[billfor]

Android phones are multi-user, so if they can do it then Apple should be able to.

[Gud]

And how do you explain your 1TB phone that has 2GB of data, but only 700GB free?

[deno]

The "fake" user/profile should work like a duress pin with addition of deniability. So as soon as you log in to the second profile all the space becomes free. Just by logging in you would delete the encryption key of the other profile. The actual metadata that show what is free or not were encrypted in the locked profile. Now gone.

[morkalork]

The same way when you buy a brand new phone with 200GB of storage that only has 50GB free on it haha

[heraldgeezer]

System files officer ;)

[davidwritesbugs]

"Idunno copper, I'm a journalist not a geek"

[stouset]

That is about one fiftieth of the work that needs to go into the feature the OP casually “why can’t they just”-ed.

[jb1991]

This is called whataboutism. This particular feature aside, sometimes there are very good reasons not to throw the kitchen sink of features at users.