Apple's iOS 26 update comes with handy upgrades to your battery, phone calls, lock screen, and more, but some need to be turned on manually.

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OS 26 is packed with changes, but some of the best updates are tucked away in Settings and apps. Here’s how to find them once you update your iPhone.

When Apple released iOS 16, it introduced some major changes to the Lock Screen experience, including the ability for users to make their iPhone wallpaper shuffle between a pre-selected set of photos with a simple tap of the screen. Using the Photo Shuffle ...

OS 18 dramatically improved the ways we can customize our iPhone's Lock Screen, but it could be better if Apple did this.

Apple has introduced new lock screen customizations for the iPad with iPadOS 17. With the new customizations, users can set different lock screen layouts, add widgets, change the font and color of the date and time, add live activities to the lock screen ...

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 payment options—all without unlocking the device.

In iOS 16, Focus Modes can have contextual backgrounds, and allow people to set different organizational styles when activating different Modes. Here's how. Introduced in iOS 15, Focus Mode allowed you to filter the content you see and/or allow your device ...

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