Apple will bring a load of new iPhone features to your iPhone with iOS 26, but iOS 18.2 also brought a ton of changes to your ...

Controlling volume from your iPhone’s Lock Screen used to be easy, with a dedicated slider available during audio playback. Apple removed that option back in iOS 16, but now you can get it back ...

Prior to 2022, the volume slider was a familiar presence on the Lock Screen whenever media was playing. When Apple released iOS 16, however, it removed the control without explaining the reason.

In 2022, Apple removed the iPhone’s volume slider that surfaced on the lock screen when playing media. The company has now revived lock screen volume controls through the iOS 18.2 update.

Hold while touching, and the volume slider takes up the entirety of your screen. But if you want a third way to manage volume on iPhone, here comes the mind-blowing iPhone trick I mentioned.

The computer’s volume slider already does the logarithmic conversion. A Seeed Studio Xiao ESP32S3 lives at the heart of this thing, emulating a Bluetooth gamepad using a library by LemmingDev.

Google will add separate volume sliders for ringtones and notifications in a future Android build. Currently, only one slider controls the volume for both functions.

After two years of being MIA, the on-screen volume slider returns to the iPhone's lock screen — if you know which setting to adjust in iOS 18.2.

After two years of being MIA, the on-screen volume slider returns to the iPhone's lock screen — if you know which setting to adjust in iOS 18.2.