I might be more interested in AOD if I could actually read the widgets I put on there. But since Apple limits me to one row of widgets with incredibly tiny font, I usually can’t read any of that stuff anyway, so the only thing I do actually end up checking for there is time (large font, yay!) and that I don’t need to do all the time. Ironically, the right swipe from Springboard reveals both battery and weather data widgets that are much larger and more legible, but those I cannot get onto my lock screen.
I get it, Apple is trying to keep a lot of the lock screen blank for notifications. I realize everybody loves notifications and being entertained by their phones constantly beeping about new incoming super important social media updates, but I really don’t. I’d prefer just few bits of information I define and expect in one easily accessible location such that I can actually read them. Oh well.
I can’t read any of these:
But this works great: