Apple's iOS 18 takes some of its best ideas from Widgets and applies them to features like the Control Center.
Four years after Apple first launched widgets for iOS 14, the feature gets new customization upgrades and sees its effects felt throughout the operating system.
In addition to more placement options, users can also make Widgets and apps appear differently, whether in dark mode or tinted to match a specific color. This feels like a long time coming as people have personalized app badges for years using the Shortcuts feature. This update doesn’t even go so far as to allow full customization.iOS’s control center, which appears when users swipe down from the top-right corner.
With iOS 18, Control Center gets its own kind of Widget-ification. Users will be able to move these features around to create a more personalized layout, and it gets third-party app support. Similar to the way iPhone users can load up Widgets from any app that supports it, they can now add shortcuts to the control center. In the WWDC keynote, Apple used a control from the Ford app as an example, showing how users can cool down their cars right from the Control Center.
It further conveniently filters the library for better ease of use, for example, hiding screenshots when they aren’t needed.Apple, which always likes to push its image as the more privacy-focused tech company added new features in this realm. With iOS 18, users can hide apps they don’t want to appear in their libraries in a separate locked folder. Information from these apps won’t appear elsewhere like notifications either.
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