Apple’s iOS devices come with many useful and amazing features. Although a feature you did not get in iOS devices which is creating custom widgets. But if your Apple iOS device is running on the latest iOS 14 then you can use a new app that can create custom widgets in your Apple iOS device.
The name of this app is WidgetSmith. You will be able to customize the home screen of your iOS device using the WidgetSmith App. WidgetSmith is one of the best apps for iOS devices that can customize the home screen of an iOS device.
Although as I said WidgetSmith is a new app, so there are many people out there who don’t know how they can use the WidgetSmith app and that’s why in today’s article I will tell you how you can use the WidgetSmith app on your iOS device. But before this, I give you a little bit information of WidgetSmith app.
All about the WidgetSmith app.
Using the WidgetSmith app is very easy and this thing makes the WidgetSmith app different from the rest of the Widget Customizing Apps. In WidgetSmith you will get to use Ready Made and Customized Templates. Even if you are not a Techy person still you can use this WidgetSmith app to create custom widgets very easily.
In the WidgetSmith app, you also buy a subscription that will allow you to use amazing widgets themes. If you use the WidgetSmith app without any subscription, then you will be able to use limited widgets themes and you will also have to see ads in the app.
Now let me tell you how you can customize the home screen of your iOS device by using WidgetSmith App.
First Create a Widget by Using the WidgetSmith app.
By using the WidgetSmith app, you can make custom widgets very easily.
- Step 1: Go to the app store, download the WidgetSmith app.
- Step 2: Now open the WidgetSmith app and start creating widgets. To select the size of the widget, tap on Small, Medium, Large options in order to select the size of the widget you are creating.
- Step 3: You have to rename your widget appropriately. To rename your widget, tap on [image size] # 1. Renaming your widget will help you to differentiate between your customized widgets.
- Step 4: Now, tap on the Default Widget option. After tapping on the Default Widget option, you will be on the widget selection page. From the widget selection page, you can create any type of widget you want to create and can select any type of widget style.
- Step 5: Now you will see an option named aesthetic / theme at the bottom, Tap on the Aesthetic / Theme option. Doing this will allow you to select the aesthetic / theme for the widget you are creating. You can even change the color, background, border color, font, and artwork of the widget you are creating. Now after doing all this, tap on the Save option in order to save your widget.
This is how you use the WidgetSmith app to create custom widgets.
How can you add your created widget to your iOS device’s home screen?
After creating your customized widget, you have to add it to your iOS device’s home screen.
- Step 1: Go to the home screen of your iOS device and do a long press on the home screen. Doing this will open Jiggle mode.
- Step 2: Now in Jiggle mode, you will see + sign at the top of the screen. Tap on that + sign. Now, go to the app list and scroll down until you see the WidgetSmith app.
- Step 3: Open the WidgetSmith app. In the WidgetSmith app select the size of your custom widget.
- Step 4: Now, tap on Add Widget option. Doing this will make a blank widget on your iOS device’s home screen. Now use Jiggle mode to move your custom widget on the home screen of your iOS device
- Step 5: While staying in Jiggle Mode, you will see a blank WidgetSmith widget on your iOS device’s home screen. Tap on that blank WidgetSmith widget. after doing this, WidgetSmith will show you a list of all your created widgets choose your created widget that you want to add on your iOS device’s home screen.
This is how can you add your created widget to your iOS device’s home screen.
Final Words.
WidgetSmith is a great custom widget creating an app for those iOS devices which are running the latest iOS 14. The WidgetSmith App is absolutely new in App Store and due to this, everyone does not know how to use the WidgetSmith app and that’s why in today’s article I told you how you can use the WidgetSmith app.
