Personalization Rearrange Widgets on Lock Screen in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to rearrange widgets on the lock screen for your account in Windows 11.

You can stay informed and efficient with dynamic updates that bring weather, finance, sports, traffic, and app notifications right to your lock screen.

Starting with Windows 11 build 26100.3624 (24H2), build 22631.5261 (RP 23H2), build 22631.5262 (23H2),and build 27982.1 (Canary), support for lock screen widgets (previously referred to as “Weather and more”) arrives on devices in the European Economic Area (EEA). You can add, remove, and rearrange lock screen widgets such as Weather, Watchlist, Sports, Traffic, and more. Any widget that supports the small sizing option can be added. To customize your lock screen widgets, navigate to Settings > Personalization > Lock screen.

Starting with Windows 11 build 2610.5074 (24H2), more widget options and support for lock screen widget personalization (previously referred to as “Weather and more”) are rolling out. After initial launch with Windows Insiders in the European Economic Area (EEA), these updates are expanding to all regions. You can add, remove, and rearrange lock screen widgets such as Weather, Watchlist, Sports, Traffic, and more. Any widget that supports the small sizing option can be added.

If you do not have this feature available yet for the builds above you can enable it using the command below with ViVeTool to have the option in the tutorial available after a restart.

vivetool /enable /id:50179255,53672489



EXAMPLE: Widgets on lock screen (Win+L)





Here's How:

1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Personalization on the left side, and click/tap on Lock screen on the right side under. (see screenshot below)



3 Click/tap on Your widgets to expand it open. (see screenshot below)

4 Drag and drop the widgets to the order you want them to show on your lock screen.


5 You can now close Settings if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink