The new Lock Screen configuration options on iOS 16 are fantastic. Why does Apple treat the iPad as a 2nd class citizen and not offer this there also. Seems like Apple does this a lot. (Unless it is planned when it actually releases later.)
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iPad OS 16 Lock Screen
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It will come to the iPad, most likely. The app library was also late to the iPad. Don't worry, Apple will also destroy notification center on your iPad soon enough.
I haven't checked notifications all day today on the iPhone, it's so tedious to do it now. My work-life balance has improved and I have been less distracted.
I haven't checked notifications all day today on the iPhone, it's so tedious to do it now. My work-life balance has improved and I have been less distracted.
I installed iPad OS 16.1; this is my first time doing it (i.e., I wasn't a beta tester). I'm surprised that the lock screen features is nothing like what the iOS 16.x offers! Seems a bit of a disconnect. Am I missing something?
Can we change something here or I am pressing screen like a monkey expecting a banana from pine?
Right?!?
I'm trying to change that ugly font on the iPad lock screen and can't.
On iOS 16, that blocky font is one of the options for the lock screen, but not the only one. I'd like my iPad lock screen at least match the font used across all my devices! (Ok, ok, this is piddily stuff, I agree....)
Precisely the same thing I have in mind. Let me at least get damn font the same as on iPhone. These SW were release at the same time, developed parallely and from the same company…
Really, what I have to press there to change it? 🤣
Umm.. I have a better question. Did you watch the WWDC keynote or any news surrounding it? You could easily looked here to give you an understanding of what features iPadOS 16 included.
I watched the keynote multiple times and read all of Apple’s tech details about iPadOS and read the Apple forums. I missed that iPadOS doesn’t have the new Lock Screen customizations.
I do not like the current font of the tims in the lock screen on iPad. It’s too dark and I could not see it properly. It’s disappointing there’s no option to change the font in the Lock Screen. It’s ok on iPhone but not so good on iPads.
Just want to add myself to the list of disappointed folks regarding the disconnect between iOS 16 and iPadOS 16. I too was tapping and holding the iPad lock screen wanting to add widgets or at the very least change that horrible default clock font, to no avail. Came here for answers and here we are. Come on, Apple. Get it together over there!
Hopefully, they will introduce at least font changes in iPadOS 16.2...
i hope so. I needed brighter thicker font to tell the time on ipad Lock Screen as the dimmed font of time is too hard to see. It’s fine on IPhone and Apple Watch but they needed to extend that to iPad.
I’m just confused by Apple’s direction to sync up iOS, iPadOS and macOS then leave off such an obvious and frankly low tech feature from iPad. To make it worse, as others have said, why change the font of the time on iPad? Why not leave it alone until we can customize it.
Totally agree. Being able to change the font typeface, in my opinion, would be the minimum that Apple should have ported over to the iPad OS 16.1 in order for people's devices to look the same. I hate that default block font -- very ugly.
Might be the OCD in me, but the fact the battery indicator and wifi symbol are brightly displayed doesn’t match the dim time font is driving me crazy
I - perhaps rather foolishly - expected the same lock-screen functionality on my iPad with iPadOS16 as I have on my iPhone with iOS16.
I was rather disappointed that this was not the case. Why not?
I was rather disappointed that this was not the case. Why not?
I hear ya. While I was disappointed, I was actually shocked that Apple did not allow change of font typeface so that it would match my iPhone lockscreen typeface.
If you preview widgets in Xcode 14.2, then select iPad Pro 12.9, you will see lock screen widgets on the iPad - the circular widget too big, misaligned, the rectangular only slightly misaligned. So it could be no big act to bring it to iPadOS 16.