The silent switch was a great, easy-to-use feature, which has since been replaced by the superior Action button on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max. However, if you’re someone who finds themselves annoyed enough by a vibrating phone to turn it off, pressing the mute button means you are nearly impossible to reach if you don’t consistently check your phone.
An Apple Watch is great for many things: tracking exercise, calling emergency services, checking messages, and, most importantly for me, pinging your iPhone. My partner has a terrible habit of placing her iPhone in the strangest of places, such as on top of a wardrobe she’s barely tall enough to reach. So having that dastardly silent switch enabled means pinging her iPhone with a phone call never receives a response.
