Ios7 locks my phone after 5min-help!

Settings > General > Auto-Lock

Clearly, this shouldn't be occuring if you are actively using the phone. If the Auto-Lock feature is not active, try resetting your phone - Press and hold the home button and then press and hold the lock button (top of the phone) for about 10 seconds and once the white Apple logo appears, release the buttons. This will do a soft reset of your phone.

AFAIK, all lock times are after X minutes without use; are you saying that if you set it to 5 minutes, after 5 minutes it will lock even if you are using it?

= L.I.

No if you have it set to lock at X minutes if you do not touch the screen for that many minutes it will lock. If you are using it or periodically touch the screen it will not lock.

So yes you can choose Never or a specific number of minutes and those are the choices. I wish it had a 30 minute option but there isn't one.

If you created a passcode when you updated the default setting for Requiring the Passcode is Immediately, so anytime you sleep the phone and wake it up it will require the passcode again. Change this in Settings

Settings > General > Passcode Lock > Require Passcode > change from immediately to a longer time.

The max is four hours. As long as you wake up the phone within the set time a passcode will not be required. The next time the phone sleeps starts the timer again.

This is a different setting than the Autolock feature that sleeps your phone after a specified time. I have my phone set to Autolock at 1 minute and Require a Passcode at one hour. During the day I usually do something on my phone at least once an hour so I don't have to enter the passcode. But overnight I exceed the one hour period and a passcode is required in the morning.

Requiring the Passcode immediately is more secure than longer time intervals but it may be too inconvenient for you to have to enter the passcode every time you use the phone.

Settings > General > Passcode Lock > Require Passcode > change from immediately to a longer time.

I have no other option then choose immediately, anyone have any idea how to remedy this?

Hi the reason is that you have the touch id on and the fingerprint memorized. You need to take off the passcode, it will ask to delete or keep fingerprints so delete it. Then you will be able to reset the time option and then you will have to memorize the finger print again

Pdnirc:

Thanks for the tip I was having the same problem ...

I'm not blaming you of course....

but the solution seems a bit round-about ... I wonder what the programmers were thinking there ... 😕