Wired
The biggest change in iOS 16 is the newly designed lock screen: Previously, users could only change the lock screen wallpaper, but now they can also change the date and time display, and can also customize the lock screen components to make the lock screen more personalized and preview effect.
Here are some details about the new lock screen settings in iOS 16:
1. All kinds of wonderful lock screen wallpapers
When adding a new lock wallpaper, users can not only choose the wallpaper that comes with iOS, but also choose weather, astronomy, emoji, etc. as the lock screen wallpaper. The system also intelligently recommends lock screen styles for you based on photos in your gallery.
Among them, a small green dot will be displayed on the earth in the astronomical lock screen, which is used to mark the current real-time position of the user on the earth. At the same time, when unlocking and returning to the main interface, a zoom-in animation will appear, zooming in on the user’s location map.
The weather lock screen will show the current weather status, allowing users to know the current weather conditions in time even when they are indoors.
When setting the emoji lock screen wallpaper, you can choose up to 6 emojis to generate a fun wallpaper, and you can click on different styles when previewing: including small icons, large icons, medium icons, circles, and spirals.
If you like a simpler wallpaper, you can choose your favorite color to generate a color gradient wallpaper.
Users can also manually add photos from albums as lock screen wallpapers. Thanks to the system-level image algorithm, the iOS system can automatically identify the subject of the photo and place the subject on the temporal element to produce the effect of a stereoscopic depth-of-field picture.
2. Support saving a variety of lock screen wallpapers for easy management
The iOS 16 system supports allowing users to save multiple lock screen wallpapers. Users can change them at any time after creating multiple lock screens. Just long press the lock screen and swipe left and right to select the lock screen you want to use.
Delete lock screen: In the interface for selecting a lock screen, swipe up on the current lock screen to delete it.
Editing the lock screen: After tapping “Custom” to enter the editing mode, you only need to tap various elements on the lock screen to customize the font, color and placement of widgets.
Support to adjust photo color filter: After selecting the photo wallpaper, you can swipe left and right to adjust the photo filter.
