Upward swipe is not registering in iOS7 to bring up control center

Question

Hi there. Basically, I just recently installed iOS7 on my iPhone 4. So far everything has been working really well, except for the control center. This is not related to that other security bug. My problem is, swiping upward on the phone works less than half the time to bring up the control center. I generally have to make an upward swiping motion four or five times before the control center goes up. It's just, odd. Notification center and spotlight respond perfectly to my swipes. I've even held the phone upside to see if maybe swiping toward me was just easier for the phone to interpret. No dice. Three other people I know have this exact same problem, all of them with iPhone 4. Has anyone else had this problem or now how to fix it? I've tried turning my phone on and off, I've let it run down and then recharged it, still the problem persists.

Answer 1

I had this problem also. First thing I tried was to reset your device.
Press and hold the Home and Sleep buttons simultaneously ignoring the red slider should one appear until the Apple logo appears. Let go of the buttons and let the device restart. That seemed to help.
But then I discovered that a light swipe starting just off the screen at the bottom worked well.
When I tapped and swiped on the screen I often did not get the Control Center to come up. But after practicing some with a swipe beginning just off the bottom of the screen I get the Control Center to come up every time.