iPhone Clock Trick

Apple's been lying to us for years, and you never even noticed. The same app you've been using to set way too many alarms on your iPhone every morning is actually using a clever UI trick to make you think it's more seamless than it really is. The seemingly circular clicky dial interface has been a staple of iOS for years, but there is actually an end, since later than the iPhone 4 at least. Rather than being a continuously looping set of digits,

the rollers are really just a very long list of numbers that when you scroll the whole way down on either side, happen to finish at 4.39 p.m. It's presumably to give the illusion of an endless cycle without having to program one, and while that seems fairly reasonable in and of itself,

iOS 4 actually does have an infinitely repeating rotary and Apple actively made the decision to stop including it in as early as iOS 7, according to this tweet. in as early as iOS 7, according to this tweet. Hey Gronk, is this true?