While you’re not utilizing your iPhone, the Lock Display screen is what you see most frequently. Liquid Glass is in every single place in iOS 26, and it begins proper if you decide up your machine. The Lock Display screen acquired a Liquid Glass overhaul, plus a couple of different new options.
Here is what you may see first if you improve to iOS 26.
Liquid Glass
The 2 customizable management buttons on the Lock Display screen are bigger and have a floating, glass-like look like the opposite Liquid Glass interface choices in iOS 26. The clock has a frosted glass look with the brand new “Glass” possibility, utilizing lighting results to make it appear to be glass in the true world.
Glass may be chosen for any of the clock fonts, and you’ll select a colour to tint the glass. Apple has a number of preset choices, or you’ll be able to choose your personal.
While you tilt your iPhone, mild displays and glints with the motion, for a sensible glass impact.
Notifications which might be in your Lock Display screen have a Liquid Glass aesthetic with a frosted glass look that leaves your wallpaper seen behind them.
Clock
Along with having a Liquid Glass aesthetic, the clock may be resized to raised match your iPhone’s wallpaper utilizing a brand new adaptive characteristic. While you’re customizing your Lock Display screen, you’ll be able to seize the nook of the time and drag it right down to broaden it.
Adjusting the dimensions of the time solely works with the primary font possibility, and solely with the usual Arabic, Western numbering.
With picture wallpapers, the time can mechanically broaden to fill in lacking area, and it may possibly change primarily based on the picture you probably have Picture Shuffle set. The topic in picture wallpapers is supposed to at all times be seen, and may overlap the time in distinctive methods in iOS 26.
There’s a Photos watch face for the Apple Watch that additionally helps time that adjustments measurement and place primarily based on the wallpaper.
Wallpaper
There’s a new default wallpaper that was designed for iOS 26. It is a number of shades of blue, with the identical floating glass aesthetic that the remainder of iOS 26 options. The wallpaper can subtly shift with iPhone motion.
It is a small element, however the icons for choosing totally different wallpaper classes have been up to date to raised match the Liquid Glass design.
Spatial Scenes
Other than the Liquid Glass time, Spatial Scenes are the largest change to the Lock Display screen. 2D images that you just set as wallpaper may be was 3D spatial photographs that separate the topic of the picture from the background utilizing depth info.
While you transfer your iPhone, Spatial Scenes shift and transfer together with it, making the photographs really feel alive. Spatial Scenes is a characteristic within the Images app too, and it may be added to any picture that you’ve got taken together with your iPhone, together with older ones.
Faucet on the small icon with a mountain and a solar to activate the Spatial Scenes setting when selecting a photograph wallpaper.
Lock Display screen widgets may be positioned on the highest of the show below the time, or on the backside of the show. In earlier variations of iOS, you may solely put widgets on the high of the display screen. With the adaptive clock and new wallpaper choices, widgets may shift down mechanically to make sure the topic of a picture is at all times seen.
Apple Music
Apple added a brand new Lock Display screen widget for Apple Music search, however there aren’t any different new Lock Display screen widget choices. What’s new, although, is a brand new full display screen Now Enjoying interface that reveals album artwork. Paintings expands and animates proper on the Lock Display screen.
Learn Extra
We have now a dedicated iOS 26 roundup that goes into element on all the new options which might be obtainable within the replace.