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

Unami said:
thank god, that's just what the doctor ordered for my 5s. it wouldn't accidentially unlock anyway, but I now needed at least twice as long to do it intentionally.
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Really bizarre addition to iOS, huh? When you are required to make the former option available as a hidden menu option, maybe it is a sign what you have switched to isn't such a great idea. Yikes.
 
Nobody seems to have pointed out that clicking home button in a quiet setting makes annoying sound that can bother others. Swipe was silent.
 
Easttime said:
Nobody seems to have pointed out that clicking home button in a quiet setting makes annoying sound that can bother others. Swipe was silent.
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Generally a button still had to be pressed to wake up the phone first though.
 
sbailey4 said:
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.
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Aha! Now I understand why Apple did that. Thanks.
 
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In iOS 10, Apple has redesigned the entire Lock screen experience, eliminating the "Slide to Unlock" feature and changing the unlocking interaction on its most recent devices.

On the iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, 7, and 7 Plus, a new "Raise to Wake" feature that automatically activates the screen of the iPhone changes the unlocking interaction, requiring a physical button press to open the iPhone to the Home button. In iOS 9, no actual button press was required, as unlocking the iPhone was done just by touching the Touch ID button.

The change to the iPhone unlocking system has been unsettling for some users, but luckily, there's a way to fix it and return to the iOS 9 setting.

  1. Open the Settings app
  2. Go to the General section
  3. Choose Accessibility
  4. Scroll down to Home button and tap the option
  5. Toggle on "Rest Finger to Open"
With "Rest Finger to Open" turned on, a finger on the Home button will once again unlock the iPhone to the Home screen, returning it to iOS 9 functionality.

Raise to Wake and the new unlocking system are arguably an improvement over the previous iOS 9 unlocking methods, so users may want to try to get used to the new system instead of making the change. With Raise to Wake and the press to unlock feature, you can see all of your notifications without accidentally bypassing them, which is convenient.

Article Link: Hate Clicking the Home Button to Unlock in iOS 10? Try This
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Thank you for that. I couldn't live with having to click the home button about 25 million times (slight exaggeration) to unlock my phone.
 
As usual Apple makes changes for the sake of change not because they are better. The swipe from the right to open the camera is clunkier and less accurate than the swipe from the lower right corner was. The 6+ screens being as big as they are, having to make a longer movement with your thumb is a backwards step. Same goes for the control center. It looks great and I like the color changes, but now everything is spaced out more so that I literally have to reach my thumb halfway across the screen to toggle the wifi, bluetooth, etc. instead of 1/3 of the screen or less as before. When you're holding your 6+ with one hand it's precarious enough as it is, now Apple has made it harder to operate.

Same goes for Watch OS3. Some changes are great, others are clunky. Now instead of simply swiping up to see my activity or heart rate, I have to click the side button and tap the appropriate app. Admittedly I only used those two items in my glances, but they were right there, now they are not.
 
dz-015 said:
My god there are a lot of Moaning Michaels in these forums nowadays. The new system seems far better - just give it a chance!
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I actually thought there was something wrong with the button. Personal preference I guess, I just happen to think it's *****!
 
Love it. Less pocket dials. Plus, I always clicked the home button to wake, then slide, then touch. This is much better.
 
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For whatever reason when I updated my 6s to iOS 10 this setting was on by default. I thought from all the hubbub that this must be the better setting, but after living with it for a day, I turned it off because I realized I'd always been pressing the button to unlock the phone and I prefer it that way because I like the physical feedback. Now that @sbailey4 has described why this setting is like this I'll definitely be keeping it this way because it was a constant irritation before to wake up the phone and blow right past my notifications, some of which would not even be stored in the pull-down window so I'd missed them entirely. Now so long as I learn to keep my finger off the home button I will always see the notifications. If I want to interact with those notifications I touch the button. If I want to go to the home screen I press the home button. The only addition I'd like to see is for a simple touch of the home button to wake the device to see notifications as I don't always want to have to lift the phone to see them, and pressing the button to wake it is still likely to blow past them and take me to the home screen.
 
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Thanks for the tip! I have enough trouble with the touch ID (due to Raynaud's) so the extra step proved maddening on my 6+. I might like it on the 7+ along with raise to wake.
Tip for folks with Raynaud's: Save multiple versions of your finger in various states of Raynaud's.
 
C DM said:
Are you using TouchID?
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Yes. In default iOS 10 (without the legacy option this thread is about) and without "raise to wake" (for some reason not available on my 6 Plus), I couldn't just press the home button and leave my finger on the button for a second like I could before. I would have to press at least twice, sometimes three times, to use touch ID to unlock my phone. Now that I've enabled the option it works like it did in iOS 9.
 
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It's become pretty clear that this is a crappy solution to the too fast Touch ID blowing past the notifications screen issue and those with a 6s and up might like it for fixing that problem but those of us with a 6 and below its a crappy solution to a problem we don't have and doesn't work as well as the old way.
 
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What doesn't work as well as the old way? I've always pressed the button to unlock. How is it different now?
 
Good tip... BUT after changing the setting, Double-Click to bring up wallet now seems like a hit or miss (primarily a miss).
Any solution? I like the option you bring up in this article.
Thanks.
 
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I had assumed getting rid of the swipe was just a way to use all four lock screen swipe directions more effective, vs. the olde swipe-from-bottom-right-corner to activate the camera from the lock screen. And also to establish touch-to-unlock with TouchID as the new standard. Having an iPhone 5, I didn't realize that a button press was required for TouchID users as well. That's just incredibly stupid design, when waking was already a simple, secure, one-touch operation.
 
Easttime said:
Nobody seems to have pointed out that clicking home button in a quiet setting makes annoying sound that can bother others. Swipe was silent.
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For what it's worth, it's been pointed out in several reviews that starting with the 7 you can adjust the "volume" of the home button click with the new haptic engine, and even make it silent.
 
darkgoob said:
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?
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None of those are new in iOS 10 except number 1. For number 2, notifications have always shown on the lock screen; and you've always had the ability to turn lock screen notifications off with one swipe in settings if you feel like it's a security issue. For number 3 and 4, those are nice suggestions for iOS, but have nothing to do with the design changes for iOS 10. As for where Apple's brain is these days, that's also where it's always been, in the future.
 
darkgoob said:
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?
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You HATE it? Wonder how you react when you encounter real problems in life..
Swiping is natural?? My old pops will tell you a different story. The truth is: you are used to swipe to unlock and you don't want to adjust.
For notifications there are settings. They cannot suit everyone, but I differ from you since I like them the way they are.
12 screens of apps? You definitely have way to many apps on your phone. It is not Apple's responsibility to clean up your mess.
Still wondering how anyone could take this so seriously. It's just a godamm software update..
 
mazz0 said:
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.
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I have to comment on this man...just on the second thing you mentioned. You can keep your notionfactions on the screen my changing them to alerts. My text messages are alerts which don't disappear unless I tell it to do something. It just stays at the top of the screen.

Also, I am the same way when it comes to certain notifications (I don't want them on my lock screen) However, I hide certain things. Like, I know my girlfriend texted me, yet her message doesn't actually display unless I unlock the phone. It just says she sent me a message.

One more thing, sorry to troll, but ever since I got my iPhone (iPhone 4s) I have always woken up the phone by pressing the home button, and with Touch-ID and raise to wake, I skip a step 100%. I don't even have to do anything. I just raise the phone and rest my finger on the home button. No clicking at all. Sliding is just an extra step.
 
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