iPad and iOS 10 and the home button

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iPad and iOS 10 and the home button

Hi,

I decided to join the community to ask others a question about the feeling of the "double click" behavior of the home button to get into the iPad. My iPad Air has a mechanical home button and the double click will decrease the life time to the theoretical "half lifetime".

Also, the idea behind that is strange for me. The first click awakes my iPad and now I can e.g. swipe to the left screen to open e.g. apps from the Siri proposals or I can swipe to the right to get the camera. Appel stands for solution. So, we can I not get the Siri proposals onto the unlock screen? Or why can I not configure to get directly into my iPad?

What about the design of the widget list on the left screen? Makes it sense to loose so much space for the "setup icon"?

I am very unhappy with the ideas behind the new design and I see also no reason to change the behavior since every device is working by the previous way. Or is that the idea from the sales department to force broken home buttons?

What do you thing? I am using it wrong?

iPad Air, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 18, 2016 1:53 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 18, 2016 2:21 AM in response to hs351

Hi

You can go to accessibility & make your home button appear on screen then you can use

Like a home button.

Cheers

Brian

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hs351 Author

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Sep 18, 2016 3:32 AM in response to Briansyddall

Hi Brian,

many thanks for the replay.

I have a german menu and cannot find a topic like "accessibility". I guess, it is a combination. Can you explain the menu path in more detail?

Best Regards

Harald

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hs351 Author

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Sep 18, 2016 3:56 AM in response to hs351

I was searching for some explanations. My menu does not display that option. I guess because my device is not touch id enabled.

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Answer 4

Sep 18, 2016 6:55 AM in response to hs351

A Lot of guides are incomplete and totally forget about devices without Touch ID. On those you won't find the often cited option for the home button under the accessibility menu.

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Answer 5

Sep 21, 2016 12:26 PM in response to hs351

foo-on-air is right, a lot of guides out there tell you that it's possible to change this behaviour. However, I can confirm that it only works for Touch ID devices.

I own an iPhone 6s Plus and an iPad Air and on the 6s Plus I was able to go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Home Button and there's the option "Rest Finger to Open" with the following explanation:

Open iPhone with Touch ID, without having to press the Home button.

For me, this is exactly what I wanted on the iPhone 6s Plus, in other words iOS 9's default functionality. On the iPad Air I was so fed up with this and the fact that a lot of design elements are really terrible (Control Center for instance), that I just reverted to iOS 9.3.5.

So if you want to take that path... I hope you still have your full iTunes back-up of the iPad when it was iOS 9. That way you can easily restore to that back-up.

It's strange, really, since I absolutely love iOS 10 on my 6s Plus together with 3D Touch and Touch ID and all. But on the only 2 generations old iPad Air, I just cannot stand it.

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Sep 21, 2016 12:34 PM in response to AddVariety

Thanks for the replay AddVariety.

I try to live with the double click and will stay by iOS 10. Sometime, I use the standby / home button combination. Also, the last days I become accustomed to use the double click.

My hope is that someone from Apple read this and we will get an update with some more settings e.g. "one click to home screen"

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Answer 7

Sep 21, 2016 12:50 PM in response to hs351

Exactly. I actually hope for a 10.1 update in which the iPad is getting a little more polish all around. It just doesn't work, the double click on the home button, especially since you can't be fast, there is a delay that needs to be there between the first and second press.

Either a slide to unlock needs to come back or just a single press should do it. What I forgot to mention is that I have an Apple cover that (on iOS 9 at least) wakes up the iPad and completely surpasses the lockscreen altogether (except when you have a passcode set). That doesn't work on iOS 10 anymore. So after 2 years of using the Apple cover this way, which was the main reason I bought it instead of a more protective one from another brand, it just doesn't work anymore. Sure, it wakes up the screen, but I still have to press the home button.

So yeah Apple, please bring us an update for iPad's without Touch ID on iOS 10 with the following functionality (as an option):

single click of the home button wakes up the screen AND brings you to the home screen
magnetic functionality of the Smart Cover should return, just like iOS 9 and before

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