The first quarterly release of Android 16 will bring lock screen widgets to phones, and we have an early look at the feature!

The Pixel Tablet already has them, and phones will too after Android 16’s first quarterly update. Google has announced that lock screen widgets are coming to Android 16 phones later this year.

Android 16 is due to release in June this year and its first quarterly update will include lock screen widgets. Expected in late summer, the update will bring the lock screen widgets already available ...

From the moment lock screen widgets first arrived on the Pixel Tablet in earlier betas, we wondered if Google would eventually bring them back to phones too. We now know that is indeed the plan.

Google has announced that the Android 16 QPR1 update will bring lock screen widget support to Android phones. The feature, which was previously limited to tablets, will improve the user experience ...