Locking phone while on call
Does anyone know if there's a trick to prevent this from happening?
Thanks in advance
MacBook, 2006, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 1GB Ram/16GB Orange nano/ 32GB 3GS/ Apple TV 2.0
MacBook, 2006, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 1GB Ram/16GB Orange nano/ 32GB 3GS/ Apple TV 2.0
djm027 wrote:
if you have it to your ear and hit it it WILL lock.
What-Now wrote:
One reason you would like to lock the phone without it being on speaker is if you have the ear piece plugged in. I sometimes want to lock my phone if my earpiece is in.
JDLee wrote:
I've found this same thing to be a problem. You are right, if you are on a call and you are using the speakerphone, or a bluetooth or wired headset, and you hit the on/off sleep/wake button, the screen locks and your call is not ended.
However, if you are on a call the regular way (using the earpiece), and you hit ht sleep/wake on/off button, it ends your call.
I spoke to someone at the Apple Store who told me this didn't used to be the case. But, now, in their infinite wisdom, Apple has decided that the proximity sensor is all you need. With the phone against your head, the screen is off. The problem is that if you pull the phone away from your head (say to change ears), the screen comes on instantly, and, if you happen to touch that huge red "end" button, you hang up your call.
This is another example of not giving people basic options. If I am on a call, I want to lock the screen so that I cannot hang up on it mistakenly. But, this appears to not be an option unless someone can tell me something I don't know.
HOLY COW
I thought I was the only one mad at this! You are right!!!!!
I wish Apple understood that OPTIONS is a MUST on Cellphones!
Running iOS 7.0.6 (11B651).
clearly an iPhone is not a phone, or not really meant to be used as one. for all the hype around the great design gods at Apple I was disappointed. I want to make calls and I want to be able to hang up.
Since I am using an iPhone as many of my counterparts do, too, I now understand the awkward 5 second silence after "hanging up" -- which you didn't yet! -- to fiddle around with the lock screen. And oh woe if you try and unlock it with your fingerprint, then good luck and make that 15 seconds.
[EDITED]: btw, there is not even a section in the manual how to simply end a call. There is a section on how to deal with a second incoming call, but nothing like the list above.
Message was edited by: thinkstorm
Thinkstorm,
"The awkward silence" is something that I've been more and more curious about myself.
I have a passcode on my iPhone. I lock my phone during most calls (because I don't want to hang up). If any of you have small kids that like to play with the phone while we're talking on speakerphone to family ("say, 'hi,' to Grandma"), you'll lock the phone, too. (Kids LOVE the big red button and can't avoid pushing it.)
My normal MO is to use my Bluetooth headset and leave my phone plugged in on the desk. I accept incoming calls through the Bluetooth headset. Even if I do not manually lock the phone during a call, my phone will dim and shut down the screen per my set preferences (60 seconds). Of course, the passcode will cause the "slide to unlock" screen to come up when I activate the phone via either the lock or home buttons during the call.
It seems like 50% of the time, the phone controls will come up when I slide. This is desirable (especially when I want to hit the mute button - again, see "kids"). The other 50%, the passcode screen will come up. Of course, this adds time to get to the function I really want to get to ("Daddy, Daddy, Daddy..." happening during this delay for the amusement of everyone on my conference call - lol).
This is where my frustration with iOS really comes up. When I enter the passcode, it will just take me to the home screen. I have an iPhone 5 (now ancient technology complete with its tactile home button), so it takes a little longer (i.e. delay) for the green banner to appear at the top of the screen after the unlock as well. Click the banner, and I, finally, get to access the controls... unless I the last thing I had on the call was the keypad (frequent when I'm navigating through DTMF menus with customer service or something). Being a common occurrence, I know that I have to hit the TINY "hide" link (not even really a button) for the keypad to go away before I can reach the holy grail of the mute button.
This, of course, works both ways for activating and de-activating the mute. I can't be the only one that's lost my place in the queue because of this (when the customer service agent can't hear me and quickly decides it's a bad connection and ends the call). Gawd forbid that you mis-type your passcode or can't hit the tiny "hide" link in a timely manner.
I realize these are all first-world problems, but Apple is supposed to be all about workflow that "just works." There's clearly some room for improvement on the scenarios I described. The bottom line (to bring it back to this thread) is that locking the phone during a call is something everyone should be able to use as a feature. I know my wife's Nexus 7 (Android) allows you to bring the big red button back up with any click even if you lock the phone, so Apple is way ahead on preventing accidental hang-ups. But, locking the phone during the call (especially the important ones) is a feature that a heck of a lot of users use, so I think some focus should be put back on that "phone app" (as we call it in the iOS parlance).
Thanks for putting up with my 2¢. 🙂
- Dave
All of these solutions are find and dandy for the main phone app but what about third party apps such as WhatsApp? I still have not found a solution to be able to lock the phone while talking on WhatsApp and unfortunately even being on speaker phone does not work? If there is anyone else with this problem and knows a solution that would be great because getting my call cut out when locking the phone is getting annoying at this point.
I would love to know if anyone has ever found a solution to this. It's stunningly nonfunctional. And by the way, to the people who can't understand why you'd lock your phone during a phone call, even if you don't lock your phone, depending on how long you have Auto-Lock set for (I do 5 minutes), any phone call of any length will time you out into a locked screen.
Does it matter weather you lock phone or not
Locking phone while on call