I would love this as well. This is something that iOS is really bad at. Like, cool, App X has access to my mic. That’s not really interesting. What I want to know is if App X has been using my mic, and for how long. You kind of get that with location info but it’s still woefully inadequate.
God damn, I fucking HATE this design pattern so much. The whole idea of magic buttons that only appear when it has focus is one of the worst of the trendy design anti-patterns I’ve seen come into prominence. (That, and hidden scroll bars.) I don’t know who thought “move the mouse to this invisible area and a button will appear” was a good idea but I’d love to punch them a few times.
It’s not only Apple that’s guilt of this – I see this all over the place these days. It sucks.
And they are obsolete the moment they get published. And I fully agree with you – all the big companies are terrible about this. It’s even worse when you try to find some old docs (because you’re working on something that needs some sort of compatibility with an older version) and you have to deal with link rot or the documentation was updated and scrubbed of the old stuff and you need to hope the Wayback Machine has it.
