Exactly. iOS does something like this with notifications where it added an super easy button right next to them on the lock screen for silencing / delivering them quietly. You just swipe left. Neat, right?

Except I accidentally hit it on an iMessage notification somehow without realizing and silenced all messages for a couple days without realizing it. Missed an important one too. Was kind of hard to undo that too.

It’s a tough UI problem.

I’m pretty sure the proximity sensor activates as soon as the call comes in, so the screen would be disabled until you take it out of your pocket.

You seem pretty confident that this will work as opposed to occasionally falling in the wrong state and, a rare instance multiplied by a large number of uses, happen to somebody.

Somehow despite this pocket dialing still happens.