Lock Screen is Redundant (before iOS 10)

Here’s the UX of unlocking phone for 99% of the time:

Press the home button to wake up the phone 📲 (base on my observation, more people use the home button, rather than the lock button to wake up the phone) TouchID recognizes your finger and unlocks the phone 🔓 You arrive the home screen! 🌟

Sounds great to unlock the phone with just a tap right? Not so fast… How much time would you spend on the lock screen and read notifications? Probably less than a second. Unless you’re a machine, there’s no way to read in such a short period of time.

TouchID is great as it introduces tighter security & Apple Pay to iOS. It, however, hinders the use of quick glancing notifications, making the lock screen redundant to a certain degree.

Therefore, Apple fixes such loop hole in iOS 10 by offering “Raise to wake” and more functionalities powered by Force Touch (or long press for older devices).