IOS 14 widgets give iPhone users a creative home screen idea

In iOS 14, Apple introduced the concept of Home Screen: Widgets, which provide information from apps at a glance. Widgets can be pinned to the home screen in a variety of spots and sizes, allowing many different layouts.

Despite the relative lack of 3rd party widgets at launch, iOS users around the world are busy customizing their home screens and sharing their work with others.

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– Ben Xu (@ Benzu 8) September 20, 2020

(In addition to using iOS 14 widgets, Twitter user Ben Xu Also Shortcuts used To change the look of the icons in the screenshot above.)

On Twitter, the hashtag # IOS 14 homescreen Users started trending this weekend showing off their latest creations. Merchants followers also share their creations On Twitter And in the thread in this forum.

Some big brands have already released widget support, included IMDB, Google, And Wheelbarrow. However, Spotify is not significantly absent from the initial support apps Tuntrack In the meantime Spotify already offers “Play Now” widget support.

Widgetsmith

One of the earliest widget apps, which has seen a lot of popularity Widgetsmith [Free] Which provides the ability to create widgets with style customization. Widgetsmith allows you to create custom small, medium or large widgets with time, date, photos, custom text, upcoming events, reminders and health and activity. Widgetsmith also offers weather and tidal widgets as part of their premium subscription package priced at 99 1.99 / month or. 19.99 / year.

The flexibility of the tool has made it popular with iOS 14 home screen screenshots that are circulating on the web. On the way to the extreme, you can see highly stylized home screens:

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– Apple Pal (@ApplePrody_USA) September 20, 2020

Color widgets

Is another popular choice we’ve seen Color widgets [Free] Which offers free time and Bat Widget with many colorful styles. Some premium styles are also offered for a one-time purchase of one 3.99.

Weather widgets

Weather is a popular widget type that has already seen a number of supporting apps. There’s definitely more we missed, but notably, Apple’s own Dark Sky doesn’t have widget support yet.

Other widgets

In addition, there are a number of initial widgets that we have run, and here is a short list.

Fitness and nutrition widgets

• Fitboard – Workout tracking. I.A.P. Free with
• Foodnames – Food and calorie tracking. I.A.P. Free with
• Streaks – The habit of forming on a daily basis. 99 4.99
• Zone – Workout tracking. I.A.P. Free with
• Hour blocks – Deplanner that shows you what’s next. 99 3.99

Finance widgets

Travel widgets

We will continue to cover notable widgets as they are published. For a dive, please visit us Twitter thread Where we asked for widget recommendations and follow the 3rd party widgets thread in our iOS 14 forum.