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.

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

Kaleidoscope is one of the new, animated wallpaper options in iPadOS 17. Credit: Apple The iPad, for all its glorious, hi-res screen estate, can sometimes feel quite barren. Its Lock Screen, for ...

Apple has released the iOS 26 Developer Beta 6 update for iPhones and it features refinements to Liquid Glass along with ...

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 ...

The latest One UI 8 beta brings a clock widget for the lock screen. Similar to iOS’ depth effect for the clock, Samsung’s clock automatically wraps around faces in real or animated images.

Customizing the new Lock Screen in iPadOS 17 works pretty much the same as it does on the iPhone. All you need to do is press and hold on the wallpaper to edit the Lock Screen.