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iPhone User Guide

Add, edit, and remove widgets on iPhone

👁 Weather, Reminders, and Home widgets on the iPhone Home Screen. The Reminders and Home widgets display interactive features.

What are widgets?

Widgets give you an easy way to view current information from an app at a glance—today’s headlines, weather, reminders, battery levels, and more. You can view widgets in Today View and add them to your Home Screen or Lock Screen to keep this information at your fingertips.

Tip: A Smart Stack (a widget with dots next to it) is a combined set of widgets that uses information such as the time, your location, and activity to automatically display the most relevant widget at the appropriate time in your day. You can add a Smart Stack from the widget gallery to the Home Screen, then swipe up and down through it to see the widgets it contains.

Add a widget to your Home Screen

  1. Go to the Home Screen, then find the Home Screen page where you want to add the widget.

  2. Touch and hold the background until the apps begin to jiggle, tap Edit at the top of the screen, then tap Add Widget.

  3. Scroll or search to find the widget you want, tap it, then swipe through the size and style options.

  4. When you see the size you want, tap Add Widget.

  5. While the apps are still jiggling, move the widget where you want it, then tap Done.

To learn how to add a widget to your Lock Screen, see Edit your Lock Screen or create a new one.

Turn an app icon into a widget

You can quickly create a widget from an app icon.

  1. Touch and hold the app icon on your Home screen.

  2. To choose the size of the widget, tap one of the icons at the bottom of the pop-up menu.

    👁 A screen showing changing an app icon into a widget on the Home Screen. You can touch and hold the app icon to open a list of options, and then tap small icons that represent widget sizes you can choose for the new widget.

To change the widget back to an app icon, touch and hold it, then tap the app icon button (the leftmost small icon at the top of the pop-up menu.)

Interact with widgets

You can perform tasks by tapping widgets on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, or StandBy. Tap an item in the Reminders widget to check it off, tap 👁 the Play button
in the Podcasts widget to play an episode, or tap the Home widget to turn on your living room lights—all without opening an app.

Edit a widget on your Home Screen

You can adjust most widgets right from your Home Screen so they display the information you want to see. For example, for a Mail widget, you can tap the mailbox shown in the widget, then choose a different mailbox so the messages in that mailbox are displayed in the widget.

  1. Touch and hold the widget.

  2. Tap Edit Widget (or Edit Stack, if it’s a Smart Stack), then choose options.

    For a Smart Stack, you can reorder widgets by dragging them within the stack, drag a widget from the Smart Stack to the Home Screen, or remove a widget by tapping 👁 the Remove button
    in its upper-left corner.

  3. Tap Done.

View widgets in Today View

To view widgets in Today View, swipe right from the left edge of the Home Screen, then scroll up and down.

👁 Widgets appearing in Today View, including the Reminders, Photos, Battery, Calendar, and Tips widgets and more. Tap one to add it to your Home Screen.

View widgets in Today View when iPhone is locked

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
     on your iPhone.

  2. Tap Face ID & Passcode (on an iPhone with Face ID) or Touch ID & Passcode (on other iPhone models).

  3. Make sure Today View and Search is turned on (below Allow Access When Locked).

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