Past iOS updates have let you place widgets on the home and lock screens of your iPhone. With iOS 17, you can now interact with some of those widgets, controlling playback, ticking off to-dos or ...

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.

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 ...

The key new feature in macOS Sonoma is the ability to add widgets to the Desktop. They’re no longer banished to the notification shade that slides opens when you click on the time in the menu bar. In ...

Add an interactive widget to your Home Screen by accessing the Widget Menu. Additionally, find out how to move, organize, and customize interactive widgets on your iPhone and iPad. Understand how to ...

Smartphone overuse is a problem for people in 2026. So much so that many new Android features are geared toward improving the digital wellbeing of its users, particularly on Google devices, like my ...