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Whatever's being shown can then deep link back into the app. But, old-style widgets still work, and should keep working for about another year or so.įor the new-style widgets, apps push updates to them, which then get shown in chronological order. Now, if you have an Apple Watch and these new widgets look a lot like those old complications to you, that's because you're incredibly observant - and that's precisely what they are.Īpple bought over their killer design language, information density, and glanceability, and have just made them the standard across all the platforms.īut, because they come from complications, much of the previous iOS widget interactivity is gone.īecause this is beta, we only have Apple's new-fangled widgets to work with for now. Then tap the plus button at the top left, pull up the Widget Gallery to see all the different versions of all the different widgets, and drag and drop any of them as well. Yes, jiggly mode, that's what Steve called them at the beginning, it's what Craig calls them now, don't worry about it.īecause the icons now give you options, the fastest way to jiggly is touch and hold an empty area of the screen.

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It's still Apple, so you still can't drop them anywhere you like, the grid just makes more room for them on the sides or as full rows. You can still swipe in the minus-one Homepage to see all the widgets but now, on the iPhone, touch and hold on any widget you like, and you can drag it right onto the Home screen. Small, medium, and large-sized widget holes to be precise. But now, Apple has gone and punched widget-sized holes through the whole thing. iOS 14: Widgetsįor almost a decade and a half, the Home screen has been an uninterrupted grid of tiny app icons.

Also, the current generation iPod touch 7. That means every iPhone from the 2015 iPhone 6s and 2016 original iPhone SE on up. IOS 14 basically runs on all the same iPhones that iOS 13 ran on.