Comments on: QuickTip – Quickly Lock your iPhone or iPod Touch

By: Caryn

Caryn — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:44:29 +0000

I am glad for the tip. I smiled when I read what you wrote about reading the manual. I didn’t see a manual with my iPhone and I would have loved to read (a printed) one.

Caryn

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:03:14 +0000

I do not know how to do this stup

By: Jgfdghjhgtffg

Jgfdghjhgtffg — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:11:48 +0000

Ttthats totally too hard

By: Russ

Russ — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:59:16 +0000

After much searching I found your post, I am looking for the same feature:
Any new info on this?

“… go in and out of my phone for a while without entering the code. But once in a while you want to leave it on a table and know that it’s been immediately locked [[Added: And passcode locked, not just swipe-locked]]. And its a pain to adjust setting for this rare occasion.”

By: George

George — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:37:13 +0000

I meant to say pain instead of paid.

By: George

George — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:34:11 +0000

I think what Randy wants (and me too) is a “quick way to immediately lock my iPhone so that it requires a code to unlock” not as the default set up… but only to be used in rare occasions.

I like that I can go in and out of my phone for a while without entering the code. But once in a while you want to leave it on a table and know that it’s been immediately locked. And its a paid to adjust setting for this rare occasion.

Solution? Is there an app for that?

By: mike

mike — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:55:54 +0000

randy, go to settings/ general /passcode lock/ require passcode/ immediatly. and youre good

By: Francisco

Francisco — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:09:44 +0000

Is there any way to prevent the phone from locking when put into sleep? I hate having to slide to unlock after waking..I want to be able to put the phone in sleep mode without it locking, Anyone know how to do this?

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:40:39 +0000

This thead is somewhat misnamed, although its actually Apple’s fault as they call it “Auto-Lock” in the settings screen when it is more like “Auto-Sleep” or “Button Protect”. You can configure locking and sleeping separately.

On my iPhone I have it set to go to sleep after 3 minutes of inactivity. I can also do that manually by pressing the top sleep button.

I also have my phone set to not require an unlock passcode within 5 minutes of the phone going to sleep. This means that I can leave my phone for up to eight minutes of inactivity before I have to enter the passcode. I still have to move the slider to “unlock” the interface.

However… Sometimes you do want to lock your phone so that it requires a passcode, even if the 3 minutes hasn’t elapsed. Any one know of a method to force it to do so, without having to disable the delay?

Thanks
-Randy-

By: Danesh

Danesh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:49:11 +0000

I was looking for an app to quickly lock my ipod touch and now I don’t need it, the power button tip does it for me. Thanks!