Your calendar app is handy—tap it open, and your entire life is laid out in front of you. Now imagine you can see your day without ever opening the app. That’s the time-saving, productivity-aiding ...

The iPhone home screen is more customizable than ever before. Adding and resizing widgets or changing how app icons look is ...

The Android home screen is great for anyone seeking to personalize their mobile experience, as it can host a multitude of apps and offer unique customization opportunities. Widgets are a key part of ...

iOS widgets can put loads of useful data at your fingertips. A simple swipe to the right on your iPhone’s Home screen brings up the Today view, where widgets give you a quick glance at info pulled ...

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Google is preparing to tweak the widget list in the Pixel Launcher to show a filtered set of widgets by default. You’ll still be able to see all available widgets by tapping on a button, though. It’s ...

Apple’s macOS Sonoma has brought a bunch of interesting new features for Mac users, and desktop widgets are among the most useful. As the name implies, you can now drag and drop widgets right onto ...

The Apple Sports app has seen a number of great updates over the year, and the latest of these is support for widgets on your Home Screen. These can be customized to show live scores and schedules for ...

The free Apple Sports app just added widgets, which has been a long-requested feature. This allows users to build their own custom widgets to follow the teams and organizations of their choosing. Once ...

Widgets are the latest way to customize your iPhone. Technically, they've been around as early as iOS 12 (locked behind the "Today View" feature), but with iOS 17, Apple introduced them to iPhones' ...