The app will also add a new “Lock Screen Pack” feature that contains several elements designed to work together, including wallpapers, widgets, charging animations and more. It will deprecate Live Wallpapers in favor of Depth Effect Wallpapers with its iOS 16 update,and will change its name to “MyScreen,” as a result.

Livepic: (to become MyScreen): A customization app that had before focused on Live Wallpapers and Home Screen themes will update following iOS 16’s release in around a week’s time (Sorry, this one is delayed!).

If you are press/influencer/super fan and want to get a sneak peek, here’s a TestFlight: /7U6MvTs769 Lock Screen widgets, redesigned editor, image content isolation, powerful tools & URL triggers. Widgetsmith’s iOS 16 update is approved and ready to go for Monday. Likely, Lock Screen widgets will mainly appeal to an app’s most loyal customers and to those who already spend time customizing their device’s look and feel on a regular basis with other personalizations, like custom icons and Home Screen widgets. This will pull up a window that lists the available widgets you can add.

From this edit mode, you can then tap the row where you want to add or swap out widgets. To add the widgets, you just press and hold on your Lock Screen after updating to iOS 16 then tap the “Customize” button. But it’s up to the developers which widgets they choose to support. The first two appear below the clock on the Lock Screen, while inline widgets sit as a line of text and/or symbols above.

These widgets come in three sizes: circular, rectangular and inline. Whether you’re looking to customize your overall iPhone theme or you have a more specific goal in mind - like keeping up with your workouts or emails, for instance - there are already quite a few apps going live today that can help you personalize your device’s Lock Screen using widgets. Fortunately, a number of app developers have worked to make their apps iOS 16-ready on launch day, having seemingly understood the power that comes from earning a place in this key iPhone real estate. However, outside of built-in widgets for Apple’s first-party apps like Calendar, Clock, Fitness, Home, News, Reminders and others, this new feature relies on developer adoption. One of the major changes with today’s launch of iOS 16 is the ability for users’ to now personalize their Lock Screen with widgets, in addition to adding widgets to the Home Screen, which had rolled out in iOS 14.

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