iOS 7 -- declining phone call

Press the Power button twice. Once silences it, twice declines it.

 

Exactly! As it has always been - since the year dot!

 

Too bad they got rid of that option when the phone is locked. And too bad they made the remind and message buttons just be plainly accessible when the phone is locked, something that goes against the whole concept of how things function on the lock screen. All are steps backward without any reason (aside from maybe purely aesthetical ones, which is a really poor approach to actual usability).

 

I guess with the current design they didn't want that to be available like the remind and message buttons where you can accidentally dismiss the call in your pocket/purse or while taking the phone out. When the phone is unlocked it's generally in use, so there's less of an accidental use of something. That said, if they kept the slider button to reveal additional choices (like they had in iOS 6) that would cover it.

 

It's yet another pointless removal of a useful feature by iOS 7.

 

(edit) I just realized someone above said this already, but I'll leave it because I personally appreciate this change.

This actually makes sense to me.

At first, I was just as frustrated as the rest of you. However, I just remembered that with my last phone (HTC One), I was constantly accidentally declining calls while pulling my phone out of my pocket. This change in iOS eliminates the problem, but still allows me to decline the calls that I want to with the aforementioned method.

So...thanks, Apple!

 

In iOS 6 when Apple made decline available on the lock screen it was behind a pull up menu so it was fairly hard to activate it accidentally anyway, while the feature was still available if you wanted to use it.

 

I see your point. Personally, I usually hit the sleep/wake button anyway to silence the ring/vibration, so one more tap to dismiss just works for me.

 

I would like apple to just get rid of "slide to answer" and just provide the same incoming call options when the phone is locked just as it is when it's unlocked.

 

Talk about a bunch of accidental declines or acceptances of calls then.

 

I would just like some consistency and I hate that ios 7 removed a useful feature from 6.

I honestly don't see the need for slide to answer and how would it be accidental?

 

Things on the lock screen should require more than a simple tap to be activated, that's why pretty much everything there requires some sort of movement, be it to unlock, to go to a notification, to answer a call, etc. It's not really about consistency with how it works when it's unlocked, it's about how a locked phone should behave and pretty much everything requiring some deliberate action (like a slide) to activate it when the phone is locked.

As far as removing a convenient feature, I agree, it would have been nice to have it. It did only show up for one iOS version though, so not really something that was there for that long for so many people to truly rely on it, although that doesn't mean it's not useful. Still, even in iOS 6 it still required a movement action to even show up first.

 

If the phone is in your pocket and rings, taking it out your pocket could answer your call if it was a simple push button to answer, slide to answer can't be done all that easily by accident.

Odds are, if the phone is unlocked it's in your hand or on the desk, so a single answer button is more convenient.

It's just a bit of common sense in the planning .