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iOS 16 review: Customization unlocked - Ars Technica

iOS 16 review: Customization unlocked - Ars Technica

iOS 16 review: Customization unlocked - Ars Technica
Sep 24, 2022 1 min, 26 secs

The year before that, it was the home screen.

You can now change fonts, add widgets, customize the information displayed, and pick from a wider variety of wallpaper.

Apple has also more deeply integrated the lock screen with the Focus modes that were fleshed out in iOS 15.

It’s easy to see the influence of the Apple Watch on this update—the new widgets behave like complications, and the new lock screen acts like a Watch face.

You can tap “Focus” to change the Focus mode that turns on when this lock screen is active.

There are color gradient wallpapers, where you pick a general color theme and define some attributes of a simple gradient.

You can also make a wallpaper out of emojis on a grid or in a pattern across the screen, and you can even pick which emojis to display.

The moon and Earth ones animate to different angles as you move from the always-on display to an active lock screen and then swipe for the home screen.

But as neat as those are, I imagine most people will choose to go with the wallpapers that use photos from your library in the Photos app.

Using machine learning, the iPhone analyzes all the photos in your library so you can be presented with “Featured” suggestions, which I found to be mostly on the money.

And of course, you can browse your entire photo library and pick any image you’d like.

Once again, it presents you with featured photos, and it lets you pick which categories to include—but you can still manually select each photo from your library.

Once you’ve picked your wallpaper, you’re taken to the full lock screen customization view.

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