iOS 18 Lets You Swap Out Lock Screen Camera and Flashlight Buttons

[MacRumors]

iOS 18 allows users to change the two shortcut buttons on the Lock Screen to an action of their choice for the first time.

Users can now swap out the two controls at the bottom of the Lock Screen for a different action of their choosing. Shortcuts to functions like Translate, Notes, and music recognition in Shazam, and more are available. The full list of actions is as follows:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1800257722673181161

These new controls can also be accessed via the Action Button on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max.

The ability to change these Lock Screen controls is part of a wave of new customization features in iOS 18, which includes app icon color-changing capabilities and more. The first developer beta of iOS 18 is now available, with the public beta set to follow in July and the official release scheduled for the fall.

Article Link: iOS 18 Lets You Swap Out Lock Screen Camera and Flashlight Buttons

 

[sniffies]

Finally, we can customize them thanks to Apple Intelligence and the latest advancements in quantum computing.

 

[dontwalkhand]

I am excited for this, since the camera and flashlight shortcuts are redundant as all get out. You can just swipe over to the camera, and the flashlight option is in the control center.

 

[Sigvard]

First-party options only? Third-party app options coming in iOS 22?

 

[tomchr9]

I wonder if you are able to remove shortcut icons on lock screen altogether 🤔

 

[MathersMahmood]

iOS 18 has features that should have been there years ago.

 

[JPack]

Hopefully, that means fewer people walking around with their flashlight on.

But who am I kidding because those people probably won't know how to do this.

 

[Stenik]

This is the pinnacle of human genius.

 

[djlythium]

The OPEN APP option has a bug: when first selecting it, it will pop up with a window to let the User select the app, but the window immediately closes.

To work around this, choose OPEN APP for the desired slot on the Lock Screen, then lock the phone. Unlock with the side button, then press the OPEN APP button, and it should prompt you to choose an app.

 

[Dammit Cubs]

I want to understand how changes get approved. Something as trivia as this? is it a human resource issue? This should be have been applied since day one.

 

[kognos]

If you wanted this changed before now, you're holding it wrong.

 

[munpip214]

Yet still only two icons…

 

[dubiousgif]

I wonder if you are able to remove shortcut icons on lock screen altogether 🤔

 

[dz5b609]

My father will be so happy with this and so will a lot of other old people. So many unintended presses.

 

[xpxp2002]

I just wish you could disable the swipe to open Camera since it has been available as button down there for years. It always swipes open the Camera when I'm just trying to clear notifications.

 

[Avenged110]

Hopefully this means the 'swipe-left-for-camera' gesture can finally be disabled (or simply eliminated when the camera button is removed) because that's the one that always gets in my way and it's infuriating (not that I'll ever leave iOS 15, but I'd still like to know).

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

I told Apple how to add calculator to iPad, and it wasn't to copy apps are already on the App Store. They could have made an iPad Calculator that could follow you already the OS like a Pip. Alas.

 

[kenni417]

yeah we’re living in the future now

 

[dubiousgif]

Hopefully this means the 'swipe-left-for-camera' gesture can finally be disabled (or simply eliminated when the camera button is removed) because that's the one that always gets in my way and it's infuriating (not that I'll ever leave iOS 15, but I'd still like to know).

I hate to be the bearer of bad news…

 

[thatJohann]

I always use the flashlight, so that one I'm keeping there, gotta figure out what to put in the camera one.

 

[scorpio vega]

I am excited for this, since the camera and flashlight shortcuts are redundant as all get out. You can just swipe over to the camera, and the flashlight option is in the control center.

Camera I can get but the flashlight makes more sense because it’s less steps to access it on the lockscreen vs control center

 

[anthogag]

This could have been..."and one more thing" followed by standing ovation 👏

 

[N0ughtsAndCr0sses]

I can’t change the Lock Screen icons

 

[Yamcha]

A lot of these features have been available on Android for a while, but It's nice to see it on IOS 18.

 

[dubiousgif]

I always use the flashlight, so that one I'm keeping there, gotta figure out what to put in the camera one.

Double flashlight makes it brighter /s

They need to fix this since the toggles aren’t accurate in multiple ways depending on the order you press them. Surprised they even allowed adding the same shortcut twice, though it can be useful for people who switch hands a lot.