The Best Interactive Widgets for Your iPad and iPhone: iOS/iPadOS 17 Edition

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2. Where can i find details about the widget setup you have on your iPad as seen in your thumbnail image?

3. @chris how did you get your finder icon to look right? mine either has a background color or is stretched…

4. Where can i find great ipad wallpapers?

5. Is there a chance you could soon do an updated iPad files management video?

6. Great recommendations 😊

7. Nice video bro! I was wondering where did you get your MagSafe support 🙂

8. I've been wanting interactive widgets ever since they brought them to the Home Screen. I was a big fan of the today view and was always bummed that the widgets were not interactive in the way that the today view widgets were. One thing I find irritating about the interactive widgets now that they are here is that I would end up marking things as done when I touched the screen by accident. It was very frustrating. I also don't like how when you interact with them, they can end up taking you into the app when you just wanted to interact with it. I guess it's just a matter of getting used to it… Thanks for sharing a great list. My favorite widget that is not listed here is "HealthView" I think I did a one time payment of $10, and it's been worth it because you can have widget view of selected health data on the Home Screen or in the app it provides an easy to view list of current data.

9. I can’t keep up. Great work Chris.

10. What dock is your phone on?

11. Loved the Sherlock Holmes address reference

12. Great video! Nice Sherlock Holmes reference at 7:44 😉

13. Sherlock Holmes address huh? Lol

14. I can't believe you didn't blur Jenny's number. I got it, (I got it), I got it.

15. Downloaded pretty much everything 🎉

16. I'm impressed by this video. A lot of info ( a lot I don't care about) that makes me feel miles more up to date on where devices and interactions are going than reading hacker news or whatever I might be doing instead.

17. I’m kind of surprised that Spotify hasn’t updated its widgets tbh. Other than that, CARROT weather is the only other widget I use that has been updated that I’m loving.

18. lot of videos last time. Very happy to the watch em all.

19. is it compatible with ipad pro 2015?

20. I hesitate to ask but I assume there's no way to view a Home camera as a live widget? I can't even figure out how to trigger the miniature camera view window anymore, unless it's not currently in iPad OS 17 for some reason.

21. Fonts look terrible

22. I have a hard time teaching the concept of clockwise and counter clockwise to kids who grew up on digital clocks when teaching how to open a combination lock. I agree analog clock faces should not be on computers.

23. I wish the Reminders widget was scrollable. Until then it’s not really interactive.

24. Have you noticed that the iPad Pro keyboard doesn’t work properly after the IOS update? I used to be able to easily stop & start YouTube videos with the spacebar now it works only sporadically 😕

25. Thank you for making these videos 🙌🙌🙌

26. Hi,thank u for recommand me fantastical app😊i downloaded fantastical but i cant access; enter account key is needed😢 it's my first time to sign in but i need to enter the key number from my other device that is signed in to fantasical

27. FINALLY we get something Android has had for 10 years. I barely used widgets but now I might start using them.
    Now if only we can get the ability to freely arrange icons

28. Can you do a what's on my ipad video

29. You are 100% correct about analogue clocks on digital screens. They make no sense!!

30. I try to avoid installing apps on my iPads and rely on Safari as much as possible.

31. Pixel Pals Widget Pet Game very cool

32. Thanks for this video! I love the Fantastical widget the most.😊

33. Widgets you can play games on… not a good idea for someone with ADHD. 😂

34. I thought I’m the only one who thinks that analog clock on a digital devices like computer or smartphone is weird

35. I didn’t know how much I needed this video