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

[GreyOS]

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.

I don't know how it was in the unlock-prone betas, but a couple of observations on how it works now. It only works with one point of contact so two finger slide doesn't work for example. The display will turn off after a time as normal, even as you're touching it if your touches don't unlock/show passcode screen, so no half-gestures keep it alive.

 

[Ckurtis]

So happy I found this thread, I'm not crazy after all. Recently updated to ios7 on the iPhone 5. Same situation, I pocket dialed 6 times in 10 minutes today. I've accidentally turned on the flashlight while running. Total pain. Hopefully they'll at least have an option to use the "classic unlock" or solve the issue.

It never ceases to amaze me the " doctor it hurts when I do this; then don't do it " advice people give to avoid an issue instead of acknowledging and then fixing it.

So for now, seems like turning off the up swipe and down swipe from lock screen is the best workaround assuming I too wish to put my iPhone in my pocket screen in; along with turning off any sort of phone disablers that would result from too many failed login attempts.

Trying to sum up 7 pages of reading here... Did I miss anything other than the fact that apple chose to ignore this issue before ios7 release?

 

[Zetaprime]

Since I've had iOS 7 beta I haven't had an issue with pocket dialing at all. Never had any issues with pocket dialing on all the iPhones I've had also.

Me neither. Maybe those people have hamsters in their pockets.