is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. One of the biggest differences between iOS and Android has always been customization. Google’s mobile OS ...

Steve Vegvari is a features author, specializing in gaming, smart home devices, and the Apple ecosystem. With a career spanning over 10 years in the industry, he's written about the latest Apple ...

Since the rebirth of Android with Material You, Google has been working on tons of first-party app widgets and we wanted to share some of the best. In the early days, one of the biggest selling points ...

Apple announced iOS 17 back in June at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with many small enhancements such as machine learning–powered autocorrect, an easy way to create stickers, and a ...

I like Dashboard. There, I said it. Yes, it can hog system resources and be (very) slow to launch, but it integrates into my workflow very well: I use it many times each day for quick access to OS X’s ...

When Apple announced support for widgets in iOS 14, there was a jump of joy among iPhone fans. However, widgets have been available on Android for several years now. Android widgets allow you to place ...

If you track the ever-profound blogosphere, you know that Widgets are the new black. In fact, on Monday there was even an entire conference to talk about the resurgence in Widgets - Widgets Live! The ...

Widgets are always-on apps that live on your iPhone or iPad's home screen. They can be a variety of sizes. If you think of them in terms of how many app icons they replace, they can either be a 4-icon ...

For makers of widgets--modest little pieces of software that let people do things like play games, annotate photos, or send "pokes" to each other on Facebook or MySpace--it seems the buzz has turned ...

Michael is a born Texan and a former graphic designer. He's been covering technology in general and Android in particular since 2011. His interests include folk music, football, science fiction, and ...