With iOS 16 You Can Customize Your iPhone Lock Screen, but Which Widgets Should You Add?
Take a look at all the available widgets to personalize your iPhone.
Apple's latest mobile software update -- iOS 16 -- has been live on iPhones for a week now, and developers have wasted no time updating their apps to include support for the new widgets on iPhone's customizable lock screen.
With the new iPhone lock screen, you can tweak the background, change colors and fonts and add new widgets that stay on your screen when your iPhone is locked. Two types of widgets -- circular and rectangular -- sit below the displayed time, while a third type -- inline -- appears as a bar above the clock.
You can add built-in Apple widgets from apps like Weather, Calendar or News, or tons of third-party widgets from your favorite apps, even Google (soon). Check out some of the coolest apps with widgets for the new iPhone lock screen with iOS 16 below. For more on iOS 16, here are the first things to do after you get up and running and why your iPhone may not have all of the cool iOS 16 features.
iOS 16 apps for designing your own widgets
Widgetsmith
Widgetsmith -- a robust iPhone app for creating and editing your own widgets -- debuted back in 2020 when iOS 14 added widgets to its home screen. Now, the app is adding its widget customization tricks to iPhone lock screens.
With Widgetsmith, you can create and customize all three types of lock screen widgets to add calendar items, text, weather updates, photos and much more.
iOS 16 apps that trigger functions or other apps
Widgets from Launcher have been available for the home screen and Today View for years. The app lets you create shortcuts for quickly accessing bookmarks, playing music, starting up other apps or communicating with your top contacts via phone, message or FaceTime.
Now you can get most of Launcher's functions on your iPhone lock screen. Just tap the face of your favorite person to send them a message or phone call.
2022-09-19 20:37:11
