iOS 26: New Lock Screen Features

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When you're not utilizing your iPhone, the Lock Screen is what you spot astir often. Liquid Glass is everyplace successful iOS 26, and it starts close erstwhile you prime up your device. The Lock Screen got a Liquid Glass overhaul, positive a fewer different caller features.

Here's what you'll spot archetypal erstwhile you upgrade to ‌iOS 26‌.

Liquid Glass

The 2 customizable power buttons connected the Lock Screen are larger and person a floating, glass-like quality similar the different Liquid Glass interface options successful ‌iOS 26‌. The timepiece has a frosted solid quality with the caller "Glass" option, utilizing lighting effects to marque it look similar solid successful the existent world.

Glass tin beryllium selected for immoderate of the timepiece fonts, and you tin take a colour to tint the glass. Apple has aggregate preset options, oregon you tin prime your own.

When you tilt your ‌iPhone‌, airy reflects and glints with the movement, for a realistic solid effect.

Notifications that are connected your Lock Screen person a Liquid Glass aesthetic with a frosted solid look that leaves your wallpaper disposable down them.

Clock

In summation to having a Liquid Glass aesthetic, the timepiece tin beryllium resized to amended lucifer your ‌iPhone‌'s wallpaper utilizing a caller adaptive feature. When you're customizing your Lock Screen, you tin drawback the country of the clip and resistance it down to grow it.

Adjusting the size of the clip lone works with the archetypal font option, and lone with the modular Arabic, Western numbering.

With photograph wallpapers, the clip tin automatically grow to capable successful missing space, and it tin alteration based connected the representation if you person Photo Shuffle set. The taxable successful photograph wallpapers is meant to ever beryllium visible, and tin overlap the clip successful unsocial ways successful ‌iOS 26‌.

There is simply a Photos ticker look for the Apple Watch that besides supports clip that changes size and presumption based connected the wallpaper.

Wallpaper

There is simply a caller default wallpaper that was designed for ‌iOS 26‌. It's aggregate shades of blue, with the aforesaid floating solid aesthetic that the remainder of ‌iOS 26‌ features. The wallpaper tin subtly displacement with ‌iPhone‌ movement.

It's a tiny detail, but the icons for selecting antithetic wallpaper categories person been updated to amended lucifer the Liquid Glass design.

Spatial Scenes

Aside from the Liquid Glass time, Spatial Scenes are the biggest alteration to the Lock Screen. 2D photos that you acceptable arsenic wallpaper tin beryllium turned into 3D spatial images that abstracted the taxable of the photograph from the inheritance utilizing extent information.

When you determination your ‌iPhone‌, Spatial Scenes displacement and determination on with it, making the images consciousness alive. Spatial Scenes is simply a diagnostic successful the ‌Photos‌ app too, and it tin beryllium added to immoderate representation that you've taken with your ‌iPhone‌, including older ones.

Tap connected the tiny icon with a upland and a prima to activate the Spatial Scenes mounting erstwhile choosing a photograph wallpaper.

Widgets

Lock Screen widgets tin beryllium placed connected the apical of the show nether the time, oregon astatine the bottommost of the display. In earlier versions of iOS, you could lone enactment widgets astatine the apical of the screen. With the adaptive timepiece and caller wallpaper options, widgets tin besides displacement down automatically to guarantee the taxable of an representation is ever visible.

Apple Music

Apple added a caller Lock Screen widget for Apple Music search, but determination are nary different caller Lock Screen widget options. What is new, though, is simply a caller afloat surface Now Playing interface that shows medium art. Artwork expands and animates close connected the Lock Screen.