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iPhone Features Interactive Widgets Starting With iOS 17

Play pause isn’t useful we have dynamic island or AirPods for that why not skip track and other options
 
Such a weird structure at the Keynote. I was worried it was iPadOS exclusive (wouldnt have surprised me AT ALL) but I feel like they were holding it back from the iOS introduction because they simply needed more things to talk about on iPadOS 😅
 
I almost lost this after the event, of all disappointment and hypes about the scuba-glasses.
That destroyed a lot of the event to me, yuk.

But this was actually a great thing on the event. My device’s will love new widgets.
I have to just reset and appreciate what was/is still good with Apple 😐
Give me a week to reset.
 
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adrianlondon said:
Yeah, but Android doesn't run on iPhones, so we are where we are.
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I know, and I deliberately mock iOS/iPhone for not giving users features that are "a given" with Android exactly because of that reason.
I don't think that - amongst a myriad of other things - is fair to the entire iPhone customer base. That is; to be dependant on some "blessing" from Apple to get such basic things, and even so receive them so much later.
 
The thing is iOS had interactive widgets since iOS 8, they just removed that for the home screen version. I have several apps that use interactivity through the old widgets still.
 
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One of my most requested features for years, it should have been on iOS 14 or at least iOS 15.

I love using the widgets on Android, things like mail and notes are so useful to me.

iOS is so close to being the perfect OS for me now, I love Android 14 but some of the little things on iOS are still so handy.

I just NEED

Split screen/multi windows
Native theme changes
notifications massively improved

Then we're done.
 
Applie: In iOS 17 you can now press play on your music widget. Apple: In iOS 18 you can also press forward and rewind in your music widget!
 
I had a Reminders Widget for Groceries a while back, I hoped that I could get to the store and just check off on the widget rather than open each time but NOPE. This should get me so much closer, now if I could use the Location automation and when I arrive "add widget to lock screen" currently with location services I think you have to click RUN on a shortcut (unless I create a Grocery Focus which seems more in-depth than I want
 
Ghost31 said:
It’s funny that there’s so much overlap between iOS and iPadOS that they had to save this for the iPadOS section to make it seem like iPad gets features
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Was thinking the same thing. They made it seem like it was an iPadOS only feature, which would've been lame.
 
hacky said:
More like unification. But honestly I would like more to have MacOS on iPad or if iPadOS would be closer to the macOS than iOS. iPad with keyboard and TouchPad, connected to the external screen, is more computer than phone.
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Sure, unification works too. Yes, I'm all for iPadOS being closer to macOS, although in some ways it's been the other way. I know there are a lot of people out there who want a simplified touchscreen Mac, but I want my Mac to be a Mac — for everything else there's iPad and iPhone.
 
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SmugMaverick said:
One of my most requested features for years, it should have been on iOS 14 or at least iOS 15.

I love using the widgets on Android, things like mail and notes are so useful to me.

iOS is so close to being the perfect OS for me now, I love Android 14 but some of the little things on iOS are still so handy.

I just NEED

Split screen/multi windows
Native theme changes
notifications massively improved

Then we're done.
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And alternative launchers.
 
With all of this great widget functionality, can we get rid of the mandatory flashlight and camera widgets on the Lock Screen, for the love of all that is holy? I don’t need to be able to start the camera with a swipe AND a widget, and as much as I use Flashlight on purpose, the accidental activations are staggering.
 
Someyoungguy said:
With all of this great widget functionality, can we get rid of the mandatory flashlight and camera widgets on the Lock Screen, for the love of all that is holy? I don’t need to be able to start the camera with a swipe AND a widget, and as much as I use Flashlight on purpose, the accidental activations are staggering.
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I love having the camera and flashlight on the lock screen and launch both from there very often... That being said I could totally appreciate some folks wanting the option to customize those to whatever they'd like... Apple should really really give people that option... I would personally keep the same 2 that are there now, but choice is always good.
 
I'm looking at my Things widget on iOS 16 and while it doesn't let me check off items directly, I can click on them directly and they highlight in the app. There is definitely a + button that is also clickable and opens the app and pulls up the UI to add a new item.

So what Apple meant to say is that this will no longer be a half-assed implementation...
 
UltimateSyn said:
For some reason I thought they were already interactive. Goes to show how much I have used the existing widget system...
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They were originally (and still work that way in the Notification Center area if the widget was build as we know them from the early days of widgets in iOS14. A good example of an app which still supports both old (interactive) and newer (non-interactive) is Cromulent Labs Launcher. Finally we will go back to proper interactive widgets again.
 
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