How do you turn OFF the magnet auto on/off on iPhone 7?

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How do you turn OFF the magnet auto on/off on iPhone 7?

Love the new iPhone 7, and it apparently now has the same magnet on/off as the newer iPads, but it means by iphone is constantly turning on, since my magnet case is also a walet, and the way it lines up, it is always turning on the iphone and draining the battery.

On iPad there is a setting in Settings/General to turn off Auto Lock, but it seems nowhere to find on the iPhone.

Would like to deactivate this feature, any ideas?

Thanks!

iPhone 7, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 21, 2016 10:17 PM

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kbastian Author

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Sep 21, 2016 11:59 PM in response to PhantomLes

Gotcha - I've had every iPhone since the beginning (including Newton!) and everytime they change it all up, it takes some getting used to!

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Sep 21, 2016 11:08 PM in response to PhantomLes

After posting this I found there is NO magnetic auto-lock on the iPhone, instead, it is a new Raise and Wake feature I was not aware of, and it is still a bad feature for battery life, so here is what I found to turn it off:

https://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-enable-disable-raise-to-wake-lockscreen-in-ios -10/

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kbastian Author

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Sep 21, 2016 11:34 PM in response to PhantomLes

Yes, it is. Thanks. The question was about the "magnet auto on/off" not Auto Lock, but as mentioned above, there is no magnetic lock on iPhone, it was the Raise the Wake that made it appear so.

Thanks for chiming in. 🙂

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Sep 21, 2016 11:04 PM in response to kbastian

I've just checked on my iPhone 7.

The Auto-Lock options are located in Settings/Display & Brightness.

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Sep 21, 2016 11:14 PM in response to kbastian

The Raise to Wake option is right under the Auto-Lock settings in Settings/Display&Brightness.

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Sep 21, 2016 11:41 PM in response to kbastian

Not a problem. I only put the last bit of info here in case someone else searches in future.

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