Customize and Add Apps to the Lock Screen of Windows 10

This guide provides a clear, practical overview of customize and add apps to the lock screen of Windows 10, with useful context, important details, and straightforward takeaways for everyday readers.

Add apps to the lock screen

In addition to changing the picture of the lock screen, You can also add apps to it for added convenience. Specific ways are as follows:

• Go to Windows 10's Settings and then select Personalization
• In the Personalization screen, select Lock screen to open the lock screen settings.
• Here, you'll see two options for adding an application, including Choose an app to show detailed status and Choose an app to show quick status.

• The first option is the main option and allows you to select only one application. When selected, the app displays detailed status and notifications on the lock screen. 
• Second option You have more than one application selected, but it will show only brief notifications.
• You add the application by pressing the + button and select from the list available from Microsoft.

You should add the apps you use often to the lock screen because if you add apps that rarely use Windows 10, you will not display notifications. In addition, currently this feature only supports system applications, not other applications yet.

More customizations for the lock screen on Windows 10

Step 1. Choose the photo displayed on the lock screen

With the lock screen on Windows 10, You can set it up to show photos from:

• Windows spotlight - automatic system, randomly grabbing images from the internet of Microsoft
• Picture - Display a picture of your choice
• Slideshow - Display many pictures of your choice in slideshow format

Step 2. If you like the wallpaper on your home screen, you can also set it to show or not to show on lock screen.

Step 3. In Cortana> Lock screen, you can set up to use Cortana even when the device is still in lock mode.

Step 4. You can set Firefox to display the multimedia controls of Firefox on the lock screen. Here's how to do it:

• Open Firefox then type about: config in the address bar and press Enter
• Then when a new window appears, you enter the word Media into the search box 
• You navigate to the entry named media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled
• By default, this item is set to the value False, please change it to True to enable
• Close Firefox and restart it to save changes

Good luck.