Your iPhone's lock screen is much more than simply a long list of alerts and a clock layered on top of your background as of iOS 16 onward. Now, you can change the font and color of the clock on the first screen that appears whenever you pick up or wake up your iPhone. Adding widgets to your lock screen will also give you rapid access to an application or piece of information. After users updated, the redesigned lock screen received a lot of attention, and for good reason. Simply put, using it is too much of a pleasure. I'll go over everything you need to know about selecting your own dynamic wallpaper, personalizing the clock, and adding widgets in the sections below.
How to set a custom interactive wallpaper
The new lock screen experience on your iPhone includes widgets, but the entire setup begins with the ability to choose your wallpaper and the clock. Although it may seem uninteresting, you can actually do some really cool things with your lock screen, photographs, and clock that, in a sense, make your iPhone's screen come to life before you even unlock it. If you've ever made a new watch face for your Apple Watch, creating new lock screens or changing old ones will be familiar to you. This is the simplest method I've found after trying many others to view and edit lock screens. Even though I think it will work for you too, feel free to change it once you have mastered the most important steps.
Start by locking and turning off your phone. To use FaceID or TouchID, double-tap your phone to wake it up. To access your home screen, long-press the lock screen rather than swiping up or pressing the home button. If you followed the instructions correctly, you should get a thumbnail preview of your lock screen. You can alter your current collection or start a new one by opening the Settings app and choosing Wallpaper from the list of options. However, you cannot switch between existing collections. Tap the "Customize" button at the bottom of the screen to edit any of the current collections. Tap the + sign to start a brand-new collection from scratch.
When you create a new lock screen, you can choose from a large selection of different wallpaper selections. You can browse down to the Suggested Photos or Photo Shuffle sections, or you can get some specially selected wallpapers from Apple in the Featured section. While the shuffle option will alternate between randomly selected photographs of your own selection or based on category, the former will select photos that your iPhone thinks will look excellent on your lock screen. People, pets, nature, and cities are the current four categories. If you have facial recognition turned on in the Photos app, you can pick specific people to be in the rotation.
Additional categories can be found further down, including Weather & Astronomy, Emoji, Collections, and, lastly, Color. The last selection in the Collections section is the clown fish wallpaper, which Steve Jobs famously used to introduce the first iPhone and is now finally available in iOS 16. Alternatively, you can hit the symbol at the top of the page to go directly to each segment.
You can swipe left or right across a wallpaper after choosing one you like to see several variations of it. For instance, you can examine the entire solar system, the earth, a close-up of your location on the earth, or the moon when viewing the astronomy option. When you locate one you like, select Add at the screen's top. You can choose Customize Home Screen to use a different image as your home screen wallpaper, or you can use it as a wallpaper pair as is. You won't lose it if you add it now, since we'll go back and adjust the clock and widgets for that particular lock screen.
How to customize the clock on your iPhone's lock screen
After adding a wallpaper, long-press on the lock screen of your iPhone to return to the edit overview, and then pick Customize next to the wallpaper you wish to change. Tap on the time again to reveal eight font choices. To see a preview of how it will appear with your specific wallpaper, choose from the available fonts. You'll notice that the time is hidden behind an object in an image if your background is a photo and there are no widgets below the clock. Although not all photographs can take advantage of this special feature, when you can, it's very cool. Additionally, you may tap on the various colors and use the slider to see a preview of how they will appear. Tap anywhere on the wallpaper once you've decided on the ideal mix for your background.
How to add lock screen widgets to your iPhone's lock screen
If you have either of the new iPhone 14 Pro models, you can quickly glance at the always-on display. Alternatively, Apple and third-party developers can create widgets that you can place on your lock screen as a way to provide access to glanceable information without having to do anything more than wake your iPhone. Developers could start submitting app updates that make use of iOS 16's new features, including the new kind of widget, as soon as it was released in early September.
Remember that not all widgets appear in the editor until you've opened the new app once you start installing those app updates. That has been the case for me, at least for the past week or so. I have read the release notes on a few occasions and noticed that an update adds support for lock screen widgets, only to discover that the app isn't listed as an option until after I launch it. Okay, so how do you add widgets to the lock screen on your iPhone? I'm glad you asked.
Find the lock screen creation you want to add or adjust widgets for, then touch on the Customize button at the bottom of the screen. You may access the customization menu in the same manner you used to change your wallpaper or customize the clock. Both the longer, slimmer box above the clock, which displays the current date and day of the week, and the wider rectangle immediately below the time, are available for widget placement. When you tap on either box, a menu asking you to select which widget to utilize appears. Apps that can present information in a single line of text work best in the top widget space.
There is more space and, therefore, flexibility in the bottom widget area. Up to four 1x1 square widgets can be placed over the area, or you can mix wider and smaller widgets. If you decide you want to delete a widget, tap the "-" symbol that is located in the top left corner of the widget. You can drag and drop widgets inside the box to rearrange them.
How to edit what information a widget shows
Once a widget is added to the viewing area, you can tap on it to change the information that it displays. When you add the calendar app to your lock screen and then tap on it again, you're prompted to choose a specific calendar to use for any forthcoming appointments, as opposed to the calendar app's default behavior of showing you all of your upcoming appointments. The simplest approach to determining whether a widget offers additional customization is to add it, tap on it, and check if any other options appear. You're stuck with its default information if nothing appears.
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