One of the Most Underrated Features of iOS 7

Michael Hession

6/12/13 12:10PM

•

369

In previous versions of iOS, you had to slide to unlock in one very specific location. Now? Oh man.

You can slide to unlock here:

or here...

G/O Media may get a commission

Whistler D26RS 1080P Dash Camera

even here...

but surely not... here?

Okay what about... here?

Yes. As long as your gesture is vaguely left-to-right, you can unlock from anywhere on the display. It never made sense that the unlock was at the bottom the whole time, since your hand doesn't naturally rest there when you hold an iPhone. SWEET RELIEF.

Share This Story

Get our newsletter

The New Transformers Show Gets Some Wildly Expensive Figures, and More of the Coolest Toys of the Week

Remember When Toys Were Fun? Hasbro's $575 Unicron Figure Takes Almost an Entire Hour to Transform

Paramount's New President Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About the Star Trek Movies

How Do People Actually 'Die From Old Age'?

DISCUSSION

Jim Spanfeller Is a Herb BY EMMA CARMICHAEL

6/12/13 12:18PM

To everyone coming here specifically to say, "ANDROID HAD THIS NOT NEW": Did you attend other kids' birthday parties when you were younger specifically to see which toys or games they got, so you could spring forth and shout, "I had that months ago, you're clearly inferior and your parents are poor"? Were you... invited to birthday parties?