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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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How to use compact calls on iPhone and iPad

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 11, 2023

By default, incoming phone and FaceTime calls appear as a compact banner at the top of the screen of your unlocked iPhone. It doesn't take up the whole screen.

However, if you or someone with access to your iPhone switched it back to a full-screen interface, then you can easily revert to the default, compact style. In this tutorial, we'll show you how.

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Review: WT2 Plus translation earbuds bring us one step closer to a Babel Fish type experience

Christian Zibreg ∙ September 21, 2020

If your foreign language skills leave a lot to be desired, these specialized earbuds from a Chinese brand, called TimeKettle, provide near real-time translation from one language to another, with 95 percent translation accuracy and support for enough language pairs to cover more than 80 percent of the world’s population. Here’s how they work in real life.

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Wander v1.2 adds speed & UI improvements, cellular support, and more

Anthony Bouchard ∙ September 20, 2020

If you’re an Odyssey jailbreak user and you aren’t taking advantage of the Wander extension for Apple’s native Shortcuts app on your iPhone or iPad, then you’re seriously missing out. Wander lets you quickly install or update the Odyssey jailbreak on your iOS or iPadOS 13 devices with only a few taps via your favorite installation method, and it was updated Sunday evening to version 1.2 with a few notable improvements.

Wander developer BurritoSoftware announced the new Wander v1.2 update via Twitter, and from what we can gather, this isn’t an update you’ll want to miss:

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