Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Apple has launched iOS 14, bringing the ability to add widgets to your iPhone's home screen. We explain how to add and customize home screen widgets in iOS 14.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Apple's iOS 14 has brought home screen widgets to the iPhone. Here's our roundup of the best and most useful iOS 14 widgets, from the fun to the productive.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

-The most exciting part of iOS 14 isn’t picture-in-picture video display or the app library — it’s widgets. Instead of once-boring app icons for your calendar or clock that might get placed in a utilities folder, the new wave of widgets let you spice up your homepage with anything from custom notes to astronomy and weather reports.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

One of the more prominent changes introduced in iOS 14 , and one that is generating a lot of interest, is the addition of widgets that can be added to any page. To begin, here’s how to add an existing widget to your home screen: Touch and hold an empty area on your screen until your apps jiggle and show minus symbols. Tap “Add Widget”.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Google announced it’s updating the Gmail iOS widget with a new one that’s actually useful, showing you the subjects and senders of the emails sitting in your inbox. The company says the new widget will be “launching in the next few weeks,” to replace the previous version that wasn’t particularly well-received. Image: Google.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Calendar widget will show an outline of upcoming appointments. Google has detailed a handful of new iOS widgets it has on the way, following the launch of its new Gmail widget this week. A widget for Chrome is due to officially launch next year and is available in beta now. Image: Google. Image: Google. Image: Google.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The weather widget returns to the taskbar. Microsoft is bringing back its weather widget on the Windows 11 taskbar. It’s a feature that originally debuted in Windows 10 , providing live weather conditions and quick access to the broader widget and news feed. The weather widget will appear as an icon on left-aligned taskbars.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Spotify announced on Wednesday that it has rolled out an iOS 14 widget in the latest update to its iPhone app. The Spotify community initially suggested a home-screen widget back in June, and the idea got more than 5,000 upvotes, triggering developers to mark it as "Under Consideration."

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Mashable Tech

JUNE 9, 2025

SEE ALSO: WWDC 2025 keynote livestream: Watch Apple's iOS 26 announcements and more live CarPlay is also getting support for widgets, meaning the widgets from your iPhone will now work on your car's infotainment's display.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

Amazon has updated the Alexa app on iOS so that you can access the voice assistant right from your home screen via a new widget. Due to the somewhat restrictive nature of the widgets on iOS , the new Ask Alexa widget isn’t so much Alexa itself as it is a link directly to the iOS app. The Ask Alexa widget in iOS.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The widgets are now also more customizable, with users being able to select their on-screen placement. Using Continuity, your iPhone widgets can sync with your Mac when your iPhone is nearby or on the same Wi-Fi network. The widgets are now also interactive, enabling users to "complete a reminder, play. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

Microsoft is making a big change to its Windows 10 taskbar soon, with the addition of a news and weather widget. The new taskbar widget includes weather and news information. The new Windows 10 taskbar feature. GIF: Microsoft.

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TechSpot

JUNE 1, 2023

The widgets are part of the new Dev Home app that Microsoft introduced at the recent Build 2023 conference. Designed for developers to keep track of all their workflows and coding tasks and connect to dev accounts, it offers a customizable dashboard with a number of widgets, including ones that. Read Entire Article

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 10, 2022

You can make it effortless for them to donate by adding Donslplus’ friendly and engaging website widget in less than 15 minutes. Your success will stand or fall by the donation experience delivered to your visitors. The result? Doubling your donations using the same website. Get started, it’s free!

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TechSpot

JANUARY 6, 2021

The widget does just what you'd expect: when you click on it (it'll show up to the left of all your smaller taskbar icons), it pulls up a large info panel that you can scroll through and interact with. This panel will show you the latest headlines and stories, relevant.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 24, 2022

You can make it effortless for them to donate by adding Donsplus’ friendly and engaging website widget in less than 15 minutes. Your success will stand or fall by the donation experience delivered to your visitors. The result? Doubling your donations. Get started, it’s free!

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The Verge

MAY 16, 2021

But the most interesting slide in Prosser’s video shows what appears to be a new user interface for Android 12, including a new media widget, a brightness toggle, a weather widget, an analog clock widget, a snooze/dismiss toggle, and stacked notifications (in the lower right corner of the screen grab): Jon Prosser/Front Page Tech.

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Engadget

MARCH 31, 2025

That's on top of a random assortment of other quality-of-life features like: AI-generated summaries of App Store reviews An Ambient Music tool in Control Center The ability to add and control Matter-compatible robot vacuums to the Home app New widgets for the Podcasts app A new "Sketch" style for images in Image Playground Apple The update to visionOS (..)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2020

Built for publishers that produce a lot of content, Action Button is a widget that features “Donate” buttons (as well as Tweet, Call, Pledge buttons) directly inside trending articles published by their partners. For your reference, here are the fundraising tools featured in 2019 , 2017 , 2016 , and 2015.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2025

Microsoft is also allowing Windows 11 users to choose what lock screen widgets appear, allowing you to add or remove widgets and rearrange them for the lock screen. There’s also a new mobile device button on the Start menu that lets you expand or collapse the Phone Link interface that appears alongside the Start menu.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Some of the notable inclusions in Beta 5 are the lovely geometric clock widgets, a redesigned calculator, and a new lock screen shortcut. Today, Google released the final Android 12 beta before the OS properly launches, and with it a few of the visual changes and features we saw back when Android 12 was announced.

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TechSpot

JUNE 9, 2025

System widgets also adopt the new look, Read Entire Article The centerpiece of macOS Tahoe is its Liquid Glass interface - a layered, translucent visual style inspired by the depth, color responsiveness, and feel of glass. This aesthetic overhaul touches everything from the Dock and menu bar to buttons, sidebars, and app icons.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 5, 2022

Microsoft writes that it is now testing a preview of the Game Pass sharing tier in Columbia and Ireland, one that is only available to Xbox Insiders. A spokesperson said each added member on the plan would "have their own unique access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate games, content, and.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Plus, there's the recently introduced LinkedIn Games Widget for iOS and Android , which makes game progress visible at a glance, helping players maintain their daily streaks. The company also rolled out Streak Freezes, which lets players protect their streaks for when life gets busy.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 21, 2024

The first change introduces a new entry point for the Widgets feature on left-aligned taskbars. Instead of being tucked away in the corner, the Widgets icon will now move to the left side of the system tray area. Microsoft says this new positioning gives it more room to showcase "richer. Read Entire Article

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Engadget

MAY 13, 2025

On Android, that also comes with the ability to add more tools to Quick Settings and apps and widgets to your home screen app grid. Based on the screenshots and clips Google shared, using Material 3 Expressive on Android 16 and Wear OS 6 has made the OSes look bouncier, more playful and fun.

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TechSpot

APRIL 22, 2021

Since more people are working from home than ever thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, Microsoft wants to find a way to make their workday a bit more comfortable and convenient. The News and Interests bar is just one way the company hopes to achieve that vision -- when the feature.

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Engadget

MARCH 25, 2025

Taking a page Valve's recent redesign of Steam , Discord has reworked the interface around widgets, meaning you can move around each individual element as you wish. Discord Separately, the redesigned app ships with a new overlay that Discord says is faster and won't impact game performance.

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Mashable Tech

JUNE 11, 2025

Translucent elements are the key characteristic of Liquid Glass, and widgets and other on-screen elements now bend and refract light like glass. In clear mode, all of your widgets and icons become translucent, creating a feeling of openness and extra space. It might be loading or has been removed.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Ensure youre making it easy to give by DAF with a “DAF widget, a small piece of code embedded on a website that allows donors to make donations directly from their Donor Advised Fund (DAF). Gifts by DAF (Donor Advised Funds) increased by 83% from 2019 to 2023.Ensure

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Wired

JUNE 11, 2025

The other notable new feature in the operating system update is Widgets. You can place widgets around your home, like a Clock, Calendar, or Music widget, and they will always stay in the same places. The headset will remember the locations of widgets even when you reboot it and glance around again.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Home screen widgets. The big one: after years of keeping the iOS home screen static, Apple is finally allowing users to add widgets to their home screens. In fact, Apple is taking a lot of cues from Google with the new iOS 14 home screen experience, including. App list view.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

A new social app, Locket , popped to the top of the App Store charts in recent days thanks to its clever premise to put live photos from friends in a widget on your iOS homescreen. locketcamera Link in bio #locket #widget #2021 #2022 ? The widget will showcase your friends’ photos as they add images throughout the day.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Widgets, hideable pages, App Library, and App Clips: a lot of new concepts for one update Eight years ago, I wrote a piece bemoaning the fact that the iPhone’s home screen was too restrictive and boring. Meanwhile, Windows Phone was experimenting with Live Tiles and Android was letting users throw widgets anywhere they wanted.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

OriginOS is the successor to FuntouchOS and features a complete design overhaul that prioritizes widgets, arranging them in a grid-like layout. The widgets can update themselves with notifications called “nano alerts.”. Vivo has announced its new Android-based operating system at its annual developer conference in China.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

iOS 14 brings widgets to the iPhone home screen for the first time, gathers all of your apps into a new App Library, and adds picture-in-picture mode (which had already been available on iPads). iPadOS 14 won’t let you put widgets anywhere you want on the home screen, but it does build upon what you can do with the Apple Pencil.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In Windows 11, this extends to the Widgets pane, and Microsoft makes switching browsers more difficult in its latest OS. As most Windows users know, links in Microsoft apps such as Cortana and Windows Search are redirected to Edge, even after setting an alternative web browser as the system default.

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