Notifications on the iPhone are annoying. There, I said it. They drop at the most inopportune times, and I always end up activating them, while the iPhone is more than happy to hop over to the ...

Not a huge change, but we just noticed that in OS X Mountain Lion, Apple has changed the way adding widgets in Dashboard works to be more akin to Launchpad, with a full screen of equally spaced ...

In an otherwise incremental update, one of macOS Sonoma's marquee features is interactive desktop widgets. Although Apple now lets you add widgets to the Notification Center on older versions of macOS ...

In macOS Sonoma, Apple changed how widgets work. Unlike previous versions of macOS, widgets don't have to be hidden away offscreen and largely forgotten in the Notifications Center panel. Now they can ...

You may not know it, but there's a world of widgets just waiting to be explored on your MacBook. Widgets are tiny apps you can place on your desktop to help you do all kinds of things, like keeping up ...

Title says it all. I kinda wish I could make a notification center widget Applet. What if you shoved an RSS feed into there? scrolling right to left like the Stocks widget? My only fear is that more ...

Apple may not have added support for Android-style home screen widgets to iOS 5, but the company did add a weather forecast utility and support for stock information to the Notification Center. When ...

In macOS Sonoma, Apple has changed the widgets landscape. No longer do widgets have to be hidden offscreen and largely forgotten in the Notifications Center panel. Now they live right on your desktop ...

2Do As my default task manager, I use 2Do’s widget quite a bit on both the iPhone and iPad to check on tasks for the current day and mark them as complete without having to open the app. In the widget ...

Twitter: @greyham. MacStories Editor. TAP IMAGE TO VIEW FULL SCREENSHOT OF NOTIFICATION CENTER Notification Center widgets aren’t hugely important to me, but they have become useful enough that I use ...