How do you change the lock screen on an iphone

Q: How do I change the clock on my Lock Screen?

How to switch clock styles on your Android phones lock screen.

You can change your lock screen on an iPhone to any photo you have saved, a series of photos, and more.
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.

You can put pretty much any picture you want on your iPhone's lock screen. And if you've updated to iOS 16, you can even add a few extras, like widgets.

Table of Contents Show

How to change your lock screen on an iPhone
How to change your lock screen if you don't have iOS 16
How to create a custom iPhone lock screen
Make a new lock screen
Edit a lock screen
Delete a lock screen
Switch between lock screens
How to add widgets to your iPhone lock screen
How to add a Focus to your iPhone lock screen
How to customise your iPhone home screen aesthetic
Looking for more help?
How do I change the clock on my Lock Screen?
How do I change the Lock Screen animation on iPhone?
Can you change the clock style on iPhone Lock Screen?

How to change your lock screen on an iPhone

There are a few ways to change your lock screen on an iPhone. But if you're running iOS 16, the easiest way is to go directly through the lock screen.

While you're looking at your iPhone's lock screen, tap and hold your finger anywhere. After a moment, the lock screen will zoom out and a few new options will appear.

Tap and hold the lock screen to find more options. Apple; William Antonelli/Insider

Select Customize to edit your current lock screen. You can tap the photos icon in the bottom-left to change the lock screen picture, swipe left or right to add a filter, and tap the boxes at the top to add widgets. If you tap the current time, you can also change its font and color. Tap Done in the top-right to save your design.

Select the plus sign in the corner to open the Add New Wallpaper window. This lets you pick from a selection of premade lockscreens, which include real-time views of the Earth, emoji patterns, color gradients, colorful swirling lines, and more. You can also choose from your own photos like normal — just tap Photos or People at the top of the screen.

You can also create a Photo Shuffle. In a Photo Shuffle, you'll pick a series of photos that your iPhone will randomly select to use as your lock screen, changing every so often. You can make the photo change every day, every hour, or even every time you unlock your iPhone.

iOS 16 gives you a lot of preset options. Apple; William Antonelli/Insider

If you're using an iPhone XR or newer, some lock screen photos can also have Depth Effects. This gives your photos a faux-3D effect by making the photo's subject block your view of the clock.

Once you've made multiple lock screens, you can switch between them whenever you want by tapping and holding your finger on the lock screen again. When the current lock screen zooms out, just swipe to switch to another one.

How to change your lock screen if you don't have iOS 16

If you're still using iOS 15 or older, then you can't change your lock screen by tapping and holding your current one. You also can't use the new premade options.

Instead, open your iPhone's Photos app and find the picture you want to put on your lock screen. It can be a picture that you took yourself, or one you saved from another app.

Once the picture is open, tap the share icon in the bottom-left corner. It's the icon that looks like a box with an arrow coming out of it.

Scroll down and tap Use as Wallpaper. Your iPhone will show you a preview of what the new lock screen looks like — when you like how it looks, tap Done in the top-right, or Set at the bottom of the screen.

You can set any photo as your lock screen from the Photos app. Apple; William Antonelli/Insider

If it asks whether you want to make the picture your lock screen or home screen, choose the lock screen option.

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How to add widgets to your iPhone lock screen

You can add widgets to your lock screens, including one for the temperature, battery level, upcoming calendar event, and so on.

Touch and hold the lock screen until the Customise button appears.
Tap Customize.
Tap the box below the time to add widgets to your lock screen.
Tap or drag the widgets you want to add.

Simple!

How to add a Focus to your iPhone lock screen

Focus is a feature that helps you reduce distractions. You can customise one of the provided Focus options - like Work, Personal, or Sleep - or create a custom Focus. You can use Focus to temporarily silence all notifications, for instance. Then, you can set up a Focus right on your lock screen. When a Focus is linked to your lock screen, you can turn it on by swiping to the corresponding lock screen.

First, you need to set up a Focus. Go to Apple's support page to learn how.
Touch and hold the lock screen until the Customise button appears.
Tap Focus near the bottom to see the Focus options (for example, Sleep or Work).
Select a Focus, then tap x.

How to customise your iPhone home screen aesthetic

There was once a time when Apple wouldn't let its users customise the home screen. But the company is much more lenient these days. You can completely control the aesthetic of an iPhone, like by changing your home screen app icons to custom ones and by using widgets. If you want to get super spicy, you can even add a video clip of something to your lock screen. It's simple to do.

Just follow Pocket-lint's separate guide: How to customise your iPhone home screen with shortcuts and widgets

Looking for more help?

Apple has an entire support hub dedicated to the iPhone lock screen.

Pocket-lint also has the following guides on iOS 16:

iOS 16: All the features coming to your iPhone
Apple iOS 16 system requirements: Will it run on your iPhone?

Writing by Maggie Tillman.

How do I change the clock on my Lock Screen?

How to switch clock styles on your Android phone's lock screen.

Go to your device's Settings..

Scroll down to Display..

Select Lock screen..

Scroll down to Double-line clock and toggle the feature on or off..

How do I change the Lock Screen animation on iPhone?

If you want an animated wallpaper on your lock screen in iOS 15.6 or older, the easiest thing to do is go to Settings –> Wallpaper –> Choose a New Wallpaper, then select one of Apple's available "Live" wallpapers.

Can you change the clock style on iPhone Lock Screen?

Customize how time and date look on your iPhone Lock Screen After that, tap and hold the Lock Screen to enter editing mode. 2) Now, tap Customize. 3) Tap the clock area, and a Font & Color pane will slide up from the bottom of the screen. 4) Pick a different font style.