Apple removed the lock screen's volume bar a few years ago with iOS 16, but you can bring it back to your screen now.

I installed iOS 18 beta 1 on my iPhone 14 Pro the minute Apple released it, even though the device will never get Apple AI features. iOS 18 offers a variety of handy features that I wanted to try ...

Customizing your iPhone lock screen is nothing new, as Apple's offered that ability since iOS 16. But iOS 26 brings a new dimension to lock screen customization, bringing adaptive time and spatial ...

The lock screen is the first thing you see when you pick up your iPhone, making it a critical component of your setup. To make it both functional and visually appealing, consider these strategies: A ...

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Discover the hidden shortcut that lets you add a functional power toggle to your Lock Screen or new iOS 26 Control Center.

One of the stylish visual changes to the iPhone on iOS 26 is a new layout for the lock screen when music is playing. Artwork can now be animated and shown full-screen on the iPhone display, with ...

Switch the buttons for whatever you want. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac You can change out your iPhone Lock Screen buttons from the standard flashlight and ...

Your iPhone's Lock Screen has built-in media playback controls that appear whenever music, a podcast, or other audio is playing. What you might not realize is that those controls can also include a ...