Erasing alien encoding inside people's brains by having them don the glasses for a few minutes ("Before the Flood").

The Doctor didn’t replace the sonic for ages – the next time we saw one was when the Seventh Doctor used a similar model to seal a casket containing the Master’s remains. For the Time Lord Victorious event, concept art was made of the Tenth Doctor screwdriver, modified with parts bearing Gallifreyan text. It would then feature in The Edge of Time videogame's Time Lord Victorious DLC as an item to receive to complete the DLC's level, and implicitly appear in the novel All Flesh Is Grass when the Tenth Doctor hastily repairs his sonic screwdriver with bits of his Time Lord regalia. A rod version of this screwdriver was kept in the Twelfth Doctor's office at St Luke's University. ( TV: The Pilot)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)

Quadrigger Stoyn possessed a sonic screwdriver in his workcase aboard the Doctor's TARDIS, which he had been working on shortly before the First Doctor stole the ship. ( AUDIO: The Beginning) Creating and controlling a sophisticated hologram of the Doctor through a WiFi system (" Before the Flood"). The sonic screwdriver could transmit signals, ( TV: Evolution of the Daleks) tune into, create and control broadcast channels, ( TV: The Poison Sky, The Eleventh Hour) and re-establish connections, even over different time-frames. ( TV: The Girl in the Fireplace) It could also grant mobile phones the ability to call across time and space. ( TV: The End of the World, 42, etc.)After crash-landing in Sheffield with no TARDIS, a body that was still cooking, and two alien mysteries to solve, the Doctor realised she was missing something – her sonic screwdriver. As there was no TARDIS around to fire out a replacement, she had to take matters into her own hands. the thirteenth doctor forges her own sonic screwdriver using sheffield steel and an alien crystal in the woman who fell to earth Chang Lee discovers the sonic screwdriver among the things he stole from the Seventh Doctor. ( TV: Doctor Who) 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)