One of many largest new options in final 12 months’s iOS 16 launch was highly effective customization on your iPhone’s lock display screen. With iOS 16, the decade-old customized wallpaper was lastly outdated by extra dynamic lock screens that included coloration filters, dwell backgrounds, widgets, and even completely different fonts for the clock.
Sadly, these enhancements weren’t included in iPadOS 16 for Apple’s iPad, the place the beautiful new Lock Display designs would have actually shone. As a substitute, iPad customers needed to accept the comparatively boring static Lock Display.
Nonetheless, it appears like that may very well be set to vary this 12 months. In keeping with a good leaker, iPadOS 17 will carry the customized Lock Display choices launched for the iPhone final 12 months over to all the iPad household — and improve them with much more highly effective options to benefit from the iPad’s further display screen actual property.
As reported on Twitter by @analyst941, the iPadOS 17 Lock Display will get some “tuned up” customizations that can embrace every part that iPhone at present has in iOS 16, plus the power to do issues like reposition the place the clock and different parts are proven.
This goes properly past what’s potential on the iPhone with iOS 16. One other report this week instructed iOS 17 will carry the power to regulate font sizes, however there’s been no phrase about having the ability to transfer objects round on the iPhone Lock Display. That is sensible on the smaller iPhone display screen, however it’s simple to see the way it’s one thing iPad customers would need.
It wouldn’t be the primary time the iPad has gotten a major new function a 12 months after its iPhone counterpart. When iOS 14 lastly introduced a completely new Dwelling Display expertise with widgets and a brand new App Library, the iPad was ignored of the get together till iPadOS 15 arrived the next 12 months. So, it’s not all that stunning that historical past could repeat itself with customizable lock screens in iOS 16 and iPadOS 17.
Primarily based on that, it in all probability doesn’t take loads of clairvoyance to foretell the brand new adjustments in iPadOS 17, and it’s not the primary we’ve heard of it, both; again in October, French website iPhoneSoft was informed by a developer supply that iPadOS 17 would assist the widgets from iOS 16, though he stopped in need of saying a lot in regards to the different Lock Display customizations aside from that Apple needed to offer a greater expertise for doing so, reasonably than simply copying it over from the iPhone as-is.
That’s comprehensible contemplating the iPad’s rather more expansive canvas, and it’s much like what we noticed with widgets in iOS 14 and iPadOS 15. Apple and third-party builders needed to get on board with extra inventive methods to current data in iPad-sized widgets, together with an “extra-large” variation. Alongside the identical strains, the small sq. and rectangular widgets offered on the iOS 16 Lock Display would doubtless be completely misplaced on even an 11-inch iPad, to say nothing of the 12.9-inch iPad Professional.
Both manner, if the report is correct, it signifies that iPad customers ought to get every part that iPhone customers can already take pleasure in on their lock screens in iOS 16, together with Lock Display widgets, dynamic wallpapers for displaying issues like customized picture collections and climate, results and filters for wallpaper photographs, and the power to hyperlink Lock Screens to Focus Modes; nevertheless, all that can certainly be optimized for the iPad consumer expertise, doubtless leading to extra customization and even richer widgets.
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