The iPhone home screen is more customizable than ever before. Adding and resizing widgets or changing how app icons look is ...

There’s also the smart stack feature that allows you to add multiple Widgets altogether. This creates a stack that you can just scroll through to get to each one. In previous versions of iOS, you ...

It has been 17 years since the iPhone was released and Apple is now—only now!—allowing you to put app icons where you want them. When iOS 18 is released this fall, you’ll be able to put icons and ...

Widgets are the latest way to customize your iPhone. Technically, they've been around as early as iOS 12 (locked behind the "Today View" feature), but with iOS 17, Apple introduced them to iPhones' ...

Personalize your Android home screen with expert tips on widget setup, icon packs, and layout design to create a stylish and ...

Many of these changes were introduced with iOS 18 in 2024, but iOS 26 introduces a new app color scheme. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his ...

These five Apple CarPlay widgets — including Calendar, Weather, and Smart Home options — you need to install ASAP to make ...

Setting up widgets on your iPhone for contact and emergency information provides essential details at a glance without needing to unlock it. Here's how to do it and why it's helpful. Although you can ...

Widgets have been around on macOS and iOS for years. Here's how to use Apple's WidgetKit to create your own versions. Apple introduced Widgets years ago first in macOS Tiger and later in iOS 14 in ...

In macOS Sonoma, Apple changed how widgets work. Unlike previous versions of macOS, widgets don't have to be hidden away offscreen and largely forgotten in the Notifications Center panel. Now they can ...

I'm going to preface this piece by saying the choice of widgets is personal, and what might be useful to me might not be useful to you. Even so, there's a widget for everyone, and depending on the ...