Awesome Tips Why Apple Is Pushing Widgets Everywhere
Apple gives widgets a boost in the latest software for the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. As CNET’s Bridget Carey learns to live with widgets, she gets some helpful perspective from mobile expert Lisa Eadicicco.
Apple gives widgets a boost in the latest software for the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. As CNET’s Bridget Carey learns to live with widgets, she gets some helpful perspective from mobile expert Lisa Eadicicco.
Read Lisa’s CNET Article here:
0:00 Apple Wants You To Want Widgets
0:24 Widgets Aren’t New Inventions
1:28 Apple Brings Widgets to iPads, Macs and Apple Watches
2:15 Changes to Widgets for iPhones
2:58 Bridget Fidgets with Widgets
4:27 Why Widgets? Why Now?
7:55 Will Bridget Learn to Love Widgets?
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We need more of them alot 😂
Bigger displays I can see it being useful to use rather than a full app
No widget Bridget is a great nickname 😂😂
I use the widget for duolingo. I might use weather one day
Apple iOS widgets suck to me. I’ve tried, honestly, tried to use widgets to improve productivity for the last 16 months. Guess what, I still have to open the app to make use of what I need. They just provide a preview of what I’m interested in. Maybe that’s how it’s intended?? It doesn’t give me the wow factor like, “I’m glad I had the widget open because it gave me important information.” Blah.
Plus, the widgets by some providers don’t work which leave me thinking that they all worthless. I’ve had to remove many widgets just to keep the apps that I need closer to my Home Screen. Plus, I really don’t use any widget at all on my Mac. I have no interest. Fyi, I’ve been in IT since 1992. And I don’t know anyone personally who use them and find them helpful. Just saying
at 4:57 you mean Windows Phone OS? "live" tiles, living on your screen…. I think they are going overboard on widgets. Apple ignored them for 15 years while Android had them. Now all of a sudden every screen needs 5-10 widgets. Not using desktop widgets on mac. They can stay in the side panel where they belong. I use 2 widgets on iPad. Calendar and weather. No need for more. I have Calendar, photos, stocks and weather on my iPhone. That's plenty …. How bout innovating and turn off Auto Arrange and let us put icons wherever we want …. Android has had that for 16 years.
Pushing Ws
On my Pixel I have a bank widget as an example, and with that I can transfer money between two of my accounts and check my account balance just by using the widget. Like if I'm in a store in the casher que and realize that I need to transfer money, I can do it directly not needing to open and log in to my bank app. 🙂
this reporter reminds me of Molly Wood
I love how you drop your phone a lot hahaha
I can’t believe you don’t like Widgets… I absolutely love them. Here are the widgets that I use that are super helpful: Fitness, Weather, Photos, Stocks, Batteries and Siri suggestions…. Having all these widgets on Home Screen is super handy and I open those apps less often
widgets covers the wallpaper.. i prefer a nice looking wallpaper then a screen full of widgets covering it.
I got the calendar, Ground News widget, weather and the battery widget for my AirPods on my Home Screen, love it so much
My name is Widget I mean Bridget 😂
i don’t like widgets. i hate clutter
If you have a Pro Max or iPhone Plus, putting widgets with useful info like weather, battery levels, and world clock at the top of each screen means that you can reach all of your app icons without having to maneuver your thumb to the top of the screen. I personally really missed widgets after switching from Android. I want them for the info. But I really like being able to push app icons to the bottom 4 rows.
I wonder if she uses shortcuts because in my case I like widgets more then creating shortcuts, creating shortcuts seems kind of hard to make them
Once I started using widgets they’re really great. Especially for productivity style apps for viewing your finances, fitness tracking, and task management. I need these apps to be in my face or I’ll forget about them sometimes.
I used to use widgets on android, but they often weren’t worth the hassle on there as so many apps didn’t support them there or had one but barely kept it updated.
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Thanks Apple, for being the shining light on this dark path (joking of course – they seem to be as lost as we are). WIDGETS. I guess they probably have people working on WIDGETS instead of making iPadOS better. God, they really need to completely reimagine their OS's – cuz I feel like I'm in 2007 gettin' giddy with the new super-cool clock screen on my HTC Titan. If they want suggestions, maybe they could make a widget that shows all the new Apple subscriptions that are being charged to my Apple Card every month (widget will cost $0.99 per month plus tax!) But…I look forward to seeing the update on Bridget's Fidget Widget next week!
I have a 3 page iPhone setup. I swipe right and have a page of just smart stack widgets. I then have my main page of apps with just 1 widget smart stack at the top. then swipe left for the app library. I used to have pages of apps I had to dig through to get to what I wanted. Widgets are very useful. I can't wait to have more widgets to incorporate into my widget screen.
I barely even use the Desktop on my Mac for anything. I, simply, immediately go to Finder and proceed from there. In fact, I simply use Alfred (a Spotlight alternative) for most of my navigation needs.
Bridget widgets in private.
yeah i don't get the whole widget thing, it's like 4 times bigger icon but with a smidge of the functionality, i just don't see the point of it
haha!!! You’re so funny. 😂
Widgets only are useful for the Pro consumer. They have to multitask many things going on at once. Quick information that can be accessed in a glance is helpful. But to a regular user who only Streams music and video, posts stuff on social, or play games on their smartphone, widgets just get in the way. Widgets also add more complexity and confusion for people not adept at tech stuff.
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I used iphone before widgets were on iphone. I'm on Android now just to avoid widgets and get my YouTube Premium, Spotify Premium, and Twitch Premium.
Lol thank you.
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funny thing is, windows phone had the idea of the widgets and nobody liked it, because 1… they were dull with only showing info and very ugly… 2… devs didn't care and most just were dull icons.
I’ll take a Bridget Widget any day
Gold dresses you. Goes great with your golden hair. Gadgets came to Windows 7 at the time when the first 16:9 monitors came out. Appropriately, an empty space at the edge of the screen, which I was not used to with 4:3 monitors, and this was filled with gadgets. There is a package called 8Gadget for Windows 11, which can be used to get gadgets back, but Microsoft does not consider the program compatible and removes it every time there is a major operating system update. In these third-party gadgets, there is the same danger as in browser add-ons, that the villain could have wormed them. Perhaps Windows Mobile was also ahead of its time with its blocks in Nokia handsets. Ugly as any, but widgets too.
You'd think that Apple invented widgets 😏🙄
It’s ironic how frustrating the Calm widget is 😏
What widget I would prefer is a Tamagotchi widget 😮
Apple didn't invent widgets, they literally stole it from Konfabulator.
I have used widgets since android I think they are good at the beginning then it get left behind you use them less and less till they are just something covering the screen
For years I have loved your face!
I was born a Midget. I used to watch Gidget. I don't need a Widget. Will you marry me, Bridget? Send me your Digits.
Wow 😅 she's funny
Widgets would be much more helpful on iPhone especially the iPhone Max models, if theres an option to scale the home screen a bit more cramped to fit a wide next to a small widget. So my home screen could show more information on larger screen phones.