I would like it if the main slider just unlocked the phone no matter what, and if you wanted to go to a message you could just swipe on that slider to open it
And if it were that way, you'd be annoyed that each time you want to read a text you'd be forced to unlocked, tap messages, and then tap the conversation in question.
It's one of those things where you want it to work a different way depending on desires and you only notice how annoying the option you see is while ignoring how much the other choice would also annoy you.
No you wouldn't. You would just swipe on the message you wanted to open and it would go right to it.
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Totally agree with Timmy here--it's always baffled me that Apple uses both available sliders for the same thing. And as he says, leaving the bottom slider as an "unlock-only" slider doesn't take away the ability to go straight to the notification; for that you would simply use the slider on the notification itself.
A simple example of why this is useful:
-my wife sends me a text that reads "Can you send me Amy's phone number?"
To find it in my Contacts, I have to either:
-a) use the slider, which will open my wife's message. I then have to close out of Messages and open Contacts.
-b) lock my phone, unlock my phone, use the slider, open Contacts
Why not have the slider on the notification open the message, and the second slider just unlock the phone?
I think you have it backwards when you say "As this problem exists only in that scenario, it means you wanted to get into the iPhone at the same time and
had your task interrupted by the incoming text changing the action made by your slider."
The actual problem is the
reverse of that--not that you're
interrupted in the act of unlocking your phone, but that you get an incoming text that makes you want to get into your phone, but
not directly to the message.