I'm not expecting very many of you to be able to come up with an exact number, but do you find yourself checking your phone for messages frequently? Somewhat related, when you're having dinner or visiting with someone, would it offend you if they frequently checked their cell phone or texted people while you were having a conversation?
I never even have to check. I have my Apple Watch, so if I get a phone call, text message, or an iMessage, it all shows up right on my watch. I wear the watch all of the time, so if Robin messages me in the middle of the night (daytime to her in the Netherlands), then my watch buzzes me that I have a message and wakes me up. I can read the message on my watch, and even answer it from there, but I don’t do that. If I am at home, I answer with the iPad because it has the regular keyboard. If I am somewhere else, then I answer on the phone, and message back from there. I usually do not get a lot of messages, so the amount would probably be somewhere between 1-5 times a day; but more if I am messaging back and forth with someone. The only people I am apt to be around would be my family, and I expect them to all be checking their phones, and they all have an Apple Watch, too; so usually they can just check that like I do.
Not very often. My phone has an obnoxious ring so I look to see if I want to answer it. It makes a funny noise when I get a text and another annoying noise about weather all around the country which I don't bother with. Don't know how to fix that but hey. One question? Why did my chrome laptop background go black all of a sudden? It does a lot of sudden stuff because of pressure around the touch pad I think but I don't really know what I did.
Same as Yvonne except I'm usually wearing a Fitbit device instead of my Apple Watch. I get notifications on my wrist and can read the texts, answer the phone, etc. without carrying the phone around. And I would be very annoyed by anyone who couldn't have a conversation without checking their phone, unless they were expecting an important message.
I don’t check my phone because I’ve set it to notify me when a message or a friend call. When I go to church I turn it off. And would do that if I were invited out to eat.
Messages from my iPhone are relayed to whichever Mac computer I'm on by way of a little box that slides onto the screen, but I usually ignore them. Text messages also appear on my Mac computers if they are from someone on my contact list, so I do check them. I rarely check for messages on my phone.
I know when an IM (Instant Message) hits my phone. I check my e-mails more on my desktop than I do on my iPhone. As far as times when we eat out, don't have to worry about others, because it's most always just wife and I. We don't live anywhere close to family and have no friends (seriously). The only times it been someone else is when my SIL (wife's sister) has come for a 2-day stay at a local hotel.
When I bought my first apple products last year, I learned an interesting thing about how iPhones and Apple watches manage sending messages. -When you send a text from an iPhone or an Apple watch, it goes out as an iMessage to the iCloud via the data network. -iCloud evaluates the Addressee to see if it is an iDevice. --If the Addressee is an iDevice, then the iMessage continues on via the data network. --If the Address is not an iDevice (it's an Android), then the iMessage bounces back to the iPhone to be converted to SMS, and then gets sent to the Addressee via your cell phone text plan. So even though everyone has a text plan these days, it's not a necessary component of sending/receiving iMessages (texts) to/from iPhones and other iDevices. I played with this in the Verizon store. iPhone-to-iPhone is almost instantaneous, while there is a noticeable delay at an Android receiving device when the text is sent from an iPhone or an Apple watch. The iPhone sender notices no difference in either instance...the message is transmitted and it all gets managed in the background. The interesting twist comes when you send a message from an Apple watch with its own SIMS card. If the Addressee is not an iDevice, then the iMessage always bounces back to the iPhone to be processed, even if it originated from an Apple watch. If you have an Apple watch with its own SIMS card (as I do) you might not have your iPhone with you at all times. So when you send a text from a SIMS-enabled Apple watch to an Android device, your iPhone has to be charged, turned on and visible to a data network or cell signal wherever your iPhone happens to be; otherwise, the iPhone cannot receive the iMessage that needs to be converted, nor can it then send the converted SMS text message.
On emails on phone. If I know the sender I'l open it otherwise I'll wait and check header on computer before opening.
You were talking about a trip to visit her; did you ever get to Sweden? We have a land line so our cell phone is never turned on unless we take a trip to the store or out of town.
I even forget to turn my phone on for days at a time. It annoys my family and friends no end, but I'm just not a phone person these days.
Expanding on that -- Sending audio messages. They are handy for longer messages that you don't want to type out. They combine the best part of regular text and a direct phone call. The recipient can listen to it any time they wish, unlike a regular phone call. iPhone to iPhone, press and hold the gray circle with vertical bars on the right end of message box. When finished, release. Then you can review or send immediately. iPhone to Android: Go to the "Voice memos," app, record your message, review with right arrow. Then press the circle with the three dots in it, then click the "Share" icon, pick and send to your recipient.