Widgets are mini versions of your apps that live on your iPhone 's home screen, providing information at a glance or giving instant access to a variety of tasks, without having to fire up the app every time.
These helpful squares can be used in a wide variety of helpful ways, or can simply help make your home screen more personal.
While they used to be a feature found solely on Android phones, since the launch of iOS 14 last year, iPhone users have also been able to make use of widgets from many app developers, including big names like Spotify, Gmail, Outlook and more.
Long-press on an empty area of your iPhone's home screen. Tap it and it'll bring up the widgets menu. This tiny plus that appears when you long-press on an app?
That's what you need to hit to find your widgets. You'll then be presented with a variety of widgets available to you, including all of Apple's own such as Fitness, Photos and Maps. Scroll down these and you'll then find a list of all your installed apps that offer home screen widgets. Block People Spotify.
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Below we'll walk you through how to customize a stack. If you've updated your apps, but you don't see the app listed when you try to add the widget, here's what I've figured out.
After updating the app, you need to open it before the widget will show up as an option. You don't have to do anything special. Just let it fully load, and then you should see the widget as an option.
You don't have to learn any new steps or techniques to build your own stack -- if you've ever deleted an app or rearranged your home screen, you're already a pro. If you haven't, well, it's still easy. Prior to iOS 14, you had to long-press on an app icon in order to activate the Edit Home Screen feature. That method is still available, but there's a shortcut now:. Long-press on your display between the apps in the dock and the first row of apps on your home screen, like this:.
You can now press on an app icon or any blank space on your screen to start editing your home screen. Locate one of the widgets you want to include in your personalized stack. Keep in mind, any widgets you add to a stack will need to be the same size, so you can't have one small, two medium and three large widgets in your stack. It saves you a step since you're going to end up moving it yourself anyway, and it prevents the apps on your iPhone's home screen from being arranged and then rearranged as your phone makes room for the widgets.
Stacking widgets follows the same process as creating a folder for apps -- drag one widget on top of another.
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