Since iPadOS 17 was introduced last year, Apple has unveiled an exciting addition that significantly boosts the functionality of your iPad: interactive widgets, this feature is also available on the ...

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 ...

Discover how to make your Android phone uniquely yours by customizing widgets, icons, and layouts your own way. Pixabay, krapalm Android offers remarkable flexibility for users to personalize their ...

The productivity gains of widgets aren’t limited to your desktop setups either. Here’s how I used widgets—along with a few ...

Android widgets changed how students manage their daily routines. These home screen tools provide instant access to information without opening apps. Over 70% of Android users interact with widgets ...

Google is implementing a big redesign of Android with Material 3 Expressive. This updated design language will spread across apps and Android itself with the upcoming Android 16 QPR1 update. And ...

If you have an iPhone and regularly use Slack, you should appreciate Slack's four new widgets that give you access to key features at the tap of a finger. Released by Slack on Monday, three of the ...

StandBy Mode was introduced to us with the release of iOS 17. It gave the iPhone this passive but dynamic viewing mode when charging and in landscape mode. It can be used as a clock, to see the ...

Google’s Android 16 QPR2 update is here, and it’s a pretty impressive one. This latest quarterly platform release comes with several user-facing changes, and one of the biggest among them is lock ...

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The iOS 26 update for iPhone delivers a variety of new features to CarPlay, with one of the coolest arrivals being the ability to add and customize widgets. If you're not familiar, widgets nestle on ...