Your calendar app is handy—tap it open, and your entire life is laid out in front of you. Now imagine you can see your day without ever opening the app. That’s the time-saving, productivity-aiding ...

Unfortunately, some widgets can still use some tweaking. For example, ChatGPT has a widget that allows you to activate Voice Mode. This is great for chatting with AI, but you still need to talk into ...

Now that iOS 17 is out in the wild, consumers are getting hands-on time with many just-released iPhone features. One of the neater inclusions is the brand-new StandBy mode. This toolset transforms ...

OS 26 introduces widgets to the CarPlay experience, offering glanceable information when on the road. Here’s how the new feature works.

Working from the theory that people want quick, at-a-glance access to information from their apps, Apple has put significant effort into widgets over the past few years. Widgets initially appeared on ...

Apple’s iOS 26.1 update introduces new controls for the Liquid Glass design, letting users adjust transparency levels for ...

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 ...

Using widgets on your iPad enhances customization significantly. Similar to the iPhone, widgets provide quick access to information and app functions. However, iPadOS offers even greater flexibility.

Our last Do You Use It? poll asked how frequently you use widgets. There are so many implementations of widgets in the Apple world that we had to break the question into nine separate questions to ...