Why iPhone owners only sometimes see accept/decline buttons when receiving calls
iPhone owners: Have you ever noticed sometimes when you receive a call you have an option to swipe to answer, while other times you're given "accept" and "decline" buttons?
We realized we'd seen both variations before, but didn't know why sometimes we saw one and not the other. We set out to find the answer ourselves.
First, I had my colleague Jillian, who has an iPhone, call me.
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Slider!
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Negative. Did it make a difference if someone with a non-iPhone was the caller? Our editor Matt checked.
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Nope! We got the slider again.
Turns out this is a pretty common question and the answer is pretty simple: If your iPhone is locked when you receive a call, as mine was, you'll be shown a slider to answer the call, with no option to ignore it. If your phone's unlocked, you'll get the option to either dismiss or accept the call.
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