Widgets are always-on apps that live on your iPhone or iPad's home screen. They can be a variety of sizes. If you think of them in terms of how many app icons they replace, they can either be a 4-icon ...

Widgets have been a crucial Android feature for more than a decade, but they've lost a lot of their appeal and usefulness ...

When iOS 8 came out, I thought I’d stop using URL schemes altogether. Until two years ago 1, my attempts at working on iOS had focused on overcoming the lack of inter-app communication with URL scheme ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

With iOS 14, my iPhone home screen is primarily a place to put widgets. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac After a decade with an iPhone, I didn’t expect anything could come along to transform the way I use ...

One of my favorite times every year is right around the beginning of August. Not because of the weather – summer where I live – but rather it’s when beta season is in full swing. Apps are putting ...

I turned my ignored second screen into a productivity dashboard.

In iPadOS 15, widgets on the ‌iPad‌ mirror widgets on the ‌iPhone‌ and can be placed anywhere on the ‌Home Screen‌ for the first time, rather than being limited to a specific widget block. Apple has ...

Following Apple Music’s redesign of its widgets, Beats for Android is adding some to let you quickly manage headphones from the homescreen, while the companion app is also getting a “Locate My Beats” ...

Although Ubuntu doesn’t ship with desktop widgets, you can add them using these four tools.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - On today's APP-tastic and outta SITE - My Widgets. The "today" view on many iPhones goes ignored - and when it's not, it generally doesn't get changed too much. My Widgets gives ...