Phone Dialer Keypad Flaw?

[PowrDroid]

Just noticed this after years of Android phones and four months of owning my Pixel 2 XL. Is it an Android issue or Pixel 2 issue?

There is no way to delete keyboard errors when typing numbers on the phone dialer in response to a request for data entry.

For example, I was typing a tracking number into an automated package tracking system when I mis-keyed a digit. There is no way to delete the mis-keyed digit and continue entering the number. No backspace key. No delete key. There is only an 'X' next to the small window on the keypad where the numbers are entered, presumably to erase the entire number and start over, but tapping on that did nothing.

So I've got four of the nine digits entered and the fourth digit in the sequence is incorrect. You're screwed. Hang up the call, redial, go through the automated system until you once again reach the point of entering the tracking number and hope you don't make a mistake again.

Why, Android? Why?

 

[anon(10092459)]

The "x" does work per number pre-dialing a number. If you're already on a call and need to enter information, like a code, the keypad tones get entered as you key them in. So if you make a mistake and enter a wrong number, of course you'll have to hang up and start over,

 

[B. Diddy]

@DMP89145 is correct. Since the entry of those numbers is real time (as opposed to originally dialing the phone number), there is no use for a backspace -- you can't tell the automated system to take back what you just entered.

 

[PowrDroid]

The "x" does work per number pre-dialing a number. If you're already on a call and need to enter information, like a code, the keypad tones get entered as you key them in. So if you make a mistake and enter a wrong number, of course you'll have to hang up and start over,

Ahh... thanks. That makes sense.