So last week we were talking about some of the changes Apple made to the settings app in

iOS 18 including moving all of the app settings including Apple apps and third

party apps behind a second apps menu. And in particular I was talking about how it's a pain to get to the

phone app settings where you can enable or disable silence unknown callers and we got

some feedback from Jim who pointed out that you can create a shortcut with a

URL scheme to take you right to the Silence Unknown Collars setting in the

Settings app, which is a clever solution and it makes it easier to get to something that you use all the time or at least that I use all the time

But I don't really think it's the ideal solution. I think the ideal solution mayo is what we talked about last week where you should just be able to like pin or favorite your most used settings in the settings app.

Yeah, and I believe that as well as having a Euro scheme to go to the phone settings, there is actually, and this may be added relatively recently, there's actually an Apple provided action for silent sundown callers in the shortcuts app so you could make

your own shortcut which then you could put on Control Center or something you know like you you could, or it was like a home screen button.

So that addresses like the specific silence unknown callers saying, which is what, you know, you're

directly talking about. But there's so many settings on the phone and most of them don't have a

sanctioned way I mean the URL scheme example is even undocumented right so like most of the

settings don't have a way to actually get to them and what you really need is some sort of higher level system

where if you're going to have a, if you're going, it makes sense why they buried all the apps into a subcategory of apps because

that home screen list was so long you know in the old

design and you could just scroll forever but one thing that it did did do quite nicely

is like Apple's apps were in a separate section above the rest of the third-party apps which

probably was frowned upon from a like you know EU competition at perspective because like the

our club was ranked above but it was also just the fact that Apple's

apps rely more on the settings app to give you their settings whereas

third-party apps generally have most of their most important

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