“One of the best new features of Apple’s jam-packed update won’t be available for all devices that are compatible with iOS 10,” Buster Hein reports for Cult of Mac.
“Turning on the lock screen by just picking up your iPhone makes getting to notifications and apps quicker, but unless you have an iPad or iPhone released in the last year, you won’t get to enjoy it,” Hein reports. “iOS 10 will only add the Raise to Wake feature to iOS devices with an M9 processor.”
“The iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus and iPhone SE are the only three devices that support the feature in the first beat build of iOS 10,” Hein reports. “Even though both new iPad Pro sizes have an M9 processor, it appears that Apple is not bringing the feature to the tablet lineup yet.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: To enable “Raise to Wake” in iOS 10 beta: Settings > Display & Brightness > Raise to Wake and enable. The next time you pick up your iPhone, it will automatically display the Lock screen.
Isn’t this just a gyroscope function?
My Apple Watch “wakes on wrist raise” without an M9 processor. Just Apple squeezing out their insufficiently loyal customers.
Incremental increases…like being hooked on crack, only higher profit margins….
Not really; Apple Watch has specifically re-designed version of SoC Apple S1 that provides low power consumption of such functionality. Just M8 or M7 that go along with A8 and A7 can not do that without killing your battery way faster than acceptable.
*SiP, not SoC
So your logic is that because there is more than one way to build in efficiently recognizing raising the phone, therefore *all* devices can do it?
So by that logic, “Hey Siri”, is just a microphone function.
How do you cross the street?
Thats what I figured…already put in a bugreport for it not working on iPhone 5s.
I hope the phone screen and home screen isn’t touch accidental as it is now. I keep pressing reply with message when i want to reach my phone in my pocket, answering calls. And turning on camera when I normally reaching my phone in my pocket.
Yes but if the phone unused, many sensors power down, M9 is an always on coprocessor
I’ll paly with it, but doubt I’ll use this one. Half of the time I raise my phone, it is to turn it off or make sure it is off before I shove it in my pocket. Having it “come on” (I know it isn’t really, but it will look that way) when I’m making sure it is off will be quite disconcerting, at least at first. I may like it, but I doubt it.
Imagine you phone coming on when you jog or when your car hits a bump. Sounds cool, but not useful.
They were rather clear about this in the presentation. Only the new iPhones have fingerprint unlock that is so fast that you cannot read the notifications screen, something talked about on this web site. That is why they came up with this feature.
I am not sure I like raise to wake. I may be in the minority, but I am not excited about this.
Sometimes I want to just carry my phone and not distract others, or myself, with the screen coming on.
Yes I see you could just turn it off – Apple is so thoughtful. 😉
I am with you. Seems like a potential privacy/security issue to me.