![]() Tap on the time to change the font and text color. Tap and hold on any Lock Screen and tap Customize to change fonts, colors and add widgets. How to change the Lock Screen’s fonts, colors and widgets Change the font and color of the clock and widgets. I really like Deep because of the neat gradient it applies, but I also made a light gray on solid blue color scheme that matches my website. Swipe left and right to pick a different gradient or style. Tap the icon in the bottom-left to pick a color from the palette. Pick Color from the top to start from scratch or pick a template from the bottom of the gallery. Griffin Jones/Cult of MacĬolor is a pretty simple one. How to get a plain color wallpaper on the Lock Screen Pick a nice color gradient with, you guessed it, Color. When you slide to unlock, it triggers a subtle parallax effect. When you tap to wake your iPhone, different parts of the wallpaper light up before others. Now that it comes to the iOS 16 Lock Screen, a mere 15 years later, it has some special details. The Clownfish wallpaper played a prominent role in the introduction of the original iPhone in 2007 but was never released as an official wallpaper in any version of iOS. Why does this picture of two fish get top billing alongside everything else? The Clownfish collection might seem weird if you’re not familiar with the history of the image. The Clownfish wallpaper comes to the iPhone for the first (or second?) time ever. The first is Apple’s wallpaper for iOS 16 the second uses the six colors of the Apple rainbow on top of a background the third is the set of dynamic wallpapers Apple introduced with iOS 7 that has hardly changed in the nine years since. There are three wallpapers named Collections in the Collections collection. These backgrounds celebrate Apple history. It’s nice to have a matching Lock Screen if you use the Pride Watch face. Pride and Unity wallpapers celebrate LGBTQI+ pride and Black pride, the former of which offers another fun animation when you swipe up to unlock. Scroll down to see Collections for some classic Apple wallpapers. How to use Apple’s classic wallpaper collections, including clownfish I thought the emoji wallpaper was really dumb when I watched Apple’s WWDC22 keynote, but I had a lot of fun making these. If you so desire, you can make something kinda cute or an abominable legibility nightmare. Tap the menu button in the bottom-right and tap Background to pick a background color. With full control over emoji and colors, you can make something pleasant or something truly heinous. You have five options for filling the screen: Small, Medium and Large Grid, Rings and Spiral. Arrange emoji in three grid sizes, or Rings or Spiral. Tap the Emoji button in the bottom-left to pick up to six emoji. Tap Emoji to create your own or pick one of the templates below to start. I made my own Pride background using the colored heart emoji. ![]() My wife made a fish-themed wallpaper, so I added the weird fish emoji. How to get emoji wallpaper on your Lock Screen Pick your own emoji to make a nicely themed wallpaper with a trippy kaleidoscopic background. While I agree with the International Astronomical Union that Pluto is not a planet, it would be fun if you could enable it on the Solar System background. I would really like the option to disable the bright green dot on my location with the Earth screen. There aren’t any customization options here, either, but I think there should be. It looks less dramatic if you pick Earth or Moon Detail. When you pick Earth or Moon, there’s a really cool animation as you swipe up to unlock your phone as the globe will zoom in to fill the bottom of the screen. Earth shows the whole globe, Earth Detail zooms a little closer into your geographic area, Moon shows the whole moon, Moon Detail zooms in on a similar part of the moon, and Solar System shows the relative position of all eight planets. Griffin Jones/Cult of MacĪdd the Astronomy wallpaper and you have five settings to choose from. How to add astronomy animations to your Lock Screen Astronomy backgrounds give you a globe with accurate cloud coverage, the moon in its current phase or the current positions of the planets. I’d like an option to get current weather conditions but with a night sky. I prefer darker wallpapers because they use less power. I really like this wallpaper, but it’s too bright for me. Legibility Blur is off by default for this theme, but none of the Weather animations affect legibility anyway. Tap Done and you can configure the Home Screen wallpaper using the same settings as above. You can’t set it to a different city in a different part of the world for funsies it’s always looking up your local weather.
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