On older devices. You press the home button to bring up the key pad to enter your pass code. So yes, you press to unlock.
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Rest Finger to unlock?
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It wasn't a feature in the first place. It was a shortcoming.
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Older devices that don't support Raise to Wake and don't have Touch ID are a completely different paradigm. Not good for comparison at all.
I actually hit the lock button to wake my device since it doesnt give out as easily as the home button does.
It's exactly true on my iPhone 6. It's not the end of the world, but it's my one major gripe about iOS 10. It disrupts my muscle memory: press and rest to wake and then get to the home screen. I frequently find myself staring at the phone for a few seconds with the message "Appuyez sur le bouton principal pour ouvrir." That, and a tiny, disappearing "Déverrouillée" in the status bar are the only indications that anything has happened.
Just block and move on with the reasonable portion of the discussion.
IMO the rest to unlock in Accessibility isn't working fully/properly yet from just trying on my 6S
IMO the rest to unlock in Accessibility isn't working fully/properly yet from just trying on my 6S
Knowing what its supposed to do would be a start.
Not spreading false information would be an even better start.
With setting "ON" you can unlock AND go to home screen with resting your finger on TouchID.
With setting "OFF" you can only unlock the phone with resting your finger,but you have to press the home button hard after that to go the homesceen.
But I have to reboot my iphone after changing the setting to take effect.
With setting "OFF" you can only unlock the phone with resting your finger,but you have to press the home button hard after that to go the homesceen.
But I have to reboot my iphone after changing the setting to take effect.
in german the toggle is called "To Unlock" weird wording, could mean anything
In iOS10 you have to hard press home button twice.
- Hard press to wake up
- rest finger to unlock
- Hard press to go to the homescreen
I hate this beahviour
That's not how my 6+ does it.
Screen is off, I press the home button but keep my finger on it (not holding down) and it just unlocks without having to press again.
so i got an iPhone 6, turned it on, rebooted my iPhone and it works just as it did on iOS 9 which i had installed til like an hour ago.
iPhone sleeps > i press the home button to wake it > leave my finger on the TouchID and it takes me right to the springboard
iPhone sleeps > i press the home button to wake it > leave my finger on the TouchID and it takes me right to the springboard
In iOS10 you have to hard press home button twice.
- Hard press to wake up
- rest finger to unlock
- Hard press to go to the homescreen
I hate this beahviour
That isn't normal behavior. iOS 10 beta 1 (and beta 2 if you leave rest to wake off) requires 1 home button press. If the screen is off, just the home button and leave your finger there. If you lift the phone and raise to wake turns the screen on, you'll have to press the home button again.
Beta 1 worked exactly the same way and has nothing to do with the new feature in beta 2.
Beta 1 ALWAYS worked just like previous iOS's.
Wake the screen with the Home button and leave your registered finger on the Touch ID to bypass the lock screen and take you to Home.
The ONLY thing that changed in iOS 10 (even beta 1) was IF you took your finger off the Touch ID before it took you to Home, you were telling the device "ok I want to see my notification and/or widgets." Then and only then did you need to press the Home button again to take you to the Home Screen.
I really don't get why so many people keep getting confused over this. Do people not actually use or try things on their own?
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Not so. I have said this before but I'll say again; I used the power button to wake the device and then touch the Touch ID to open to the home screen. That's the experience I want but no longer have.
Will it really kill you to move your finger a fractional millimeter here? That's what we're talking about. A couple of grams of force and a millimeter of travel.
I did it to save my home button after three dead home buttons.
It's unfortunate you've had those issues
For now it works the way it works. If you want to unlock directly use the home button. The "rest to unlock" feature may deliver what you want at some point but right now, afaict, it doesn't.
I'm not sure why people are having a hard time understanding what's asked.
Previously with the phone off - if you push the home button to turn on the screen, it would unlock AND go to the spring board automatically due to our cool super fast fingerprint scanner.
Currently with the phone off - if you push the home button to turn on the screen, all it does is unlock it now. It no longer goes to the spring board. You have to push the home button in order to go to the spring board.
So far Rest to Unlock is broken it seems because I've powered the phone off and on and it doesn't do anything different from on/off.
Hope that clears everything...
Previously with the phone off - if you push the home button to turn on the screen, it would unlock AND go to the spring board automatically due to our cool super fast fingerprint scanner.
Currently with the phone off - if you push the home button to turn on the screen, all it does is unlock it now. It no longer goes to the spring board. You have to push the home button in order to go to the spring board.
So far Rest to Unlock is broken it seems because I've powered the phone off and on and it doesn't do anything different from on/off.
Hope that clears everything...
Neither does continually repeating what they want when they know it doesn't work that way.
PS there was no "anger" in the comment
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And yet you still are because....
That's exactly how it works now in beta 2 and how it worked in beta 1. If you press the home button once and leave your finger on touchID it takes you to the springboard. Smith288 wants to use his power button to unlock then rest his finger on touchid without pressing and that's not how it currently works. It seems the "Rest to Unlock" feature may deliver that at some point but not right now.