iOS 18.2 lets you add the volume slider back to your iPhone’s Lock Screen

With the release of iOS 16 in 2022, Apple removed the volume slider from the iPhone Lock Screen except while using AirPlay. In iOS 18.2, however, Apple has decided to bring back that capability with a new “Always Show Volume Control” option in the Settings app.

Here’s how to find this new setting:

1. Open the Settings app
2. Tap “Accessibility”
3. Choose “Audio and Visual”
4. Toggle on or off the “Always Show Volume Control” option

With this toggle enabled, you will always see the volume slider on your Lock Screen when using headphones and the iPhone’s built-in speaker.

In addition to being an important Accessibility addition, the toggle also addresses a change that was first introduced in iOS 16. To this day, people still complain about that change on social media and Reddit. This new toggle in iOS 18.2 should come as a nice surprise for those people.

iOS 18.2 is currently in developer beta testing and is only available to phones that support Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and all iPhone 16 models). The update will likely be released to wider beta testers sometime in November and released to everyone in December.

More on iOS 18.2:

• iOS 18.2 beta now available with Genmoji, Image Playground, ChatGPT, iPhone 16 Visual Intelligence, and more
• iOS 18.2 beta shows the Apple Intelligence rollout isn’t really slow
• iOS 18.2 beta 1: Every new feature and change
• iOS 18.2 adds support for web apps with custom browser engine
• iOS 18.2 lets you ask Siri about what’s on your screen