I thought it would be fun to see new iOS 16 Lock Screens.
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I love this photo. I’ll probably cycle through more once my library is done processing–but not too many more so I see it often enough. 
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Shuffled Pet Photos. Refreshes every hour. I have Carrot, Fantastical, Fitness and Todoist as widgets.
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I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but NONE of my photos have the “depth effect”. I’ll take a photo of one of my kids, a building, an object – never works. Maybe I’m missing something.
I also find it confusing that every time I change a wallpaper I have to set a “wallpaper set” and I’ve screwed up my home screen wallpaper a few times getting lost in this process. It’s not super simple from what I’ve experienced so far.
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I’m a bit disappointed in how little room there is for widgets. One more row would make it so much better in my opinion.
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I’m using the earth one. I love the animation to the Home Screen, and how it changes over the day. I feel like it also keeps me a little bit more aware of my smallness in the vast configuration of things.
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This morning I’ve lost the depth effect on that photo in the screenshot. Assuming my loss is temporary, maybe it’ll become available on some of yours.
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I went overboard with the Focus lockscreen integration 
The first one is my daily lockscreen with 4 widgets:
- Weather temperature
- Distance traveled (when pressed, it opens Google Maps)
- Grocery list
- Whiz shortcut to finding the closest bus for home
The second is my Do Not Disturb lockscreen which I see for a few hours before sleep. No widgets or distractions here, only a yawning cat and an inline shortcut for toggling on/off my custom built Ambilight LED strip.
Then the third one is my music screen, for when I record my improvisations. For now it only has a Rec widget that starts a new lossless audio recording when I press on it. Wishing for some Loopy Pro native widgets later this year.
The custom widgets are done using a combination of OneWidget’s Icon widgets, and custom Shortcuts which OneWidget can run on press.
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I’m running into some weirdness around photos for the lock screen. I’m trying to use photo shuffle. When I try to use people, though, and click on “Choose…”, I’m only given four people to choose from. Some of them are people I want in the shuffle, but not all of them — and there are people I do want in the shuffle who are missing.
The people that don’t show as available that I want as choices are marked as favorites in Photos.
Am I missing something?
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I am using multiple lock screens based on focus mode. Here is my personal focus mode screen. The photos rotate periodically.
I’m using the same one. I think it’s called Astronomy.
So few apps on your home screen? I want this for me as well
Its the widgets. You can’t have the depth effect over the clock AND the widgets, its one or the other.
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The wallpaper set is so annoying, that’ll change quickly I think.
The depth effect doesn’t work with the widgets below the time. Try getting rid of those and trying your photos again.
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Ah, yes, that’s it. I was trying one. Thank you!
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the link between lock-screen setup and focus modes is waaaaay to complicating to me.
Every time I set a certain set to link to a focus mode it says “executing automation” and reverts to old setup.
Can’t get it to work properly, so if anyone knows of a good article explaining this that would be great!
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I’ve been doing this for a long time and it works well for me. I have these eight apps in easy access and the I search for the rest. Having the search on the Home Screen is especially helpful.
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The new Lock Screen makes me angry due to the first impression.
I used to have a Apple Wallpaper (the one with the milky way) since they first introduced it, some 10 years or so ago.
And iOS16 changed the font on this one, into a (in my eyes) very ugly one.
The Problem, I could not make any changes on this lock screen. Apple forced me to create a new one, but on the same time, didn’t give access to the older wallpaper.
I almost changed back onto iOS15, but was able, after a long search, to download the wallpaper on the internet from a more or less dubious source, to get my background back working!
It is OK, if Apple is developing something new, but I just don’t understand why they did not just migrate the current lock screen into one with the new features. After all, it is just a picture, as all other pictures, too.
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I agree that not being able to convert the image that you were already using is an odd choice. Anyone have theories as to why that is?
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I’m not angry, I’m used to upgrades screwing up things. I’m just irritated. The first thing I tried to do is reset the font on my Lock Screen. Then I tried to create a new one exactly like my old one but the way my photos are displayed makes it difficult to find the one I want.
I wear an Apple Watch. I don’t want widgets on my Lock Screen. So for now I’m using my old one with the new fat font.
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