Your Android phone may seem entirely secure when it’s locked, but that’s not necessarily true. Unless you adjust the right settings, the lock screen can allow access to messages, controls, and even ...

Android will soon let you resize the widgets you’ve added to the lock screen. When Google introduced lock screen widgets support in Android 15 QPR1, the company didn’t allow you to resize widgets, ...

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As Tom's Guide notes, lock screen widgets were part of Android phones until Android 5.0 (Lollipop) in late 2014. Last year, there were rumors about the feature's potential return, but they only showed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lock screen widgets are officially a part of Android 16 in the latest QPR2 Beta 1 release. The new feature adds a second page to the lock screen that houses proprietary and third-party widgets. Just ...

Over a decade ago, widgets were a part of the Android lock screen. Google introduced them back in 2012, but they never stayed around for long. The company scrapped the feature as Android 5.0 Lollipop ...

Android 16 QPR1 launched during Google I/O 2025, and it brings some massive changes with Material 3 Expressive. The new design language completely redesigns Android 16’s lock screen customization ...