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Want to have a little fun with your iPhone?

Today’s pro tip shows how to set up a toggling Lock Screen that lets you pull off a cool wallpaper effect with just a tap.

The example at the top of our how-to shows a muscle car … tap on the Lock Screen, and the car’s headlights flip on. But you can take this fun effect as far as you want.

For instance, you could pick a photo of your boss and edit it to show lasers blasting out of his or her eyes. Then take the pair of images and set them up as a custom toggling iPhone Lock Screen. Just tap your iPhone to go from good boss to bad boss. It’s bound to be a hit at the next office party.

You can get as creative as you want with this little-known iPhone feature. Simply select two or more photos that work well together.

Read our how-to for easy instructions and a few insightful tips that will help you perfect this cool iPhone wallpaper hack.

Also in today’s newsletter:

• The names in Dell’s new computer lineup sound awfully familiar.

• New (and sometimes weird) products just keep flowing out of the big CES electronics fair in Las Vegas. ESR’s affordable new iPad stylus borrows some tricks from the Apple Pencil Pro. And Nanoleaf’s new LED light therapy mask looks like something out of a horror flick!

• It’s the new year, and my wife and I have been digging through piles of old photos and negatives in an attempt to declutter our house. This Kodak slide and film scanner looks like a pretty good way to digitize some fading memories — and it’s on sale for a limited time.

• The AirFly is a great little gadget that lets you connect your AirPods to in-flight entertainment systems. It works in gyms, too, and it’s also on sale now.

• On this day in 2004, Hewlett-Packard showed off its Apple collab, the iPod+HP. The device turned out to be a bit of a dud for HP, but a sneaky success for Steve Jobs and Apple.

• We got a lot of responses to yesterday’s poll about readers’ favorite browsers. Safari dominated, of course, but a lot of Cult of Mac readers seem to have switched to Arc, a relatively new browser based on Chromium and written in Swift. See below.

— Lewis Wallace, managing editor

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