How to Add a Quran Verse to Your iPhone Lock Screen

Your Lock Screen is the screen you see most often. With a widget, it can show a new verse of the Quran every day, in Arabic with its translation, without opening any app. Here's how to set it up.

What you need

• An iPhone with iOS 16 or later (Lock Screen widgets arrived in iOS 16).
• The free Ayah Widget app from the App Store.

Step 1: Set up the app

1. Install Ayah Widget and open it once.
2. Choose your language and the moods you'd like verses for, such as hope, patience or gratitude.

Opening the app once matters: widgets only appear in the widget list after the app has run at least one time.

Step 2: Add the verse to your Lock Screen

1. Unlock your iPhone with Face ID or Touch ID, but stay on the Lock Screen.
2. Touch and hold the Lock Screen until Customize appears, then tap it.
3. Tap Lock Screen.
4. Tap the widget area below the time (it says Add Widgets if it's empty).
5. Scroll to Ayah Widget, or search for it, and tap the widget you want.
6. Close the widget panel and tap Done.

The Lock Screen has limited space, so the larger rectangular widget is the best fit for a verse.

Step 3: Add a bigger verse to your Home Screen

1. Touch and hold an empty area of your Home Screen until the apps jiggle.
2. Tap Edit in the top corner, then Add Widget. On iOS 16 and 17, tap the + button instead.
3. Search for Ayah Widget.
4. Swipe to choose small, medium or large, then tap Add Widget.
5. Drag it where you want it and tap Done.

The medium and large sizes have room for the full Arabic text and the translation.

If the widget doesn't appear

• Open the app once, then try again.
• Check your iOS version in Settings, General, About. Lock Screen widgets need iOS 16 or later.
• Restart your iPhone if the widget list still doesn't show Ayah Widget.

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