Apple's software ecosystem is home to many a good widget app, with plenty of options to choose from, and styles and designs to suit everybody's individual fancy. On the iPad, countless standard ...

Apple announced iOS 17 back in June at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with many small enhancements such as machine learning–powered autocorrect, an easy way to create stickers, and a ...

I like Dashboard. There, I said it. Yes, it can hog system resources and be (very) slow to launch, but it integrates into my workflow very well: I use it many times each day for quick access to OS X’s ...

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When iOS 14 debuted, iPhone owners everywhere were blessed with widgets. But of course, widgets weren't perfect – in fact, there weren't that many widgets even available! The iPhone has widgets ...

Thanks to Android being open-source, there's a myriad of widgets available on the Google Play Store. Widgets are small tools or applications that can be added to your Home screen to perform certain ...

Your iPhone is capable, reliable, and sturdy—as long as you don’t drop it again on that one corner that keeps cracking. But over decades of refinement, it’s also gotten a little boring. Your apps line ...

Matthew was the Apps and Games Editor at Android Police until 2025. There are countless weather apps available in the Google Play Store, many of which include homescreen widgets. However, it's often ...

Since the early days of the OS, widgets for Android have allowed users to engage with their favourite apps, from the comfort of their homescreen. So how do you create an Android widget? For the ...

Some iPad widget apps feature their own bespoke library of widgets, while others offer full-blown widget creation systems with curated collections pooled right from their user bases. Here are seven of ...