Next Lock Screen

88,435

Microsoft Corporation Productivity

PEGI 3

Winner of "Best lock screen app for Android" award -- AndroidPIT, Best Android apps of 2016 (https://www.androidpit.com/best-android-apps)

Next Lock Screen is the ultimate lock screen for busy professionals. Next helps protect your phone from unwanted access by others, and you are instantly more productive. It is an excellent productivity locker app and companion for your everyday life.

Perform the following functions, directly on your lock screen:
- Custom unlock: protect your phone with a PIN or pattern code. Fingerprint unlock is available on hardware-supported devices. Smart lock based on location (home and/or work).
- Notifications: view missed calls, text messages, and message notifications from apps like Facebook, Gmail and WhatsApp.
- People: easily call or text your favorite contacts from the lock screen.
- Apps: launch your favorite apps with our built-in app launcher.
- Tools: quick access to the Camera, Flashlight, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and more.
- Weather: check the local weather with automatic updates.
- Calendar: view your upcoming events, complete with time and location. Receive summaries on the meetings you have for today and tomorrow.
- Music player: control your favorite songs and playlists. Next supports the most popular music apps such as Spotify, Audible and Pandora.
- Wallpapers: choose your own image or from our gallery of photos. Select the Bing Wallpaper of the day to receive a beautiful new image on your screen every day.

Next Lock Screen is available worldwide and supports the English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese languages.

Featured by

Thurrott.com: "Microsoft this weekend updated its Next Lock Screen app for Android, a personalized lock screen replacement that lets you see your calendar, missed calls, email and text messages at a glance, and then act on them without unlocking your device....This really does look sweet."
(https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/android/457/microsoft-android-next-lock-screen)

AndroidPIT: "Microsoft's new philosophy of going cross-platform and cross-OS with its software has been paying dividends, and Next Lock Screen is another fine example of Microsoft's design acumen complementing the Android ecosystem."
(https://www.androidpit.com/best-android-lock-screen-apps)

Android Guys: "Next Lock Screen does a great job adding productivity to your lock screen. It is an app that anyone who wants more functionality should place at the top of their lists."
(http://www.androidguys.com/2015/05/18/prioritize-your-lockscreen-with-next-lock-screen-monday-makeover/)

LifeHacker: "Next puts important info—like your upcoming meetings, missed calls, and text messages on your lock screen for instant access. You can swipe notifications away to dismiss them (similar to the notification dropdown), and swipe down to unlock the screen."
(http://lifehacker.com/next-lock-screen-adapts-notifications-and-shortcuts-to-1649930701)

About Next
Next Lock Screen is a Microsoft Garage project brought to you by the creators of Arrow Launcher, the simple, personal launcher for Android. The Microsoft Garage turns fresh ideas into real projects. Learn more about The Garage at: http://microsoft.com/garage

Next is community-driven!
Join our vibrant Beta community at: http://aka.ms/nextbeta
Vote on the best feature areas at: http://nextlockscreen.uservoice.com/

By installing this app, you agree to the Terms of Use (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=246338) and Privacy Policy (http://go.micrsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=248686).

Reviews

4.2

88,435 total

5 51,279

4 19,737

3 9,080

2 3,766

1 4,573

Igor Cebrucean

Really like the app. A few tweaks are needed though 1. Add the ability to customize toggles. It would be really great to remove/move/add some toggles. Right now its limites to the ones from the box 2. Add the ability to edit apps. Right now you have the option to have 10 aps. It would be great to have tne ability to have onely one row of apps if we don't need all 10 3. Sometimes when unlocking the phone, the default lock screen of the s7 is seen for a spli second. Looks like a glitch

Caleb Bryant

This is a great lockscreen. Definitely better than the default one. But it lacks the most important feature of all! I cant get the pattern or dialpad on the main lock screen without swiping. I downloaded this app to reduce how many swipes were necessary bc the newer android default lockscreen now requires a swipe before viewing the lock pattern. Unfortunately this app is no different than the default lock screen in this regard.

Bisiriyu Yusuf

Nice application! Works perfectly with my phone and other applications but the music app is not active on the lock screen... All the same I still love it, but I will appreciate when if the developer work on the music part. It will be awesome. Thank you

Joshua Danielle

I would rate it 5 if only you change how you press the numbers and write your pattern, i hope that you can make it look like an android L or higher and make the animations while pressing the numbers and writing your pattern like the android L and also i can make my pin longer than 4 numbers cause its not that secure so i hope you can make us add more than 4 numbers in the pin. But all around the look is perfect, performance is great and i hope you can think about what i just said. Thank You.

Timothy Rosario

Great lock screen notifier. Only thing I would fix is the delay it has to actually light up the screen for notifications. It does light it up but take about a 5 second delay until it does light up. Fix that and this app is perfect for lighting up screen for notifications that aren't stock for some phones that don't have that functionality.

Mangesh Kute

Overall very nice app. But sometimes the fingerprint lock does'nt works with my Xiaomi mobile. I have to manually slide down Next Lockscreen & then unlock phone by placing finger.. Kindly fix this issue , as its annoying.

User reviews

Igor Cebrucean March 13, 2017

Caleb Bryant June 4, 2017

Bisiriyu Yusuf April 15, 2017

Joshua Danielle June 3, 2017

Timothy Rosario March 12, 2017

Mangesh Kute June 10, 2017

Daniel Dolatabadi February 26, 2017

This app is great but the compatibility with other apps is poor. I think the reason is that you cannot find this app in the lockscreen setting. I'm using other apps such as textra as my main messenger. Textra has an option of showing a meesage in a floating bubble but it is not working correctly with next. I modified it to show those bubbles only when my phone is unlocked. Since next is not a systemic lockscreen, this option is working poorly. Please fix this. Thak you.

Stuart Clark March 17, 2017

It's good, however each time I set my location to Work and change the launch icons, they replace the Home and No Location icons I've already set. Ignoring that functionality, I still prefer this to my original lock screen. Update, I've used this for a while now and I like it, however bugs force me to lower my review and remove it. If you have a physical camera button on your phone, this will prevent the camera from loading. There are tons of reports on the Internet dating back years. I can live with the app issue but not without the camera.

May 7, 2017

It looks really good on my phone. And performs flawlessly. But I'd like to have a second sim support in compact status bar area and network indicator too. And one thing, I don't really feel any use of the power saving mode. It doesn't save power on my phone all it does is dim my display so that I can't see anything. Please help.

Andrew Miller March 14, 2017

Great app only wish is i could get it on my tablet as well. Locks almost imedietly even if you reboot your phone. When you press power button locks immedietly and when you reboot the device you only get 2 seconds before it locks before your eyes. Love it very lightweighted and great to use. Never been happier with other lock apps untill i found this. Thankyou please make avaliable for tablets if possible :)

Trang Phan May 10, 2017

After trying countless screen lock apps because I had to uninstall CM locker. (my favorite locker until it started to mess with my phone). This is the second best out there. I was looking for one where I could read my notifications easily and doesn't get confusing if you have a lot. This one beats the bunch. 4/5 I would give it 5/5 if there was a way to reply directly from the lock screen and some more customization options.

Sumit Kawate June 7, 2017

Everything is good & beautiful. But need following major changes. 1) notification on system status bar is not working. So make them available when we slide down from system status bar panel. 2)As our phone supports double tap. So while unlocking device it works fine. But while locking, it's not working at all. So you must add the double tap feature on anywhere of lockscreen to lock the device. 3)another change which may require is sliding down or sliding up to unlock the device or to go towards lock. So, there may be some option either sliding down or sliding up.

Baivab Jena May 12, 2017

It is arguably the best lockscreen app. Feature rich and always stable. The only problem i regularly encountered,whenever i locked my phone,and press the button to unlock it,it always flashes the last open screen for a second,then the lockscreen comes up. Please try and make that transition fluid. Wouldn't want to give away my privacy. Fix it in the next update please.

Soorena Aban March 24, 2017

Overall a good app. But the idea of editing shortcuts inside the lock screen while inside the lock screen or worse viewing all the installed apps in the phone without passing a lock is a very stupid idea. The app gives the option to " hide" the apps one by one, considering that there's no good reason to access a list of apps within the lock screen at least the app should give the option to hide all apps by default or better yet disable this feature entirely.

LOL April 3, 2017

I love the app, however it is useless. I cannot get notifications to appear on screen due to a bug that doesn't allow me to enable notifications. If this bug is fixed I will rate the app 5/5, however with the bug still being present, the app completely useless.

Stephen Fapsalot March 7, 2017

It works well. And it's the best lock screen I have had so far. But my only concern is that it does not show all of my notifications on the lock screen until an hour passes. Mainly my messaging is affected on my Galaxy x6 non-rooted up to date software

Chero March 20, 2017

Really great lock screen. But I have one huge improvement and a bug: Add Trusted Devices in Smart Lock, not only trusted places. Sometime the screen turns on and isn't locked. My apps/messages, i.e. Whatsapp, were able to be viewed. Seems to be a problem with the always-on (?) notification, because there was an icon in the notification bar.

Abigail Espiritu April 4, 2017

I really liked this screen lock app but it just has a small problem. When I try to unlock my phone, you can see the default lock screen for like a really short time but I don't like it. Pls fix that because I really like the design of this lockscreen. Pls do that. And one thing that I really love about this is you can see the album art cover of the music being played, although can you make it like a little bigger, which minimizes automatically when there are other notifications? I would really love that feature! Please and thanks 😊

Chris B March 5, 2017

I like being able to see the weather on the lock screen. I also like being able to go into a specific message or app straight from the lock screen. Problems: I have never been able to get the camera to launch from the lock screen. Tap it? Hold it down? Doesn't matter, it never launches. Despite being enabled in the settings, Google hangouts doesn't show details. It only shows who the message is from.

Kisha Munson May 28, 2017

Lately, the screen won't light up when a notification comes in. The setting is turned on. Just a few suggestions: -Have options of opening lock screen from different directions (instead of just pulling it down). Pulling it down is just awkward. -Show the alarm on your phone, on the lock screen. -Have an option to have the day and date written out, along with being abbreviated. -Allow user to choose from other weather provider. Thanks

Siva Subramani April 4, 2017

It works fine..... But at sometimes when I turn on the screen I remains unlocked.... I used many third party lockscreens. But it's not as secure as the system built-in locker. Still searching for a new efficient & secure lockscreen...

Kristýna Truplová May 9, 2017

I think the app still has a lot of bugs and needs some updates - sometimes it wouldn't even unlock my phone, i had to press the power button as if i wanted to turn off my phone, and afterwards it would unlock. Also sometimes when i wanted to lock my phone, the lock screen wasnt even there, it was just my home screen, even though the screen turned off, it locked the phone after a few secs. I tried ZUI Locker and for me it works a lot better than this app. But the design is awesome and some of the toggles are very helpful.

Kushagra Shukla April 13, 2017

This is a wonderful locker and I'd recommend it to anyone. It has a few problems too though. The app selection from the lock screen is really buggy and I hope to see an update to fix it really soon. Rest is great, can't ask for more.

Jeremy Harnum February 25, 2017

When I receive new Snapchat messages, it bypasses my lock screen and gives access to my home screen without having to enter a password/PIN. This is a major security flaw and makes me nervous to use the app. Please work on a fix!

Astrailiaous SemptiCreed April 2, 2017

Finally a lock screen that locks on boot and is better than zui locker! Although it locks on boot, the delay is about 5 seconds, get it down to 1 or no seconds and you've got yourself 5 stars! (Edit) It actually works faster than 5 secs on boot so I give 5 stars now

paul olbison May 31, 2017

Pointless. Its a shame as this is the best of all the lockscreens but it has a major flaw on the galaxy s5. Even if you activate a pin code, if i use the camera shortcut it takes me to the camera but once you exit the camera it takes me straight into the phone with full access. Making the pin lock pointless

Justin de Zeeuw June 4, 2017

This was a very nice and good lock screen, however there is no way to delete this app Lately I decided to go to another lock screen and wanted to uninstall Next. I noticed it was a device administrator so I had to remove it from DA's. Then when I tried to do that, settings crashed. I tried multiple times and it keeps crashing. THERE IS NO WAY TO DELETE THIS APP. please help me with this, Microsoft

Aram April 11, 2017

Will you stop with the annoying notifications for tips! Yes I know my fingerprint isn't enabled, yes I know I can enable to get text notifications on the lock screen. You don't need to tell me that every single time on the lock screen.

QkiZ MonsteR March 20, 2017

Insecure. You can really bypass PIN code screen. When you run music player with own lockscreen it is overlayed on Next screen, and you see nav stripe with home button. When you tap on home button you will see launcher. Can't disable quick settings.

Tim White May 11, 2017

Has a lot of promise and looks nice but too many bugs for me right now. Can't double tap home button to quick open camera. Touching a text message does not open text app. Can't open Samsung pay while screen is off. Love the 5 app shortcuts tho.

Bob Hosken May 16, 2017

Another extremely useful app from Microsoft. Since I am still on Android 4.4 (KitKat) it adds a number of features I would not have otherwise.

James Arendt March 24, 2017

This app could b awesome but it won't let u deny it GPS info and still function. If u do deny GPS permission it constantly screws with your lock screen apps. I'm 1 staring this thing b/c not only does that make this app no better than a lock screen, it also frustrates me. If the devs would just let u turn off location customization I'd b thrilled and 5 star this thing all day.

billy shippam April 22, 2017

Next keeps asking me to enable notifications which I've done over and over again but something keeps disabling it. It would be 5 stars if it wasn't for that. Any ideas how I can fix it?

Davide Carozza April 3, 2017

Love it. Learns your behavior based on location, tons of useful enhancements. But it needs to keep track of the times the user corrects the location--it frequently gets confused and tells me I am at work. Since it determines location based on the WiFi connection it should be able to label multiple connections as work so the home/work/neither triad works better.

IELTS Tips April 2, 2017

I have a problem with lockscreen notification. It works for a couple of days but then stops and emails appear the come blocked - meaning I can only download them manually. My phone doesn't use pure android. It's called star OS. I have a similar problem with all notifications from all manner of lockscreens. Is it a setting issue or lockscreen notifiers don't work properly with this OS?

DB Paripsa May 5, 2017

This app is almost perfect...But I'm disappointed how it downsamples my custom lockscreen wallpapers which looks distinctly lower quality...Why degrade the quality of wallpapers? And the most frustrating part is, there is no privacy settings for notifications. How can a lockscreen app just skip such a vital feature? Please fix this!

Colton Duvall March 17, 2017

1 problem. If I lock my phone and the unlock it a second later, the lock screen will not show up and I can do whatever on the phone without typing a password

Yousuf Syed May 29, 2017

On my galaxy s8, I can put my finger on the scanner with the phone 9ff and it lun9cos, but not with next lock screen. I also see a delay with the scanner with next. I also don't like how Twitter notifications overflow when Twitter itself "groups" notifications.

Bryan Peña May 8, 2017

It freeze sometimes and doesn't work well with marshmallow... Also need to improve the security settings (enable more than 4 pin codes to unlock and pic of people who try to unlock it) the rest is nice

Q May 29, 2017

If you want to use your fingerprint scanner you still have to use your system lock. Just using the fingerprint scanner will bypass both lock screens but then what's the point if you wake up your phone with the power button you have to first go past the next one and then you have to go past your system lock screen Unless you leave your system one unlocked in that case you can't use your fingerprint scanner

What's New

What's new:

- Fix crashes found on Android 7.x

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Updated

February 27, 2017

Installs

1,000,000 - 5,000,000

Current Version

3.11.5

Requires Android

4.1 and up

Content Rating

PEGI 3

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