TechPhonesiPhonesiOS 16 is rumoured to give your iPhone’s Home screen a major upgradeThe InfoShack is a little place where widgets get together, and it could be in iOS 16When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechPhonesiPhonesiOS 16 is rumoured to give your iPhone’s Home screen a major upgradeThe InfoShack is a little place where widgets get together, and it could be in iOS 16When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
The InfoShack is a little place where widgets get together, and it could be in iOS 16
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(Image credit: Future)
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It’s always nice to have a juicyiOSrumour, and this one’s a doozy:Appleis reportedly working on an interactive widget system codenamed InfoShack for the version of iOS that’ll ship with theiPhone 14. Unfortunately there are apparently multiple versions of it in development so it’s not clear which, if any, of the leaks we’ve seen so far resemble the finished feature. But there’s enough here to be interesting, not least because it looks like Apple is borrowing from Android.
Why interactive widgets are a great idea
We were hoping for interactive widgets in iOS 15, but they didn’t make the cut. And that’s a shame, because interactive widgets are wonderful things: I used loads of them back when OS X had Dashboard, which brought interactive widgets to the Mac back in 2011 before they were unceremoniously shuffled into the Notifications Centre instead.
The problem with iOS 15’s widgets is they don’t do anything: they’re just links to apps, albeit very pretty ones. So my weather widget doesn’t switch views, my Omnifocus widget doesn’t enable me to change Perspectives or dates, and so on. Even something as simple as an interactive Calculator widget would be handy, saving me an unlock and a swipe when I’m working out a tip.
According toLeaksAppleProthere is still a great deal of work to be done before these widgets are ready for prime time, but I really hope they make it into the final iOS 16 release: with theiPhonein particular, it’s often the little things that make the biggest difference to your day-to-day life.
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