One of many greatest new options in final yr’s iOS 16 launch was highly effective customization in your iPhone’s lock display. With iOS 16, the decade-old customized wallpaper was lastly outmoded by extra dynamic lock screens that included colour 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 attractive new Lock Display designs would have actually shone. As an alternative, iPad customers needed to accept the comparatively boring static Lock Display.
Nevertheless, it seems to be like that might be set to vary this yr. In accordance with a good leaker, iPadOS 17 will deliver the customized Lock Display choices launched for the iPhone final yr over to the whole iPad household — and improve them with much more highly effective options to make the most of the iPad’s additional display actual property.
As reported on Twitter by @analyst941, the iPadOS 17 Lock Display will get some “tuned up” customizations that can embody every little thing 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 attainable on the iPhone with iOS 16. One other report this week recommended iOS 17 will deliver the power to regulate font sizes, however there’s been no phrase about with the ability to transfer gadgets round on the iPhone Lock Display. That is smart on the smaller iPhone display, nevertheless 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 characteristic a yr after its iPhone counterpart. When iOS 14 lastly introduced a completely new Residence Display expertise with widgets and a brand new App Library, the iPad was disregarded of the social gathering till iPadOS 15 arrived the next yr. So, it’s not all that shocking that historical past might repeat itself with customizable lock screens in iOS 16 and iPadOS 17.
Based mostly on that, it most likely doesn’t take a variety 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 advised by a developer supply that iPadOS 17 would assist the widgets from iOS 16, though he stopped wanting saying a lot concerning the different Lock Display customizations apart from that Apple needed to offer a greater expertise for doing so, somewhat than simply copying it over from the iPhone as-is.
That’s comprehensible contemplating the iPad’s way more expansive canvas, and it’s just like what we noticed with widgets in iOS 14 and iPadOS 15. Apple and third-party builders needed to get on board with extra artistic methods to current info in iPad-sized widgets, together with an “extra-large” variation. Alongside the identical strains, the small sq. and rectangular widgets introduced on the iOS 16 Lock Display would possible be fully misplaced on even an 11-inch iPad, to say nothing of the 12.9-inch iPad Professional.
Both method, if the report is correct, it implies that iPad customers ought to get every little thing that iPhone customers can already get pleasure from 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 pictures, and the power to hyperlink Lock Screens to Focus Modes; nevertheless, all that can absolutely be optimized for the iPad person expertise, possible leading to extra customization and even richer widgets.
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