You Can Delete Incriminating Calls In iOS 5

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Got an incriminating call from that doxy your wife told you to stop fooling around with? In iOS 5, you can just delete the record of that call, no jailbreak required.

Although deleting record of received or made calls has been pretty trivial with a jailbreak, Apple’s decided to enable to functionality in the call log of the first iOS 5 beta.

Will it stay this way? Who knows, but it’s nice to know that if you want to keep your call history secret, you now only have to worry about beating your significant other to the bill without your iPhone itself giving you away.

[via App Advice]

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  • Dhaval

    wonder what innovations apple would have done by now if jailbreak community was not around to give Apple ideas…

  • Anonymous

    Are you telling me that deleting a call from you call log, was not possible before? (I don’t own an iPhone) That’s just basic personal safety!! :-)

  • prof_peabody

    Pretty much where they are now I’d expect.  

  • Kevin Olson

    I have some Apple Developer UDID registration spots left for purchase if
    anyone is interested, you could then give iOS 5 a try. 
    iosdevaccess@gmail.com 

  • Paul

    about time!

  • Craig List

    I have some Apple Developer UDID registration spots left for purchase ifanyone is interested, you could then give iOS 5 a try.  ubuntu.9898@gmail.com

  • John

    Why we have to delete the history call? Except you have some thing to hide.
    Oh! Do you want to keep your secret call from your wife? Just Kidding.

  • imajoebob

    Which is ultimately more pathetic: that there are some people who actually need this, or that I not a single woman I ever had a relationship with ever even gave this a single worry?

  • cheesy11

    IOS 5 really is going to suckerpunch androids

  • Jessie Robyn Yelle

    Uh, you could do this in iOS4. I can do this on my iPhone already. Phone -> Recent -> Clear. This wiped all your calls. 
    If you mean this lets you delete *individual* calls, that’s new. 

  • Didnt Work

    again, how is this not already a feature for iPhones… just don’t get it sometimes with Apple. Why does it take 4-5 years to develop a feature that flip phones had over 10 years ago.  (….coming from a diehard apple user too)

  • The Revolutioners

    How about a parental control setting for call deletion. I have kids and I want to see who are they talking to for how long and when. So Apple either take that thing back to where it was or give us the option to enable disable call deletion. lets say disable clear all as well if I have set it up in parental control settings. Sounds nice.. right.. and as Steve always said “And we believe in Options !, so we have this and Users can choose that as well if they want to”. So give us the option to be able to setup the parental controls to look after our children.