Album art looks really good on iOS 16’s Lock Screen. I like how it takes up most of the screen and how the background blends in.
Album art plays such a key role in exuding a record’s vibes. Over the last 5 years, in the previous releases of iOS (iOS 11 to 15), the now playing on the lock screen was pretty boring. Album art was tiny. It just didn’t do justice to the artist. But finally blowing it up again like this was a good design decision. I imagine this to be exactly the kind of feature that Steve Jobs would’ve loved. And come fall, when iOS 16 is publicly released, I think music lovers will appreciate it greatly.
Whoever is heading up product on the Lock Screen team at Apple has a super exciting job for the next little while. I think it’s some of most impactful work you can do in tech — extremely high-touch real estate that hundreds of millions of people are going to interact with hundreds of times a day. How can you make their lives more convenient? Every little customization option, every little pixel and how content is distributed through it matters so much here.