Did they remove the ”swipe to unlock” from the lock screen in ios 17.4 update?

No -- still on my iPhone 14 with iOS 17.4.

I have a screenshot of my iPhone lock screen from January of this year and it does not have that text on it. I don't believe that text is present all the time. I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max. The bar is still there and you can swipe upwards to unlock, just that the text is not present.

I have iPhone 15, and I'm sure the text was there until iOS 17.4. Of course the text wasn't there all the time, but it appears and disappears at a rate of 1 second

I believe the text appears on a new phone or one that has been factory reset, as a reminder to someone who might not be familiar with how to open the phone. It disappears later, I think after the first restart.

Not that I am aware of, it works just find on my iPhone.

I don‘t have this text since ios 17.4 too

Thank you for that. However, whenever I open my iPhone now, and yes it is on iOS 17.4, that text does not appear.