The article outlines steps for creating a custom Lock Screen Shortcut on an iPhone using the Shortcuts app. It instructs users on opening the app, creating a new shortcut, adding specific actions, ...

You probably don't think about your lock screen all too often. To the average phone user, it's just a barrier between you and ...

Yesterday, I covered Widgetsmith, which among many other things, can display whatever text you’d like in an iOS 16 Lock Screen widget. Lock Screen One is a new app from Sindre Sorhus, the maker of ...

Despite having a reputation for customizability, vanilla Android has always had a couple corners where the OS is bland and disappointingly devoid of customization options. Unless your device was ...

Cydia is home to one too many lock screen tweaks. There are classic packages like LockInfo that enhance the iOS lock screen with all kinds of handy shortcuts and features, but there’s also tweaks like ...

With a camera shortcut already present, you can change at least one app shortcut on your S7's lock screen. Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering mobile technology ...

In this fast-paced world, it always helps to have shortcuts to your favorite functions. This goes especially for repetitive tasks like opening apps. This is where lock screen shortcuts come in.

Apple is working to add new keyboard shortcuts to an upcoming version of iPadOS, functionality that would allow users to control certain system functions without digging into Control Center or ...

Apple introduced a handy lock screen shortcut for the native Camera app in iOS 5.1. You can quickly tap the camera icon from your iPhone or iPad’s lock screen and snap a picture. Unfortunately, ...

The iOS Shortcuts app offers countless ways to make automations. One handy option is to create an iPhone Lock Screen Shortcut that can be valuable for several use cases. Here’s how it works and what ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...