Assuming your Touch ID-enabled device supports raise to wake. My 6 Plus doesn't (for what reason I'm not sure -- battery life?) and unlocking is now a weirdly clumsy procedure that seems to require an unpredictable number of home button presses where none were required before. It's not killing me, but it's hard to argue that it's an improvement.
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Assuming your Touch ID-enabled device supports raise to wake. My 6 Plus doesn't (for what reason I'm not sure -- battery life?) and unlocking is now a weirdly clumsy procedure that seems to require an unpredictable number of home button presses where none were required before. It's not killing me, but it's hard to argue that it's an improvement.
Another reason to stick with 9.3 for now... That and the removal of star rating music... Seriously, it's like they want to screw over my carefully curated & rated 10,000+ song library!
Wow its seriously easy. You press (not hold) the button and leave finger on it (just touching not pressing) for a millisecond. BAM in and at home screen. Like an instant press and it unlocks and enters all in a single step. Not following how so many are having so much trouble with this.
Yeah I agree it very easy. Me and Dad been try explain to her press and rest finger. Do not press and hold but some reason she just cannot do this. Very frustrating try teach her how do it for hour. Just glad this option is there finally she can get into iPhone.
Did folks with touch ID and iOS 9 swipe the screen THEN touch the button to use touchID? If so why? Sorry but I am failing to see how this is so much more difficult and trying to understand how folks are missing the slide to unlock. I cant remember when I used that other than after phone was rebooted and I had to enter a code since iOS 8 and iPhone 6.
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LOL i hear ya. This does solve it if they mastered iOS 9 No press needed at all.
First thing I did was enable this and disable raise to wake. I was quite happy with my phone'a unlocking behavior in iOS 9 and am glad Apple left us a way to stick with what works.
Wow, what a wall of text. But what really bothers me most: 500 apps? What for? What. For?
No raise to wake on my 6 Plus so this isn't an issue for me, but I can see how it would be with a newer iPhone.
Apple love to monkey with power button function with every OS release. My Mac Pro's power button always is "enhanced" after every new OS X version.
Apple love to monkey with power button function with every OS release. My Mac Pro's power button always is "enhanced" after every new OS X version.
I don't get how this will help in the future. This step makes you click the home button to enter your phone...supposedly the new phones won't have a home button. So basically, you're re-learning to click a button that will eventually disappear.
My fingers must sweat too much or are too rough -- I don't think touch id was designed for people who do much work with their hands. Anyway, as someone who has re-added their fingerprints to the phone about once a month... push-to-unlock creates a frustrating degree of uncertainty. There's the one little message at the bottom that indicates whether my fingerprint has been read yet, but even that message has a built in lag since the phone will sometimes go to the home screen prior to that message changing.
So I end up resting finger on button, waiting, pressing the button (buzz! denied), re-position finger, wait, rub finger on shirt, rest on button, press button (buzz!! haha sucker!)... passcode required to unlock phone... swear under my breath, type in passcode. This is iPhone 6. 6s touchid on wife's phone was programmed once and works 99% of the time.
Long story short, this new behavior might work well on the latest edition touch id, but it kind of sucks on earlier versions.
(I have lock-screen only notifications that I don't want to miss, so I don't want to change the setting. And I don't like having the same notification in more than one place for some reason.)
So I end up resting finger on button, waiting, pressing the button (buzz! denied), re-position finger, wait, rub finger on shirt, rest on button, press button (buzz!! haha sucker!)... passcode required to unlock phone... swear under my breath, type in passcode. This is iPhone 6. 6s touchid on wife's phone was programmed once and works 99% of the time.
Long story short, this new behavior might work well on the latest edition touch id, but it kind of sucks on earlier versions.
(I have lock-screen only notifications that I don't want to miss, so I don't want to change the setting. And I don't like having the same notification in more than one place for some reason.)
but the next phone allegedly will require the user to push down even if the button itself
Good. Now if only there were a method for entering skype as the voip service as previously shown in the keynote...
Only an Apple sycophant could believe the above to be a valid argument. The user experience is between the user and the device. If the user isn't having a good experience because they don't have Touch-ID device and it's more difficult to open the device then Apple isn't providing a good experience in that instance.
Also, the user to a large degree defines the experience they want by customizing the settings --- what ring tone to play, what notifications to recieve and in what manner, big type, little type, motion home screen on/off, etc, etc. If the user OPTS to forgo widgets for the swipe to open then that is what makes it a better experiece for them. Just because you enjoy widgets doesn't mean someone else doesn't prefer swipe to open more.
Hah oh great, first I'll start a letter writing campaign to Microsoft to make them aware that they in fact own Skype, and what Skype is, and supposed to do, and then see if we can get them to find a guy to put together a committee to determine if writing an update for it someday would be something they should put on a list, and file in the back of one of those pea green file cabinets from the 60's and then immediately lose the keys to it.
This works well.
Now...
When I'm on my first page.... The home button does nothing. Except get me to the first page if I wasn't on that screen. My page!
Could you apple people please make it so that *one* press brings up the app switcher!
Do something, the button is redundant on our home page.
Though, loving the three click options in Accessibility. Being able to invert the colours on my phone like pressing command-option 8 on a Mac is bloody sublime.
Now...
When I'm on my first page.... The home button does nothing. Except get me to the first page if I wasn't on that screen. My page!
Could you apple people please make it so that *one* press brings up the app switcher!
Do something, the button is redundant on our home page.
Though, loving the three click options in Accessibility. Being able to invert the colours on my phone like pressing command-option 8 on a Mac is bloody sublime.
Compared to the previous implementation, it requires an extra step. If for instance a notification came in an woke up the iPhone, I could rest my finger on the home button and the phone would unlock. But now I have to click the button and rest my finger afterward. It doesn't seem like a big deal, but the experience doesn't feel as seamless. I'm glad there's a way to re-create the previous method, especially now that we have the new raise-to-wake feature.
I can see where Apple is heading with this, though. Since the iPhone 7 doesn't have a clickable Home button, all you're doing is bearing down a little harder on the bezel to unlock the phone. When that button disappears completely, the "click to open" idea will no doubt make more sense.
1) It's not natural, it's learned. Sometimes it's worth learning a new way (for example coming from Windows to MacOS).
2) Thats why you can disable them in the options. Nothing new there.
3) That's not a criticism of the new design - it's never been how you describe.
4) I agree. Seems like all the pieces are in place now - the notification screen is the first thing you see before you click the home button, all they need to do is let you set it so the screen is blank until you rest your finger on the button, which would then unlock it and show your notifications, but still wouldn't take you to the home screen until you click. It's *almost* exactly how it works now, would be such a minor change for them.
I was about to ask those who are complaining, how did they wake the device before?
See thats the thing, it does unlock with a touch not button press. With the default setting a finger rest and the lock screen unlocks so you can interact with the notifications and such. A press of the home button takes you to the home screen. With this setting off, watch up top in status bar. There is a locked lock, rest finger and you will see the lock unlock but you will still be on the lock screen. If just interacting with the locked screen stuff you can do so. If you then press the home button you will go directly to the home screen. With this setting enabled you basically bypass the lock screen items. So if you dont really want to interact on the lock screen, this is the way to go. But if you DO tend to use the lock screen widgets then this setting is best if its off typically.