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with regards to face id / touch id, I would love to be able to set layers of protection on my device. So that face/touch would only unlock higher level portions of the device but still require a password to get to my data, my email. A config screen similar to notification allowances but instead denotes which level of security is required to access. Another example would be securing my recent calls list.

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Sounds like a use case for multiple user accounts. That would certainly be nice. Even nicer would be the ability to globally blacklist permissions for each account.

For example I’d love to have a separate account for all my banking apps, with a separate passcode and a locked down set of APIs.

This will never happen though, because app sandboxing is good enough.

> Sounds like a use case for multiple user accounts.

I don't think that's the use case here. OP is asking for the ability to lock a single user's sensitive data behind a second layer of security. I interpret this as similar to "with a password I can see my bank account's history, but when I attempt a transaction I'm prompted for 2FA."

Honestly i've been annoyed since touchid came out that i couldn't set some things to 2FA, as in pin+biometric

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