We used to unlock our iPhones and iPads with a simple “swipe to unlock”. It was easy. With iOS 10 it’s different, now it’s a confusing “Press Home to Unlock” that often results in a “click / double click / oops, that’s Siri / oops, that’s Apple Pay” click-a-thon. When you finally unlock it, you’re not really sure how you did it because you tried a lot of things. It was better old-fashioned, but we can do something about it.
We can make unlocking your iPhone and iPad in iOS 10 a little easier (and a little faster), and since you unlock your iPhone many times a day, “a little easier” and “a little faster” multiplied by “many times a day” means that you will save a lot of effort and time. I will show you how.
(This assumes you’ve set up Touch ID, the GREAT feature that allows you to use your fingerprint instead of a four or six digit passcode. If you haven’t set up Touch ID, do so now: Settings / Touch ID and Passcode , and make sure you have “iPhone Unlock” enabled).
With Touch ID enabled, go to Settings, then General, then Accessibility, then Home Button. Activate “Rest finger to open”. That is all it takes. (Just make sure you go to the General / Accessibility / Home Button, not the General / Home Button. You want the one below Accessibility.)
From now on, to unlock your iPhone, that is, the screen is illuminated, but it asks you to press the Home button to unlock it, just place your finger on the Home button. Don’t click on it. Just touch it.
If your iPhone screen is dark, click the Home button (to wake it up) and hold your finger on it (to unlock it). That’s it – your iPhone is active and unlocked, all in one motion. It is really cool, very easy and very fast. For most people it seems like all they do is click, so give it a try and the phone will likely crash. click woke him up, and subsequently his fingerprint unlocked him. Everything happens so fast that it seems like all you did was click.
(Doesn’t it work for you?
not to press and hold the Home button (which takes you to Siri), and also make sure you don’t double-click it (depending on your settings, that could take you to Apple Pay). Instead, click the Start button and release it, keeping in touch with it only for a moment when you do.)