Request for prominent silent mode notification on iPhone

I was looking to see if apple provided a big banner or other glaring notification that silent mode was on, because that little swithch is always getting turned on without me noting it, and I miss calls. I see Hundreds (thousands? I only looked at one thread) of other people have asked for something similar ( a little icon a 32nd of an inch tall buried amongst a string of similarly small icons is not an alert that THE essential feature of an iPHONE has been silently partially disabled).

But Apple doesn't respond. New os after new os version, and this highly requested and easily programmed feature is not implemented Are the programmers clueless as to how real people need to receive phone calls? Do they not care, or are they just all tied up in inventing features nobody wants, and changing things in the OS so that older iPhones and iPads become non-functional?

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