Customizing your iPhone lock screen is nothing new, as Apple's offered that ability since iOS 16. But iOS 26 brings a new dimension to lock screen customization, bringing adaptive time and spatial photo features to the mix.
Adaptive time draws on the Liquid Glass interface debuting on iOS 26, so that the clock on the lock screen dynamically scales to fill the scene, interacting with the image you've picked as your lock screen wallpaper.
