A toy of the Eleventh Doctor's version was seen in "Light Echoes", an edition of "The Sky at Night" broadcast on BBC4 on Wednesday 5th October 2010. The screwdriver was (jokingly) used to scan a part of the LOFAR radio telescope, then under construction in Chilbolton, Hampshire, UK. The toy version of the new series design (made by Character Options Ltd.) was slightly larger than the on screen version to accommodate a working sound chip. It also includes an ultraviolet light and changeable invisible ink nib for viewing messages written in the ultraviolet ink.

Removing DNA bombs from Graham, Grace, Ryan and Yaz's collarbones and installing them into a Stenza gathering coil. ( TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth) Increasing the voltage of the lights at Coal Hill Academy to break the solid form of Corakinus and the Shadow Kin ( TV: For Tonight We Might Die)Later in his eighth incarnation, the Doctor carried a sonic screwdriver with a wooden handle. It had a metallic tip with six prongs that nested a clear diode at the end, which glowed blue when activated. ( AUDIO: The Great War) Its handle doubled as a torch. ( AUDIO: Sword of Orion) The Doctor claimed that he made this version of the sonic screwdriver to do more than open doors and blow up land mines. ( AUDIO: X and the Daleks) He later made further modifications to the screwdriver. ( AUDIO: Beachhead) Using the power cell of the Harmony and Redemption to push its thrusters. ( TV: The Husbands of River Song) The Second Doctor's slim penlight prop from The War Games has been identified as a EverReady model no. 1980 (1968-70 version). [2] However, he did not keep this promise, as he used this sonic screwdriver several times afterwards. ( COMIC: Clara Oswald and the School of Death, The Fourth Wall)

At least two versions of these screwdrivers were kept in the Twelfth Doctor's office at St Luke's University. ( TV: The Pilot)In the original script for The Eleventh Hour, the Doctor referred to his screwdriver as "Level 4000" technology. For the first time, the user could control the sonic telepathically by just thinking of a function, rather than having to input the required setting manually. It still didn’t work on wood, though! The TARDIS was kept busy creating replacement sonics, as the Eleventh Doctor lost or destroyed it in ever-more inventive ways – it was even eaten by a shark once! the eleventh doctor scans stonehenge in the pandorica opens. Sonic sunglasses!

In the Big Finish audio drama Pier Pressure, Evelyn Smythe mentions that although the Sixth Doctor didn't possess a sonic screwdriver, he fondly remembered it as his "door key". The Sixth Doctor uses his fingernails as a stand-in for the screwdriver as an escape method in The Nowhere Place. The sonic screwdriver was capable of amplifying various forms of energy beams. ( TV: The Beast Below) It could also be used to amplify signals ( TV: The Time of Angels, PROSE: Let it Snow) and other sonic devices. ( TV: The Girl Who Waited) The sonic screwdriver was mainly used to amplify soundwaves and was occasionally used as a microphone. ( TV: A Christmas Carol, The God Complex) It could also create loud noises to draw attention or distract opponents. ( TV: The God Complex, A Town Called Mercy) The Twelfth Doctor also used it to create a field of localised gravity ( TV: In the Forest of the Night) and an acoustic corridor with a 50 foot range. ( TV: The Magician's Apprentice) The Seventh Doctor uses the device in The Harvest and Dreamtime. His companions Ace and Hex use the device in the Doctorless audio drama, The Veiled Leopard. Combine with Missy's sonic umbrella to successfully create a force field strong enough to delay a fully evolved Cybermen long enough for Bill's cybernetic energy blast and the Master's Laser screwdriver to disable it. ( TV: The Doctor Falls) The sonic screwdriver could be used as a medical scanner, diagnosing physical injuries. ( TV: The Empty Child) It could also dislodge and reinsert teeth, ( COMIC: The Lodger) partially reverse the Abzorbaloff's absorption process ( TV: Love & Monsters) and confuse the antibodies of a living planet. ( COMIC: Lonely Planet) Along with 1930 technology, the Tenth Doctor once used it as a component of a DNA scanning device. ( TV: Daleks in Manhattan)The sonic screwdriver could also detect arriving spaceships ( PROSE: The Pictures of Emptiness) and reveal ultraviolet characters. ( PROSE: The Game of Death) It could also detect the progress of the War Doctor's calculation. ( TV: The Day of the Doctor)