iPhone lock immediately after ending call...

i understand what he is saying.....basically as soon as the other person hangs up their phone and the call ends it just locks the phone......you dont get a chance to do anything else...it just seems to auto lock it after a call.....if I end the call myself then this doesnt happen

You left out some details so I can only assume.
If you phone has locked due to it's timeout time and you get a call, you can answer with the slide and talk. It doesn't unlock the phone. Thus when the call is over, the phone is still locked.

This is by design. You have the lock option so the phone will lock. It wouldn't do any good if it unlocked when somebody called it thus allowing somebody access to your phone if they took it simply by answering the next phone call it got.

Even if you end the call yourself, the phone is still going to "lock" To turn this off, go to settings>general>passcode lock and turn it off if it is bothering you, or... you can change the time for passcode to turn on. settings>general>auto-lock and set the lock time there. Hope this helps.

Hey aaaTiger...

Like DaVBMan said... this is by design... If the phone didnt' allow you to answer without unlocking then you would miss the call.. Since the phone didn't technically unlock it goes back to a locked status when completed... As designed by apple...

When you make the phone call you've initiated the phone by saying you want to do the call, and therefore allows you to do whatever else you want while it is unlocked...

The point that you are describing is as designed and documented in the iPhone users manual on the website... To the best of my knowledge you can not change this since the phone is technically still locked... If you want to use it after you need to manually go through the process of unlocking it... Which is again the same process that you would need to do if you manually pressed the black button on the top of the phone which locks the device up...

Hope that helps clarify the situation..

Ok i have figured it out! When you make an outgoing call yourself, you have to unlock the phone then place the call. (you just unlocked the phone) when the other caller hangs up the phone will remain unlocked since you already unlocked it to make that initial call......

now, if your phone is off and locked and you recieve a call, it wont "unlock" the phone but it will however let you answer the call.....once the call is ended it will go back to its original locked state.

Think of a locked phone more like a phone that is in sleep mode to preserve your battery. By the phone immediatly going back to sleep, because the only reason you woke it up was to answer the call, you are saving battery life. If it unlocked each time you got a call, then technically, unless you manually relocked the phone, each phone call you recieve would cost you 1-5 minutes of battery life.

It actually is a great feature. If i have to work on my phone, then I unlock it, or wake it up. If someone calls me, I only want to burn the battery needed to accept my phone call.

I can see why this doesn't make sense to you. But what you are doing when you get a call is not unlocking it. That's why the screen says "slide to answer". You are just temporarily accessing the phone so that you can answer the call. As others have said, Apple assumes (rightly I think) that most people would want their phones to return to locked state after receiving a call.

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Just kidding!!! But you do have it right. 😀