Lock Beam: your Lock Screen, made by your people

We look at our Lock Screens dozens of times a day, and almost nothing on them comes from the people we love. Lock Beam changes that.

You make something on your own screen and beam it. A photo goes on as a little print or a stamp, a note goes on in your own handwriting, and you can finish it with foil or a wax seal. It lands on their real Lock Screen in seconds. Or pick a time, and they wake up to it at seven.

It's made for small circles: a couple, best friends, a family, the four of you planning movie night at Sam's. A group can share one Lock Screen and add to it together, and you can make matching screens that change at the same time. When you beam to one person, you never see their screen, only what you sent.

Apple doesn't give apps a way to change someone's wallpaper, so getting a note onto a friend's Lock Screen at all took real problem solving. We're glad we kept at it.

Next: channels

The Lock Screen is the most looked-at screen we own, and so far only one person gets to decide what's on it. Channels open it up. Anyone will be able to publish one, an artist with living art that changes through the day, a team, a family, a favourite brand, and you'll subscribe with a tap and unsubscribe just as easily. You stay in charge of what lands on your screen.