I just tested this. I called my iPhone running iOS 6 while the phone was:
Locked: Slide to answer
Unlocked: Two buttons-- Decline and Answer
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iOS 7 beta 6: dual incoming call screens unresolved
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I just tested this. I called my iPhone running iOS 6 while the phone was:
Locked: Slide to answer
Unlocked: Two buttons-- Decline and Answer
Exactly how it's been since 1.0. When your phone is locked and in your pocket, you're less likely to accidentally swipe to answer, whereas a button could be accidentally pressed. When you're using your phone and it rings, a button is easier to press than swiping. Logic.
The slide to answer was always there when the call would come in while the phone is locked, it wasn't until you used the little phone icon to slide it up that you would then reveal the button versions of answer, decline, and other options. When the phone is unlocked the answer and decline buttons were always there and you would use the little phone icon to slide up for other options. So, there were differences, and the locked version always had slide to answer until you would pull up another option to change that.
Yes, iOS 7 changes that little phone slider to reveal more options--it removes it--and thus gets rid of the decline button option on the lock screen, but the slide to answer and that particular difference between the two versions of the screen is still there (in one case it's a slider and in another it's a button).
Now, perhaps you are mainly trying to focus on why there's no way to get the decline button to appear on the lock screen, which is certainly a valid thing to wonder about and is a removal of functionality in a sense. But the way you worded the original post and the thread title seems to focus more on the differences between the two versions of the screens (which are there for a reason and have been there since the beginning) rather than the removal of the decline button on the lock version.
OP's just sad that he's wrong
Actually, everyone here is partially right. Except you.
As is the case with most things, hence why we have discussions:
http://m.sciencemag.org/content/292/5524/1985.1.summary
The above post (edited with dots) describes my issue with iOS 7 Beta call handling perfectly.
I don't mind if they change the UI to match the rest of the OS, that makes sense, but don't remove useful functionality.
Pfft...choice? What's this word "choice" you speak of?
I mean, we ARE talking about Apple. Since when has "choice" been in their vocabulary?
Agreed, that's really the difference that some people are feeling with iOS 7 when it comes to handling incoming calls. This thread just didn't really focus on that in the beginning, or at least went about it in a very roundabout way kind of focusing on something else that isn't really an issue.
thats what people have been trying to tell you. iOS 6 was the same way. its been this way since i first used iOS at 2.0.
when you are using your phone and you get a call, you get answer/decline buttons. when its sleeping and you get a call, you get slide to unlock.
why is that so tough to understand and accept? a lot of people above have posted telling you the same thing. are you even reading this thread? makes me think you just like the post count on your thread if you're not even paying attention.
Geez, if YOU read the thread you'd know we'd already resolved all of this. Are you trying to get an extra kick in?
A detail you're missing is that in iOS 6 (and ONLY iOS 6), the two screens are combined via a swipe tab on the unlock screen. Pretty huge detail.
Neither I nor the other most prominent poster saw the whole picture, but between us we made it into the wondrous thread it is today. Without your help. So buzz off.
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I think we are down to the one actual difference that does exist: no (software) decline button that could be accessed when a call comes in while the phone is locked--it was definitely there in iOS 6 and now isn't there in iOS 7.
Disregard, after reading further down in the thread I get what everyone is talking about now. partially right is absolutely right. lol
partially right is absolutely right. lol
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Read the whole thread. The discussion has been distilled down to the fact that the option to decline from the slider screen via the button screen, introduced in iOS 6, has now been removed. What are YOU not getting? Somebody already said exactly what you did, BTW, including the part where I "don't get it", hours ago. Get with the times.
http://www2.pcmag.com/media/images/299493-ios-6-incoming-call.jpg
OP is talking about this ^^
There's a way to decline calls by sliding the phone button up during an incoming call.
Is this no longer present in iOS 7 then? Never used it myself, but seems pointless to add it for only one version.
OP is talking about this ^^
There's a way to decline calls by sliding the phone button up during an incoming call.
Is this no longer present in iOS 7 then? Never used it myself, but seems pointless to add it for only one version.
case closed. guess that proves my point for reasons for threads like this.
good luck getting your buttons back. and some marbles while you're at it.
That is actually it--it's what appears when you get an incoming call while the phone is locked and you use the little phone icon and slide it up in iOS 6.