How do I get rid of the widgets screen?

So I have no choice but to press the home button twice? I don't want the widget screen and I don't use the widget screen but the technology doesn't exist for the user to remove this annoyance?

What value does the widgets thing add? Why get rid of swipe to unlock? Why do I need the ability to swipe right for my camera on the unlock screen? I'm at a complete loss. It's like Apple's single goal is to annoy longtime users. I just don't get it.

mfw8 wrote:

What value does the widgets thing add?

I find the right selection of widgets gives me information I need quickly (calendar, transit status, weather, quick dials). Rather than dismissing it out of hand, you might want to explore it a little.

mfw8 wrote:

What value does the widgets thing add? Why get rid of swipe to unlock? Why do I need the ability to swipe right for my camera on the unlock screen? I'm at a complete loss. It's like Apple's single goal is to annoy longtime users. I just don't get it.

For those who use widgets I'd imagine it adds a great deal of value. As to any changes, nobody here is party to Apple's decisions. If you don't like them then submit feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback/

sally_o wrote:

So I have no choice but to press the home button twice? I don't want the widget screen and I don't use the widget screen but the technology doesn't exist for the user to remove this annoyance?

Yes. The swipe to unlock feature does not exist in iOS 10. So if you wish to use your device, then you'll have to use the home button press to unlock. If you don't use the widget screen, then don't swipe to bring it up and ignore it.

I'd like to go back to the old way. I see no advantage to this at all. I respect that some people like it but I don't think we should be forced to use it. It seems inefficient to me. I will not upgrade my personal iPad because of the new feature. My work iPad updated without my permission and now I am stuck with it.

Apple provides no supported way to roll back.

Feedback goes here >>> Product Feedback - Apple

I am in the same page. I am searching everywhere how to go back to the previous version. This feature is bothering me and making me loose my time.

Keepgoing go wrote:

I am in the same page. I am searching everywhere how to go back to the previous version. This feature is bothering me and making me loose my time.

You cannot go back to swipe to unlock - the feature is gone. Nor can you downgrade iOS as Apple has never supported any mechanism to do so.

Jobs would turn in his grave with this, I feel like I'm being spammed on an android! FIX IT Apple

Jobs, the man who famously declared that he knew what customers wanted before they knew themselves, would approve greatly!

AKRBTN wrote:

Jobs, the man who famously declared that he knew what customers wanted before they knew themselves, would approve greatly!

It's funny, isn't it, how quickly people have forgotten that about him and use his name to justify all sorts of opinions.

Wymania wrote:

I'd like to go back to the old way. I see no advantage to this at all. I respect that some people like it but I don't think we should be forced to use it. It seems inefficient to me. I will not upgrade my personal iPad because of the new feature. My work iPad updated without my permission and now I am stuck with it.

If Apple had never had a Swipe to unlock function, and had always required you to push the HOME button to unlock, and then switched to Swipe, there would be just as many (if not more) complaints.

The new operating system is so disappointing. Apple is literally stealing my time. A longer time to get into my phone is not an upgrade; it's a downgrade. I wonder what Samsung is up to...