iOS 27 Lets You Dismiss the 'Now Playing' Lock Screen Widget

Apple successful iOS 27 has made a tiny but important alteration to however the Now Playing widget works connected your iPhone's Lock Screen – you tin present swipe it distant to get escaped of it.


Previously, determination was nary mode to disregard the Now Playing interface connected the Lock Screen. But successful the archetypal iOS 27 developer physique released yesterday, a leftward swipe connected the playback controls slides successful a Clear fastener from the right.

Clearing the controls from the surface besides removes the smaller Now Playing widget from the Dynamic Island.

It's not rather wide yet however to bring the widgets backmost instantly – arsenic 9to5Mac notes, the lone workaround appears to beryllium pausing whatever's playing, waiting a fewer minutes, and past resuming it. It besides seems to beryllium connected which app you're utilizing for playback. For example, switching from a podcast to video playback re-invokes the Lock Screen widget.


Being capable to marque the Now Playing widget spell distant is admittedly a tiny tweak, but it volition beryllium welcomed by anyone who likes to disregard immoderate is taking up abstraction connected their Lock Screen, playback controls included. Apple volition marque iOS 27 disposable successful nationalist beta adjacent month, with a wide merchandise expected successful the fall.
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