iOS 7.1 lock screen freeze issue

same here.

I have the same problem as well.

Thanks for your response. My lockscreen freezes, so will resetting keyboard dictionary solve this problem?

Same here my iphone 4s freezes EVERY TIME i turn it on and write in the correct passcode

i had the same problem, just that my home button doesn't work, so what i did was go to icloud and delete my device from find my iphone and then it reboot my device now it is working fine, hopefully that's useful

Same on my iphone 4s after updating to 7.1.1. Happens only few times like once a week or so. Only restarting sloved the problem. When the bug appears, i cant unlock but can drop down notification center or even swipe "power off". Once i happened when an incoming call came and i could not attend it!

QUICK FIX FOR FREEZE: Call your iPhone from another phone. This freeze has happened to me twice, and the only way I gained access is when receiving a phone call. I will try Raj's advice and reset the keyboard dictionary.

A very easy fix..

Press and hold the home button to activate Siri.

Ask Siri to call one of your contacts.

Once the phone app opens up.. just tap on End call button.

You will be back in the lock screen but not in frozen state this time.

This is just a temporary fix to come out of the frozen lock screen and you need to have Siri enabled while screen is locked.

This has worked all the times for me.

Ok now here i got a permanent solution for my iphone 4S running ios 7.1.1. I tried two methods.

By backing up the iphone and erasing it.

After making a backup to itunes and then erasing it and again restoring the back up data (C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup) my iphone showed the same freezing issue after few hours. I could get rid of it either using siri, restarting or by taking an incoming call. I tried this method after reading in these forums and as recommended by apple.

Erase the iphone and setup as a new phone.

First make a backup in case if the lockscreen freeze still persists after trying this method you can restore the data and wait for apple to release a fixed version. And now erase your iphone and setup as a new phone. When it asks to restore from backup, never do this. The phone now has everything restored like it was brought from the store running updated os 7.1.1. And yes all your datas washed up! Start everything from the begining.

After this i suspect that updating from 7.1 or what ever that it came when i brought to ios 7.1.1 made some corrupt data which led to lockscreen freezing. All my 31 apps were re-installed (including real racing 3, dead trigger, third party apps like ebay, facebook, twitter, etc) but lost its datas and were running as if just installed it newly. You can also backup this new backup to the older backup. I am running on wifi only and all my location, internet, siri, icloud are disabled to give maximum battery life. Its been 30 hours after i post this message and so far so good and no lockscreen freeze. Will keep updated if happens! 😟

All fine guys , everything working fine.. Its been 4 days and everything is working well, no lockscreen freeze.. 😀

Thanks so much it worked for me :)

At least it works:)