Your calendar app is handy—tap it open, and your entire life is laid out in front of you. Now imagine you can see your day without ever opening the app. That’s the time-saving, productivity-aiding ...

The iPhone home screen is more customizable than ever before. Adding and resizing widgets or changing how app icons look is ...

How many Lock Screens have you created for your iPhone since the new iOS 16 came out? If you’re only rocking one, you might want to get in on all the customizations that are available, especially the ...

Now that iOS 17 is out in the wild, consumers are getting hands-on time with many just-released iPhone features. One of the neater inclusions is the brand-new StandBy mode. This toolset transforms ...

Although this year’s iOS 17 release isn’t chock-full of the type of big “tentpole” features we’ve seen in recent years, like customizable lock screens and home screen widgets, there are some fun and ...

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Many of these changes were introduced with iOS 18 in 2024, but iOS 26 introduces a new app color scheme. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his ...

Our last Do You Use It? poll asked how frequently you use widgets. There are so many implementations of widgets in the Apple world that we had to break the question into nine separate questions to ...