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Completely agree. I just installed the update on my tablet - very annoying.

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100% agree with this.

I understand why we have swipe: because in the new UI design with the notification lists you need a way to ensure the notification list is out of the way before you display e.g. the PIN pad.

However, for users like me who a) do not even want the notifications in a list in the first place and b) just find swipe to be an irritating extra step, we can come up with a better solution.

For example, create a new notifications option to show notifications "At top of screen" (as they were before and where I would prefer them), and then so long as this option, or no notifications, was the notification option, and a security option (e.g. PIN) is set, then show an extra option to turn off swipe.

Please, UI people, stop adding additional steps to a workflow we execute dozens of times daily.

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Yes, agreed. A step has been added which is utterly pointless if you have notifications turned off. I used to like my phone, now I have to work twice as hard to use it

I agree! Create a new notifications option to show notifications "At top of screen" (as they were before).

I want to quickly be able to see if I have a new notification, but I don't want all the details to be there for everyone else to see.

If I wanted everyone to see my notifications, I would have bought an iPhone.

Also, allow us to set if we want the ability to quick launch the phone or camera from the launch screen (I don't).  I am very use to quickly swiping my phone to unlock it.  However, with the change in lollipop, I end up in the phone or camera where I don't want to be.

+1 I hate that the most common action I take on my phone is now two swipes instead of one

Someone shoot me already. This is agonizing. Plus they got rid of lock screen widgets so I can see annoying notifications but I can't see my calendar.

Would buy the oneplusone that gives me flexibility to avoid Google's draconian idiocy (this same decision was made to format text in Gmail, made the most common feature 2 clicks instead of the older one), but the phone is huge.

*Supplicates*

I agree.The 'notification lock screen' needs to be bypassed when the notifications are set to "don't show notifications at all". The need to swipe up just in order to access the PIN/Pattern screen is unnecessary. Since I have my notification settings set to not display on display on notification lock screen, when I wake my phone I should see the notifications at the top like I did in KitKat and my PIN/Pattern screen should be displaying.

Totally agree with this. It's awful to have swipe, then pattern lock. There is an extra step now that didn't exist before. I want to go directly to the pattern lock!

Ditto.. Please don't make basic functionality involve more steps to just to accommodate some other feature.

I agree. Remove the extra step.

A side effect of this extra step is that you can't access Google Now in a single swipe anymore.

On Kitkat, I used to have my phone unlocked (with a trusted device), and from the lock screen I was able to swipe up from the bottom to access Google Now directly. Now on Lollipop, that same swiping only unlocks the screen, and I have to swipe up again to get to Google Now.

The extra step to unlock is hugely annoying. Please let us have the PINpad when we push the power button!

Is this Google's way of making us use the phone less often?

Completely ridiculous! I updated my 1st gen N7 and the first thing that happens when I turn it on is an extra thing I have to do to "turn it on"! I don't want notifications public to anyone turning my device on before I unlock it with my pattern. I will be leaving my other devices on KitKat until this is fixed.

My preferred option would be to overlay the pattern ui in a slightly transparent mode. If I click, behave like now. If I start swiping, summer I want to unlock.

But at the very least it should be an option to use the old behavior.

+1, completely agree. I find the extra step to be very annoying, considering I don't want to have the notifications be shown.

this extra step is ridiculous. If the average person unlocks their phone 80 times a day than that's a lot of useless extra swipes in the world!  Whoever thought this was a great idea should get instant thumb RSI.

I totally agree.
My workaround?
I just ordered some NFC tag to keep one in my pocket along with my phone and smart unlock.

This was a terrible change.  Like everyone else here, I now have to swipe twice just to unlock my phone.  I don't want lock screen notifications (they're turned off by default anyway!), yet I still have to swipe twice.  What an awful design decision.

Of course, Google never deigns to explain why they do anything, even when it adversely affects tons of people, so don't expect to get any answers from them.  The best we can hope for is that they roll out an update that gives us an option to remove this terrible misfeature.

I would also like the option to unlock your phone immediately!

I hate this too!
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This is way too stupid,  I had disabled  the notifications, so please I don't need that swipe screen,  all I need is to be able to introduce  my pin and be happy

Need to be able to remove the phone and camera for left and right swipe. I keep opening my phone. Its not needed if you are like me and talk on thing maybe 2 minutes a day. Now I ened up swiping notifications(1) open phone by accident(2), and then up swipe to get where I want to be.

Did you name it lollipop because it's so good at sucking really hard? Why do I even bother updating anymore. I don't even use the notifications. Before it was 2 steps and then I could start using my phone, now it's 4. WTF

I have installed Lollipop and wish I could go back to Kitkat, this is more than the usual 'its different so its wrong' reaction you get with any new UI, it would appear that Google have favoured pretty over function in almost every area of the design.

But I digress, so back to the issue here....

Please allow the option to go direct to the unlock pattern when the power button is pressed. Unlocking my phone is one of the actions I do 10-100 times a day and the extra step required is an unnecessary extra complication. I have turned off the lock screen notifications.

Very annoying. An unnecessary extra step - which I now have to do every time I use my phone. Did nobody at the android team realize this before they put this into Lollipop's lockscreen? Do they not lock their phones? Did everybody just stoically accept this? Strange...

Terrible update - just more unnecessary swiping for people who already enter a pin code.  I also don't want to see my phone screen when I get through my pin, let me see my home page.

I do like the camera access before the unlock - but agree that it is very easy to open the camera instead of swiping before entering a PIN!! Did anyone write any use cases while designing this GUI??!!

 My thumbs are sore just thinking about all the extra swiping that'll be happening until google get's their act together and makes an update!

Agree with all of the above. Is this how Google will make us all buy Android Wear - make unlocking phone extra-laborious without it?

Also, I liked being able to turn on my phone and glance at top left of the screen to see if I had notifications. Now the notifications are in the middle - how can I get them back to the top left?

Seriously Google, did you actually watch normal people trying to use Android 5, or just decide that it looked pretty and that would be good enough?

And I do like that the camera is accessible from the lock screen, but 4.4.4 had that too. It's better now that it's more obvious, but otherwise, please let me have my lock screen back how it was.

This is so annoying I want to downgrade this whole lollipop crap....

I understand why it is there, for the new notifications on lock screen features, and I realize that with smart unlock, this is a step forward and makes things faster and simpler for many people.

However, for people that want/are-required-to-have more security on their device, this is definitely an unneeded step. We aren't going to use Smart Unlock and we aren't going to show notifications on the lock screen.

Before the Lollipop update:
See the notification blinking > Press power button > unlock device > swipe down to see notifications

After the update:
See the notification blinking > Press power button > swipe up for no reason > unlock device > swipe down to see notifications

Yes on one hand it is just a little swipe, what's the big deal? The reason it is so enraging is because it was working better before, and now there is no way to change it back. Unlocking the device happens dozens of times each day. So we are constantly reminded of this.

Please change this or make it optional. Lollipop is wonderful, but as silly as it may seem, this makes me consider downgrading to KitKat.

Very annoying to have to do the extra swipe now.

agree, when lockscreen notificiation is turned off, the additional swipe should be removed

If we could just remove that extra, unrequired swipe, I'd be all like "by Grabthar's Hammer, what a savings!"

Use smartlock. Thats the only way to have security and skip a page from the start

This is so annoying.  And not having control to change the media that's playing when notifications are turned off is also driving me nuts.  I just want the KitKat Lockscreen back.

I agree with the others that if notifications are turned off, then there should be no reason to have to swipe to get to the unlock screen. It may sound trivial, but each time I do this I'm reminded of how annoying and pointless it is. Please remedy this in the next update.

Bring back old lock screen please!this new one doesn't help anywhere! One swipe more and terrible notifications on the screen exactly where I used to have a widget with the time, weather etc... back then I could see the weather and time and battery and whatever I wanted with just one press of the power button. Now I have to Swipe here and there just to unlock the phone!

Lollipop is penalizing secure users. Insecure users can pick "Show all notification content" and have a wonderful lock screen. But secure users who pick either of the other two options will have a useless lock screen that slows down their access to the phone.

2 swipes now to unlock my phone, very annoying and an idiotic update. Very poor Google, I'd expect this from ms

If no notifications option is chosen by the user, why still bothering the user with double swipe? I see no point in this new approach.

This feature is terrible! Give us the option to remove it!

I'm going back to KitKiat.

This is totally absurd. I don't want to swipe twice to access my phone!!

Two swipes to unlock is ridiculous. Google, you took away silent mode and added a swipe and this is so frustrating.

Pls fix this! Really annoying...

It's idiotic. There needs to be a bypass option.

we are not Apple fan boys for christ sake.. we dont need a swipe then a lock screen. complete idiotic who ever got the idea..

Please get rid of the extra step to unlock your phone.

Why Android has to be more like iOS, if it already was far better? No lockscreen widgets (I want calendar and weather on lockscreen!), no notification icons in the top bar and the additional swipe to unlock the phone... This is the worst update ever as it breaks my workflow!

I agree. Please remove the extra swipe. I don't need notifications on the lock screen, I just want to be able to unlock my phone as fast as possible.
Face recognition does not work half the time, so pattern swipe should be accesible withou an extra swipe!

The new lock screen is really irritating. Extra swipes needed, and, even worse, media controls and widgets are lost. What on earth is the point in having an app updated notification on the lock screen? There at least should be a reliable way of dictating which apps can post to the lock screen.

Kitkat was much better and quicker to use.

Agreed, I don't want the extra swipe. It's additionally annoying when you just want to unlock the device, but end up opening the phone app! And then I have to click back or home again. Seriously power button should take me directly to lock pattern!! And notifications in the top bar is enough, in fact, better coz in kitkat I could just ignore the notifications while I was busy and check them later. Now it's just in your face.

Fix it Google or pay the consequences.

I feel so stupid whenever I have to swipe extra to unlock my phone. Bleh!

Must return the single step to unlock - it's unbelievable the first second with the new Android is already a worse user experience than all prior versions!

If there are google types watching this thread, please give us the option to go straight to the lock screen without the extra swipe. It would be a step forwards. The current system being the extra swipe is frustrating.

Please remove the extra swipe!

yes! put the notifications (with the privacy-settings about showing content) into the statusbar/notification area. and put the lockscreen pattern (or numpad) on by default. you can even get rid of the phone-, cam- and padlock-icons (make a hint on first time using the lockscreen).

The extra swipe is very annoying. It should be removed if no notifications are shown (especially if they are configured not to be shown).

Worse is that the email/hangout/etc icons that are usually in the top left corner of the screen are no longer shown on the lock screen. These are very useful -- in fact, they're more useful than a big bar that says I got a hangout message (I'd rather just have the icon and not have to do an extra swipe). Instead, I now have the carrier's name written up there which is utterly useless information to me as it practically never changes. Besides -- do I really want anyone who looks at my locked phone to know what carrier I'm with?

Another problem with the notifications on the lock screen is that we only have the option to show an entire notification or to show what application generated it (hide sensitive data). It would be nice to have an intermediary option that would show for example the name of the person we got a message or email from without showing the actual content of the message.

Totally agree, bad UX.

This is something Apple would do!  It makes me angry every time I use my phone. A completely pointless extra "Swipe to Unlock". Google pleeeeese fix this asap.

I really don't like this extra swipe. Also I want my notifications back at the top.

I'm thinking about a downgrade to 4.4.4.

I've disabled the swipe lock in order to avoid having to swipe to swipe. I could blame the insecurity on my alergy to stupidity and inefficiency, but I'd prefer to blame the stupidity and inefficeincy. On the bright side, given that I have yet to find any actual improvement ("history" that shows every app I've ever used, weird rewind "back" button, ever-present search bar, etc., etc.), I'll probably switch back to the more secure 4.4.4.

Agree. Google needs to remove, or at least give the option to remove, the extra swipe.

This is something that users do dozens of times per day, every day.

Agree.   Swipe just to get to pin is very bad design and a waste of time.   Hundreds of extra swipes a day.

Yes please another vote to remove the extra swipe.

There isn't much more to say.  This needs to be changed.

Can't believe this isn't optional. Ridiculous.

This unergonomic design alone makes me want to pass on installing Lollipop on my devices. Disabled notifications should also disable the required swipe to get to the device unlock.

Please change, it is starting to get even more anoying the more you have to do it.

I basically had to remove the pattern lock on my phone for easy access. As a result, the update made my phone less secure. Thanks Google!

I dont want swipe to unlock feature, too

Agree with all of the above. I especially miss the old notifications, and particularly hate seeing my carrier's name in the top right corner. What's the point of that? One of the reasons for buying an unlocked phone was to avoid the carrier's logos and other crap.
Another thing pissing me off is that my phonecalls screen opens up automatically every time I unlock(can't find the option to change that), so now it's THREE swipes/clicks to get to where I could before in one.
I know changes are always hard and bla bla bla but these little things are annoying and should be fixed asap.
My beautiful Nexus 5 used to be fast and functional, and now it's not.
Still love you, Google, but don't push your luck... Fix this please!

It's now getting to the point where I have to think twice before using my phone.
 Thanks Google for making us use our phones less and instead pushing us to enjoy real life.

Extremely annoying with this extra swipe and the widgets that are gone from the lock screen

Agreed with everyone else, this needs to be fixed!! I'd prefer not having notifications on the lock screen instead of this extra swipe.

Please change this - it's absolutely terrible.  Not sure why there's an extra step and I'm seriously considering downgrading to 4x for this reason alone.  I unlock my screen ALL THE TIME and now it takes twice as long!

Simply turn off screen lock and your phone is ready for action as soon as it wakes up!

Full agreement. The lockscreen is what others see when they are locked out of my phone. I do not want them to see my private notifications, nor to have access to my phone or camera. On the other hand, I do want to have instant access to the keypad so that I can quickly unlock and use the phone. If I can't find a way to remove the extra swipe soon I'm reverting to kit kat... This annoys me every time i turn on the phone

Agree with everyone above. Please create an option so that power button takes me directly to pattern unlock screen.

Unlock pattern/pin should be the default on a lock screen no matter what.
-If I hit the power button-unlock pad should appear
-If I get a notification and double click on it-unlock pad should appear

Agreed, the extra step is rubbish!

I watched my wife loosing her nerves with 1 extra step needed to unlock the phone, which can't be disabled...I will stick with older os as long as this annoying issue is present. Google, give us option to disable swipe as I use pattern lock screen...  

Agreed, this is very annoying, I'm even considering rolling back to 4.4 just to avoid this extra step.

Totally agree. I'm really wondering how this could get past a usability study: it's totally nonsense to add an extra user action for a task we perform very often each day, maybe the MOST performed action at all.

Google, please provide us an alternative

Completely agree

Agreed. This also makes any third party lock screen apps unusable as the user now has to go through 3 unlock steps to get to their homescreen.

It's even worse than I thought (assuming you still want some privacy):  They've hidden the icons in the top bar.  Previously when I'm checking for texts it's just a quick tap on the power button and a glance at the top row.
To do the same thing now is a nightmare! The icons have been blanked out by the name of my carrier.  (Why is this useful information - in case I forget who I pay sim-only bill to??)
New procedure to see if I have a text:

i) tap power button
ii) swipe up
iii) enter pattern lock
iv) glance at top row

This is driving me round the bend! Google please please help your loyal users!

I now hate my phone.I am a man of habit and my old phone used to fit perfectly with my life. I used to press the power button, and immediately (using Widgetsoid as a lock screen widget) be able to toggle bluetooth, silent mode, wifi, brightness, etc. Now I can't. Also, when unlocked, swiping down (once) would give me these toggles to. What I liked about android was this immediate access to functions which has now gone. Please bring back these features google.

Just got Lollipop on my Nexus 4 and this is the most annoying thing so far. I have the notifications thing disabled and I have to swipe to put in my pattern code. GARRRR

The new pinpad is utterly annoying, having to swipe first, then the keys flashing very visibly when I enter my pin, anyone can easily read it over my shoulder. Defeats the purpose entirely...

Please fix this! I would like to have the option to go straight to my password without having to swipe. Thank you.

Yes. Please fix this! This is the most annoying feature of Lollipop. In the meantime, anyone know how downgrade to KitKat 4.4.4?

This was the first thing I noticed once I upgraded to Lollipop. Since we unlock the phone so many times during the day, this one extra swipe wastes so much time and is quite frankly annoying. Hope Google changes this in the next update. I've disabled my lock pattern just coz it's annoying to swipe on more time.

This is insanely frustrating. The one thing I ever want to do when my phone is locked - pause or play music - now requires a swipe, a pattern unlock and another swipe to get to. Meanwhile a whole bunch of useless garbage is available on the not-really-locked screen and to add insult to injury you need to perform a very specific and superfluous action just to get to the actually-really-locked screen so you can actually really unlock it. I have never been so frustrated at a user interface change before.

Completely agree!!!

I really dislike this extra step of swiping up to just get to the pattern unlock screen - its a step backwards and slows you down.

I think it would be better to only require the swipe up if you have lock screen notifications enabled *AND* you actually have notifications, otherwise the swipe up is just a pointless extra step that just infuriates. All other times I think it should just show the pattern unlock front and center as per kitkat.

Extra step is annoying. I also do not like that i cannot change phone and camera shortcuts to for example whatsapp and camera.

Pleased fix this ASAP google, low effort high reward problem.


This problem is something that annoys the vast majority of the userbase.

It's really annoying indeed! Please fix it :-)

REALLY ANNOYING !!!!!!!

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Dito, I have the notifications turned off, because not only they look ugly, but also bear no importance to me. Yet I have to swipe now twice to unlock.

What were the UX experts thinking?

Please change this back to KitKat style

It's changes like this that make you wonder if they bothered to listen to people during UX testing. How could something this bad get accepted into production? And seeing that my notifications are now gone and replaced with the name of my carrier???? How is this helpful at all???? And as if I like seeing more advertising on a pure Android phone. Pure stupidity on Google's part. Why do companies think they are improving something by increasing the steps to do something and getting rid of existing functionality that was helpful? So frustrating.

+1 from me, I completely agree. Also, with the removal of widgets, it makes it two more steps to see the weather from my lock screen (with a third party widget that I use frequently.) This is a completely pointless update for most people, I'd rather people who don't have my password to not be able to see my notifications.

Worst change ever...

To add insult to injury, this is the only place were double-tap has any meaning and, furthermore, is mandatory! Elsewhere is either single tap or long tap.

Oh, c'mon Google, how did this get past dogfood? You just made the *most* frequent interaction I have with my phone harder.

follows the pattern of making the phone less usable with every update. 10/10

bad UX... +1

+1. It's not my cup of tea. It's a pointless extra step. The phone shouldn't assume that I *don't* want to enter my pin by default. I usually do. There's plenty of room there for notification sliders and a slightly smaller pin keypad.

+1 now i keep turning on my camera instead of unlocking my phone

+1. Why on Earth would anyone think it a good idea to add an extra step to what is literally the most often performed action on the device?

It looks like no one on the lollipop team lock their phones. This extra step is slow and annoying and the loss of lock screen widgets means I have to unlock my phone (which now takes longer) and swipe across to view my timetable. This was one step (a swipe to the right) before. No more lock screen widgets also means that Google play music is the only app with working media controls. Finally, being able to access quick settings without unlocking the phone means a potential thief needs only to turn on airplane mode to disable any tracking services. It is more convenient but much less secure. I also wish that there was a quicker mobile data in quick settings.

This lock screen makes even less sense on a tablet, when the pin pad used to be next to the clock, but now the clock is alone in wasted white space and has to be swiped to get the pin pad. I used to be able to wake and unlock my Nexus 10 with my Bluetooth keyboard, but now can't, because I have to swipe before I type.

I've decided today that I'm going to downgrade to Android 4.4.4 until the next update for Lollipop (5.0.2 or whatever it will be) comes out which hopefully resolves this issue... can't stand the extra swipe.

I fully agree, this extra swipe is unnecessary, irritating, and plain stupid.

And why hard-coded options for the phone and the camera - two useful apps that I don't use every week. If you must have such silly "shortcuts" (that don't shorten anything anyway since I still need to enter my unlocking pattern), why not make them customizable, so I can use them to get to the apps I use most often: SMS and the browser.

Please, Google, give us an option to power up directly into the unlocking screen (pattern, password, whatever). At the very least, when notifications are disabled.

This is not quite enough for me to downgrade to 4.4.4, but it certainly is a good reason to consider downgrading. If I run into a few more annoyances, good bye 5.0

I 100% agree - I unlock my phone many times a day and now it is a little bit harder. Useability downgrade I think.

Definitely,

Get that fixed already, more than 10 day since report now!
And please add a downgrade option in the menus.

I'm also having a bad time with the new lock screen. The phone opens the dialer by itself, effectively locking up my screen until I turn off the screen and turn it back on. It's wearing my physical button thin because of the constant pressing.

The frozen screen is completely white, with a solid blue notification bar, and an empty black navigation bar. I've tried troubleshooting the problem, and I've tried reflashing and doing a factory reset. There's no reasonable fix. The only possible remedy would be to remove those annoying quick apps.

Agree! Damned lockscreen swipe!

I just updated my tablet and realized they added the lock screen swipe. I am very disappointed. Who ever implemented this ruined android/my tablet for me. I hope that someone can figure out how to disable this.

 

Fire the guys who came up with this idea, please. Thank you.

l always had 'none' for my lock screen setting, why is this option gone?  Especially for a tablet, no risk of pocket dial there!  I want ability to press power and see my home screen, like I always had before.

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Totally agree, an option is needed to remove camera and dialler from lock screen.. It's a real pain.. Want the notifications back just at the top only too...

@matt (#126)

To have the option available, you have to delete the guest profile you must have started (log in under guest, and drop down the menu and click delete). When you're back on your main account, you'll have access to the "none" setting again.

realky hate new lockscreen please give us back the old one

I'd also like to add my support for an option to remove the swipe up.

+1 here. Don't want notifications without unlocking. So don't need extra "cover page". A creative lawyer could sue google for damage to our thumb tendons from overuse :)

+1, completely agree. I find the extra step to be very annoying, considering I don't want to have the notifications be shown.

It's a Chair! In the Sky!

I really miss being able to control BBC iPlayer, YouTube etc. on Chromecast from the lock screen.  It has actually made my phone feel less useful.

Lollipop brings lots of improvements, but the lock screen feels like a massive step backwards.

+1. Me no like. Me miss old one. Me could use Beyondpod while screen was locked, not anymore. Is there a work around for this one? When will there be a fix?

This is a pain.  Please release a patch that allows users to turn this off, or like jbrow (#9 post) said disable this when lock screen notifications are disabled.

really hate the unnecessary extra step :(

For something I do many times a day, this is strictly worse than what it was right before the update. Hate this, make it configurable.

if you chose the scure option of not showing notifications, you still have to swipe away the no notifications, why???

Add my vote to remove it to.

Just upgraded. Instantly regretting it.  This extra swipe up to even get to the unlock screen is ridiculous.  Reminds me of the Microsoft level of stupidity with Windows Phone 7.

@tomdud  +1    
I use Chromecast everyday and this is are real step down in functionality and ease of use.   One of the big things with Chromecast is it has no remote, so it relies on being about to quickly tap pause/stop/rewind  on your phone or tablet.   Now you can't do this, (unless you're happy to show the world all your emails).  

All that's needed is when Lockscreen notifications are turned OFF (as people do for their privacy), just go back to the Kitkat screen.  It was almost perfect:
1. Notification icons in the top bar so you knew if you have a text/whatsapp or whatever
2. Pin/pattern showing, all ready to go
3. Widgets at the top for Chromecast control without having to unlock

So this is not just one step back, it's three steps back!

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It is even worse on tablet - you have so much space that could be used for widgets/clock + lock + notifications side by side in horizontal or one below the other in vertical, but for some stupid reason you are forced to swipe up just to get your pattern / pin lock screen.

Please use tablet screen real estate where it is possible.


Same thing applies for notifications / quick settings on tablet:

- it was perfect on KK (notifications on left side swipe + quick settings when swiped right side of screen)
- current combined panel at center is crappy and looks stupid on 10inch tab vertical. (centered, using around 30% of screen width)

One of the many totally insane "updates" of Lollipop.
Probably the worst with the disappearance of switches for Wifi and Bluetooth in Settings.

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This really needs to be fixed.  Also, the mandatory Notifications screen (if you disable notifications on the lock screen) after unlocking means that there are three steps before you can use your phone.

I understand the idea of notifications, but as a lot of people have said, just move the notifications to the top and have the pin keyboard visible. It's decreasing efficiency by adding another step that we all do seemingly hundreds of times a day. Also, as others have mentioned, I love the Cyanogenmod idea of auto unlock on correct pin. ie, if the correct pin is entered, we don't have to press enter/tick.

Notifications were much better on kitkat.  I could see which app had notified me and then unlock immediately if I wanted to.  Now its a mess.

Google are favoring trying to look pretty over functionality, I think Android is starting to look like a kiddies OS what with all these bright colours.

This is so annoying. I can as well get an iPhone now :S

I have to admit, if I knew how to downgrade to 4.4 I would be doing that now because of the lock screen.  I use the camera unlock and previously I could just press the power button and after a second or 2 it would unlock and I could see my grocery list or whatever.  Now I have to press the power button and then look at the small icon at the bottom of the screen to see when it unlocks and then when that happens I can swipe to unlock.  It makes it about 3 times less convenient to every time I want to check my grocery list while shopping.  Please give us an option to avoid the extra swipe.

Very few users use any form of secure lock screen, so they just don't get attention. They just want us to move forward and accept new bright ideas with no option to use old style. This is bad from google.
I don't think I'll stick with lollipop because of this.

I guess this didn't get fixed in 5.0.1?

It's impractical... Please fix it

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Are you telling me that this is WAD? C'mon!... this either needs to be fixed ASAP or 3rd party developers need to be given an API to develop an app to bypass this non-sense.

This is obscene. We need to be able to remove all notifications from the lock screen and go right to the keypad/gestures on wake.

Yes that needs to be removed. Really annoying.

I just bought a Moto G and was looking forward to upgrade (it should arrive tomorrow). I *knew* that some good old feature could be ruined in the update, so I searched. Good for me. This is horrible. I always unlock to control the music player. Now it'd be a pain. I'll stay in 4.4. I don't have much hope this will be fixed <_<

Any way to change the lockscreen system if I root?

The whole new UI is awful, like they let a child loose with some crayons. The extra step to unlock my tablet is just one totality obvious instance of making things harder not better. Are there any adults checking what the children running riot in the "ui" department are up to?

I agree. I was looking for a solution to this frustrating two step unlock, bums me out that I'm stuck with it. I decided to use the notifications to give it benefit of doubt and it's just as annoying. I click on one to view hoping clicking will bring up pin pad, but no have to double tap to get pin access. Why? Extra steps for everything. Plus the new chrome blows, I loved the new tabs in prev version now I have to use the app switcher the switch tabs? Frustrating.

The more I have to do this extra swipe the more I consider changing the security from pin to just swipe.  So this "feature" may result in me having to make my tablet less secure.

its a MAJOR step backward compared to kitkat..

amen to the above.

The extra swipe grates on me, at least give users the option as to how they'll unlock.

Really annoying. Need a fix ASAP!!!!

@s.d.mort You can turn off the tabs feature in Chrome, its "merge tabs and apps" in Chrome settings

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adding the extra swipe especially when a passcode or pattern is required is really annoying. Add in the fact that when swiping it ALWAYS opens up into the phone (which I never use)is double annoying. Like others have said this is a half baked iOS implementation as in "you will use the device the way we (google) want you to use it". Fix it!

Oh, and who came up with replacing the house icon with an iOS circle and the back button with a triangle?

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100% annoying, especially with smart lock w/NFC - I want to just swipe the device across an associated tag and have it open up.  Having to swipe first then scan the tag is just plain clumsy.

Having to swipe first to reach the pattern lock screen is really really annoying.

I would very much like the ability to have Smart Lock give an option for "swipe to open" or just "go to homepage".

Smart Lock is a great feature, but for me, I'd prefer that it removes the need for any interaction at all to open the phone (As if "NONE" was selected as the security type).

+1 on bringing the old quicker setup back for users with pin code locks. show the keypad immediately, push notifications to the top area as before

Not a well thought out design decision. Please revert.

I agree with the first 177 people, please give us the option to bypass the swipe to unlock.

I agree. I also don't want strangers to make pictures, but I guess that's a different report.