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Philip Michaels

iOS 18 extends your ability to customize the lock screen — how to edit control shortcuts

IOS 18 public beta lock screen controls edited.

iOS 18 introduces some significant changes to your iPhone's Control Center — the panel where you access everything from network connectivity controls to display brightness to shortcuts for other actions. The changes to the iOS 18 Control Center are so extensive, in fact, that they spill over into the lock screen, where you can customize the controls that appear at the bottom of your 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.

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