
The change will be applied immediately and you should see all future notifications display on the Lock Screen based on your selected setting. Tap to select one of the following options: Count, Stack, and List.Launch the Settings app on your iPhone.

At the bottom right of the screen, you will see a blue plus (+) icon. Once you do this, a customization menu will open. You can also select one of these layouts as the default for your Lock Screen using a new menu in Settings. To create a new Lock Screen in iOS 16, all you need to do is head to your current Lock Screen and hold down your finger. Notifications can appear as a standard list, a stack, or a number count telling you how many notifications are awaiting your attention. You can also pinch the notifications list on the Lock Screen to change the layouts. You can swipe upward from the bottom of the display to see the notifications, and then swipe back down to hide them away. This makes for a more subtle notification that stays out of the way of any widgets you have set up. As part of its design overhaul, Apple also changed the way notifications appear, and added options for how they should be displayed.īecause of the new Lock Screen design, notifications now come in from the bottom of the display, rather than the top. In iOS 16, Apple made sweeping changes to the way the iPhone Lock Screen works, adding multiple layers of customization and the ability to add widgets.
