Every time I set up a new phone, I tell myself I’ll finally use widgets properly. I carefully choose the most promising ones, resize and arrange them, and admire how “productive” my home screen looks.

QUESTION: What exactly are smartphone "widgets" and how do I use them? ANSWER: Our smartphones have become the center of our communication universe and apps have a great deal to do with this seismic ...

Working from the theory that people want quick, at-a-glance access to information from their apps, Apple has put significant effort into widgets over the past few years. Widgets initially appeared on ...

iOS 16 allows users with an iPhone 8 or later to customize their home screens with widgets. The third-party app Top Widgets is now the second most popular app in Apple's App Store. Widgets are ...

Our last Do You Use It? poll asked how frequently you use widgets. There are so many implementations of widgets in the Apple world that we had to break the question into nine separate questions to ...

I really enjoy using widgets on my iPhone. For instance, I have a fitness app widget on my home screen that lets me track my daily progress at a glance. It shows the calories I've burned during ...

Google introduced a new design language with Android 12, dubbed Material You (the evolution of Material Design). It’s one of the most significant user interface improvements we’ve seen come to Android ...

It’s clear from David Smith’s iOS 17 update to Widgetsmith that he intends for the app to hold its position among the most customizable widget creation tools available. That’s exactly what he’s done ...

I'm going to preface this piece by saying the choice of widgets is personal, and what might be useful to me might not be useful to you. Even so, there's a widget for everyone, and depending on the ...

My Nothing smartphone is more Expressive than ever thanks to this one underappreciated Android home screen widget app.