You can now customize your lock screen on iPhone to have a whole range of different wallpapers like
this, like this, or even this. And in this iOS 16 tutorial video I'll show you how to set up
the iOS 16 lock screen and customize it. This new feature comes with the latest iOS update
iOS 16. and if you haven't already got iOS 16, here is how to install it the easy way. There are
lots of new features with iOS 16, but i think that the iOS new lock screen and lock screen widgets
are the most significant and the most noticeable. It allows you to have a whole range of different
lock screens that you can customize the look of, including font type and color, background
colors and themes such as weather, emoji, the moon even, and you can cycle between them very
easily. The iOS 16 lock screen customization feature takes inspiration from the different
watch faces you can have on apple watch and the way you can swipe between different watch faces
and customize what you see on each of the faces. Let's get into this iOS 16 lock screen tutorial.
So here is my standard lock screen featuring the lovely tash you can see how there is a
bit of depth effect here with the clock behind her head so with this feature a photo subject
is lifted from the background to make it more prominent i like it not only that when you wake
up the screen you can see how the photo subjects light up first then the background see the effect
here so to start this ios 16 lock screen customization tutorial tap and hold like so
you can then swipe across to see the different lock screens you've set up then just tap one to
activate it but let's start from scratch you can delete any lock screen you created by swiping up
and then tapping delete you can add a new lock screen by tapping the plus symbol here or just tap
here you are then presented with some templates we'll go through each of these in a minute but
to summarize we have featured lock screens lock screen with some suggested photos a photo shuffle
option weather and astronomy lock screens emoji lock screens collections and color under each of
these categories some options have just the theme color and others also add in some preset widgets
already built in at the top we have an option to select a base theme slash color where we can then
add widgets from scratch let's look at the best of the different themes then after we'll look at
the different ios lock screen widgets and how we can customize them here is the astronomy one which
i imagine will be quite popular you can choose between earth earth detail both of which show
your location and the sun will represent your time of day where you are then you have the moon both
zoomed out and in detail or you can have the solar system showing the current position of the planets
let's choose earth then when you click done you can make the theme as a pair what this does is it
makes your lock screen and home screen match with an animation like this or you can customize it and
choose your corresponding home screen to be the same earth detail with legibility blur on or off
see the effect here or a color where you can configure the gradient or choose a photo and every
time you do create a new lock screen you'll get to set this as a wallpaper pair or you can customize
it further but you can't go back later and change this you'll need to create a lock screen from
scratch again so just keep this in mind up the top you can customize the time and widgets again
which we'll come to next but generally each of the theme templates that have widgets built in already
the widgets programmed are similar to the theme itself with the suggested photo theme iphone picks
some photos that it thinks will look great as a wallpaper i'm not sure why i picked my friend here
but some of these landscape photos work really well such as the view from my balcony complete
with fairy lights as you can see here next is photo shuffle this one is really great and one
of my favorites actually here you can choose from any combination of some people it recognizes from
your camera roll some auto selected nature shots or city skyline shots then you have the option to
tap here and choose how often it shuffles the photos and how it does that down the bottom
you can also choose to set the photos manually instead of waiting for iphone to choose the photos
things are good emojis are another interesting lock screen theme you can customize these as much
as you want but here are some preset templates and you can choose between different layouts to
make different sizes patterns like so i'll use one of these color lock screen themes
to demonstrate some of the customization of the time and date that you can do previously apple had
never allowed any customization in this area as they were quite rigid on how fonts should display
so it's pretty dramatic that they now allow the change of font and it was certainly the first
thing i noticed when i flicked over ios 16. it's very unlike apple to allow customization like this
although here you can only actually choose between six different fonts but you can change the color
to what you like and actually you can customize the font and color on any of your lock screens
and with this color theme you can choose whatever color you like here and pick different gradients a
very clean simple but good looking theme okay let's move on to ios 16 lock screen widgets
and we'll use the weather theme here as the base for this this seam is nice because it represents
what the weather is like and the time of day it is outside at your location so you can have up
to five widgets on your lock screen one at the top above the clock and up to four slots below so for
the top slot here the options are slightly limited and you can choose from any of the ones shown here
but let's stick to the weather theme and choose to show say how windy it is outside this is good for
me because my sport of choice is kite surfing and i like to know what the wind is doing at any time
for the widgets below the time we are limited to this amount of space so you can have either
two big ones one big one and two small or four small ones you can tap each of these categories
and select a widget with some of the categories you can even swipe across to see more options
so for weather i quite like this combination of max min and current temperature chance of rain
in percentage uv index and sunset time in addition to the wind let's combine an emoji theme with some
health related widgets now the emoji one is really cool because you can choose a
few emojis so let's go with the strong emoji the running emoji and the sweat emoji for inspiration
you can then choose from several different styles of the way the emojis are presented as i mentioned
before i'll go with this one for now then let's choose the wind widget at the top here again
i'll choose this font and this color the time and widget color i'll go with my move goals here
perhaps my apple watch battery and again percent chance of rain so you can really customize any
theme or template to whatever style you want to have of course you can have any
number of different lock screens to suit your taste or occasion similar to the apple watch
lastly when swiping along your new lock screens down the bottom you can see there's a focus button
you can program this so that a particular lock screen is linked with a focus mode for example
for me i like to link my astronomy log screen with my do not disturb mode for when i sleep so now
when it's the time of evening that i want to go into do not disturb mode i can either swipe down
and tap do not disturb and it will automatically change to my moon lock screen or i can just change
my lock screen to the moon one from another one and it will automatically go into do not disturb
mode watch this video next to learn how to edit imessages that you've already sent or even unsend
ones that you've already sent all together it's another great ios 16 update so i'll see you there