Apple has made it remarkably easy to use an iPhone widget in macOS Sonoma, even if you have just the iOS app and not matching Mac one. It's easy, yet it's not obvious and the results are mixed. Here's ...

iPhone widgets are used to quickly glance at information from frequently-used apps—here’s how to add them to both a lock screen and home screen, stack them and troubleshoot them. iPhone widgets ...

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 ...

Your CarPlay experience is about to get even better. You're likely familiar with widgets on the iPhone; if you aren't, widgets are apps that can be added to your Home screen and provide quick ...

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Search for Amazon Alexa and you should see the Ask Alexa widget. If you don't, open the Alexa app and let it run in the background for this step. To use the Ask Alexa widget, simply tap the widget and ...

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 ...

Have you ever found yourself anxiously glancing at your iPhone’s battery icon, wondering how much juice has left before it runs out? We’ve all been there! Monitoring your device’s battery life is ...

In an otherwise incremental update, one of macOS Sonoma’s marquee features is interactive desktop widgets. Although Apple now lets you add widgets to the Notification Center on older versions of macOS ...

One of the headlining new features with iOS 17 is a smart landscape display mode for iPhone when it’s charging. Coming with different clock faces, widgets, access to photos, and more, here’s how to ...