APPLE CORE Opinion
MATT BOLTON…
IS WORRIED THAT THE LOCK SCREEN IS BECOMING TOO COMPLICATED WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT MODES IT NOW HAS
Even if you think I’m mad for feeling concerned about this, is this screen definitely less confusing?
This morning, I picked up my phone for the first time today, and went to turn off Sleep mode… and I couldn’t remember how. The process had just sort of slipped from me. I tapped the alarm button that appears when Sleep mode is on, but that just takes you to the alarms screen. I ended up using my Watch to turn it off instead, because I know 100% where to find it on there.
I mention this not because I want some free advice about memory deterioration (or do I? Perhaps it just slipped my mind), but because it struck me that despite being a very simple design overall, the Lock screen on iOS can be surprisingly complicated, and iOS 15 is only going to make it more so when it adds Focus Modes and Morning Summary. The problem is not these ideas, all of which I really like the sound of, but that they increasingly have the effect of making the Lock screen weirdly unknowable.