Don’t let your iPhone or Android have all the fun: setting up lock screen widgets on PC is a piece of cake with Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update.
2025 has been a busy year for Microsoft, with the company tweaking and enhancing its flagship Windows 11 operating system in a number of key areas. Aside from (finally) throwing UI design aficionados a bone with some much-needed dark mode improvements, we’ve also received a revised Start Menu, upgraded battery iconography and percentage visibility options, a convenient drag dray interface for file sharing, and, naturally, a barrage of artifical intelligence tools and features.
One new Windows 11 feature that stands out to me in particular is the freshly-implemented ability to pin widgets directly onto the lock screen, which adds some glanceability to what is otherwise not the most useful interface element out there. Replacing the Windows 8-era „show app updates“ feature that very few apps ever tapped into, Microsoft has finally opened the floodgates in allowing full-blown widgets to be added right to the lock screen — a step in the right direction in my opinion.
