On balance, I would say that everything Apple has done to the iPad Lock Screen this year is very nice, and they’ve made the right decision in bringing widgets and Live Activities to the platform. Realistically, looking at the Home widgets, these are the same square widgets seen on the Home Screen, only rendered as monochrome items on the Lock Screen. There is, for instance, a square monthly calendar that you can put on the Lock Screen (I use this one a lot) a square Reminders widget that can display more than two tasks at the same time large square Clocks and more. The new size is reminiscent of square Home Screen widgets, and it’s been used by Apple in a variety of built-in Lock Screen widgets for iPad to great effect. This opens some interesting possibilities for “work widgets” (when I’m using the iPad in landscape) and “personal widgets” (when I’m holding the iPad like a book in portrait), which is something I plan to explore soon.Īlso nice: in bringing Lock Screen widgets to a taller form factor, Apple created a new widget size that can fit more information than previous iPhone widgets. The good news is that iPadOS 17 lets you keep separate sets of portrait and landscape widgets in the same Lock Screen.
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