iPad Lock Screen time font.

If any of you, here in this post thread, decide to go down the path of purchasing used, secondhand Apple devices, from individual Apple device sellers, here is how to avoid purchasing an Apple iOS/iPadOS device with user activation lock, in the future.

If you purchase any iPad, or any Apple iOS device, for that matter, used/second hand, online, or even in-person, make sure this iPad does NOT have user activation lock and has been properly reset for sale.

A properly reset for sale iPad should initially power up to an animated, multi-language “Welcome” screen.

DO NOT take the iPad seller's word that this iPad is user activation lock free!

We have seen plenty of used iOS device purchasers get scammed.

User Activation Lock can never be bypasss, circumvented or worked around IF there is no correct previous/original user information to be able to do so.

Apple doesn't get involved with ANY user activation locked, used/second-hand sold devices, either.

So, buyer beware!

If purchasing a used device in-person, power the iPad ON

If the iPad DOES NOT display the initial animated, multi-language “Welcome” screen, then pass on purchasing this iPad.

If the iPad powers up to any other screen, then forget purchasing this iPad.

You cannot trust that the seller actually has the correct needed info to properly reset the iPad back to factory settings right then and there before the actual purchase and exchange of money for the iPad, in question.

Pass on the device!

If you are purchasing this used iPad online ask the seller to provide multiple images, either online or be sent to you via email, showing this animated, multi-language “Welcome” screen of the interested in purchasing iPad model.

Even better, ask for a short video be sent to you showing this animated, multi-language “Welcome” screen, in action and in its entirety, posted to the online ad or emailed to you.

If the online iPad seller refuses any of these requests, pass on the iPad. DO NOT buy!

Good Luck to You!

Apple coders:

Please fix the Lock Screen customization issue for iPad os 16+

You can only change the font on iOS 16… NOT iPadOS 16.

Lock screen customisation is not an available feature of iPadOS 16.1.

While the future feature-set is unknown, as with previous major releases, additional features and capabilities are likley to be added over the iOS/iPadOS16 lifecycle.

Why not!??

The default clock font for iPad OS 16.1 is awful! Apparently it cannot be changed - way to go, Apple! SMH

What is the title of this thread?? We KNOW this!!

Yup, I can on my iphone but not my ipad!

People are making this sound like Apple isn't going to update this on Ipad very soon. Be patient, they will. They were slightly late rolling out 16 if you recall. They will get to it.

How do you change the horrible font on the Lock Screen time on an iPad. I can only find instructions for an iPhone.

To reiterate the earlier responses, clearly unread, Lock Screen customisation is not an available feature of iPadOS 16.1.x.

It doesn’t work well on the iPhone either… this is just stupid.

Ya I just want new clock fonts they look drip