{"id":37034,"date":"2022-09-13T16:58:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37034"},"modified":"2022-09-13T16:58:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:58:38","slug":"launching-apps-from-ios-16s-lock-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/13\/launching-apps-from-ios-16s-lock-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Launching Apps From iOS 16&rsquo;s Lock Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/09\/13\/ios-16-lock-screen-widget-open-any-app\/\">Sami Fathi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/09\/13\/ios-16-lock-screen-widget-open-any-app\/\"><p>The app called &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/in\/app\/launchify-lock-screen-widgets\/id1635545328\">Launchify<\/a>&rdquo; lets users configure one or more  iOS 16  Lock Screen widgets that directly open any app of their choosing. Users can create a widget to quickly open Messages, Twitter, the Phone app, or Apple or Google Maps, for example.<\/p><p>While  iOS 16  includes a redesigned Lock Screen with new customization features, Apple does not allow users to replace the flashlight and Camera app shortcuts with custom apps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/halidecamera\/status\/1569430978267074560\">Halide<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/halidecamera\/status\/1569430978267074560\">\n<p>Finally, you can open <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/halide\/id885697368\">Halide<\/a> right from your lock screen!<\/p>\n<p>Halide 2.8 &mdash; our iOS 16 update, with 7 different lock screen widgets and other enhancements is out now[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/12\/ios-16\/\">iOS 16<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/27\/custom-ios-app-icons-via-launch-center-pro\/\">Custom iOS App Icons via Launch Center Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/06\/ios-default-apps-and-competing-with-built-in-apps\/\">iOS Default Apps and Competing With Built-in Apps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/12\/now-allowed-to-launch-apps-from-today-widgets\/\">Now Allowed to Launch Apps From Today Widgets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/20\/launcher-returns-to-the-app-store\/\">Launcher Returns to the App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sami Fathi: The app called &ldquo;Launchify&rdquo; lets users configure one or more iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets that directly open any app of their choosing. Users can create a widget to quickly open Messages, Twitter, the Phone app, or Apple or Google Maps, for example.While iOS 16 includes a redesigned Lock Screen with new customization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-09-13T20:58:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"413fd82d-1b49-485b-9449-ac28aa7935e6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-09-13T20:58:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQT_YLRtJSFuUSawoqnk15g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1604,31,2185,26,1986,2273,2218],"class_list":["post-37034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-halide","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-iosapp","tag-ios-widgets","tag-launchify","tag-lock-screen"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37036,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37034\/revisions\/37036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}