Google announced today that the upcoming Android 16 QPR1 release will bring lock screen widget support to phones. Android 16 QPR1 isn’t expected to roll out until September, but we managed to activate ...

Android 15 adds support for placing widgets on the lock screen, but only on tablets. Despite that, the lock screen widgets feature actually works quite well on smartphones. We recorded a video that ...

Using widgets on your Android phone's home screen is a great way to view important information at a glance without opening apps. But did you know you can also add most of these widgets on your Android ...

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Lock screen widgets are returning to Android The feature is available now in beta for Pixel owners A public rollout is expected in December The latest Android beta is here, and it quietly dropped a ...

Lock screen widgets on Android may soon get the slick background blur effect. The visual change was spotted in the new Android Canary build and should align it with Google’s new Material Expressive 3 ...

Your phone’s lock screen displays notifications and alerts without unlocking it. You can also access some features directly ...

Android 16 may introduce blurred lock screen wallpapers on the always-on display with a new feature called “ambient AOD.” When tested on the Pixel 8 Pro, the feature reportedly caused the device’s ...

The future for Pixel users and lock screen personalization is about to get a new definition with the Android 15 update by Google. As a follow-up to what was introduced with Android 14, the beta ...