With iOS 16, Apple offers many little widgets to customize your home screen. Third party developers are slowly starting to release their own. Here is our selection.
After several months of testing, iOS 16 is available to the general public on September 12. The new iPhone update brings a lot of small and practical news, but above all it stands out for its new fully customizable lock screen. Apple’s goal is to help you make your iPhone unique.
In addition to the new dynamic wallpapers, Apple offers many native widgets (Weather, Calendar, Batteries, Home, Reminders…), but third-party developers are gradually implementing their own widgets. Here is a first selection, before discovering the others. Google, for example, has announced that it will release widgets for all of its software.
Facebook, so you don’t miss birthdays
For once, Facebook had a very good idea. The latest update to your application allows you to add a “birthday” widget, in small or large format. The little one tells you the number of your friends whose birthday is today, the other tells you their names directly. Very practical so you don’t miss anything.
Widgetsmith, to have many options
Widgetsmith is an application dedicated to widgets. Popularized by iOS 14 home screen widgets, it had the good idea to adapt to iOS 16 from day one. It allows you, for example, to put a photo under the time or add information, such as the number of steps taken each day. The options are many.
Flighty: follow planes
Are you waiting for a loved one on a plane? Thanks to Flighty, you can follow the progress of a flight in real time from the lock screen. You just need to add a flight in the app, it will sync with the widget.
I am: a sentence every day
Soy is a pretty weird app that gives you an inspirational phrase every day. Thanks to iOS 16, it can appear below the time instead of in a notification.
Package: to track a delivery
Along with Deliveries, Parcel is one of the most popular apps for tracking a delivery on the iPhone. Its latest update allows you to have a countdown to the date of its next installment on the lock screen.
Cloudy: to manage your podcasts
Overcast, a software dedicated to podcasts, is ironically more suitable for iOS 16 than Apple’s Podcasts app. It offers three widgets.
Launcher: to add icons
Unfortunately, Launcher is very limited by default. To unlock many options, you have to pay. But this app can do it all. Contact icon, application icon, direct access to a setting… You can create custom widgets.
Slopes: to prepare for skiing
If you don’t know the slopes, this is one of the best apps for winter sports. It is already compatible with iOS 16, with the possibility of checking the weather forecast for rainfall or its latest downloads from the lock screen.
Finally, let’s end with a little advice. If you don’t see a widget after installing an app update, consider opening it at least once. This should allow iOS to detect your widgets.
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