Typically, your iPhone lays flat on your desk or nightstand while it's locked and charging. To see any useful information, you'd need to pick it up, but a feature called StandBy Mode turns your iPhone ...

Take your lock screen customization a step further by creating a dedicated display for when your iPhone is charging. To achieve this, start by downloading a third-party clock app from the App Store.

OS 26 has brought a lot of new ways to customize your iPhone in the Settings app, here are the settings I changed on my iPhone right away.

Instead of simply dimming your Lock Screen wallpaper, the system blurs it by default in iOS 26. The tweak makes the clock and widgets stand out more, but it also defeats the purpose of displaying a ...