What is on your Windows Phone Lockscreen?

Windows Phone Lockscreen

With Microsoft updating the Windows Phone Glance Screen, adding support for MSN Weather and Health & Fitness apps, nosotros idea it was time to revisit a pop bailiwick, our Windows Phone lockscreen.

The native lockscreen settings offering a good for you corporeality of options to customize what information is displayed on your Windows Phone lockscreen. You also have a host of Windows Phone apps that offer lockscreen back up equally well as lockscreen customizations.

All of which tin can turn your lockscreen into a wealth of knowledge that is bachelor at a glance.

In-house Customizations

For those not familiar, your Windows Phone lockscreen has the ability to brandish a photo with the date/time or the information tin can be expanded to include whatsoever new email or messages, stock information, weather forecasts, quotes of the solar day, and more. All can be found in your Windows Telephone Settings.

Lockscreen and Glance Settings

In the lockscreen settings you can:

.Choose what application will run in the background
.Decide what app volition be used for notifications
.Set up your quick condition icons
.Decide how long it takes for the screen to time out
.Activate the password protection

Your Windows Phone will automatically identify whatever apps that have lockscreen support and listing them in your background app and notification options. Such apps include Amazing Conditions Hd, Twitter, Super Calendar, Fhotoroom, Instagram Beta and our ain WPCentral App.

Some of these apps include further customizations. For example, Amazing Weather HD allows y'all to cull your photo groundwork source and the corporeality of weather information displayed.

Third Party Customization

Along with the native Windows Phone lockscreen settings, in that location are several third political party Windows Telephone apps that let yous customize the amount and what data is displayed on your lockscreen. These lockscreen apps will cycle through the wallpaper images, display weather forecasts, stock data, news headlines and more.

LockMix, Awesome Lock and Today Widgets

Popular lockscreen customization apps include LockMix, Crawly Lock, Today Widgets and +Lockscreen. Merely to name a few.

You too have the Alive Lock Screen Beta app that lacks the ability to add custom information to your lockscreen but offers you a handful of layout design options other than the stock layout. However, based on our weekend poll, it doesn't announced many accept stuck with Live Lock Screen Beta due to its bugs and glitches (and that's putting information technology politely).

What is on your Windows Phone Lockscreen?

With all the lockscreen options bachelor, what layout works the best for you? Personally, I tend to go on things simple these days using messaging and email quick condition icons, calendar notifications and a photo background. During the Bound and Winter I often add weather to the lockscreen but to continue upwards on Spring astringent conditions or freak Southern snow storms.

If Weather (the Bing version) ever gets the power to use custom images, I will probably move to that as my background app. Then I tin accept advantage of the Glance back up that was recently put into place.

But what say you? Do you get for the minimum layout for your lockscreen or do y'all get all out and fill your lockscreen with as much information as possible? Let the states know in the comments what your layout is and any Windows Telephone lockscreen apps yous rely on.