

Pick your desired widgets and arrange them.Ĭertain widgets will have different size options (e.g., a small square or larger rectangle). This will pull up the available widgets and the ones you select will go in the area encased by this box. This is also where widgets will appear on your Lock Screen, If you want to create a whole new Lock Screen, you can also tap on "Add New Wallpaper" and make every edit possible before proceeding to add widgets with the below steps. Your current Lock Screen and Home Screen backgrounds will display. Tap on your existing Lock Screen to pull up the available edits. This is where any edits to your Lock Screen will live. Open Settings and scroll down to "Wallpaper." Gotta start somewhere. Here's how to add the currently available widgets to your Lock Screen. However, Live Activities will not be ready for public rollout in the fall, and will be coming at a later date via an update. The new widgets can feature anything from weather to stock information to calendar events, and will update themselves periodically.Īt WWDC, Apple also announced that Live Activities - a feature that shows live information like updating sports scores or time until an Uber driver arrives - could also be shown in a widget-like feature on the Lock Screen. With the release of iOS 16, currently accessible via public beta and expected to be fully launched this fall, iPhone users can now add widgets to the Lock Screen. Your iPhone Lock Screen is getting a whole lot busier.
