This isn’t the first time social media users have raised an eyebrow over Trump’s phone lock screen, which was spotted displaying this same background in 2023 while he was golfing, BuzzFeed reports.

Trump was criticized again for the image in 2024 after eagle-eyed social media users noticed his phone lock screen in a photo that appeared to be taken on Air Force One. “Of course.

However, lock screen widgets won't automatically appear when running Android 16. It will be up to phone manufacturers, such as Samsung, to add the functionality through an update.

Android 15 adds support for lock screen widgets, but only on tablets. Here's what it'd look like if phones supported this feature.

Trump’s cell phone lock screen background image is a picture of himself. Not his wife, not his children, not his grandchildren … himself,” an X user said at the time.

The Post notes that a whole team of people assists with Trump’s social media production. If one of them can’t pry his phone out of his hand, maybe they can show him how to change his lock screen.

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 ...

Your phone’s lock screen displays notifications and alerts without unlocking it. You can also access some features directly from the lock screen. Lock screen notifications are turned on by ...

When the lock screen resurfaced in 2024, Gizmodo dug into the background (so to speak) of this particular photo, dating it to July 19, 2019, ‘from the height of Trump’s family separation ...