(He was convinced, for whatever reason, he couldn’t figure out how to use an iPhone…despite he uses an iPod touch, and an iPad, and quite fluently. And within 1 day he was delighted, because he finally had something approximating a useful camera in his pocket.)
I think a lot of non tech people would REALLY benefit from a setting to "confirm before dialing" in ios.
For example, touching ANYTHING in the phone app will immediately dial that number.
That leads to real problems with inexperienced users, who then get the mindset that they're not good with tech.
To be clear - the blame here is 100% on apple.
Most people I know have butt dialed. I consider myself highly aware of my phone, yet have accidentally called back spam callers. yikes!
At least every single phone call doesn’t interrupt at the absolute highest level of priority and take over your screen entirely. Up until…iOS 14?…you didn’t really have a choice to not deal with an incoming call while using the phone: a call immediately took over.