GREAT LOCK SCREEN WALLPAPERS UPDATE
GREAT LOCK SCREEN WALLPAPERS ANDROID

They’re not all winners, but a few hiking photos I’d forgotten about have made for surprisingly good wallpapers. Some of its auto-generated photo suggestions have worked really well - it seems to prefer landscapes and pictures of people or pets, though it overestimates how much I want to look at my (very rude) cat throughout the day. Setting a new, self-styled wallpaper is kind of like putting on a fancy new pair of socksĮven within Apple’s boundaries, I’ve found plenty of material to play with. And when I’d gotten all the mileage I could out of that lock screen, it was easy to flip back to one of my usual “Mount Rainier framed by trees” photos that people in the Northwest are required by law to take. It didn’t restore any of my basic rights, but it made me feel better for a half-second every time I looked at it. It’s simple to flip between your collection of lock screens when the mood strikes, but if you link lock screens to focus modes, they’ll switch automatically when that focus mode starts.Ĭase in point: sometimes a pink wallpaper with a grid of barfing emoji is the best way to self-soothe when, I don’t know, the Supreme Court decides to strip away your bodily autonomy. You can have a lock screen for the weekend, one for a particular mood, for a holiday, or whatever moment you like. Being able to have more than one removes the pressure of picking out a single wallpaper or photo that you’ll see at all times of day in all kinds of situations. That seems like a simple thing, but it fundamentally changes how you think of your lock screen. You can now have multiple lock screens - and there’s no need to dive into a settings menu to change them. Sometimes a pink wallpaper with a grid of barfing emoji is the best way to self-soothe You can add widgets to get more information at a glance, like when your next meeting starts or the chance of rain that day (vital information here in Seattle). In iOS 16, there are more wallpaper types - like grids of emoji and real-time weather animations - along with different clock fonts and customizable typeface colors. Previously, you could change your wallpaper and… actually, that’s it. There’s just a lot more you can do with your lock screen in iOS 16. It’s a simple update, but it’s one that will probably be noticed and adopted widely by iPhone users - nerds or otherwise. But as I’ve used the developer beta over the past few weeks, the new lock screen has impressed me more than I imagined it would.

GREAT LOCK SCREEN WALLPAPERS ANDROID

Not groundbreaking stuff, considering that Android 12 lets you easily customize your entire UI to match your wallpaper, right down to the app icon colors.

GREAT LOCK SCREEN WALLPAPERS UPDATE

On a high level, this update adds more customizability to the lock screen, with more wallpaper options and the ability to add widgets.

That attitude could certainly be applied to one of the centerpieces of iOS 16: new lock screens. The Android faithful will then point out that this groundbreaking achievement existed on a Nexus phone seven years ago, and the first three versions of it sucked, but it’s great now. That’s especially true when Apple announces new iPhone features with lots of fanfare and self-congratulation. There’s a tendency among the highly tech-literate (you know, us nerds) to approach new features with a jaded, seen-it-all-before sentiment.

Great lock screen wallpapers