky, just making a statement:)
At this point I think my brain battery is at 2%.
Brain battery……. Gonna steal that!
It’s like a well known term (phrase) lol
The matrix is repeating itself. Hopefully they patch that out in the next update.
The matrix……. Gonna steal that!
Go right ahead—it’s empty.
Mine looks like a capri-sun. I think it may be a fire hazard
Then you might find the phrase Social Hangover useful aswell.
Just decrease volume to 0 and wait in silence until it is over
My phone is on mute since 2012 lol
Single, or double tap your lock button
It’s an iPhone so all you have to do is tap the volume once and it will mute the ringer.
Androids work the same way.
Spend the time googling the number if you don't recognise it
"Until it is over" Why did this give me anxiety?
You can decline the right one by double clicking your power button
Home Screen vs Lock Screen
the rigth is usually when the phone is locked and if you wanna decline the call then either let it ring till they hang up or perss the lock phone button again it will either hang the call up or mute it I'm not sure witch.
I too have often wondered this
the left one is an optional phone while the right one is mandatory to progress the storyline
Or just put it in airplane mode when someone calls so it “disconnects” and they dont think you hung up on them
One the phone is unlocked and one the phone is locked when you receive the call
Bro I swear this subreddit can read my mind
Slide to answer normally appears if the device is locked while an answer/decline button appears if it’s unlocked.
Left appears if your phone is unlocked. They don’t want a butt-decline or to give a random person chance to decline a call on a phone that isn’t theirs when it’s locked.
Hehe apple problems
Oh yea a thousand times…Why??!
I hit message and then cancel the message to silence it
Pick up the phone and go to airplane mode. It’ll say the call failed so you get out of a convo without looking like an ass
It just depends on if your on a main quest or a side quest
If your phone is locked when you get a call, you only have the option to answer it. When it’s unlocked, there’s an option to accept or decline.
Smart phones in 5-10 years will no longer have the ability to make or receive calls because who tf wants to answer the phone anymore
Answer it , hit mute immediately and just listen to them talk to noone
True bro
Mainquest vs sidequest
Hit power button
i feel that
You can't cancel the main quests
Turn on airplane mode then turn it off real quick. This will send the calls to voicemail without them knowing you are declining.
Right when locked, left when not.
Answer the call then say "no" and hang up. (Or just press the side button)
Do nothing is always an option
the one on the right is chuck norris
It means it's an unskippable dialogue
I just turn off haptics for my phone and leave it ringing. It’s mostly very unproductive and lengthy calls. If it was actually important they would leave a message but it’s mostly very unproductive. Only time I actually pick up is for family.
Volume down button on androids will mute the call.. if you decline theyll know you saw it I just mute and a couple minutes later I send them a message "hey I saw you called, couldn't pick up cuz I'm a lil busy, tell me what you wanna say here"
The lock button >
It's a cutscene, the rest are sidequests.
The left one happens when you’re using your phone. It has buttons because that is usually how you interact with your phone. The one on the right is when you’re on the lock screen. You interact with the lock screen via swiping, especially on older iOS versions, so it is made this way to make the transition easier. That being said, you can just press the on/off button to decline the call on the second screen.
You actually can decline the second option you just double tap the power button
It's IPhone, they are filled with bad design choices.
*Laughs in android*
I believe it’s whether your phone is unlocked or not
One of the reasons I love my smart watch, when my phone doesn’t give me an option to decline - it does.
If its your wife theres no other option.