On iOS 15 and earlier, most of Apple’s stock wallpapers were bundles of light and dark images, that would automatically switch to match the active system theme. Switching your iPhone to Dark Mode on iOS 16 has no effect on how wallpapers are displayed on the lock screen or home screen. You can see this in action when you transition from Home Screen to Lock Screen with a wallpaper like Astronomy the perspective of the Earth swerves toward you as you swipe up.Īll this investment into dynamism makes it even stranger that dark mode has been almost entirely forgotten about. They are dynamic and lively, and sometimes animated. The iOS 16 wallpapers are not simply static images. Here are three things missing from iOS 16 lock screen experience that hopefully Apple will bring back in a future update … Dark mode But we also lost some capabilities compared to iOS 15 in the process.

We also lost a few capabilities compared to iOS 15. The iOS 16 lock screen experience is undoubtedly a big step forward compared to what we had before, with animated wallpaper options like Weather and Astronomy, a sleek overlapping effect for portrait-style photos, the addition of widgets, the ability to easily switch been multiple lock screens, and more.

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