iPhoneFiction & humour
What you woke up to
The stack of messages waiting at 7am, with the group chat collapsed into one card. The shape everyone recognises.
Use this templateiPhone mockups
Fake iPhone notification & lock screen generator
Build an iPhone lock screen, a single banner or the pulled-down Notification Centre — frosted cards over your own wallpaper, the big thin clock with the date above it, and notifications from any app, stacked the way iOS stacks them.
Open the iPhone editorFree · no account · PNG and video
Start from an iPhone example
Each one opens in the editor as an editable, fictional scene — names, timings and interface details already set. Change a word, or change everything.
iPhoneScam awareness
The parcel-fee text, on the lock screen
How a redelivery scam actually arrives — before you unlock. Built for security-awareness slides.
Use this templateiPhoneWork
Launch morning, one banner at a time
A single notification dropping in over whatever you were doing — the banner shape, for demo videos and app store shots.
Use this templateHow to make an iPhone mockup
Start from an example
The three above are the ones people ask for: the pile of messages you woke up to, a parcel-fee scam arriving before you unlock, and a single launch-day banner.
Pick the screen
Lock screen, banner or the pulled-down shade. They are three different layouts, so choose the one you actually want rather than cropping a lock screen down later.
Set the wallpaper and clock
Upload a wallpaper or pick one, then type the time and date. Both are free text so a 3am screenshot is as easy as a 9:41 one.
Add the notifications
Each one has an app, a title, a message and a time. The app decides the icon; choose Other and type a name for anything without a logo. Set a grouped count to stack them.
Export
PNG at 1× free, up to 3× on Pro, with or without the iPhone bezel, and onto a sized canvas if it is going into a video.
How the iPhone interface is put together
Our iPhone skin is rebuilt from the real interface in code rather than traced from a screenshot, so the details that make it recognisable survive at export resolution. Here is what those details actually are.
The cards are frosted, not grey
iOS notification cards are translucent with a heavy blur behind them, so the wallpaper shows through and every card picks up whatever is behind it. A solid grey card is the single most common tell of a fake iPhone screenshot — that is Android's material, not Apple's, and the difference is obvious even to someone who has never thought about it.
A big thin clock, with the date above it
Apple's lock clock is enormous and set at a light weight, centred, with the small date line above rather than below. Android does the mirror image: a heavy left-aligned clock with the date underneath. Getting this one arrangement right places the screenshot instantly.
The app name is not in the card
iOS shows a small squircle app icon and then goes straight to the sender or the title. It never prints the app's name inside the card the way Android does. If your mockup has a row reading “WhatsApp · now” at the top of the card, it is an Android screenshot wearing an iPhone.
Groups stack, they do not list
Several notifications from one app collapse into a single card with the shoulders of one or two more peeking out beneath it. Set a grouped count here and the stack is drawn. Android takes the same number and writes “+N more” inside the card instead.
The torch and camera close the screen
A lock screen ends in two circular buttons above the home indicator. Without them the image reads as a wallpaper with cards floating on it, which is what most fakes look like at a glance.
Banner and Notification Centre are different screens
A banner is one notification arriving over whatever you were doing; Notification Centre is the pulled-down list with a smaller clock and no torch row. They are separate layouts here rather than a style switch, because that is what they are on the phone.
What people use iPhone mockups for
- App store screenshots and product demos
- Security-awareness and phishing training
- Memes and reaction content
- Fiction, scripts and storyboards
- Onboarding and push-notification design reviews
- Slide decks that need a believable phone
Questions about iPhone mockups
- Can I use an app that isn't in your list?
- Yes, and most people do. Choose “Other” and type a name — a bank, an airline, a delivery firm, a dating app — and the card gets a lettered tile instead of a logo. We do not invent a logo for a company we do not have a mark for, because a wrong logo is worse than no logo.
- How do I make a stack of messages from one app?
- Set the Grouped count on that notification. iPhone draws the extra ones as shoulders behind the card. The same field on Android writes “+N more” inside the card, so one scene reads correctly on either phone.
- Can I change the time and date?
- Both are free text. 9:41 is Apple's own marketing time and it is the default, but a screenshot about being woken at three in the morning needs 03:14, so nothing is locked.
- Can I use my own wallpaper?
- Yes — upload an image or pick from the built-in library. A darkening wash is applied over it automatically so the white clock stays readable on a bright photo, which is exactly what iOS does.
- Does it do Android too?
- Yes, and it is built from Android's own interface rather than recoloured: solid Material You cards with the app-name row, a left-aligned clock, At a Glance, and a punch-hole camera instead of the Dynamic Island. Most notification generators are iPhone-only.
- Can I fake a notification from a real person?
- Inventing a message and attributing it to a named real person is impersonation, and our terms prohibit it. Parody, teaching, fiction and design work are fine. Every example on this page uses fictional people and companies.
- Is there a watermark?
- Free downloads carry a small SIMULATED · socialmock.com label, burned into the pixels, at 1× resolution. Pro removes the label and unlocks 2× and 3×. You can also switch the label on yourself at any tier, which is worth doing if you are publishing somewhere a viewer might take the image at face value.
- Can I export it for a Reel or a Story?
- Yes. The download dialog can place the phone on a 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9 canvas with a background and a margin, which is what a lock-screen mockup usually needs when it is going into a video.
Use these responsibly
Everything made here is simulated. SocialMock has no connection to iPhone and cannot read, send or alter a real message. Do not use a mockup to impersonate anyone, pass it off as a genuine screenshot, or present it as evidence in any legal, workplace or academic matter — see our Acceptable Use policy. For general information about legal risk, read is it legal to fake a screenshot? If you publish somewhere a viewer might mistake it for real, switch on the “Simulated” label before exporting.
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