Ponderize iPhone Lock Screens

Like a lot of other folks, our family really liked Devin Durrant’s talk at the October 2015 LDS General Conference.

Even though we liked the idea, we still stumbled a few times trying to put his advice into practice. We tried starting a group chat, and everyone coming up with their own scripture. But that didn’t work to well. We created memes and shared them via direct message on Instagram with each other. But, some of us aren’t very creative and didn’t participate fully. Plus, some of us aren’t using Instagram direct message every hour of every day, and so that conversation just kinda died.

But, we finally landed on something that works for us. Each week we create a new lock screen background which we all use on our individual devices. The lock screen is an easy setting to change (go to Settings > Wallpaper). Plus, as the lock screen background we see the thought/quote/scripture of the week multiple times every single day.

Here is the breakdown of how this actually gets put into practice: On Sunday, one of the kids prepares an FHE lesson for Monday night. They find out the scripture of the week and tell me what it is. I add some text over the top of a cool background image. Then, we share it out via our iMessage group. All of us put it as the lock screen for our devices.

This process seems to work pretty well for our family. We like having it on our lock screens because it means we see it several times per day. How many times per day do you unlock your phone? Probably a lot. Hopefully some of those good messages are getting burned into our brains enough that it will eventually make us good people.

Feel free to try these out and see if it works for you. We will be creating more of these, so let us know if you want to be added to our iMessage group to receive them on a weekly basis.