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Windows 11’s lock screen will soon support customizing which widgets appear.

The change entered testing with Windows Insiders recently with the release of Windows 11 Build 22635.4870.

Windows 11 lock screen widgets

You’ll soon be able to customize the widgets that appear on the Windows 11 lock screen.

Microsoft outlines all the changes and fixes in arecent blog post.

Unfortunately, the selection of widgets for Windows 11 is poor.

The library of widgets includes Tic-Tac-Toe and other widgets that aren’t especially useful.

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I assume the widgets people place on the lock screen will focus largely on glanceable information.

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