Hello Ari, Kimmy, Mich and others, I also find the Unlock button is not quite as easy to find as it used to be when it was right above the home key and I could put my finger on it every time 100%. Now, here are a few things to try and everybody has to see what works best for them (I assume you don't have a passcode set):
Observation: The Unlock button or control is still above the home key and goes across the screen from left to right. However, it is just a bit further up and on the very right the "Open Camera" button is located underneath the unlock bar/button/control. Methods: 1. If you press the home key and then slide your finger straight up slowly you will find the Unlock bar, at that point you can stop and do a split tap and the phone will unlock. You can also do a double tap anywhere on the screen once Voiceover says "Unlock". 2. You can put 3 fingers on the screen and drag them from left to right on the lock screen to unlock your phone. This has been mentioned more then enough and all I will add is 2 things: if I am playing some audio or just played some audio so that playback controls come up on the lock screen and not just the time, date, unlock and Open Camera, I can put 3 fingers on the screen on the left side of the phone, drag them right and the phone unlocks. If, however, I press the home key and the time is announced I always had to either repeat the 3-finger swipe or touch the screen first once somewhere in the middle, then perform the 3-finger swipe. Personally I find this gesture a bit unreliable and inconsistent. 3. My favorite method is as follows: press the home key or power button to bring up the lock screen. Now do a 1-finger double tap and hold anywhere on the screen as long as it is left of the centerline, hold a fraction of a second until you hear the triple tone and then drag your finger across to the right. It doesn't seem to matter if you do this towards the top, centre or bottom of the phone or whether the time is announced and you have nothing else on the lock screen but the time, date and the unlock and camera buttons or whether you have what's currently playing and all that stuff, this works for me every time and I am currently training my muscle memory to use this gesture since I find it the most efficient, I don't have to hear if Voiceover says "Unlock" to indicate I found the unlock button or anything like that. Basically I am unlocking my phone just as a sighted person does with a single finger swipe across the screen from left to right except that I have to start with the pass-through gesture which is what the double tap and hold is. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
