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Philip Michaels

I've tried out different lock screen shortcuts on my iPhone in iOS 18 — these are my 9 favorites

IPhone lock screen showing Control Center shortcuts and the iOS 18 logo.

Thanks to less heralded change in iOS 18, you've got more iPhone controls at your fingertips than ever before — and you don't even have to unlock your phone to use them.

As part of Apple's move toward adding more customization capabilities in this year's software update, iOS 18 gives you the ability to change the two controls at the bottom of your iPhone's lock screen. Up until now, controls for turning on the flashlight and launching the Camera app were locked into place. But as of iOS 18, you can swap those out for a seemingly limitless number of Control Center shortcuts.

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