It needs the customizations but it also needs more. Not just a copy of the iPhone’s implementation. There is so much more screen space and power available so the items that can fit on the page are correspondingly more. So let’s have more items, larger items, and allow better organization of info on the lock screen.
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iPads to Get iPhone-Style Lock Screen Customization Options in iPadOS 17, Claims Leaker
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You’ll be waiting a long time I bet. But there is always the used market if you want one cheaper without directly supporting apple.
A year later if you're lucky. The Weather app took over a decade.
I’m sure Apple will make sure to only allow three small Lock Screen Widgets just below the Time. They’re going to find another way to disappoint everyone. And they’ll do it easily and drag it on for years.
What truly amazes me is that Apple’s had these really powerful iPads for years, but they always seem to put more effort into iOS. Poor macOS just gets more broken, while the iPad continues to sit in the middle. When will Apple learn to walk & chew gum at the same time?
What truly amazes me is that Apple’s had these really powerful iPads for years, but they always seem to put more effort into iOS. Poor macOS just gets more broken, while the iPad continues to sit in the middle. When will Apple learn to walk & chew gum at the same time?
This! Sometimes I’m near my iPad and my iPhone is plugged in and charging away from me, my alarm goes off. It’d be nice if they could somehow iCloud sync that stuff. And Notifications! How am I still seeing old notifications on one device long after clearing them on another?
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Yes!! This is amazing news for an avid iPad user like me... Now I can make my home screen a giant "day at a glance" screen if this is true.
Apple intends to bring iPhone-style Lock Screen customizations to iPads with the launch of iPadOS 17, claims a leaker who has shared accurate details in the past.
According to the Twitter account holder @analyst941, Apple will not only bring over to iPad models the custom Lock Screen options it introduced to iPhones in iOS 16, but it also plans to include additional updates being added in iOS 17.
Currently, iPad users running iPadOS 16 lack access to any of the Lock Screen customization tools iPhone users enjoy, leaving much of the screen unused. But if the latest rumor is accurate, iPadOS 17 will feature the following options for iPads:
On Tuesday, a separate rumor claimed that iOS 17 will bring new Lock Screen font size options to iPhones, as well as a button to share custom Lock Screen designs with other iPhone users. Leaker @analyst941 claims iPadOS 17 will also share "tuned up" Lock Screen customizations new to iOS 17, which could be a reference to the same tweaks.
- Lock Screen widgets
- Wallpaper types such as Photo Shuffle, Emoji, and Weather
- Photo tints and styles
- Wallpaper depth effect
- Clock style customization
- Lock Screens linked to Focus Modes
- Wallpapers gallery
The anonymous source behind this rumor leaked accurate information about the iPhone 14 Pro's Dynamic Island on the MacRumors Forums before the device was announced last year. The same tipster leaked alleged details about new solid-state buttons coming on the iPhone 15 Pro models, but they have since withdrawn the claim and now agree with other sources that the new buttons have been pushed back to next year's Pro models.
In addition, @analyst941 earlier this month claimed several other new features could be coming to the iPhone with iOS 17, including improvements to Search, the Dynamic Island, Control Center, and more. However, they do not have a long-term track record with rumors yet, so there is no guarantee the latest information they shared will prove to be accurate.
Apple is expected to preview iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 during the WWDC 2023 keynote on June 5. For more on what to expect in the new software, click the iOS 17 tag below.
Article Link: iPads to Get iPhone-Style Lock Screen Customization Options in iPadOS 17, Claims Leaker
That can be annoying, still it’s better than the last Android I used which gave alerts for stuff I had seen ages before if I didn’t use the device for a while. Especially on messenger apps it would alert me to every reply in a conversation on boot up
That’s good except for us who have older iPads that got iOS 16 but can not get 17. This has really sent me over the edge with Apple’s laziness on half updates only to make user buy no devices.
Funny thing is, someone posted here last year saying - bet iPads get this as big feature next year. Kudos
Why does every feature from iOS take a year or two to come to iPad and Mac? Why can't all things be unified and come at the same time? Is it much harder to implement on an iPad/Mac?
If the cadence for iPad is that the major changes this year are the iPhone changes from last year that is really boring and disappointing. I want better multitasking than stage manager, what my Lock Screen can do is almost as irrelevant as new Animojis.
Are you kidding?!? I bet they introduce the newer and "better" version of Stage Manager this Summer. You're gonna love it!
OMG I CANNOT WAIT FOR STAGE SUPERVISOR!!!!
With all the calculator apps out there (most of them free) do we really need an Apple version?
The only way I would be ok with lock-screen widgets, is if Apple makes it so that you can turn them off unless you’re plugged into external power. It’s bad enough that the iPad Pro on Magic Keyboard loses battery life (if not plugged in) and it’s not like the iPads get 20 hours of usable battery life now. I can just barely make it through a work day while traveling with my 12.9” M1 iPP.
iPadOS could rule over iOS for one thing, and it's been requested for so many years: ability to have multiple accounts on a single iPad. It's so common to have an iPad shared by a family, and they could all have their own login that opens their iCloud files, pictures, messages, apps, what have you. That would bring it closer to the Mac experience.
It would also makes sense for business users, as they could share the same device with multiple employees.
Of course, there would be issues with notifications; but there are ways to fix that, in one way or another.
It would also makes sense for business users, as they could share the same device with multiple employees.
Of course, there would be issues with notifications; but there are ways to fix that, in one way or another.
I would love it if they upped it to Stage Overlord instead.
I am so sick of iPads having to wait a year for features that are on iOS. When I'm at home it's all iPad/Mac and I barely touch my iPhone.