Apple is pushing widgets hard on all of its operating systems. Widgets are like mini-apps or shortcuts that you can add to your iPhone’s home screen to get quick information without opening an app.

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Customizing your iPhone goes beyond wallpapers, and some lesser-known widgets can add useful features while making your home ...

You may not know it, but there's a world of widgets just waiting to be explored on your MacBook. Widgets are tiny apps you can place on your desktop to help you do all kinds of things, like keeping up ...

Since the rebirth of Android with Material You, Google has been working on tons of first-party app widgets and we wanted to share some of the best. In the early days, one of the biggest selling points ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Get simple desktop widgets for monitoring Time Machine. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Backup Status is a simple app that puts a Time Machine widget on your Mac desktop (or stows it away in your ...

Home screen widgets have been a part of Android from the very beginning and the first T-Mobile G1 in 2008. And for a long time, widgets were one of the first answers when you asked an avid Android ...