Is this volume control intuitive ?

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Hi. Am very pissed off that all the time I find the same type of hurdle when pressing the smart phone side volume buttons.
Can you share the way you think about so I will learn how to get out on the uncertainty ?

There is many flavors of the symbols below, are they buttons or status indicators ?

Are they telling me to enable the speaker because it is muted or telling me the speaker is on ?
Similar; the bell is a button or a status ? Touch to set ring volume or touch to mute ?
The handset shown is to turn it audible or is telling me it is audible ?

Way too often, my 'smart' phone changes volume settings by itself usually lowering/muting the ringer. Is there an application that fully locks changes to volume settings so handling it by the edge does not alter settings ? I would like a password to change volume settings. Is there a way ?

WTF - Touch to enable sound or touch to mute ? :

 

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WTF - Touch to enable sound or touch to mute ? :

It depends on who wrote the code for the app.

Microsoft Teams for iOS had mute button as the current status and Windows 11 version had it as a mute button where the symbol didn't change, only a white box would outline it when muted.

On a completely different topic, as we age we get less patient and search for the most random things to get upset about - and a strong need to share the topic that caused the ire.

 

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Thanks. Yes, upset as programmers should be sharper than they are, for millions of users.
But there is always the doubt am thinking the wrong way and it is me what needs correction.

Ah, found an application and now my settings are very locked-up. A phone is obviously held by its edges, exactly were acting buttons are and am not the only one that gets unwanted changes. Happy for know; will see what else develops next to piss me off...

 

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will see what else develops next to piss me off...

I can't wait to hear about it.