[jariel]

You make a good point with 'your mom' but this would be an extraneous feature, not necessary and therefore not in the 'regular case path' of behaviours.

So I think it's a valid thing.

Though iOS is getting out of hand with complexity these days.

Sometimes I want a dumb phone.

[userbinator]

Though iOS is getting out of hand with complexity these days.

That's because iPhones were always full-featured general-purpose computers, just severely locked-down and restricted from user control. We are simply seeing the results of that opaqueness.