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New unlock method
- Thread starter NovemberWhiskey
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Are you referring to 'rest finger to unlock'? Haven't gotten to b3 yet. This toggle in b2 seems to have zero effect on my iPad though. Same actions unlock with it on or off.
Although that likely doesn't change much for devices that don't support TouchID.
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It works in developer beta 3/public beta 2.
Weird. Playing catch up on PB2 while reading be forums. I toggled this on/off, while following my normal unlock routine, and noticed no difference.
With toggle off:
Press home button once to wake screen while resting finger on Touch ID
Screen wakes
iPad then unlocks, release finger
About 1.5 seconds for this to happen.
Also messed around with the unlock methods. Tried using the sleep/wake button, then resting finger on Touch ID to unlock and go to the home screen (without pressing). After about a second or two, the 'Press home' message displays, but if you rest your finger before the message, it'll let you in every time. This is all with the toggle off btw. Whether waking the screen with the home button, or the sleep/wake button, resting on Touch ID is letting me in every time, unless I take a few extra seconds at the lock screen.
With the toggle on, I didn't noticed any change in behavior with any of the above methods. After a few seconds at the lock screen, you still have to press home.
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Never mind. Sorry, like I said I'm playing some serious catch up. Been away for a while. Looks like I'm running B1 still. Thought I was going insane for a minute.
Please, people, try to think outside of what you use your devices for and what your personal setup is, just for once.
I use my iPad at home and solely at home, so there is no use for a passcode. I use it with a Smart Cover.
Up until iOS 9 I simply had to flip the Smart Cover and get to the Home Screen. Now I have to flip it to unlock it and look at the Lock Screen and press the Home Button to get to the Home Screen. This is one unnecessary step and considering how often I use the iPad a day that step gets multiplied a dozen times.
I don't need to look at the Lock Screen since I usually don't have any notifications there - I see and clear them via my Apple Watch that I carry on my wrist all the time, so the only thing Apple did was force me to look at their redesigned Lock Screen which is totally empty!
This has got nothing to do with "don't like change", there are numerous things I like about iOS 10 and the redesigned Lock Screen makes perfect sense for TouchID devices with TouchID or passcode enabled. Those who don't use it are forced to press their Home Buttons once more - and that is unnecessarily inconvenient.
This was back then one of the first and the one I "revived" a few days ago, sorry.
This option is still there - you "unlock" the device by lifting the Smart Cover, but you still have to press the Home Button to get to the Home Screen (lifting the Cover acts like a first press on the Home Button).
It has for everyone else who doesn't use (or whose device doesn't support) TouchID.
Guys, the thing is as simple as this:
If Apple lets users of iOS devices that don't support TouchID decide to unlock and go to the Home Screen in one jump by pressing the Home Button (or removing the Smart Cover) everything would be fine - those people cover millions of iPad 4th gen. and iPad Air users. But right now it seems Apple doesn't care. They got back to me on my reporting a bug but I reported this twice now and no reaction. Probably because iOS 10 gets tested with iPad Pros and newer.
The really annoying thing is: If iOS was smart enough to skip the empty Lock Screen if there were no notifications on these devices, I could live with it. But whether you have any notifications or not, you unlock the device to go to an empty screen only to get prompted to press the Home Button to get to the Home Screen. That is not ease-of-use.
There is no mention of smart covers anywhere in the iPad Pro settings on iOS 9. Could be because I have Touch ID enabled. The cover does wake the device though, just no option anywhere to control it.
They've ruined the login to home screen experience with this nonsense of pressing the button twice, it just feels like the button is broken compared to the IOS9 way. I am constantly pressing and repressing just to open the phone
They really don't care too much about devices that don't include Touch ID. There has been Touch ID on 3 generations now (for iPhone) and soon to be the 4th. Older non Touch ID devices are in the past, not current and hasn't been a part of the future moving forward for some time now. To Apple those older devices are not as secure and want people on newer devices.
The change has been based off 5s and up (mostly the new 3D Touch Home button if that rumour is true.) iOS needs to be designed for present and future. Not 4 years ago.
I'm not defending it. Just stating the reality. As with all things. Those who hold onto things for ever, suffer with.
Which could be a potential deal breaker for a lot of iPad users, with Smart Cover.
Hope Apple adds options for it. At least, they still sells them!
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Sad. Apple think Smart Cover is obsolete?
I really don't hope you actually expect Apple to reply to each and every single feedback they receive. If you are, you're expecting WAY too much.
They reply to things they can't reproduce or is something completely new or different no one has reported. They reply to the first sender not the 10,000th on a particular bug.
I have experience using this way to unlock. So I can understand what you are saying. Obviously annoying.
Yes, exactly. Smart Covers are called "smart" because of the auto-wake function when you flip it open. The iOS 10 way of forcing people to press the Home button to unlock the iPad renders the auto-wake useless/redundant. So now the thing about the Smart Cover that gave it its name is gone. Yes, it's still being sold, but it's not so smart anymore.
The Smart Cover unlocking automitically had to go anyway if you wanted to secure your device.Which could be a potential deal breaker for a lot of iPad users, with Smart Cover.
Hope Apple adds options for it. At least, they still sells them!
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Sad. Apple think Smart Cover is obsolete?
Yeah, but not everyone needs to secure their iPads, like those people who only use it at home.
Well if you don't secure it you can't use any features like keychain etc. For the sake of a 2 second button press you lose functionality, but each to their own.
Then the Smart Cover is just a cover. No more "smart". Then why the heck I pay premium price to buy a case which is...you know, cannot use all of its features?
Then the Smart Cover is just a cover. No more "smart". Then why the heck I pay premium price to buy a case which is...you know, cannot use all of its features?
It wakes up the iPad, which was as smart as it ever was.
Depends on whether iPad that is just displaying notifications is useful to you. If iOS 10 doesn't change so that flipping open the cover takes you directly to the home screen or last used app, I suspect I will no longer be buying Smart Covers.
They did it!
Since yesterday's Public Beta 3 update, when you have no code set and no notification, lifting the Smart Cover takes you directly to the home screen.
Finally! Thank you,
!
Since yesterday's Public Beta 3 update, when you have no code set and no notification, lifting the Smart Cover takes you directly to the home screen.
Finally! Thank you,
!
And when iOS 10 is released and 3rd party apps can secure themselves on the lock screen you and many others will no doubt be back to complain that you "Can't do X with Y on the lock screen" because you changed an accessibility setting.