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Widget stacks are a great way to cycle through various widgets on your iPhone home screen. Annoyingly, iOS automatically changes widgets based on time of day and usage. Here’s how to prevent iPhone widget stacks from switching automatically.
Starting with iOS 14, Apple introduced widgets to the iPhone home screen. There is a built-in Smart Stack widget that automatically cycles through the widgets in the stack. It’s supposed to show you the right widget at the right time. For example, it will show you the Calendar widget when you have an upcoming appointment and your personal photos at night.
While the Smart Stack widget is quite useful, the problem is that each widget stack that you create manually also becomes a smart stack because it has the Smart Rotate feature enabled. If you’re customizing your home screen with multiple stacks of widgets, you might want consistency. It can be jarring to go back to your iPhone with all your widgets showing something different.
Disabling the Smart Rotate feature prevents the widget stacks from switching automatically. First, let’s take a look at the process of creating a widget stack.
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Go to a home screen on your iPhone and long press on an empty part of the screen. Now, tap on the “+” button in the upper left corner. You will see a widget selection screen. Touch an application to see all the widgets available for the application.
Now select a widget (small, medium, or large) and tap the “Add widget” button to add the widget to your home screen.
To create a widget stack, you need more than one widget. You can add up to 10 widgets to a stack.
Again, press the “+” button from the home screen edit view (Jiggle mode) and select an application. Navigate to the widget you want to add to the stack. It has to be the same size as the previous widget. Now, long press the widget preview.
The widget will now start to float. You will see your home screen again. Hold your finger on the screen and place the new widget over the old one.
Once they’re on top of each other (and you see a gray outline around the widgets), lift your finger. You have just created a widget stack. You can repeat this process to add more widgets.
Now to disable the Smart Rotate feature, tap on the widget when in home screen edit mode.
If you are not in home screen edit mode, you can long press the widget stack and choose the “Edit stack” option.
Here, from the top of the screen, tap the toggle next to the “Smart Rotate” option to disable the feature.
The widget stack will now stop randomly changing and rotating.
Customizing your iPhone’s home screen? Make things better by creating your own custom widgets!
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