iOS 18 Lock Screen Customization Options Include Multicolor Clock

[MacRumors]

Apple in iOS 18 has added a new multicolor swatch to the Font & Color customization options on the Lock Screen, so now you can display the time in rainbow colors against your chosen wallpaper.

Unlike the other color swatches, the multicolor option does not currently apply to widgets and the date, which turn white when the rainbow effect is applied. However, there's a good chance this is something Apple intends to implement but has not yet got around to doing so in the developer beta.

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

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 public beta is set to arrive in July and the official release of iOS 18 is scheduled for the fall.

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[nt5672]

Multicolor clock looks childish. Remember way back when color text was first introduced, and your children all started playing with the cool text. Will it's back.

 

[dustin_]

love the rainbow clock. I’m using it on both my ipad and iphone.

 

[jonnyb098]

iOS 18 has become the MySpace of phone software. The colored icons aren’t going over well at all. Now anyone can make their phone look like a visually hideous mess like it’s 2005!

 

[antonrg]

I'm probably getting old, but nothing in iOS18 interests me or prompts me to upgrade. Same goes for iPadOS18 and macOS15

 

[God of Biscuits]

iOS 18 has become the MySpace of phone software. The colored icons aren’t going over well at all. Now anyone can make their phone look like a visually hideous mess like it’s 2005!

oh no, someone’s personal device used only by themselves, looked at onky by themselves, looking appealing to themselves? How terrible for everyone else.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

iOS 18 has become the MySpace of phone software. The colored icons aren’t going over well at all. Now anyone can make their phone look like a visually hideous mess like it’s 2005!

It’s called choice.

 

[Dwalls90]

Multicolor clock looks childish. Remember way back when color text was first introduced, and your children all started playing with the cool text. Will it's back.

iOS 18 has become the MySpace of phone software. The colored icons aren’t going over well at all. Now anyone can make their phone look like a visually hideous mess like it’s 2005!

Then don't use it? I don't understand why some people are against others being able to make their own choice.

I don't care for the rainbow clock but there is someone out there that is excited to use it. Great for them. Not every feature is invented for a single user to benefit from.

 

[nfl46]

Thanks, Tim!

 

[LeLeon]

great, love it!

 

[bradman83]

iOS 18 has become the MySpace of phone software. The colored icons aren’t going over well at all. Now anyone can make their phone look like a visually hideous mess like it’s 2005!

Hopefully you weren't a Mac user back in the Classic Mac OS Days when Kaleidoscope was around:

 

[nfl46]

iOS 18 has become the MySpace of phone software. The colored icons aren’t going over well at all. Now anyone can make their phone look like a visually hideous mess like it’s 2005!

I disagree.

But that tinted color options for the Home Screen need to be drastically improved. That I can agree with you makes it look a hideous mess.

 

[ninecows]

I don’t mind the rainbow thing at all and all the color options one could imagine.

But sometimes I think that Apple should have more people in the bug fixing department and quality control than in the “let’s make some fancy looking clock” department

 

[NMBob]

Holy smokes! Thats a heck of a thing to discover first thing in the morning. I nearly dropped my iPad and fell off the toilet!

 

[nt5672]

Then don't use it? I don't understand why some people are against others being able to make their own choice.

No one was against anything. In my opinion, it is simply a childish look. I am still entitled to MY opinion, aren't I.

 

[klasma]

Back to the 60s, baby!

 

[klasma]

iOS 18 has become the MySpace of phone software. The colored icons aren’t going over well at all. Now anyone can make their phone look like a visually hideous mess like it’s 2005!

At least now you’ll know who has visual taste and who hasn’t.

 

[n-evo]

I don't know what it is but iOS 18 as a whole just looks messy to me. I realize you can make things look as gauntly (or not) as you want and it's still a beta and all, but Android's customization options look genuinely a lot more polished than this. Beyond that Apple just keeps piling up these new things onto what used to be iOS 7's clear, simple and no nonsense interface. It's like a public building that's continuously being expanded throughout the years to accommodate new needs while the big picture - the building as a whole - is lost. iOS feels overdue for a full renovation of its interface. Even Apple seems to acknowledge that things in iOS have become so complex and unclear users need an AI to help work out its features.

Also, just about every part of the interface seems to trigger something. Especially because of how these customization options are accessed. It's annoying as hell sometimes.

 

[Tony_YYZ]

All the complaining I’ve been reading on here from people firmly against the idea that people should have the choice to customize their phones is insane. It really shows how some people just want to be ruled by an iron fist, their lives crave it. They need to be told what to do.

I’ll say it for those in the back: You don’t have to adjust any of these things on your own phone! Stop worrying about what other people will do on their own devices or about anything really. You’ll be happier for it.

 

[Frantisekj]

It’s called choice.

I am fine with choise but I would prefer usefull features to pig lipstick that should attract more Android users or whoever. For example tap and hold onscreen weather forecast to show me next few days or magnify that info.

 

[antonrg]

I don’t mind the rainbow thing at all and all the color options one could imagine.

But sometimes I think that Apple should have more people in the bug fixing department and quality control than in the “let’s make some fancy looking clock” department

The issue is they are not even capable of making a fancy looking clock these days. Their hardware dept smokes the OS guys. The design is bleak at best these days.

 

[iphone456]

Wasn’t this opinion available before iOS18? I thought I saw it in iOS 17.something.

 

[adrianlondon]

iOS 18 has become the MySpace of phone software. The colored icons aren’t going over well at all. Now anyone can make their phone look like a visually hideous mess like it’s 2005!

I'm going for "visually hideous mess like it's 2006" just to stand out from the crowd.

 

[GeoStructural]

It’s called choice.

Not if they force you to update, which Apple eventually will.

 

[GeoStructural]

Wasn’t this opinion available before iOS18? I thought I saw it in iOS 17.something.

You might be thinking of temporary wallpapers that Apple releases sometimes.