With iOS 17, Apple has introduced support for interactive widgets, a significant upgrade from the initial version of widgets that debuted with iOS 14. Here's how to use them.Apple redesigned its system of widgets to let users add them to the Home Screen and the Today View. They come in small, medium, and large sizes and display various data bits.In prior versions of iOS, tapping on a widget would take you directly to the corresponding app. Developers can now incorporate interactive features into their widgets using iOS 17, enabling users to carry out app functions directly from the widget without opening the app. Read more...

With iOS 17, Apple has introduced support for interactive widgets, a significant upgrade from the initial version of widgets that debuted with iOS 14. Here's how to use them.Apple redesigned its system of widgets to let users add them to the Home Screen and the Today View. They come in small, medium, and large sizes and display various data bits.In prior versions of iOS, tapping on a widget would take you directly to the corresponding app. Developers can now incorporate interactive features into their widgets using iOS 17, enabling users to carry out app functions directly from the widget without opening the app. Read more...

Macworld Wireless headphones are essentially the standard now, with Bluetooth not only being convenient but Apple removing the audio jack on the iPhone range. For most people, the sound quality difference to wired isn’t noticeable anyway. The market is huge, but here are the best wireless headphones we’ve tested for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Macs. If you do want a wired connection some of these do offer it in addition to Bluetooth, but we also have a round up of the best wired headphones. And if you’re wondering why the AirPods Max don’t appear on this list, rest assured that we gave them due consideration – but while audio quality is exceptional, their very high price and ill-judged case…

Macworld Google on Tuesday announced four new features for its Chrome browser on iPhone and iPad. [You didn’t know that you don’t have to use Safari? You don’t!] Google Chrome is available in the App Store for free. After installing Chrome, you can set Chrome as the default browser on your iPhone or iPad by opening the Settings app, then scrolling down to the Chrome tab. Tap the Default Browser App setting and select Chrome instead of Safari. Here’s a look at the features coming to your devices in a future update: View address in mini Google Maps Google With addresses on a webpage, you can now press and hold on an address to get an option to view the…

Macworld Of all the features coming to macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS this fall, I might be most excited about widgets. No, seriously. Widgets! Yes, of course, widgets have been around forever. Apple overhauled the widget experience with iOS 14 three years ago, giving us a new widget template, widgets on the home screen, and smart stacks. On the iPad, they were relegated to a sidebar, but iPadOS 15 fixed that a year later, letting us put widgets anywhere on the home screen. In macOS Big Sur we could put iPhone-ish widgets in the notification shade off the right side of the screen. But with the OS updates coming this fall, Apple is making some welcome changes that will take…

Apple today seeded the third betas of upcoming iOS 16.6 and iPadOS 16.6 updates to public beta testers, allowing non-developers to test out the software head of its official launch. The public betas come just a day after Apple provided the third betas to developers. Those who have signed up their accounts for Apple's free beta testing program can enable the beta by opening up the Settings app, going to General, selecting Software Update, tapping on Beta Updates, and selecting the iOS 16 Public Beta option. iOS 16.6 seems to be a relatively minor update, although Apple does appear to be laying the groundwork for the launch of the previously announced iMessage Contact Key Verification feature. Development on ‌iOS 16‌…