You can get rid of the bottom set of widgets, but that's about it. You can't get rid of the time (only change its looks), and you can only change what's displayed above the time.
You’re welcome! Apple didn’t really make this all that intuitive, frankly. Still find it odd you can’t adjust all this from the Settings app, but there we are!
There are only three sets of widgets on the lock screen, currently:
The day of the week widget. You cannot delete this widget, but you can change it to something else.
The time. You cannot delete this widget, but you can change its looks.
The funky set of four round widgets: chrome microphone (?), gmail (?), chrome private browsing (?), and something else. You can delete all of these or change them to something else.
Everything else on the lock screen is not a widget and cannot be deleted or changed.
MangyCanine t1_j9rwqs2 wrote
You can get rid of the bottom set of widgets, but that's about it. You can't get rid of the time (only change its looks), and you can only change what's displayed above the time.