Here’s a guide to whether widgets are right for you (probably) and how to get started with them (easily).
No matter how you choose to widget, it’s a way to make your iPhone a little more useful at a glance, and a lot more customized to your specific needs. Combine them with the iOS Shortcuts feature, and you can even go full Infinity Wars. You can download third-party apps that open the door to TikTok virality. You can edit them, move them, and stack them to your heart’s content. Widgets are welcome anywhere, across a wide range of apps in a variety of sizes. On iOS, not so much, outside of a modest implementation in the iPhone and iPad’s “Today View,” the neglected territory you get to by swiping right from your home or lock screen. If you’ve ever had an Android phone, you’ve likely tinkered with widgets before. The addition of mighty widgets in iOS 14, though, lets you break out of that rut for the first time, well, ever. Your apps line up in tidy rows, you swipe until you remember which screen you put Disney+ on, repeat 80 times a day or so. But over decades of refinement, it’s also gotten a little boring. Your iPhone is capable, reliable, and sturdy-as long as you don’t drop it again on that one corner that keeps cracking.
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