How to Remove Flashlight from Lock Screen on iPhone iOS 14
As I said earlier, if you want to remove the flashlight from the lock screen there are a series of ways you can go about it. Firstly there is a feature on the iPhone that makes the iPhone come on when raised. It is called “raise to wake”
Anytime you raise the device, you don’t have to tap on it before it comes on. you only need to raise it.
This feature makes it super easy to check your notifications, and time, access “Control Centre” and do much more. But then, you could mistakenly tap the camera or flashlight icon while removing it from a bag
Since you are to change that, here is how to turn off ‘Raise to wake”
How to Remove Raise to Wake
If you are using any of the newly designed iPhones such as the iPhone x and later. Your device will give you direct access to turn on the flashlight or launch the camera without unlocking the phone.
In general, this information is useful if you are using iOS 14.
Now, If your device falls under this description and you here is how you can remove the flashlight from lock screen by removing “raise to wake”
- Go to “Settings” on your iPhone
- Tap on the “Display & Brightness” option.
- Locate “Raise to Wake” and toggle it off.
Seems easy right? well it all depends on what feels comfortable to you.
How to Disable Tap to Wake
Another feature that you might want to consider is the “tap to Wake” feature. This feature is present on all iPhone device that comes with a face ID.
If your iPhone comes with a face ID and you want to reduce any possibility of turning on the flashlight on the camera mistakenly. You can simply remove the flashlight from the lock screen by disabling the tap-to-wake feature.
Here is how you can do that
- Locate the “Settings” icon on the home screen and tap it.
- Scroll down to “Accessibility” and tap on it.
- Locate “Touch” and tap on it
- Over here you should see the “Tap to Wake” option. Now toggle it off
If you do all these your flashlight would not come on by mistake when you raise or tap the phone screen
How to Remove Flashlight from Lock Screen iPhone iOS 15
If you use iPhone iOS 15, you are most likely struggling with the flashlight or camera coming on at different instances. The reason for this is the “Raise to wake” feature that comes as a default setting on your device. This feature makes it easy for you to access your control panel and it makes the experience easier as you don’t need to tap the screen or press any button to launch the phone.
But then, it could act as a disadvantage since you can easily turn on the flashlight or camera unknowingly. Coupled with the fact that it drains your battery faster.
Since you are aware of this you might have to disable the “Raise to wake” feature to reduce scenarios of unknown turning on the flashlight from the lock screen
That said here is how to do that
How to Remove Raise to Wake
If you are using an iPhone X or later version or maybe you are using the iOS 15 OS version here is how you can remove the flashlight from lock screen by disabling “raise to wake”
- Tap the “Settings” icon on your iPhone
- Tap on the “Display & Brightness” option.
- Locate “Raise to Wake” and toggle it off.
Seems easy right? well it all depends on what feels comfortable to you.
How to disable Tap to wake
Apart from the “raise to wake” feature another feature on your iPhone that can make you easily turn on the flashlight or camera is the “tap to wake” feature. This feature is present on all iPhone device that comes with face ID
If your device falls under this category here is how you can remove the flashlight from lock screen by disabling tap to wake
- Locate the “Settings” icon on the home screen and tap it.
- Scroll down to “Accessibility” and tap on it.
- Locate “Touch” and tap on it
- Over here you should see the “Tap to Wake” option. Now toggle it off
If you do all these your flashlight would not come on by mistake when you raise or tap the phone screen
How to Remove Flashlight from Control Center
Since you are aware of how you can remove issues of a flashlight coming on unnecessarily, you can also decide to remove it from the control panel since you have one on the lock screen already
That said, here is how you can do that
- Launch the “Settings” app on your phone
- Locate and tap on the “Control Center” option.
- Next, locate Shortcut and navigate to “Customize Controls.”
- Next, tap on the minus (-) sign right in the same row as the flashlight option.
- Now tap on the remove option and save your changes
Once you launch the control panel, the flashlight icon won’t be there anymore
NB: if your iPhone screen has a black spot or it is cracked, the screen would always end up launching things without tapping on them. This is usually a result of your device falling hard on the ground.
If your phone has once fallen off your hands and your flashlight is increasingly turning on anytime you try to remove it from your pocket check this post to learn how to fix that.
How to Remove Flashlight from Lock screen Android
- Launch the Settings app
- Locate “action & gesture”
- Now toggle off “tapping wake”
How to Remove Flashlight from Lock Screen Xiaomi
The obvious answer to this is simple. You cannot remove the flashlight from the lock screen, for now, probably Xiaomi will release some updates in the future
However, there is not the case. After doing some digging, here are the tricks around it
How to Remove flashlight from Xiaomi Lock screen with Settings)
Simply follow these steps below to remove the camera from the lock screen
- Open the settings of your Xiaomi
- Next, tap on Lock Screen
- On the next screen, tap Application shortcuts
- Over here you will be able to adjust the shortcuts currently on your lock screen and their arrangement.
- Simply, tap the shortcut and locate the Camera
- Now uncheck the camera shortcut