You might already be familiar with widgets from your iPhone or Android phone—interactive panels that are something in between shortcut icons and full apps. Using these widgets, you can complete tasks ...

Android 16 brings lock-screen widgets in a swipeable widgets panel for quick glance info. Hub mode auto-shows widgets when charging, upright while charging, or only on wireless charging. Widgets are ...

Before you get behind the wheel again, clean up CarPlay by going to Settings > General > CarPlay > [your car] > Apps on your iPhone. Drag the triple-line icons on the right to rearrange their priority ...

Android widgets changed how students manage their daily routines. These home screen tools provide instant access to ...

While you might consider it handy to have the vast majority of your iPhone’s settings all in a singular menu, it’s not so nice when you have a deeply-buried setting that you use often. Fortunately, ...

A widget is a small graphical app that is made for fast access to information, including the news and weather. Widgets are usually presented separately from regular apps in an operating system, ...

In Samsung’s One UI 4.1, Smart Widgets for Galaxy phones were introduced to make things a little easier. These specialized widgets are stackable and can house several widgets at once. Here’s how you ...

The iPhone doesn’t do widgets, at least not officially. But thanks to developer Jeff Broderick, iPhone users can now add settings widgets to their home screens, providing shortcuts to airplane mode, ...

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Alongside packing Windows with all the greatest changes and features and keeping the Windows feel intact, Microsoft added support for widgets on Windows 11. Now, users can glance at their stock ...