Lock Screen and Focus
New features for focus, productivity and more
Live Activities
Live Activities are part of the new Lock Screen and are a little like Widgets. The difference is they are designed to update in real time and present information that can be read easily at a glance on the screen (perhaps in preparation for always-on screens on iPhone). Use Live Activities to keep track of sports scores and see updates as they happen, track a Deliveroo delivery, or monitor an Uber journey, for instance.
Widgets
1 Lock Screen widgets are similar to the widgets already available on the Home Screen. They pull data from apps and display it in a predefined space on the Lock Screen. You can choose which apps to display when you customise the Lock Screen. Developers can make widgets for their own apps, just as they can for Home Screen widgets. There are two size options and you can fit two large, four small or one large and two small widgets on the screen.