Swipe not working to answer phone

I'm having the same trouble swipe to answer on iphone 5 ver 7.02, 7.03 and 7.04 will not work. Swipe to unlock is fine, no protective cover and have tried all solutions listed in this thread... brought it to the Apple store where they said it was the screen itself but of course they have no idea what they are talking about since it slides to unlock.

Clearly a software bug.

Send Apple a feedback stating your displeasure! --> http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

I've sent them 4 now and I hope eventually they'll get the hint 😉

Just wanted to add a "me too". I have an iPhone 5, no screen cover, and since ios 7, I intermittently can not swipe to answer the phone. No problems on just unlocking. I have made all the OS updates, but none have fixed the issue. I will try some of the workarounds the next time it happens. Once, when it happened, my daughter was sitting next to me and I had her try to swipe just to see if it was something with my finger, but she couldn't get it to work either. I think I must have answered it by clicking the top power button.

I have been SLOWLY swiping from about 3/4 of the slide bar but it still might take more than once to be able to answer. I still miss a lot of calls 😠 which are usually business related. With this method, I definitely need both hands to attempt to answer. My daughter says this confirms why she would never purchase an iPhone.

Over 15 years mobile phone user. First Apple device. iPhone 5s iOS 7.0.4, no protective cover. I didn't expect that a such hi-tech phone doesn't perform one fundamental function: answer to incoming call. A one euro phone does easly.

Sure glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. I brought mine to Sprint and they had no clue. Of course it didn't do it wen I was in there. Murphy's Law.

I've found on iOS 7.0.4 that "Swipe to Answer" only arises on incomming calls from another handset labelled as an "iPhone". If you simply label other hansets as a "mobile" then you will get the "Accept" or "Decline" option to answers calls from such handset. On a small amount of testing this seems to work and at least I'm now able to receive calls.

hm. that's not the case with mine. 😕 if this is true for you then consider youself very lucky and don't apply any iOS updates! 😁

The only time I get the "Accept/Decline" is if it's not locked (Passcode Lock is enabled on my phone).

If the phone is in normal mode it answers fine. Only when it's in lock mode is there an issue with not being able to slide to answer. Has anyone been to an Apple store to see if they are aware of it.

When I first ran into this problem (when iOS 7.0 came out) I went to the Apple Store to speak with a "Genius". Recreating the symptom took a few attempts but was able to demonstrate to the "Genius" of the problem.

His only conclusion was that it was a defective "scanner" (the glass) and was willing to give me a replacement (a refurbished unit). I declined since my iPhone 5 was less than a year old and it's only the "swipe to answer" that is having problems.

I didn't even bother going to Verizon as I would probably be given the same choice.

That said, all Apple needs to do, I feel, is to give us the ability to disable the "swipe to answer" .. this way for those that like the swipe to answer can keep it. For me (and what seems like a lot of people), please give us back the old "Accept/Decline" buttons!!

Went into Apple Store at MOA and discussed this with them at the Genius Bar. After analyzing my software he suggested going into reset the phone setting only. While he did this he made notes about what he did. I have had a half dozen calls since then and have had no problems sliding to answer from the locked screen. He said the information would be referred for future software updates.

Igunville47, can you be more specific about "going into reset the phone setting only"? I'm not sure what that means -- there doesn't seem to be any "Reset"-type button in the Phone settings.

Go to Settings, General, scroll down to bottom, Reset, Reset all settings. NOT content and settings. All data remains on phone. No content is erased. You will have to reset your wallpaper.

Same problem as original post. Latest updates running. About 50% of my calls are being dropped like this. Not sure if it's related or not but only receive about 50% of my voicemails as well. Says there's a message in the box but a recorded time of 0:00. Have to restart phone to actually get message.

Yes. See my reply above 😀

I've also sent Apple feeback 6 times with no response. Not even a generic "Thank you for your feedback....."