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tomacwhite

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May 1, 2009
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My phone: 15 Pro Max

So I am wondering if anyone else has this issue. Sometimes I hold carry my phone by holding the back and front of the phone in a ‘pinch’ style. I do this when taking the phone out of my pocket, so I can get into my car, and vice versa. This is normally part of a combo of carrying my gym bag, car keys etc. Anyway..

By doing this, the phone very often changes the focus because it’s taking my hold as me holding the homescreen down and bringing up the focus mode switcher. I don’t want it do this this! It’s a total unintentional gesture and it feels way too easy to do it. Same goes for the camera too, although not quite as often.

Not sure how much traction I’ll get from people agreeing with me here as maybe I am unique how I hold my phone when taking it out a pocket - I don’t always do this, but it’s usually to get a better grip on it.

Is there a way of turning OFF the ‘hold Lock Screen to change focus mode’ feature? They would really help.
 
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Hack: don't do home/lock screens via Focus settings.

For me, this works as my Foci have Automations defined for when turned on and for off so I do the wallpaper changes there (Switch To Action).

You run into the same problem with Watch faces: change the face (intentionally or not) and Focus turns off.

ADD: this method has a bonus of being able to share a wallpaper combo across multiple Foci vs having to define the same lock and home screen pair on two or more Foci. And in the case of Watch faces, can change the face (eg. switch from a daytime to a nighttime face) without turning off the Focus.
 

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I have never had this issue. I don’t have a case on it, but I just grab it from its side or sometimes I pull it up from the bottom corner.
 
Turning off Settings -> Display & Brightness -> Raise to Wake solved all the "unwanted touch" problems I was having on my iPhone 13 Mini. It's not that hard to push a side button to wake the screen up.
 
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^this and tap to wake off (same place in settings).

Oops! See below
 
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