In the earliest versions of SFOS, swiping from the top when on the main screen locked the phone. This allowed for a very fast way to lock by “blessing” the phone with a cross: swipe from the side to go from an app to the main screen, then swipe down to lock. With the addition of the top menu, this now requires an additional tap on the lock icon. Since the top swipe when in-app has a dual function, close or top menu, wouldn’t it be easy to lock the screen when swiping from the top on the side when on the main screen, in the same area that closes apps?
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in nomine spiritus lockscreen. what’s next, genuflect to wake?
i find the topmenu extremely useful. your proposal sounds reasonable to me, ‘closing’ the home window or event window translates naturally to locking the phone, but i would never want to use that feature personally. could be an option
I vote for double swipe from top too.
it was most powerfull guesture in SF1
first swipe closes app second swipe lock the device
no need to affect top menu!
You can double-tap the top of home screen to lock.
It may be not the same but it’s quite close.
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Yes but much more complicated than just swipe(close app) swipe(lock) instead focusing on where to tap twice 
just hard ti change habbits after more than 10 years with SF1
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Just imagine the flood of users complaining about accidentally locking themselves out of SFOS.
…and the endless WoTs from certain friends of AI generated translations flooding these.
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Have you heard about our lord and savior, the power button?
Top menu working inside apps is stupid, but on the home screen it is right where it needs to be.
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I’m sure there was a patch to restore swipe-to-lock, but I can’t find it in the web catalog anymore.
Edit: found it, it’s on OpenRepos: Patch: restore swipe to lock | OpenRepos.net — Community Repository System
Edit 2: looks like applying it no longer works in 5.2, but the source code is right there, so perhaps someone can make it work again.
Simply restoring swipe to lock would not show the top menu.
The idea would be to have both, just like swipe for top menu and swipe to close app depending on where you swipe.
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Indeed. By double pressing the power button, one can lock the phone in an instant.
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Or even single-pressing if you are using default settings.
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The swipe gesture is faster than the power button, early SFOSers will remember that.
Moreover, it was one of the signature gestures of the SFOS UI, together with double tap to wake.
Since the latter is back at least on JP26, it would be nice to have the former too.
No it isn’t? At least i’m already holding the phone basically on the power button already.
And a cross definitely isn’t faster than pressing the button, basically no matter how you held it.
And how do you propose to make it co-exist with the top menu?
I just cannot take split swipes seriously - one is more than enough, no need to lean on it as a paradigm.
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Did you ever use SFOS 1?
Yes. I ordered so early i got invited to Helsinki that time too.
Never missed that feature. I did miss double-tap, but only really until i started using fingerprints, which made a separate way to wake the phone quite redundant. I can see the appeal for hardcore pin users, but can’t be very many of those. But since it doesn’t conflict with anything (contrary to what you are asking for), it also doesn’t hurt.
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I did miss it a lot. The new lock is the only UI action requiring to tap a specific point. It feels like it’s been kludged in.
Also, double tap is redundant, but more in line with the UI than using the power button.
As opposed to the rest of the whole top menu?
As opposed picking a minimized app from the multitasking view?
It is also a gigantic field to hit.
I don’t mean to discount your feelings, but at least be honest in your comparison.
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Isn’t the sidebutton more convenient? I mean it’s always there.
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It is not just about swipe to lock from home screen
but about close app and then lock. So double swipe is best gesture for theese steps
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I like the idea of being able to lock the phone from top corner same way as closing an app. Would be quite logical. I have to say there is also tiny benefit of locking moving to the top menu. Since the top menu can be opened by swiping down from any point of the home screen and the lock button being kinda huge you don’t have to reach as high on the screen to lock.
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