Apple's most substantial software updates for iPhone and iPad in 2024 bring significant changes to apps such as Calculator, Messages, and Notes, but iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 also introduce thrilling new features for your Lock Screen.

A plethora of new Lock Screen widgets are now available, offering more Lock Screen customization options for the time, and even fresh additions to StandBy. However, the biggest new feature allows you to replace the most crucial buttons on your Lock Screen.

To experience these new features, you need to be running iOS 18 or iPadOS 18 on your iPhone or iPad, which launched on September 16. All the Lock Screen features mentioned below are also present in the 18.1 beta.

1. Customizable Control Toggles

The Flashlight and Camera buttons at the bottom of the Lock Screen have been standard on iPhone models with Face ID since the iPhone X. With iOS 18, you can finally swap these buttons with other controls. Like many Lock Screen customizations, controls are assigned per Lock Screen, allowing you to have multiple Lock Screens with different control toggle setups.

You can choose from numerous Lock Screen controls, including toggles for Settings and Accessibility features, quicker access to Shazam, and the ability to open any app on your iPhone, whether it's something like Calculator or Translate or a third-party app like Halide. You'll soon see controls for more third-party apps on your iPhone as developers integrate them into their apps.

• Complete Guide: Swap the Flashlight and Camera Lock Screen Controls on Your iPhone to Open Apps, Toggle Settings, and More

2. New Wallpapers to Choose From

Apple has added five more wallpapers with iOS 18, all inspired by Siri's updated logo. There are four static colors to pick from — yellow, pink, azure, and purple — and a dynamic option that shifts between the four colors. With iPadOS 18, you get slightly different colors — purple, indigo, blue, and green — plus the dynamic version.

Each new iPhone and iPad wallpaper has dark and light versions, and you can set them to change automatically based on your system's appearance.

• Don't Miss: How to Download Apple's New iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 Wallpapers to Use on Any Device

3. Rainbow-Colored Font for the Time

When customizing the Lock Screen wallpaper on your iPhone or iPad, you'll notice a new prismatic rainbow tint when adjusting the time's color. As usual, you can use the slider above the colors to change the font size, making the variegated rainbow shade less or more noticeable. The colors will also appear to shift when using dynamic wallpapers to ensure optimal readability against any background.

4. More Language Options for the Time

In addition to having a rainbow-colored time, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 also provide more language options for the time. Previously, you could choose between Arabic, Arabic Indic, Devanagari, Khmer, and Burmese. Now, you have these 15 languages to use for time's characters:

• Arabic, Eastern (the same as Arabic Indic before)
• Arabic, Western (the same as Arabic before)
• Bangla
• Burmese
• Devanagari
• Gujarati
• Gurmukhi
• Kannada
• Khmer
• Malayalam
• Meitei
• Odia
• Ol Chiki
• Telugu
• Urdu

5. New Health Widgets

The Health app has two new widgets available for your Lock Screen. These are the Overnight Vitals and Weekly Vitals widgets, which align with the new Vitals app on watchOS 11. The Vitals app offers a quick way to view heart rate, respiratory rate, wrist temperature, sleep duration, and blood oxygen data recorded during sleep. You can add these new widgets below the Lock Screen time on iOS 18 and iPadOS 18.

• Overnight Vitals: See your overnight metrics from last night.
• Weekly Vitals: See your overnight metrics from the last 7 days.

These new widgets, as well as a Cycle Tracking widget, are also available on the Home Screen. Unfortunately, there is no Cycle Tracking widget for the space under the time on the Lock Screen, but there is a Cycle Tracking widget on iPadOS 18 for the widget space on the left of the Lock Screen when in landscape orientation.

• Cycle Tracking: Track your menstrual cycle and get insights to help you understand your overall health.

6. Journal Widgets

The Journal app had no widgets available on the Home Screen or Lock Screen before iOS 18. Now, the Home Screen has three options, but the Lock Screen gives you even more. The following are all available on the iPhone Lock Screen below the time:

• Audio Recording: Capture the moment by recording audio in a new entry.
• Camera: Capture the moment by taking photos or videos in a new entry.
• Journaling Suggestions: Select from suggested moments and quickly start an entry.
• New Entry: Get inspired to write and quickly start an entry.
• Photos: Select from your photo library and add to a new entry.
• Places: Choose a location and add to a new entry.
• State of Mind: Log how you feel and write about it in a new entry.
• Streaks: Keep track of your daily or weekly journaling streak.

Additionally, there's one widget available above the Lock Screen time:

• New Entry: Get inspired to write and quickly start an entry. Prompts may include Feeling inspired?, How's your week?, and more.

7. New Home Widgets

Home also has a few new Lock Screen widgets regarding electricity rates and usage data, which you can place below the time on iOS 18 and iPadOS 18.

• Electricity Usage: Get an idea of how your home's electricity usage is trending.
• Electricity Rates: Quickly see how your electricity is priced.

8. Apple Wallet Widgets

Also new in the world of Lock Screen widgets are Wallet options for Apple Cash and Apple Card. Interestingly, the Apple Card widget is only available on iPadOS 18 in landscape orientation and not on iOS 18. The Apple Cash widget works on iPhones but not on iPads. This makes sense since it's for Apple's new Tap to Cash feature, only available on iPhones and Apple Watches.

• Apple Card: Quickly glance at your Apple Card balance and spending activity.
• Apple Cash: Quickly access Tap to Cash.

9. New StandBy Widgets

If you use StandBy on your iPhone, you'll notice that some of the Lock Screen widgets listed above are also now available in StandBy. All new Health widgets, two Journal widgets, and both new Home widgets are available. Wallet's Apple Card widget was already available, but a new one for Connected Accounts isn't available as a Lock Screen widget.

• Overnight Vitals (Health): See your overnight metrics from last night.
• Weekly Vitals (Health): See your overnight metrics from the last 7 days.
• Cycle Tracking (Health): Track your menstrual cycle and get insights to help you understand your overall health.
• New Entry (Journal): Get inspired to write and quickly start an entry.
• Streaks (Journal): Keep track of your daily or weekly journaling streak and easily extend it.
• Electricity Rates (Home): Quickly see how your electricity is priced.
• Electricity Usage (Home): Get an idea of how your home's electricity usage is trending.
• Connected Accounts (Wallet): See your balance and card details for connected accounts.

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