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How to Use iOS 10's Redesigned Lock Screen

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With a brand-new iOS operating system now available, many users are excited to delve into iOS 10's biggest and boldest changes, like an overhauled Messages app and a more personal space in Photos to relive past vacations and family get-togethers. However, before you even get to all of iOS 10's new features, you'll have to get used to its new lock screen mechanisms, which completely change the way the iPhone is unlocked moving forward.

iOS 10 brings about the first major overhaul to the lock screen since the iPhone launched in 2007, ditching the popular "Slide to Unlock" instruction on the bottom of the screen for a collection of new prompts that make it easier than ever take advantage of the lock screen. Prior to iOS 10, iPhone 6s and 6s Plus users in particular experienced some frustrations with the traditional method of unlocking the phone, as the faster Touch ID system would unlock "too quickly," causing users to miss notifications that might have been on the lock screen.


While slightly complex until you get the hang of it, iOS 10 streamlines this process so that you can still have your thumb placed on Touch ID when the iPhone wakes up via a new Raise to Wake feature on the iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and iPhone SE, without immediately jumping past the lock screen. For more details on how to navigate the lock screen, interact with notifications, and unlock your iPhone, follow each set of instructions below.


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If the widgets are just static it seems like a missed opportunity. For example, I can't scroll through my emails or scroll through the BBC sport app.
 
Apple got you covered - go to Accessibility -> home -> rest finger to open

First thing my users wanted to 'fix'
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kirky29 said:
I honestly hate using the 'press to unlock', I'd like an option to revert back to the 'slide to unlock' method.
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Apple got you covered - go to Accessibility -> home -> rest finger to open

First thing my users wanted to 'fix'
 
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agsystems said:
Apple got you covered - go to Accessibility -> home -> rest finger to open

First thing my users wanted to 'fix'
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That's still not the same, I don't use TouchID, or even a passcode... It just feels painfully slower pressing to unlock. And sometimes as 'raise to wake' does it's thing I instinctively press the home button missing my lock screen notifications lol. Really don't like it...!
 
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This is just what I needed. I thought this was supposed to help solve the instantly to the home screen issue because TouchID is so fast? Do I need to change a setting for that? I still press the home button and no matter how quickly I remove my finger it logs me in and shows home.
 
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pnoyblazed said:
can you post the wallpaper? It's nice
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Here we go
 
AtheistP3ace said:
This is just what I needed. I thought this was supposed to help solve the instantly to the home screen issue because TouchID is so fast? Do I need to change a setting for that? I still press the home button and no matter how quickly I remove my finger it logs me in and shows home.
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Settings > General > Accessibility > Home Button
You can change the speed at which the Home button works. I've taught myself to just lift the phone instead of automatically pressing the Home Button. I've been on the beta for a couple of months.
 
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...While slightly complex until you get the hang of it...
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Looking forward progressing to the-hang-of-it status, many betas in to final release and I'm still finding it non-intuitive. I think it would make more sense with the new static Home Button on the iPhone 7... maybe.
 
Seems like there is some un-needed redundancy that could've been unlimited. Doesn't seem like we need the pull down on the home screen to search screen when you can swipe down and search there also.

Also don't like that they added the widgets as the first dot of the home screen when you can swipe down and swipe left to access them there as well

Also would like when you swipe down to be on the widgets screen instead of notifications which is usually empty.
 
The Lock Screen changes are a significant improvement in usability for me. I prefer Touch to Unlock to Slide to Open, which didn't work well when your screen got greasy. I can check the weather, my schedule, to-do's, see where my wife has wandered off to, respond to texts, all without unlocking my phone.
 
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It's annoying. Why do I have to keep pressing my home button? I'm used to pressing the power button whilst sliding my phone out my pocket and quickly using Touch ID.

I'll probably get used to it in a few weeks but yeah seems unnecessary.
 
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I'm still confused about this. I don't have the 'rest to open' setting on, but if I click the home button to wake the phone and keep my finger on the home button it bypasses the lock screen anyway, just like it always used to. Is this a glitch cause I thought that's what the 'rest to open' setting was meant to give you but I seem to be getting that anyway.
 
BornAgainMac said:
No finger print or password to confirm who you are before displaying info.
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Well you can set stuff not to display on the lock screen. Not sure how they could have you enter a fingerprint or passcode to see the info on the *lock*screen, as those actions *unlock* the screen.

It's up to you to decide how much you want displayed prior to unlocking the phone.
 
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JarScott said:
I'm still confused about this. I don't have the 'rest to open' setting on, but if I click the home button to wake the phone and keep my finger on the home button it bypasses the lock screen anyway, just like it always used to. Is this a glitch cause I thought that's what the 'rest to open' setting was meant to give you but I seem to be getting that anyway.
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You don't touch the Home Button at all. Just lift the phone and look at the Lock Screen. So much easier. If you want to see the Home Screen, just swipe right-to-left. You still don't have to touch the Home Button. It took me a few weeks to retrain my thumb to leave the Home Button alone until I'd determined I really wanted to unlock my phone.
 
AllergyDoc said:
You don't touch the Home Button at all. Just lift the phone and look at the Lock Screen. So much easier. If you want to see the Home Screen, just swipe right-to-left. You still don't have to touch the Home Button. It took me a few weeks to retrain my thumb to leave the Home Button alone until I'd determined I really wanted to unlock my phone.
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I have a 6 Plus which doesn't have Raise to Wake.
 
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Sooo.... any way to get slide-to-unlock back and disable this rise-to-wake feature that doesn't work 90% of the time? I couldn't care less about lock screen widgets, and if I have to use the phone left-handed (I don't have any finger prints of my left hand in the phone so I don't press the home button and unlock it while taking it out of my pocket meaning all my notifications are wiped from the lock screen) there's just no way to unlock the damn thing.

Honestly, how did Apple not come up with the same situation during testing?
 
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