The Best New Widgets for Your IPhone Lock Screen
In iOS 14, Apple added widgets to your iPhone’s home screen, and in iOS 16, Apple wants to do the same with your lock screen . With this update, you can create multiple lock screens that you can cycle through at any time, and each lock screen can contain up to five different widgets: there’s a grid of four squares below the time, and a text widget at the top. . To check the available options, press and hold the lock screen, tap the Customize button, then tap the widget area to view a list of all available widgets.
Apple did a good job on some basic widgets, but as always, third-party apps do the hard work here. While lock screen widgets are limited (no option for photos or color media), there are already dozens of great apps that support lock screen widgets. Here are some of our favorites:
- Launcher : Use this popular app to create shortcuts that will perform actions, play music and more without leaving your lock screen.
- Widgetsmith : This app spearheaded the customizable widget revolution in iOS 14. Now you can bring that revolution to your lock screen by adding weather, calendar, text, and even photo widgets.
- ScreenKit : The iOS 16 app update includes over 100 widgets specifically designed for the lock screen. You can view the date, step count, weather, reminders and more on your lock screen with pre-made shortcuts.
- Carrot Weather : This uniquely humorous weather app has over 20 customizable lock screen widgets. These widgets will show you the weather, a detailed forecast, and playful updates.
- Flighty : A great way to keep track of flight progress, countdowns and flight updates in real time.
- LookUp : The popular dictionary app can now display the word of the day on the lock screen.
- Motivation : daily motivational quotes on your lock screen.
- Zones : Another app from developer LookUp adds customizable time zone widgets to your lock screen, allowing you to view the time in multiple places at the same time.
- Personal Best : If you love tracking your workouts, the Personal Best app now has lock screen widgets. The app will show you recent workout stats, heart rate and more.
- SmartGym : The app has a new weekly widget that shows you the activity for the whole week at once.
- WaterMinder : The popular water reminder app now has a lock screen widget to help you stay on track with your water related goals.
- Speedy : This free app lets you add shortcuts to your lock screen, taking the concept of speed dialing to a whole new level. It also supports messaging through third party apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal.
- Pretty Progress : An easy and “pretty” way to add a countdown to your lock screen.
- Soor : A third-party popular music player now has widgets to play your favorite mixes in both rectangular and round designs.
- Todoist : The popular task manager now lets you view your tasks from the lock screen. Similar apps like Things have also added this feature.
[ TechCrunch ]