Customize Your Lock Screen with iOS 16's Cool Clocks and Handy Widgets

 

With iOS 16, the next version of Apple's iPhone software, you'll be able to customize your lock screen like never before. Apple showed off new personalization features with iOS 16 during the company's WWDC 2022 keynote in June.

These new features will let you automatically cycle through a set of lock screen images, enable filters, change font type and color, add widgets, and more. If you've been waiting for a chance to break free from Apple's traditionally limited personalization capabilities, this will be a welcome upgrade.

The iOS 16 public beta version is available to download now if you don't want to wait until the general release of iOS 16 this fall to try out the new features.

To customize your lock screen image or add a filter to it, simply press and hold the image and tap Customize. From there, swipe left or right to choose from different styles, filters, and fonts. If you want to go beyond the suggested styles offered, you can further customize by tapping on any element on the lock screen. For example, if you want to change the font or color of the time, you can tap on the clock to do so.

You can also add widgets to the lock screen if you want information like the weather, activity rings or calendar events at a glance. You can tap on the Plus Sign below the clock to bring up the Widget Gallery. Then, drag whatever widget you want from the gallery onto your lock screen.

Once you've personalized your lock screen to your specifications, you can tap Done in the top-right corner to save it.

You can even create a completely new look from scratch. Swipe right on the lock screen to bring up a new wallpaper gallery with different preset combinations and designs. Or you can choose from your photo library.

If you want to shuffle through a set of photos throughout the day, you can select the Photo Shuffle option. You can browse through the Suggested Photo library to find intelligently generated photos from your photo library.