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

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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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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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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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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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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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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Digital Trends

AUGUST 7, 2020

Apple is adding widgets and other complexities to iOS but some shaky basics will make these features harder to use.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 14, 2022

Microsoft could be getting ready to add support for third-party widgets in Windows 11, bringing it close to the experience on iOS and Android.

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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

JUNE 30, 2021

Way back in 2005, Apple released Mac OS X Tiger, and with it, the original implementation of widgets on the Mac through its Dashboard software. Music Widget only works with the Apple Music app, though— Spotify (or other music apps) won’t work with the widget. I have an early beta version of my Music Widget up for download.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Apple's iOS 14 completely changes how widgets are handled on iOS. But while the changes are good in some ways, in others they're a giant step back.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 7, 2020

With iOS 14, iPhone widgets can now appear on the home screen and can be customized and personalized. We have a look at some of the new apps on hand to help.

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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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Mac and iOS calendar app Fantastical has updated its software with 12 new customizable widgets. They look like the perfect use-case for iOS 14’s widget support , giving users access to their calendar, events, and weather forecasts straight from the home screen. For more on how to use widgets check out our guide.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Interested in adding widgets for more news and tools on your iPad home screen? iPadOS 15 lets you do it: Here's how it works, what you can add, and more info.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Use Third-Party Widgets Only if They Add Value. The Web has become overrun with widgets! Some are useful and well designed (such as the Facebook like box and the Twitter profile widget), but the majority add clutter and inconsistency to your website. As a general rule of thumb, keep widgets off your home page.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Google is updating its Gmail app for iOS devices with a new widget that will provide much more useful information.

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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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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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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The Amazon Echo Show 15 combines a large screen and a suite of different widgets to become one of the most useful smart displays yet.

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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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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Google could be adding several new features to the recently revamped At a Glance widget, which is exclusively available for the Pixel 6 series.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The screenshots, which XDA-Developers says haven’t been fully confirmed, include what appears to be new UI changes, alongside a new privacy indicator and conversation widget. Android 12’s rumored conversations widget. Other screenshots show what could be a new conversations widget for Android 12. Image: XDA-Developers.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 5, 2019

Here's how to embed widgets in popular site builders. If your site uses another website builder but you want to include Wild Apricot features, you can!

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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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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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