The ability to include widgets on the iPhone lock screen appeared in iOS 16, but not much of anything. Of the more or less useful, there is only weather, batteries, and maybe even Fitness.
I have been looking for an opportunity to upgrade the widget section for a long time, and finally I found it. Now I can set the launch of any, create an additional panel with icons, watch the processor load and network activity in the time environment, and all this right on the lock screen of my iPhone.
Do you want the same? Download Lock Launcher from the App Store. It’s free if you need it – unlocking all the features of the applications costs only 199 rubles without additional subscriptions. Pay once and use the pro version forever.
See how easy it is to set everything up:
How to install widgets of any applications on the lock screen
From the lockscreen of my iPhone, you can use Telegram, WhatsApp, YouTube and Apple Music.
The Lock Launcher app has menu items at the bottom of the screen, but we’re only interested in the first five, Favorites and Widgets. Let’s start with widgets.
There are eight empty slots in this section. Click on the first one and select any application installed on your iPhone that you want to add to the lock screen.
You can customize the displayed icon, enable or disable the translucent cover under it, or change its color. Indicating the rise of Telegram:
Depending on the task of choosing settings, you can set the “Choose from library” option and select “Accelerator image from your library”. The possibilities here are only limited by your imagination.
Although the library of icons in Lock Launcher is quite large, so it is not necessary to bother with searching for some kind of icon set on the Internet.
After visiting, do the same thing that fell into the empty slots in order, offering in each placement.
Important: only four widgets. If you fill all eight slots, you can add all of them to the lockscreen. You need to scroll the page from the application icons with a swipe.
Now you need to add the widgets created in the Lock Launcher to the lock screen:
1. Go to “Settings” – “Wallpaper» and tap on the wallpaper of your lockscreen
2. Click “Add Widgets”
3. Select Lock Launcher from the list and click on the icon of the desired application
Do the same with all the potencies created earlier in the Lock Launcher widgets and click “Done” with the right to access the area.
Now you have quick access to your favorite apps right from your lock screen. The first time it appears, a warning may appear stating that the Lock Launcher is launching another application, you need to launch it to do so. There will be no further warnings.
But that is not all. Let’s add to the detection part of the screen a separate dock with other applications and additional information, such as the activity of the activity, the increase in the screen frequency, or the load on your smartphone’s processor:
How to add an additional panel with applications on the lock screen
I, in the far wide applications for quick access, In the left corner shows the workload of the iPhone processor in space and time, and direct network activity.
In the Lock Launcher application, it is important in the section “Favorites“.
It also has one empty slot and the ability to add as many as you like, which can be supplemented with applications from your iPhone as described above.
After filling the slots, you need to go to the section “Settings“, then “Live Events (Dynamic Island)“.
Make sure the sliders are “Live activity” And “Show on lock screen»I am in an active position.
Further in the same menu there are options “Island on the right” And “Island on the left“. Tap each time in turn and choose what should happen when you close your document with applications on the lock screen.
If you have an iPhone 14 Pro or 14 Pro Max, then the created dock with applications will open by tap in a dynamic island.
Done, now the icons of favorite applications are displayed on the screen, which can be launched without leaving the desktop.
The possibilities of the Lock Launcher application do not end there. Instead of applications, you can display on the screen the icon for launching your favorite sites, shortcuts, or reactions from the “Teams” applications in general, the principle is the same above, as I described, only on the application application screen you need to switch to the Website, Shortcut or Custom section.
Download Lock Launcher, try it for free, and if you get it, don’t regret 199 rubles to unlock the version and the ability to create up to eight quick launch widgets and a huge number of applications in the dock on the lock screen.
Source: Iphones RU
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