We have a more detailed look at Android’s upcoming lock screen widgets feature.
We previously showed off what lock screen widgets look like in an earlier Android 15 beta release, but we’ve decided to revisit it to see how it’s changed.
The feature is coming along nicely, though it’s still only targeting tablets.
The stable release of Android 15 is right around the corner, but one of the features that’ll be missing from the initial version is lock screen widget support. That’s right: Google is preparing to bring back an Android feature it killed off nearly a decade ago. In our initial hands-on with lock screen widgets in Android 15, we mentioned that the feature was quite buggy. It’s been a couple of months, though, so we decided to revisit the feature to see how it’s evolved. While there are still some kinks left for Google to iron out, the Android 15 lock screen widgets feature looks significantly more refined than when we last showed it off in April.
To recap, we first reported back in January that Google was looking to bring your Android widgets back to the lock screen. At the time, we didn’t know if this capability would be available for all Android devices or only on Android tablets. With the release of Android 15 Beta 1 in April, though, we not only got our first look at this in-development feature but also confirmation that Android 15 will only support lock screen widgets on tablets.
The Android 15 lock screen has a hidden page where you can place widgets.
