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Landa Mahhala
When flowers no longer say what they should

Standardized romance has stopped meaning anything

Supermarket flowers, gas-station chocolates, the giant teddy bears that go on sale a week before February 14th and get returned to the warehouse the week after. Traditional romance has turned into marketing noise. Not because the gestures themselves are wrong, but because the system has standardized them until they're empty. Everyone gives the same thing. Everyone knows what they're about to be given. Everyone suspects it was bought in the last ten minutes at a shop still open on the way home. When all of romance has been standardized, what's left is the need to invent another language: one that can't be picked up in a rush at a gas station, one that demands thinking about this specific person and not about the 'couple' category. A well-made intimate digital gesture achieves exactly that. Not because it's more modern, but because it's personal again.

How

Izindlela Eziyi-15 Zothando Ezidijithali Ezibhekele Phambili

  1. Thumela isithombe esihle kwi-LockLove

    Yenza isithombe esikhethekile esibukeka ku-lock screen yomlingani wakho, ukuze umkhumbuze uthando lwakho njalo avule ifoni. — Sebenzisa umhleli womdwebo wama-LockLove ukwengeza umbhalo noma izitika ezizwakala othandweni lwenu.

  2. Thumela ama-video amnandi alesi sikhashana

    Sebenzisa i-Premium ye-LockLove ukuthumela amavidiyo amafushane azothokozisa umngane wakho lapho evula ifoni yakhe. — Hlela ukuthumela amavidiyo ngesikhathi esihle sakusihlwa noma ekuseni ukuze umnike usuku oluhle.

  3. Lungiselela ukuthumela ngezikhathi ezahlukene

    Sebenzisa umsebenzi wokuhlela ukulethwa kwamawallpaper lapho umngane wakho engalindeli, ngisho nasezinye izindawo zomhlaba. — Khumbula izikhathi zezwe lomlingani wakho ukugwema ukumhlupha ekuseni kakhulu noma ebusuku.

  4. Thumela izisha ezihlekisayo nezihambayo

    Shayela i-GIF noma isitika esihambayo ku-wallpaper ukuze uphakamise umsuku womlingani wakho. — Khetha izitika ezithokozisayo ezinikeza ukuzwakala kothando nenjabulo.

  5. Dlulisa imibhalo emincane yothando

    Sebenzisa umhleli wokuqamba ukuze ubhale amazwi anothando noma izisho ezithinta inhliziyo ku-wallpaper yakho. — Sebenzisa izifinyezo ezingathandwa ngokweqile ukuze amagama abe namaqiniso futhi ephakame.

  6. Beka i-Memory Wallpaper ezikhumbuzo zakho

    Yenza kube lula ukubuyisela isithombe sothando oluthile ngemva kokuba umngane wakho esibukile besebenzisa i-Memory Wallpaper. — Khetha izikhathi ezikhethekile ezifana nosuku lapho nihlangana khona noma umkhosi wesithandwa.

  7. Vusa isikrini ngesikhathi uthumela

    Nika umngane wakho isipho sokuvusa isikrini sivulekile ngesikhathi umyalezo wakho ufika, ukumenza azwe uthando olusheshayo. — Lena indlela enhle yokuwina inhliziyo ngaphandle kokuphazamisa ngezaziso.

  8. Yabelana ngama-wallpapers kuzo zombili izikrini

    Thumela izithombe ezifanayo ku-lock screen naso i-home screen ukuze umngane wakho ahlale ekhumbula kuwe. — Izithombe ezimibalabala nezithambile zenza umehluko omkhulu.

  9. Yenza umyalezo wakho ube yimfihlo ne-LockLove

    Isistimu yokuphephisa ye-LockLove iqinisekisa ukuthi kuphela nina bobabili enibonayo lezi zithombe — ikhombisa ubuhlobo obukhethekile. — Lokhu kuqinisa ukwethenjwa phakathi kwenu.

  10. Sebenzisa isimemo esikude ukuxhuma

    Xhuma kalula nomlingani wakho noma nikhona kude usebenzisa isimemo esinokuphelelwa isikhathi esiyizinsuku eziyisikhombisa. — Lena indlela enhle yokuvula amandla othando lapho ungahlangani mathupha.

  11. Thumela izithombe ezihlobene nezinhloso zakho

    Yabelana ngezithombe ezimilela imizwa yakho noma izinto enizithandayo ndawonye ukuze umngane wakho azizwe eduze nawe. — Gcina izithombe ziphila futhi zithinta inhliziyo.

  12. Phangela izenzo zakho zothando nge-LockLove

    Thumela izithombe zakho noma amavidiyo okwenza izinto ezimnandi ndawonye nge-wallpaper, ukhumbuze imizwa enakho ngothando. — Ungakhohlwa ukwengeza amazwi amnandi ukuze enze ukwazisa kube ngokoqobo.

  13. Londoloza futhi wabelane ngezingqophamlando zakho

    Gcina umlando wamawallpaper enithumele khona, uvulele umngane wakho ithuba lokubuyekeza izikhathi ezinhle ezidlule. — Lokhu kuyindlela enhle yokwakha izaba zomshado ezingasoze zalibaleka.

  14. Yenza umshado wakho ube mnandi ngaphakathi kwefoni

    Sebenzisa izici ze-LockLove ukwenza uthando lwakho lube yingxenye yempilo yansuku zonke yomlingani wakho ngendlela emangalisayo. — Phatha ukusebenza kwe-LockLove njengesipho esiqhubekayo somshado.

  15. Phakamisa ukuzwana ngaphandle kokuphazamisa

    Thumela izithombe zothando okungenamsindo ngqo ku-lock screen ukuze umlingani wakho azizwe ethandwa ngaphandle kokukhathazeka ngezaziso zomphakathi. — Ukuthumela 'izimpawu zotando zedijithali' kule ndlela kukhombisa ukuthi uyamhlonipha futhi uyamthanda.

Three people who changed language without changing affection

The private evolution of the gesture

Marta L. and Óscar F.

Avilés · 12 years together · he used to bring flowers every week

Óscar had spent a long decade buying a small bouquet on Fridays on his way out of work. It was a lovely gesture, but it was also an automatic one. Marta realized one Friday that that week's bouquet was already half-wilted by Monday. It wasn't the flowers' fault — the gesture had just stopped speaking. Marta showed him LockLove one Thursday night. The following Friday, instead of the bouquet, Óscar left her a wallpaper with a photo of the usual flower stand, this time empty, with a line written with his finger: today I brought you what was left inside me. Marta saw it at 5:40 p.m., in the car, stopped at a red light. She sat through two lights looking at the screen. She got home crying in a good way.

Leire J. and Valentín Q.

Utrecht · she hated digital romance · he insisted without insisting

Leire always said that digital romance was cold. Valentín didn't try to convince her. What he did was install LockLove without saying a word, pair up with her, and for three weeks send her small wallpapers with photos of absurd things he spotted around town: a crooked bike, a cat asleep on top of a radiator, a poorly written sign in a bakery. He never mentioned the wallpapers over WhatsApp. Neither did Leire. One Sunday night Leire said, you know I've been looking at my phone way more than I usually do, right, and Valentín smiled. Digital romance wasn't cold. It was that nobody had ever bothered to make it warm.

Aurora N. and Bruno W.

Stockholm · she's 67 · he's 71 · 44 years married

Their kids installed LockLove for them as an anniversary gift, half as a joke, not really expecting them to get into it. Aurora took four days to ask whether she could send Bruno an old photo she'd found in a drawer. Bruno, who'd spent the last ten years swearing he didn't understand phones, learned in one afternoon how to reply with another wallpaper. They've been going eight months now, sending each other scanned old photos with short lines written with trembling fingers. The last one Bruno left for Aurora was at 7:22 p.m. on a Saturday: a photo of them dancing in 1983 with the line 'this hasn't changed.' Aurora has kept it as her wallpaper a month later. She hasn't wanted to change it.

Essay

The death of flowers and the birth of the intimate digital gesture

Romance hasn't died. What has died is the channel it used to travel through. For a long century, romance lived inside a very specific collection of physical objects: cut flowers, handwritten letters, boxes of chocolate, poems copied in pencil. Those objects had weight, smell, texture, and a small cost in effort that made them valuable. The problem is that modern capitalism learned how to manufacture all of those objects en masse, sell them on February 13th on every corner, and drain them of meaning. A flower bought in a rush at eight in the evening from a gas station on the outskirts isn't a flower anymore — it's a debt being paid off.

Romance hasn't died: it's changed format.

A well-made intimate digital gesture gives romance back what the supermarket took from it: intimacy. A photo that only you and your partner have ever seen, cropped with your clumsy fingers, with a phrase written by your finger on the screen, placed over their lock screen at 10:18 p.m. on an ordinary Wednesday with no anniversary in sight — that's something you can't buy at any gas station in the world. It requires thinking about that specific person for several minutes. It requires a small but real effort. It requires inventing, even if badly. And the receiver notices: they don't see a product, they see a gesture. You can feel it.

The gesture is what matters, not the medium. The flowers of the 20th century were one medium. The wallpapers of the 21st century are another. What links both centuries is that someone took a little while to think about the other person and left it materialized in a visible object. The difference is that this object no longer has a smell, but it also doesn't wilt, and it lives in the only place in the world that this person will look at dozens of times a day. From Barcelona, with love: we like to think of LockLove as a silent flower shop, open 24 hours, just for two.

FAQ

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