The lock screen is evolving with iOS 26 and Android 16, so I put them to the test to see which one does it better.

The quickest way to create a new lock screen remains tapping and holding on your current iPhone lock screen. Your phone will ...

There are more options than ever. There are also changes to how you can tweak the look of your iPhone lock screen, building on top of several other customizations Apple has added in recent years ...

How To Add Widgets To Lock Screen To add a widget to the lock screen of an iPhone, touch and hold down on the screen until the option to customize appears. Select customize, hit lock screen, tap ...

Customizing your Android phone's lock screen, including its look and its widgets, is better than ever in the Android 14 beta. As this is a beta, things could change by the time the full version of ...

To recap, Google reintroduced lock screen widgets in the first quarterly release of Android 15, i.e. Android 15 QPR1. The company created a dedicated page for widgets called the “glanceable hub ...

As part of Apple's Liquid Glass redesign, announced at WWDC 2025, the new iOS 26 will rework some native Apple features and apps. Apple is also updating the Photos app, Safari, FaceTime, Phone ...

If your iPhone has iOS 16 or newer, you can also choose from a gallery of premade lock screens or add widgets. You can save multiple lock screen designs on your iPhone, and freely switch between them.