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mpavilion

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It's funny that the lockscreen now has an "unlocked" state. The original point of the lockscreen was to keep the phone from unlocking in your pocket (triggering a "butt dial"), and/or to keep bad guys out of your home screen and other private stuff (if passcode-protected). Now we need a lockscreen for our lockscreens!!

All this added lockscreen functionality made sense in Android (4 years ago), because Android could be slow, and "shortcuts" were useful. But iOS is so fast...
 
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ConnYoungy

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That's precisely still, how it works. If want it to go home, press and hold you finger on the touchid, just like always.

No. Previously you could press the button and immediately lift your finger away - you could do it without paying any attention and it was literally the most brief button press and the phone would unlock, because Touch ID was so fast.

Now you have to actively keep your finger on the button for it to unlock all the way to the home screen

On another note:
I just discovered that with 'Rest to unlock' ON, if you lay the phone flat and press the lock button to wake the screen, then lay your finger on the home button, it unlocks and then you have to press to get home.

However if you lay the phone flat and press the home button to wake the screen (with a fingernail or a non-touch id finger), laying your finger on home unlocks and goes straight to home without having to press it again. In the video, on the first attempt I have to press, on the second I only rest it

 
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mr.bee

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It's funny that the lockscreen now has an "unlocked" state. The original point of the lockscreen was to keep the phone from unlocking in your pocket (triggering a "butt dial"), and/or to keep bad guys out of your home screen and other private stuff (if passcode-protected). Now we need a lockscreen for our lockscreens!!

All this added lockscreen functionality made sense in Android (4 years ago), because Android could be slow, and "shortcuts" were useful. But iOS is so fast...

It's true, now having played with it since dev beta 1, I find it all confusing, cumbersome and unnecessary. I stopped the 'raise to wake' option, as I accidentally liked tweets and so on... I ignore the lock screen and go to home, knowing it brings a lot of frustration and unnecessary movements.
 

Shirasaki

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It's true, now having played with it since dev beta 1, I find it all confusing, cumbersome and unnecessary. I stopped the 'raise to wake' option, as I accidentally liked tweets and so on... I ignore the lock screen and go to home, knowing it brings a lot of frustration and unnecessary movements.
Then you can disable notifications as a whole, knowing there would be nothing serious happen around you. Or you can selectively enable a few and just leave others off.
 

kaiseryeahhh

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One question, in iPhone 5,5c and iPad air 1 and mini 2, as unlock?
As we were doing in the beta 1 on all phones? making a mandatory click?
 

ConnYoungy

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Yep.
Even my iPad Pro which does not 'raise to wake', still needs a press/rest to unlock instead of swipe
 

lordofthereef

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I actually love this feature and just discovered it today (beta 4). I found it redundant to press down on the home button when raise to wake was on, and that redundancy is removed, not to mention going forward I will have much less wear on the button.

With the rumors of a flush home button on the next phone I basically expected this to be exclusive to newer devices. Very happy it isn't!
 

ConnYoungy

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This feature has made me totally despise my phone. If my thumb is even slightly sweaty it won't recognise my print.

Usually i could immediately swipe to the passcode screen and type it in, but now i have to fail the Touch ID three times before it gives me that option. Incredibly embarrassing if someones waiting for me to get info from my phone, which happens a lot with work
 

ZEEN0j

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This feature has made me totally despise my phone. If my thumb is even slightly sweaty it won't recognise my print.

Usually i could immediately swipe to the passcode screen and type it in, but now i have to fail the Touch ID three times before it gives me that option. Incredibly embarrassing if someones waiting for me to get info from my phone, which happens a lot with work

Instead of swiping for the passcode screen you now press the home button if Touch ID fails.
 

ZEEN0j

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Does that bring up the passcode entry screen?

Yes. At least on my 6 and air 2 where a press with a registered finger is too quick for Touch ID to recognize. Works then of course also with a unregistered finger.
 

GreyOS

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Yes. At least on my 6 and air 2 where a press with a registered finger is too quick for Touch ID to recognize. Works then of course also with a unregistered finger.
actually, weirdly, if you turn the screen on with an unregistered finger (or as the original poster said, a wet finger; something unrecognised) and leave it there, once TouchID fails, clicking home does not bring up the passcode screen until you lift your finger off again.
 

bepra

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1) it is "rest to open", NOT "rest to unlock". at least it is on PB 6.
2) is you start off by pressing the home button or the sleep button, the "rest to open" setting makes no difference whether if it is switched on or off.
3) however, if you have enabled "raise to wake", and actually wake the phone by raising it, THEN the "rest to open" setting makes a difference .... it will open the phone by merely resting your finger if switched on, or you will have to press the home button to open if switched off.
 

GreyOS

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1) it is "rest to open", NOT "rest to unlock". at least it is on PB 6.
2) is you start off by pressing the home button or the sleep button, the "rest to open" setting makes no difference whether if it is switched on or off.
3) however, if you have enabled "raise to wake", and actually wake the phone by raising it, THEN the "rest to open" setting makes a difference .... it will open the phone by merely resting your finger if switched on, or you will have to press the home button to open if switched off.
this setting makes a difference on iphone 6 which doesn't have raise to wake. so it does make a difference beyond raise to wake.

a) if you turn on with sleep button you no longer have to press home
b) if you turn on with home but lift finger to read notifications, you can rest it on the home button without a second click
 
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