I'm surprised that no one seems to have reported this issue yet.
Since the latest update (2.5.1.0-pro), this feature no longer functions.
To demonstrate, open your Contacts List. Find a contact with multiple phone numbers, as shown like below:
- Contact Name
<Mobile:012 345 6789>
[Company Name][Title][Groups]
(The < and > around the phone number indicate multiple numbers for a contact.)
Previously, swiping Left to Right on the phone number line would "rotate" to that contact's next phone number. You could then press Dial, when the right number is showing.
Now, what I get is an expanding Purple block, which expands behind my finger, showing the already displayed contact phone number. Then, when I release my finger, DWP then simply initiates Dialling the number that was displayed. This isn't how it used to be and is also not particularly useful, as far as I can see. I have a Dial button for that! Now, I have to view the contact in order to choose a number other than the default.
I see now that it's a new "feature" called "Slide to dial" in the Recent Changes list, but it appears to have destroyed the old feature which I used a lot and found very useful. This seems to defeat the whole benefit of having multiple numbers for one contact.
However, although I have looked through the Settings, I can't find a way to revert this behaviour.
I agree that it provides an improved way to dial - or at least, another way to reduce accidental wrong dialling - which I used to do all the time - but I turned on "Dialing confirmation" to fix that and much prefer it to this new feature. Otherwise, how can you select a different number to dial without having to first view the entire contact (which involves extra steps and so is slower)? This feature seems only useful to people who only have one phone number per contact.
Since I have many contacts with multiple numbers, and 95% of my phone communication is by phone call rather than TXT or Skype, this feature is important to me as a Business user.
Can I have the old feature back, please? A new setting would probably be required, of course.
Many thanks,
Al