The Search widget offered by the Google app on iPhone and iPad now offers customizable shortcuts, including to Gemini. Previously, the Medium widget (as seen above) just showed a pill-shaped search ...

The widgets put text promts, Gemini Live, and other features right on your lockscreen. The widgets put text promts, Gemini Live, and other features right on your lockscreen. is a former senior ...

Home screen widgets have been a part of Android from the very beginning and the first T-Mobile G1 in 2008. And for a long time, widgets were one of the first answers when you asked an avid Android ...

Google Maps now shows an overlay of the weather and air quality in the area you’re looking at. Tapping on the weather widget brings up a card that shows the forecast for the day. This feature was ...

When I last wrote about Gemini for iOS, I noted the app’s lackluster integration with several system features. But since – unlike others in the AI space – the team at Google is actually shipping new ...

Google could be reintroducing “Lock Screen Widgets” in Android 15. However, these “widgets” may resemble the Live Actions feature in Apple’s iOS for iPhone. Android widgets are one of the most useful ...