Weather provides the weather forecast in varying levels of detail depending on which of the three sizes of widget you pick, and like on the iPad, takes you to when clicked.Īlso, the Weather widget can display the conditions for your current location or a different one you pick and incorporates precipitation predictions for the next hour based on the technology acquired when Apple bought Dark Sky, severe weather alerts, and alerts of upcoming significant changes in conditions.

Stocks offers a small widget for tracking one stock and a second widget in all three sizes for tracking a watchlist of stocks.

Screen Time shows summary Screen Time data in three widget sizes and opens that section of System Preferences when clicked.

Reminders widgets come in all three sizes and display one of your reminders lists.

Podcasts enables continuing playback of your current episode and those next in your queue that comes in small, medium, and large.

Photos is available in all three widget sizes for accessing the app’s Memories feature.

Notes includes a widget for accessing folders in small, medium, and large and a single note widget that comes in the small size.

Clock offers a single-city, analog clock in the small-sized widget and a four-city version in small and medium.

Calendar widgets come in three sizes and include the date, upcoming events, and, for the medium-sized widget, a tiny monthly calendar.

Big Sur has widgets for nine system apps and features: However, there are fewer widgets available on the Mac than on iOS, a limitation similar to the lack of Control Center flexibility that I hope Apple will address over time. Also, like the iPad, widgets are tied to a dedicated panel and cannot be placed on the desktop.

They look just like the widgets introduced with iOS and iPadOS 14 because they’re built the same way using SwiftUI.

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