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More pocket dials in 3 days than I've had in 5 years

Guys, this is an issue that I am having. Obviously some are, some aren't. It's obviously only going to happen when you put your phone in your pocket with the screen facing your leg. EASIEST solution is to face it the other way, but that's hard for me. I am methodical and have had every iPhone since the first, face down.

Anyway... the issues depend on the pants you are wearing... and also the underwear. Not to sound weird, but it's true. I wear "boxer briefs" that don't go down the leg that far, leaving my leg "exposed", which means it matters much more on the pants/shorts that I wear. If you wear boxers with longer material, it may matter less, depending on length of pockets. But anyway... when I wear jeans, it's less of an issue. When I wear my Arc'teryx hiking/running shorts.. that have see-through mesh pockets... the phone is essentially against my skin. When I get notifications while walking... it's a mess. The other day I texted 3 people garbage and called 2 others... all while walking for a few minutes. It totally depends on what you are wearing. ANY phone with iOS 7 will do this if placed how I said, with similar clothes/materials.
 
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msb3079 said:
Guys, this is an issue that I am having. Obviously some are, some aren't. It's obviously only going to happen when you put your phone in your pocket with the screen facing your leg. EASIEST solution is to face it the other way, but that's hard for me. I am methodical and have had every iPhone since the first, face down.

Anyway... the issues depend on the pants you are wearing... and also the underwear. Not to sound weird, but it's true. I wear "boxer briefs" that don't go down the leg that far, leaving my leg "exposed", which means it matters much more on the pants/shorts that I wear. If you wear boxers with longer material, it may matter less, depending on length of pockets. But anyway... when I wear jeans, it's less of an issue. When I wear my Arc'teryx hiking/running shorts.. that have see-through mesh pockets... the phone is essentially against my skin. When I get notifications while walking... it's a mess. The other day I texted 3 people garbage and called 2 others... all while walking for a few minutes. It totally depends on what you are wearing. ANY phone with iOS 7 will do this if placed how I said, with similar clothes/materials.
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Yeah, I'm also worried about leaning on something and cracking the outward facing screen. A couple of my old iPods have dents on the back; I hate to think of what would have happened to a screen put under the same pressure.

I wear tighter underwear (which covers pocket-adjacent skin (this is getting gross)) and jeans, and I still find my music pausing itself or the device unlocked with a drained battery. God, I wish Apple would make it harder to unlock. No, I don't want to set a passcode.
 
Fresh Pie said:
Yeah, I'm also worried about leaning on something and cracking the outward facing screen. A couple of my old iPods have dents on the back; I hate to think of what would have happened to a screen put under the same pressure.

I wear tighter underwear (which covers pocket-adjacent skin (this is getting gross)) and jeans, and I still find my music pausing itself or the device unlocked with a drained battery. God, I wish Apple would make it harder to unlock. No, I don't want to set a passcode.
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I'm hoping and thinking that they revert back to the old way of having to slide on the "slide to unlock" section to open the phone, as well as having to fully slide to open. Hoping.
 
Patriot24 said:
Yes. There is zero excuse not to have a passcode. These days our entire lives are accessible via these devices - personal data, financial, social networks, on and on. How people go without protecting that is beyond me.
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When I had my iPhone 4 I never gave it a password in order for me get to my camera faster. But now ever since they added a camera shortcut to iOS in 5.0 I quickly gave my iPhone a passcode.
 
I am having this issue and I use runkeeper; at the end of my run the phone has stopped recording b/c the button has gotten swiped. This is driving me nuts. I guess I need to start using a pass code but that is not the real solution.
 
Are you people with this issue wearing jeans? I've been running beta 3 since it came out and haven't had a single incident of pocket activation of any kind. I wear fairly loose fitting khakis and shorts. I have a pass code set to activate after 15 minutes.
 
mcdj said:
Are you people with this issue wearing jeans? I've been running beta 3 since it came out and haven't had a single incident of pocket activation of any kind. I wear fairly loose fitting khakis and shorts. I have a pass code set to activate after 15 minutes.
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No jeans here - it mostly happens when I'm wearing suits (so, slacks) ... Highly annoying, in any case. And I don't recall this ever happening pre-iOS7 (been using iDevices since 1.1.1) ... Why don't they just enable the proximity sensor for the lockscreen? Problem solved. :confused:
 
I'm having the problem as well. Pocket dials and pocket texts. I wear Wrangler jeans and put the phone in my right front pocket, screen towards my leg. Never had a problem with IOS6.

I hope Beta 4 brings some changes...
 
I wonder if there's some other commonality. Did the people who are pocket dialing install 7 clean or as an upgrade to 6? I upgraded from 6. No issues.
 
msb3079 said:
I'm hoping and thinking that they revert back to the old way of having to slide on the "slide to unlock" section to open the phone, as well as having to fully slide to open. Hoping.
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What about having the old way and the new way and let people choose which one to use.

Personally I would prefer the old way. The new way with a swipe anywhere is just copying Android and there should be no need to do this.
 
bbeagle said:
I don't have a passcode, because I don't want to have to type in those 4 digits dozens of times a day. It makes no sense.

I live in a safe area. I trust everyone around me, and I live in the suburbs where I know everyone, not an inner city where I walk by strangers all the time. I use it at home, at work, and in my car. Rarely anywhere else, and I don't use it while walking down the street.

It all depends on your use case. I think there is zero excuse TO have a passcode.
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ross1998 said:
I leave my passcode off because I don't really have information on my phone that would ruin my life if someone was to steal it, and my second reason is if someone was to find your iphone and they are good people, they can easily go into your contacts and call someone like 'mom' or 'dad' or 'wife'.

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I agree with these guys
 
Haven't tested on beta 4 yet. Is beta 4 any better. So far in beta 3 this stupid pocket dialling has made iOS 7 unusable for me. Very sad.
 
diwup said:
Haven't tested on beta 4 yet. Is beta 4 any better. So far in beta 3 this stupid pocket dialling has made iOS 7 unusable for me. Very sad.
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Lock screen behavior hasn't really changed as far as unlocking, so this issue probably hasn't gotten any better or worse.
 
Can someone please test it on beta 5. Let us know if pocket dialing gets any better or not. Thank in advance.
 
I've been playing with beta 5 for 4 hours. I'm pretty certain by this point the annoying pocket dialling and pocket unlocking screen issues are fixed. Cheers everyone. And good work Apple.
 
diwup said:
I've been playing with beta 5 for 4 hours. I'm pretty certain by this point the annoying pocket dialling and pocket unlocking screen issues are fixed. Cheers everyone. And good work Apple.
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Updating my phone right now and going running in about 15 minutes; I hope you are right. Woohoo....
 
diwup said:
I've been playing with beta 5 for 4 hours. I'm pretty certain by this point the annoying pocket dialling and pocket unlocking screen issues are fixed. Cheers everyone. And good work Apple.
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Interesting. It seems that nothing much has really changed as far as unlocking of the lock screen--the full screen can still be used to unlock the phone, and still requires a swipe of only about 1/3 of the screen to actually unlock, like in earlier betas, so I wonder why/how the issue would get better now if at least the majority if not pretty much all of lock screen functionality as far as unlocking has remained (seemingly) the same.
 
Haven't had pocket dials in a few betas, but interestingly I've had quite a few phonecalls turning itself on mute due to the proximity sensor not tripping. Not ruling out that it's just my phone however.
 
ErikGrim said:
Haven't had pocket dials in a few betas, but interestingly I've had quite a few phonecalls turning itself on mute due to the proximity sensor not tripping. Not ruling out that it's just my phone however.
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I've had exactly the same. It's like it's re-introduced the bug that iOS4 had :-(
 
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