Hate Clicking the Home Button to Unlock in iOS 10? Try This

[AppleWarMachine]

thanks for the tip, I didn't like an extra step in logging in (keep it simple Apple)

 

[NMBob]

iPad Air 1 doesn't have a "Rest Finger To Open" option. My mini 3 does, but I don't use the finger print stuff. Having to double tap the Home button to get the thing running sure seems like a funny way to get rid of the Home button. Maybe they are hoping it will wear out. With iOS11 maybe I'll need a stylus to get in.

 

[jbachandouris]

The mods really need to sticky this thread as several threads have already been posted asking the same question about the home button.

 

[Michael Goff]

Because it's Apple, therefore it's better. Period.

OK, seriously, I posed this question during the beta as my "test mule" is an iPad Mini 2. Agree, it's a PITA if you don't have Touch ID and Apple SHOULD HAVE left an option for slide to unlock, at least for non-Touch ID models as that is what they were designed with.

I think Apple's end-game is to frustrate customers with older machines so they upgrade. It seems Tim Cook's eco-friendliness nature goes no farther than his wallet.

I think their end game is to try to provide as consistent an experience as possible. Having some be slide to unlock, and not have the widget screen, would have been a pretty bad experience.

But Apple could have left the old style control center in-tact if you opted for swipe to open -- similar to how MS accomodated older machines not capable with, say the Aero interface.

Except Aero on older machines made them unusable. They're not anything alike.

 

[WhiteHawk]

Thank f for that, not liking the new way on my 6, might change my mind on the 7 but very glad it's an option.

 

[iceperson]

After talking with some folks I know who updated, I am surprised how many don't like the click to unlock. Oh well.

Same. Loved the new changes and was surprised when my wife started grumbling as soon as her phone rebooted. iOS 10 works exactly like I want it.

 

[Regbial]

Nice for those who have Touch ID...
But why completely abandon Slide to unlock??

COURAGE <_>

(Also we want home button repair money, and iphone replacement money... Oh and also we want to force Notification Center down your throats even if you never use it. (though now we want you to slide the screen instead of just seeing them, genius logic I kno))

EDIT: was wrong with the second quotations.. but still. Who uses Widgets SO much?

 

[pat500000]

What was the point for clicking to unlock? Where's the security in that?

 

[BillyBobBongo]

On the iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, 7, and 7 Plus, a new "Raise to Wake" feature...

The iPhone SE also supports this feature.

 

[Volusia]

On my 6 it is working about 60% of the time, rest of the time I am having to push again...

 

[adamjackson]

I usually don't modify features that are new and give myself a few months to deal with them. A lot of colleagues modified their Macs to disable the "natural scrolling" introduced a few years ago. Im' so glad I stuck with it because scrolling up to go down just makes more sense and is much more natural. Eventually, this will become natural as well. If the home button goes away next year, I'll be glad I kept this behavior.

 

[duervo]

Just another indication that Home button is going eventually.

Uhhh ... what? They went from swipe to unlock as a method of unlocking, which doesn't require home button to do the unlock part, to this. A method that requires the use of the home button. That increases the reliance on the home button, which is antithetic to your statement.

 

[^Tripper^]

As someone using an iPhone 6 Plus, I was seriously annoyed with the new method. Thank goodness there is this option. Great find.

 

[44267547]

Nice. Will be using this setting from this point forward.

 

[iamgalt]

NICE!!!

 

[Xavier]

This was the first thing i did after installing iOS 10.

 

[Boatboy24]

Thank goodness, it worked!

Will try the new way again with 'Raise to Wake' when I get my '7' on Friday. But, man: I thought the Home button was fast with iOS9. Its crazy fast now.

 

[C DM]

I usually don't modify features that are new and give myself a few months to deal with them. A lot of colleagues modified their Macs to disable the "natural scrolling" introduced a few years ago. Im' so glad I stuck with it because scrolling up to go down just makes more sense and is much more natural. Eventually, this will become natural as well. If the home button goes away next year, I'll be glad I kept this behavior.

I think for a lot of things like that there isn't a "right" way to do it, just the way that works for you (for whatever reason).

 

[macs4nw]

Just another indication that Home button is going eventually.

Hopefully with next year's rumored iPhone8, along with those unsightly bezels.....

 

[jman240]

I hate this new design for several reasons.

(1) Pressing the home button is awkward; swiping is natural. They should have left an option to swipe to unlock even with the "wake on rise" mode on.

(2) I don't want my notifications showing before the device is unlocked. What is the point of having a password and a thumbprint lock if anyone can see notifications as they come into the phone? I don't want to have to go through the extraordinarily kludgy process of, one by one, selecting all of my 500+ apps and manually setting them to not send notifications to the home screen.

(3) Notifications have never been done very well in iOS. I greatly prefer how it was in the Palm Pre, where a notification would remain on the screen in unlocked mode until it was dismissed, rather than only popping up briefly before disappearing. That way I could leave something on the screen until I had time to deal with it, and it would keep reminding me to deal with it because it was still there on my screen until I dismissed it. I hate having to swipe down into the Control center thing, then scroll through a list of 400 majillion notifications from every freaking app, since nowadays they ALL want to constantly spam you with crap like eBay saying "New Items are now on eBay! Come look!" (Well no crap, Sherlock!) Or Future Music: "Get up to 89 issues of Future music for just $47.99" or Sleep Cycle "Good Morning!" etc. I hate all that!

(4) There should be an option to show the notifications screen immediately after unlock as the homepage of the phone, rather than always showing me the apps screen first. The apps screen is basically useless; it hasn't been changed since they added app folders, but app folders are a huge pain in the butt to use because you have to drag an app across 12 screens of other apps and folders, and if you drop it in the wrong place (which is easy to do) then it will screw up the app tiling on all the subsequent pages! Why have they still not added the ability to long-press on an app and then be shown a list of all folders and pages on the device (like the screen you see in iTunes) so that you can send an app directly to the proper folder? Why don't they have the ability to select which folder an app will go into when you download it from the App Store the first time?! Why does it always dump in on whatever the first page with an open slot was? I was keeping those slots open FOR A REASON, so that if I accidentally drop an app somewhere, there is some buffer space and every subsequent page won't get all screwed up!

Come on Apple! Where is your brain these days?

For number 3 you can change them to be alerts so they look the exact same but stick around instead of going away. Its in notifications settings in settings, or also in each apps settings under notifications.

 

[robertcoogan]

I'd really prefer to have the slide to unlock back, but this is helpful. Thank you -

 

[predation]

Now the justice system can make you open your phone now lol.

Wasn't there an article that pointed out if you had a pin lock screen, LEO can't make you open the phone.

:tin foil hat:

 

[Jay-Jacob]

I prefer new way but very glad there this option because my mum just cannot do new way instead keep activating Siri. Every. Single. Time.

She just cannot do it and cannot use iPhone. Rest thumb home button option finally she can get in iPhone!!

She got poor thumb control it seem. Lol.

 

[sbailey4]

I hate this new design for several reasons.

(1) Pressing the home button is awkward; swiping is natural. They should have left an option to swipe to unlock even with the "wake on rise" mode on.

(2) I don't want my notifications showing before the device is unlocked. What is the point of having a password and a thumbprint lock if anyone can see notifications as they come into the phone? I don't want to have to go through the extraordinarily kludgy process of, one by one, selecting all of my 500+ apps and manually setting them to not send notifications to the home screen.

(3) Notifications have never been done very well in iOS. I greatly prefer how it was in the Palm Pre, where a notification would remain on the screen in unlocked mode until it was dismissed, rather than only popping up briefly before disappearing. That way I could leave something on the screen until I had time to deal with it, and it would keep reminding me to deal with it because it was still there on my screen until I dismissed it. I hate having to swipe down into the Control center thing, then scroll through a list of 400 majillion notifications from every freaking app, since nowadays they ALL want to constantly spam you with crap like eBay saying "New Items are now on eBay! Come look!" (Well no crap, Sherlock!) Or Future Music: "Get up to 89 issues of Future music for just $47.99" or Sleep Cycle "Good Morning!" etc. I hate all that!

(4) There should be an option to show the notifications screen immediately after unlock as the homepage of the phone, rather than always showing me the apps screen first. The apps screen is basically useless; it hasn't been changed since they added app folders, but app folders are a huge pain in the butt to use because you have to drag an app across 12 screens of other apps and folders, and if you drop it in the wrong place (which is easy to do) then it will screw up the app tiling on all the subsequent pages! Why have they still not added the ability to long-press on an app and then be shown a list of all folders and pages on the device (like the screen you see in iTunes) so that you can send an app directly to the proper folder? Why don't they have the ability to select which folder an app will go into when you download it from the App Store the first time?! Why does it always dump in on whatever the first page with an open slot was? I was keeping those slots open FOR A REASON, so that if I accidentally drop an app somewhere, there is some buffer space and every subsequent page won't get all screwed up!

Come on Apple! Where is your brain these days?

1: Yet you press the home button for most everything else?
2: Turn off notification view switch in touchID settings. That solves "not doing every app" and prevents notifications on lock screen

2. Assuming you have a 6s or S Plus, just disable to raise to wake.

That wont do it I dont believe. all raise to wake does is keep you from having to press a button to wake the device.

Seems like a step back to make the default setting a click. Very odd choice. Oh well turned mine back to how it was and I'm happy.

Not really if you understand the reason behind it. Since the new lock screen allows for interaction directly from lock screen. The default setting allows for a finger rest to unlock the lock screen so you can interact. (watch up top at the unlock message /icon) A press of the home button THEN takes you to home screen. That prevents the device from bypassing lock screen and blowing by notifications. This mentioned finger rest setting reverses this functionality so you cant really interact with the lock screen.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Handy. It should rewrite the text on the lock screen when you change this to Touch ID to unlock or similar.