Android Depth Effect: Transform Your Photos with This Easy Trick 12:00 pm April 5, 2025 By Roland Hutchinson Want to get the iOS lock screen depth effect on your Android phone?

The lock screen is evolving with iOS 26 and Android 16, so I put them to the test to see which one does it better.

iOS 16 introduced what Apple calls "Depth Effect," a feature that moves parts of the time display behind an object in your lock screen wallpaper, making the lock screen more 3D-like.

The latest One UI 8 beta brings a clock widget for the lock screen. Similar to iOS’ depth effect for the clock, Samsung’s clock automatically wraps around faces in real or animated images.

Magic Portrait on Android 16 adds different frames and weather effects to the Pixel lock screen for a more dynamic, personalized look.

Google's introduced a new UI for customizing the Android 14 lock screen, plus a handy shortcut for accessing it. And we'll show you both here.

To recap, Google reintroduced lock screen widgets in the first quarterly release of Android 15, i.e. Android 15 QPR1. The company created a dedicated page for widgets called the “glanceable hub ...