How to Customize the Lock Screen on Windows 11?

When your Windows 11 PC is locked, you’ll see a lock screen with a clock, date, and a unique background image. The lock screen remains visible every time you restart your computer. Microsoft’s recognizable lock screen has been around for a long time and is now a crucial operating system component that most of us take for granted. It makes sense to include a personal touch so you can again appreciate the feature because we’re blind.

Windows 11 lets you customize the lock screen, including the background image, removing the tips and other elements on the screen. This risewindows article will show you how to customize the lock screen on Windows 11.

How to Customize the Lock Screen on Windows 11?

Step 1. Firstly, open the Settings app by pressing Windows + I keys from the keyboard.

Step 2. Select the Personalization category from the left sidebar when Windows Settings opens.

Instead of, to open the Personalization, right-click on the free space on your desktop and select Personalize.

Step 3. Then, click the Lock screen on the right sidebar in the Personalization settings window.

Step 4. Next, in Lock Screen settings, you can do the following:-

Personalize your lock screen: This lets you set a custom image or slideshow as your lock screen background.

Lock Screen Status: Displays a status widget on the lock screen.

Show the lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen: Using this, you can enable or disable the lock screen picture on the sign-in screen.

Here, click the drop-down box beside “Personalize your lock screen” and choose Picture, Slideshow, or Windows Spotlight to change your lock screen background picture. The default option is “Windows Spotlight,” which pulls images from the Microsoft website and automatically rotates.

So, when you select Picture, you will have an option to choose a picture from your computer. To do that, click the Browse photos button beside the “Choose a photo” option. Also, you can select a photo from the “Recent images.”

You can uncheck the box beside “Get fun facts, tips, tricks, and more on your lock screen if you don’t want to see tips and statements from Microsoft on your lock screen.” It will remove the words and tips from your lock screen, and you can see a clear background image.

Now, if you select “Slideshow,” you can browse for a folder of images from your PC to use as background. Like “Windows Spotlight” images, Windows will rotate between them automatically over time.

Afterward, you can select an app to show detailed status on the lock screen below, such as weather status, number of unread emails, and so on. For that, click the drop-down list and choose an item. If you want to see a clutter-free lock screen, select None.

The last option you may want to customize is the lock screen background image on the sign-in screen. , Then toggle switch to On/Off beside “Show the lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen” to show or hide the background image on your Windows 11 sign-in screen.

After that, you can safely close Settings. You can test the lock screen by pressing Windows+L on your keyboard or by clicking your account name in Start and selecting “Lock.”

That’s it for the article.

I hope this post will be helpful to you.

Good luck & Keep growing, guys.

Also, read How to Customize the Lock screen of Windows 10 to Display Slideshow?