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Another example that comes to mind is Apple's stock Podcasts app. The buttons to skip 15 seconds forward/backward have been removed from the interface (visually anyway) but still work if you press where the icons used to be.

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Sounds to me like the result of a fight between the developers and the "product owner" who says "remove that button", and the developers don't want to remove it because it is useful and used by the users. So instead of removing it, he just makes it invisible, and everybody (but the new or naive users) is happy.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-02-02

I bet somebody complained that their ads were being skipped over.

Which part of the interface are you saying they're missing from? They're visible to me when you've got the podcast selected.

Here's a screenshot of the main playback interface, which is what I'm referring to: http://i.imgur.com/VMSYsAX.png

The icons don't appear to the right/left of the play button but the buttons are still there and work if you tap where the icon used to be.

FWIW, the icons do still appear in the Control Center menu when a podcast is playing: http://i.imgur.com/mUWrIYy.png

A picture is worth a thousand words. Thanks for the screenshot. My main playback interface: http://imgur.com/cUZ1HTF

Are you using iOS 9?

Indeed I am. I suppose that explains it.

Another one is iPad's split keyboard. If you tap the gap next to the last key it will register as the key on the other side of the gap. E.g. you tap to the right of "t" and get "y".

Another is you can reset the iOS App Store by tapping on any of the bottom menu buttons 10 times. It's actually useful sometimes when apps won't download.

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