Make your iPhone your own

You can tailor your iPhone to your own interests and preferences. Personalize your Lock Screen, change the sounds and vibrations for calls and messages, keep features like the flashlight or calculator handy, adjust the text size, and more.

Keep your favorite features handy

Some iPhone features—like the flashlight, timer, or calculator—are just a swipe away in Control Center. To quickly open Control Center on an iPhone with Face ID, swipe down from the top-right edge; on an iPhone with a Home button, swipe up from the bottom of the screen.

You can add more features—like the alarm or magnifier—to Control Center in Settings > Control Center.

The Add New Wallpaper screen showing a gallery of wallpaper choices for customizing the iPhone Lock Screen, in categories such as Featured, Suggested Photos, and Photo Shuffle. At the top are buttons for adding photos, people, a photo shuffle, emoji, and a weather screen background to the Lock Screen.

Personalize your Lock Screen

You can showcase a favorite photo, add filters, and widgets, and even change the font of the date and time.

To get started, touch and hold the Lock Screen, then tap at the bottom of the screen. Browse the gallery of options, then tap one to customize its appearance. When you’ve created a Lock Screen that you like, tap Add, then tap Set as Wallpaper Pair.

Widgets in the iPhone widget gallery, including the Photos, Calendar, and Weather widgets.

Add widgets to your Home Screen

Widgets let you easily see the information that’s most important to you, like the current weather and upcoming calendar events.

To add a widget, touch and hold the background on any Home Screen page until the apps jiggle, then tap .

The Sounds and Haptics screen in Settings. The onscreen options from top to bottom are Headphone Audio and Headphone Safety, Ringtone and Alert Volume with a slider to adjust the volume and the option to change the volume with buttons, and Sounds and Haptic Patterns including Ringtone and Text Tone.

Choose sounds and vibrations

iPhone can play different sounds and vibrations for phone calls, text messages, calendar alerts, and other notifications.

Go to Settings > Sounds & Haptics (or Sounds, on some iPhone models). You can also change the sounds iPhone plays for certain people; in the Contacts app , tap a person’s name, tap Edit, then tap Ringtone or Text Tone.

The Accessibility screen in Settings showing the following built-in features, from top to bottom: Vision features including VoiceOver, Zoom, Display and Text Size, Motion, Spoken Content, Audio Descriptions, and Physical and Motor features including Touch and Face ID and Attention.

Use built-in accessibility features

iPhone provides many accessibility features to support your vision, physical and motor, hearing, and learning needs. Change text size, make it easier to use the touchscreen, control your iPhone with just your voice, and more.

To customize these settings, go to Settings > Accessibility.

The Privacy and Security screen in Settings.

Check privacy settings

iPhone is designed to protect your privacy and information. You can grant or deny apps permission to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites. You can also use Safety Check to review and update which people and apps have access to your information. Go to Settings > Privacy & Security, then tap Tracking or Safety Check.

Want to learn more? Check out, Create a custom iPhone Lock Screen, Add widgets on iPhone, Get started with accessibility features on iPhone, and Use the built-in privacy and security protections of iPhone.

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