> Wouldn't it make more sense for the scanning feature to be its own app, so that users can find it, know what it is, and not activate it accidentally?

It's been a few years since I had that phone so the details are a bit fuzzy but I seem to recall it was very discoverable from the email attachment interface, at the very least.

Problem with a separate app is that it's a separate codebase and thus easier for it to fall to neglect.

> It's been a few years since I had that phone so the details are a bit fuzzy but I seem to recall it was very discoverable from the email attachment interface, at the very least.

That's great if I'm sending an email, but what if I want to upload the documents to a website, or send them via iMessage, or Airdrop them to another Apple device, or print out the scan to effectively make a second paper copy? Do you add the icon to each of these interfaces, taking up screen real estate and adding mental load? (One new icon is never a problem, but do it 30 times and you'll be in a bad spot.)

IMO, Apple's strategy significantly railroads users, while making interfaces ever-more complicated.

> Problem with a separate app is that it's a separate codebase and thus easier for it to fall to neglect.

Yeah, bundling everything into iTunes worked really well for Apple, didn't it? :D

I really don't think we should be making UI decisions based on this.

>Yeah, bundling everything into iTunes worked really well for Apple, didn't it? :D

I'm not really an "Apple Guy" so it's not clear to me what you are referring to.

Over the course of more than a decade, Apple kept adding features to iTunes until the app become horribly slow, confusing, and buggy. Just about everyone hated it.

When Apple finally killed the Mac version of iTunes on stage at WWDC, they basically admitted that they'd tried to cram in too much functionality, by joking that they were considering a Calendar and Web Browser.

I've only used this in the Files app, which makes sense because you're making files. I'm not sure if it exists in the camera app as well.

This to me is actually a problem with how iOS works versus traditional desktops. Almost everything you create is a file, so you could justify putting almost any feature in the files app.

The files app should be exclusively for listing/moving/copying files. Files themselves should be created by and opened with different apps.

This isn't to say apps shouldn't be able to talk to the files app. On macOS, for example, apps can install QuickLook plugins.