Swipe to Unlock on kiosk mode - iOS 26

I resolved this one by setting Allow Lock Screen Notifications View to False

Our temporary fix has been turning on AssistiveTouch and selecting home for single-tap. This places a tap icon on the lock screen to bypass it with a single tap.

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Found another way, it seems to be only when there is no passcode - but if you swipe downwards, you can access the Search bar, which if you type the name of the App that is locked to Single-App mode, then you can get back into the app. Not found any other way as of yet, which is really annoying me!

Hopefully this might help a few people.

Can confirm.

We use an iPad that is locked in a wall mounted case as our "music" iPad. The iPad is using Guided Access Mode to keep it in our music app (the Sonos Music app in this instance).

While locked in this case, only the main screen is available to users - none of the physical buttons can be used. (not without unlocking the secure case using a key and removing the font panel)

Before the update, users could go up to the iPad, tap the screen to wake the iPad up, then swipe up to unlock it...then pick what music they want to play in the office.

After the iOS 26 update, we can still tap the screen to wake the iPad up, but when you swipe from the bottom of the screen, all we see is "No Older Notifications" displayed, and regular users can't unlock or use the iPad.

I've been forced to completely turn off any "screen sleep" or "screen lock" settings in order to keep the iPad usable for regular staff. This isn't ideal as it's my understanding this could reduce the life of the iPad screen - not to mention the extra power it's consuming.

How can we re-enable the "swipe up to unlock" feature on the iPad lock screen?

We are also unable to unlock our iPad

Huge mistake which was not part of the beta 7 version

Also problems with the Home App on Kiosk Mode..

and every day we need the code to unlock it…

iOS 26.0.1 has been released but unfortunately it does not seem to correct the problem on our Kiosk iPads. Has anyone found a workaround or a solution yet? Thanks in advance!