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How to create custom Home Screen widgets on iPhone and iPad

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ September 21, 2020
Widget Wizard and Widgetsmith Home Screen Widgets

If you’ve been enjoying the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 feature for adding widgets to your Home Screen, then maybe you want to take that a step further. Among apps with Home Screen widgets are apps that let you customize your own widgets!

You can create your own Home Screen widgets and have them look exactly as you like. This gives you even more flexibility than you probably expected for personalizing your device. Here’s how to create custom Home Screen widgets on iPhone and iPad and tools you can use.

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The best apps with Home Screen widgets for iOS 14

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated August 18, 2023
Select a Widget on iPhone

With resizable widgets right on your Home Screen, you can get a bigger picture of all sorts of things. From Apple’s own Calendar, Photos, and Notes to third-party apps for communication, finance, and music, you have plenty of widgets to pick from.

For your iPhone Home Screen, check out our list of the best widgets for iOS 14. Since more and more companies will be providing widgets, we’ll update our list often so that you can see the best ones as they arrive.

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Lisa brings OLED display-friendly notifications to jailbroken iPhones

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 11, 2020

Apple made the right decision when switching from traditional LCD display panels to higher-end OLED display panels in its flagship smartphones, but one can’t help but question why iOS doesn’t take better advantage of the deeper black color tones made possible with OLED display technology.

If you have a jailbroken OLED display-equipped iPhone at your disposal and you’ve been asking yourself the aforementioned question since the day you first picked up the device, then we think you’re likely to enjoy a free jailbreak tweak dubbed Lisa by iOS developers Litten and Esquilli.

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Comet brings iOS 14-inspired widgets to jailbroken iOS 13 devices

Anthony Bouchard ∙ August 19, 2020

If you sat back and watched the WWDC 2020 presentation, then you would’ve witnessed Apple’s plans for the upcoming iOS & iPadOS 14 software update slated to launch this Fall. One of the features that stood out most to me was the introduction of authentic Home Screen widgets, which the jailbreak community has enjoyed for years along with several other of iOS 14’s ‘new’ features.

Jailbreakers are typically hard-pressed to partake in major software updates like iOS 14 because of the implications that doing so would have on their jailbreak eligibility. Fortunately, a newly released jailbreak tweak dubbed Comet by iOS developer Dylan West (@iOSthemem0d) brings a multitude of new widgets to jailbroken iOS 13 devices, and it certainly evokes an iOS 14-esque vibe if you know what we mean…

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ReachInfo adds something useful to the wasted space of Reachability

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated September 27, 2021
Widgets for the empty space in the iPhone’s Reachability space.

Reachability is an often-under-appreciated feature of iOS that makes it so much easier for iPhone users to touch interface elements normally residing at the top of the display – especially when only using one hand. For the most part, it does a good job of this.

Unfortunately, Reachability also tends to leave a lot of unused space at the top of the iPhone’s display when it moves the interface down to make it more reachable with one hand, an issue that a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed ReachInfo by iOS developer 1di4r tries to fix.

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Viper supercharges the Home & Lock Screens on jailbroken iPhones

Anthony Bouchard ∙ July 10, 2020

While Apple does its best to keep the iPhone’s user interface simple by design, sometimes it takes things to such extremes that it actually handicaps the smartphone’s potential user experience. If you, like many others, wish your handset’s Home Screen and Lock Screen were a bit more capable, then you may want to do yourself a favor and look into the likes of a newly released jailbreak tweak dubbed Viper by iOS developer Esquilli.

Viper augments the iPhone’s Home Screen and Lock Screen interfaces in more ways than one. Not only does it bring interactive widgets to the Home Screen, but it also incorporates an App Drawer for faster app access and more informative Lock Screen interface with both Weather and time information. Examples of some of Viper’s features are depicted in the screenshot examples above and below.

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