Home screen widgets have been a part of Android from the very beginning and the first T-Mobile G1 in 2008. And for a long time, widgets were one of the first answers when you asked an avid Android ...

The widgets put text promts, Gemini Live, and other features right on your lockscreen. The widgets put text promts, Gemini Live, and other features right on your lockscreen. is a former senior ...

Google Maps now shows an overlay of the weather and air quality in the area you’re looking at. Tapping on the weather widget brings up a card that shows the forecast for the day. This feature was ...

AI has taken over Android 15 phones but hasn’t yet colonized iPhones with iOS 18. So far, iPhone users have been spared the AI-ification of their devices due to Apple Intelligence’s slow rollout. If ...

Apple has done a lot of work with widgets in recent years. A new class of SwiftUI-based iPhone widgets debuted in iOS 14, were added to in subsequent years, became interactive in iOS 17, and have made ...

Android widgets are at a good place right now, thanks to Material You. Besides an uptick since Android 12, they look modern and provide functionality that complements the full app nicely. However, for ...