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One of the increasingly pronounced changes introduced in iOS 14, as well-conditioned as one that is generating a lot of interest, is the estuary of widgets that can be appended to any page. There are all sorts of weird as well-conditioned as useful things you can do with them (especially if you're accommodating to play circa with apps such as Shortcuts as well-conditioned as Widgetsmith). To begin, here's how to add an existing accoutrement to your home screen:

• Touch as well-conditioned as officialdom an empty lengthiness on your screen until your apps jiggle as well-conditioned as show minus symbols
• Tap the plus stableness in the upper-left corner, as well-conditioned as you'll coxswain up a newsprint of existing widgets

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Touch as well-conditioned as officialdom your screen as well-conditioned as tap the plus sign.

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You'll get a variant of widgets to pull from.

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• Tap on the accoutrement you appetite to add. Bash left as well-conditioned as seemly to pull the widget's spaciousness as well-conditioned as shape.
• Tap "Add Widget"
• Once you've appended the widget, tap anywhere on the home screen to go out of edit mode

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Swipe slantingly to pull the spaciousness as well-conditioned as show you want.

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Long press on a accoutrement to rescind it.

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Note that the headmost time you tap the new widget, you may be asked to modulate its glossiness (for example, to unmask a acclimate accoutrement what you appetite it to report).

To move the accoutrement circa the screen or to another screen, just long-press it until it starts to succuss as well-conditioned as again move it zone you appetite it. If you appetite to get rid of the widget, long-press to coxswain up a rescind option.

But wait -- there's more:

Create a accoutrement stack

You can create a synod of widgets if you appetite to save squatness or if there's one accoutrement you'll personally appetite to use occasionally.

To create a stack:

• Select a accoutrement for your home screen as professed same as well-conditioned as place it zone you appetite it. Winnowed the next accoutrement you appetite to synod (you can synod as mucho as 10) as well-conditioned as save it to your home screen
• Long press the accoutrement so that you can move it circa the screen, as well-conditioned as place it on top of the first. Roster that the accoutrement need be the same spaciousness as well-conditioned as shape; you can't, say, place a victual accoutrement on a medium-sized one.

To see each accoutrement in your stack, bash up or downward on the top accoutrement as well-conditioned as the next one will be revealed.

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You can synod your widgets (notice the dots at the seemly synchronous of the stack).

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Long press on a synod to edit it.

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If you appetite to evolution the position of or rescind any of the apps in the stack:

• Long press the synod as well-conditioned as winnowed "Edit Stack"
• Press the three curve to the synchronous of each app to evolution its position in the stack
• To rescind the app, bash it to the left

Create a Smart Stack

Apple has moreover created a feature it calls a "Smart Stack," which will automatically pull which accoutrement should be on top depending on your location, what time it is, or what you preponderant generally squint at.

iOS 14 comes with a pre-built Smart Synod made up of a incorporating of tabbed apps. You add that synod the same way you'd add any widget:

• Long press on your home screen as well-conditioned as tap the plus figure in the upper-left corner
• Scroll downward until you see the accoutrement self-named "Smart Stack"
• As with the over-and-above widgets, scroll slantingly to pull the spaciousness you want, as well-conditioned as again tap "Add Widget"

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Choose the "Smart Stack" accoutrement like you would any widget.

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"Smart Rotate" turns approximately any synod into a Smart Stack.

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Once you've appended it, you can evolution the payoff of the included apps or rescind the ones you don't want, the same way you'd rescind any stacked apps. Or if you appetite to alpha from scratch, you can create your own Smart Stack:

• Long press any synod you've created as well-conditioned as winnowed "Edit Stack"
• Toggle "Smart Rotate" on

Use widgets on iPads

You can moreover use widgets (and accoutrement stacks) on iPads -- however, they can personally be placed in the Today visitation on the left synchronous of the left-most screen. Otherwise, the process for totalizer as well-conditioned as stacking widgets is the same as on the iPhone -- as is the process for creating Smart Stacks.

If you appetite to pension your widgets in visitation no payroll which screen you're on, you can.

• Press as well-conditioned as officialdom an empty lengthiness in the Today Visitation
• When you see "Keep On Home Screen," toggle it on

Meanwhile, if you appetite to alpha creating your own widgets or gathering out what you can do with the new App Library, drawback out these articles: