Nick Douglas Animated lock screens are a cute gimmick. Your phone comes loaded with a few default options. But if you want to make your own on Android or iOS, you’ll need a third-party app.

Live wallpapers are animated images that come to life when you press and hold your iPhone’s lock screen. Unlike static backgrounds, these wallpapers add movement and personality to your device.

This is GIF-LOCK, a new application from developer and founder of POPS messaging Nir Ofir. The free Android app allows users to set a GIF as their lock screen and change it with a shake of the phone.

Windows 11/10 users have the slide show feature for their Lock Screen. The Lock Screen slide show plays beautiful panning and animation of images, and it works great if you have a high-resolution ...

The beta app adds a little bit more eye candy to Nokia’s Symbian^3 lineup, which includes the Nokia C7, Nokia C6, Nokia E7–the business slider, and the Nokia N8 flagship with the 12-megapixel ...

Also, this iOS 16 Lock Screen feature works great with the always-on display on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. The new flagship iPhones will always show the weather wallpaper, even when ...

Apple to let third-party music apps display animated artwork on lock screen with iOS 26 Apple recently previewed iOS 26 at WWDC 2025 and showcased several of its notable capabilities. Now, with ...

Here’s everything to know about the new leak. The leak comes from 9to5Mac, citing previously-accurate sources, as per which Apple will redesign the media player experience on the lock screen.

We get our very first looks at the new animated screen savers coming to the new Personalization Hub courtesy of About Chromebooks. After updating their Acer Spin 713 to Chrome OS Dev Channel 100 ...

Earlier this morning we took a look at a YouTube video showing off what an app could achieve when tapping into Windows Phone 8.1 to offer more advanced lockscreens. This app, called Animated ...

Apple seeded the fifth developer beta of iOS 26 today, and while the number of significant changes has dropped, there are ...