No reject button on lock screen.

[finita]

A new iphone user and noticed a very annoying and irritating (according to me, maybe it is very useful for others) subject on iphone.

When the screen is locked then you can not reject calls with button. There are some other ways to do it like pressing on/off button twice, remind me later, vs vs but not with simply pressing the button.

What is the purpose of not allowing directly rejecting, declining on lock screen?

Is there any option to bring decline button on?

 

[macTW]

I think it's either volume down or power button. Just push it and it rejects the call.

I think the lack of a reject button is for accidental pressing. It's easy for a touchscreen to misinterpret input.

 

[Freakonomics101]

I just press the power button twice to reject and the volume button down once to silence the ring.

 

[cbreze]

I had a call I wanted to reject earlier today and noticed this issue. I just pressed the power button once and it stopped ringing. So did this just silence it, and a two times press rejects it then? I never thought to try the volume button. iPhone 7

 

[C DM]

A new iphone user and noticed a very annoying and irritating (according to me, maybe it is very useful for others) subject on iphone.

When the screen is locked then you can not reject calls with button. There are some other ways to do it like pressing on/off button twice, remind me later, vs vs but not with simply pressing the button.

What is the purpose of not allowing directly rejecting, declining on lock screen?

Is there any option to bring decline button on?

It's not there essentially so that someone doesn't accidentally reject the phone call when they are getting the phone out of their pocket or purse, for example. There's no way to add it to the lock screen (short of perhaps jailbreaking and using some tweak that might allow for that). Best thing is to just use the lock/sleep button to silence and reject if pressed twice (or the volume buttons to just silence the call).

 

[Newtons Apple]

All I have ever done is hit the lock button one time. I get calles from spammers all the time from cities that are far away and I simply hit the lock button one time and it stops.

What is the difference in hitting the button once or twice. Just want to silent the call and send it to the answering service to see if they leave a message.

 

[Sital]

All I have ever done is hit the lock button one time. I get calles from spammers all the time from cities that are far away and I simply hit the lock button one time and it stops.

What is the difference in hitting the button once or twice. Just want to silent the call and send it to the answering service to see if they leave a message.

My understanding is that pressing the lock button once just silences the call and it will eventually go to voicemail. Pressing the lock button twice will immediately reject the call and send it to voicemail. So they do pretty much the same thing, the double press is just more immediate.

 

[its Dale]

the reject option comes up only if the screen is already on, i believe. If the screen is locked, it wont show the reject button

 

[C DM]

the reject option comes up only if the screen is already on, i believe. If the screen is locked, it wont show the reject button

Not as much as the screen is on but basically if the device is unlocked.