My iPhone 4S won't slide to unlock?

I am having the same issues - broken sleep button on top, "assistant touch", slide won't unlock and i can't answer calls when people call me. Any ideas?

guys I have found a solution that works fine...

either call your phone and then slide to unlock will show up..

Other solution is to remove passcode lock.

Hope that helps someone else suffering.

My screen stoped working! i tryed so many times with my finger in screen and nothing used! I connected my iphone with computer, i pressed home button and lock button same time and the iphone closed! after that opened, and my screen was ready to use again!

Thanks! This is the solution! 😉

Ok, so I had a solution. With Siri's help, I opened "settings" and was able to scroll. Went to "General". I scrolled down all the way to "reset" and chose "reset ALL settings". This worked.. Hope this can help anyone that needs it. :) I was freaking out wondering how I could afford a fix, or better yet, a new phone.

Heather

Thanks a lot for the advice, managed to turn off my iphone (as I toke the sim card off it was not possible to make a call even). Cheers, T

This is pretty simple to resolve when it happens.

You need the iOS 7 update. Make sure you have no password. Then all you have to do is flick up the camera from lock screen, then press the home screen and it unlocks.

Hope this helps!

the same thing is happening to me but when somebody tries to call me i couldn't answer. this happened to me just yesterday and I'm thinking maybe if i let my iphone die out and charge it back up, it will work.

thatnkyou so much for this help my iphone litterally froze and i compleatly freaked out and didnt know what to do but this really helped so thankyou...🙂

Had the same thing happen--4S 64G--Siri took over and tells me what shows on the frozen screen and the time etc when tap, but will not slide. Repeated tapping eventually allowed for code to appear on the first occurrence and after a couple of tries it worked and phone returned to normal for about 20 hours--then reverted to same problem. Dozens of tries eventually showed the pass code screen, but it would not take the Code, with Siri unhelpfully chirping the numbers pressed. Totally useless going on 20 more hours now after many reboots etc. Curiously, can read texts etc and if touch them Siri will helpfully read them off; but cannot get phone to work or unlock. The idea about having call made to my phone then swipe never worked either. Cannot answer calls; because slide won't work. Have tried to synch with Itunes and it did seem to synch--but cannot unlock screen. Going to try restore phone, but will not let me back up or restore because have a passcode, which of course will not work either because cannot slide open screen or with infrequent results from repeated tapping [with Siri helpfully chirping at every tap "unlock button"] it still not taking the passcode.

Observation--Phone had really been crappy since the ios7 upgrade last Fall--have regular problems and system crashes etc [much the same as that premature release of system software many years ago with original imac--turned me into a Windows user]. I could get a new phone I guess, but thinking might switch. Apple will be losing market with these kinds of upgrades. Sorry Apple.

I just dropped my iPhone 4 today and my lock button is also broken. None of these methods have worked for me and my parent's won't let me get a new phone

Thank you!! No slide for anything was working so called the phone like you suggested and then touch screen worked to accept call. Now everything is back. What a relief, need to get this guy to Sept. for the new phone.

Thank you , I had this problem and following your advice the problem is fixed . Happy days !!

I had problems unlocking my screen after trying with damp hands ,this seemed to shut it down? , I called it and was able to answer ! Then all was back to normal thank **** !

I had a similar problem. It is set in "blind" mode if siri is telling you what you're touching. Hit the home button 3 times and it will fix it. This is also what caused it in the first place.