iOS 18 increases your ability to customise the lock screen

iOS 18 brings some major changes to your iPhone’s Control Center, the panel where you access everything from network connectivity to display brightness and shortcuts to other actions. The changes to iOS 18’s Control Center are so extensive that they actually extend to the Lock screen, where you can customize the controls that appear at the bottom of the display.

For a while now, those controls have been dedicated to turning on your iPhone's flashlight or launching the Camera app from the lock screen. If you\'ve always longed to have a different set of controls available from the lock screen, iOS 18 gives you the chance to swap out the flashlight and camera shortcuts for something else. If you're familiar with the ability to customize your lock screen (a feature Apple added in the iOS 16 update), changing the lock screen controls shouldn't be too difficult. Here's how to tweak those controls to your liking.