How do you remove slide to unlock

I too would like to ask about this slide to lock function.

I don't have an Apple device, nor an all-touchscreen device. And I just tap one key and the screen comes back on. It's especially useful when I am waiting to see something, to see if something has downloaded, if someone has finished typing on WhatsApp... etc.

I just click a key and it comes up.

What puts me off the iPhone (and others) is that you'd have to click the button and slide.

"no, still typing/downloading".....waits...... click, Slide..... no still.........................

Rather than "click - no still...."...................................... Click... no stilll.....

If it were on a desk, arm of a sofa, table etc, you don't need that ability to protect it from doing things. My phone has NEVER had a lock on it. It goes in a holster when I am not using it. Never in my pocket. It's either in there, on a flat table, or in my hand.

simon_a6 wrote:

I too would like to ask about this slide to lock function.

What did you want to ask? Describing what you have in your current phone doesn't constitute a question.

Dear Meg - boy you are blunt!

I'd like to ask the subject of this thread!

Describing what I have describes exactly my question: I described what my phone does, and want to know if the iPhone does the same or similar.

No, it does not. As has already been explained, slide to unlock can't be turned off without violating the warranty of the phone.

Well I have to say that I agree with having the ability to turn off slide lock because I have a 1 yr old daughter that likes to play with my old iPad but she is too young to grasp the idea of sliding the lock but she knows how to push the button. Now I also understand that with some time she will understnad how to slid the bar but that fact is I am not in favor of big government or big company telling me what's best of me and how I should be managing my life or device... So one vote for making it optional...

tkoenig76 wrote:

So one vote for making it optional...

Submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Sorry, DEMO, I have to agree that it serves no purpose FOR MY iPHONE. What I want, and in this day and age what I want is what I should get, is to turn on my phone's display and viola, there's my home page WITHOUT having to swipe anything.

I hate the ****** thing... and hating "things" is the result of Windows software back in the '90's.

and in this day and age what I want is what I should get

Ah, the infamous entitlement attitude... the root of many of societies current problems.

Maybe the point of it is for quick access to the camera so you don't miss a photo. Plus there's a big clock to check the time and date quickly and put it right back away in your pocket. It shows how far the battery is charged in a nice, sleek battery icon. Plus you have your own extra wallpaper to make your iPhone your own.

Have we forgotten all these features?

Calvinator wrote:

What I want, and in this day and age what I want is what I should get...

How does it feel to want?

Uh, you do realize that

1). This thread is really old

2). The OP was asking about the slide-to-lock on an iPad (because he posted it in the iPad forum). Your post seems to be more in line with uses of a phone and don't really quite apply to most iPad uses.

As iPads go, his question was valid, it was discussed, several posters agreed, the Apple suggestion url was posted. The chance of Apple implementing it as an option is slim to none. Those of us who wish it were an option will just keep on wishing and sliding.

steeleblue wrote:

Uh, you do realize that

1). This thread is really old

So? It still exists, and enough other people are still replying.

2). The OP was asking about the slide-to-lock on an iPad (because he posted it in the iPad forum). Your post seems to be more in line with uses of a phone and don't really quite apply to most iPad uses.

Whoops, didn't realize this was the iPad forum.

Oh, well.

BigTarantula99 wrote:

It shows how far the battery is charged in a nice, sleek battery icon. Plus you have your own extra wallpaper to make your iPhone your own.

These are still true : )

For the iPhone, yes :)

Sent my request to Apple via the feedback link mentioned earlier to have the option added to either enable or disable the "Slide to Unlock" feature. Advising others that would like this to do the same.

i would like to see this be an optional feature. i am thinking about using the ipad for home automation...to control tvs, lights, music. i do not want to be continually swiping the screen all of the time.