Lock screen & wallpapers

The lock screen turns your 15.6" display into a calm, glanceable clock over a beautiful abstract wallpaper, while blocking stray taps. It's perfect for a car wash, handing the truck to a valet, or just keeping a passenger (or a bump in the road) from opening things you didn't mean to open. You pick the wallpaper from a set of seven built-in designs, and it's a separate choice from your home-screen background.

Where to find it: Tap the padlock icon at the far-left of the top status bar to lock. To choose a wallpaper: Header › gear icon (Settings) › App tab › Lock screen.

When you'll use it: Locking is handy any time you want the screen showing but untouchable — pulling through a drive-through or car wash, parking with the truck running, letting kids ride up front, or preventing accidental taps on rough terrain. The wallpaper picker is a quick one-time bit of personalization.

The screen, part by part

The lock button (in the top status bar)

• A padlock icon sits at the very left edge of the header, on its own so it's easy to reach and hard to hit by accident.
• When the screen is unlocked, it shows an open padlock in a muted gray. When locked, it becomes a closed padlock in your accent color.
• It's a large, round, fat-finger target — sized so a jostled, eyes-on-road tap still lands.

The lock screen itself (once engaged)

• Full-screen wallpaper — your chosen abstract gradient fills the entire display behind everything.
• Legibility shading — the wallpaper is gently darkened at the very top and bottom so text stays crisp, while the middle stays clear and colorful.
• Clock — centered near the top: a small lock glyph and the date (e.g. "Sunday, July 5") above a big, thin time readout.
• Now Playing card — if music, a podcast, or CarPlay/Android Auto audio is playing, a small card appears with a color swatch of the album art plus the track title and artist. If nothing is playing, this card is simply hidden.
• Unlock pill — a rounded "Unlock" button with an open-padlock icon near the bottom center. This is the only way off the lock screen, which is exactly the point.

The wallpaper picker (Settings › App › Lock screen)

• A short description ("Pick the wallpaper shown when the screen is locked.") followed by a horizontal strip of live wallpaper thumbnails you swipe through.
• Each thumbnail is a real, miniature preview of the wallpaper with its name beneath it.
• The currently selected wallpaper is outlined with a bright accent-colored border, and its name is shown in the accent color.

The seven wallpapers

All are code-generated "mesh" gradients — soft colored blobs floating over a deep base tone. There are no photos to load, so they render perfectly crisp at any size:

• Aurora — teal, blue, and violet (the default).
• Sunset — warm orange, magenta, and purple.
• Nebula — deep space purples and blues with a hint of pink.
• Ocean — layered teals and deep blues.
• Ember — glowing reds and warm orange.
• Mint — cool greens and aqua.
• Onyx — understated charcoal and slate grays.

How to lock the screen

1. From any page, tap the open-padlock icon at the far-left of the top status bar.
2. The padlock closes and turns your accent color, and the lock screen slides in over everything.
3. Any panels, menus, or pop-ups you had open are closed automatically, so nothing is left sitting behind the lock screen.

How to unlock

1. Tap the Unlock pill near the bottom center of the lock screen.
2. You return to whatever page you were on. (Locking is a single tap, but unlocking is always this deliberate button — so an accidental lock is trivial to undo, while an accidental unlock can't happen from a stray touch.)

How to change your lock-screen wallpaper

1. Tap the gear (Settings) icon in the top-right of the header.
2. Choose the App tab in the left-hand list.
3. Scroll to the Lock screen section.
4. Swipe the thumbnail strip left and right to preview the seven designs.
5. Tap the one you want. Its border and name turn your accent color to confirm, and it's saved instantly — no separate "apply" step.

Your choice sticks between drives and after a restart.

Tips & good to know

• Two separate wallpapers. The lock-screen wallpaper is chosen independently from your home-screen background — changing one never changes the other.
• Locking clears the deck. Engaging the lock automatically dismisses Settings, the app drawer, the weather page, the volume pop-up, expanded music, and any other open panel — so the lock screen always presents cleanly.
• Music keeps playing. Locking never stops your audio. If something's playing, you'll still see the track on the lock screen and it keeps going in the background.
• No PIN or password. This is a convenience guard against accidental touches, not a security passcode — anyone can unlock with the Unlock button. It's designed to keep the screen tidy and tap-proof, not to secure the truck.
• Live, not photos. Because the wallpapers are drawn by the app rather than loaded from image files, they stay sharp on the big 15.6" panel and take no time to appear.