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Eh I like it the way it is now... easy to mute sounds when entering a meeting.

Same, I like it. It's only a double click and right swipe away to get to the orientation lock. In the end though Apple really should just make it configurable and make everyone happy, it's little but quite obvious things like this that Apple is so good at missing.
 
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