Interactive Widgets
We were thrilled to see Apple finally introduce Widgets in iOS 14, providing the ability to see important information on our home screens at a glance. However, the experience wasn’t perfect; widgets could take you into a specific part of an app, but you couldn’t otherwise interact with the information in those little windows.
The good news is that Apple is fixing that in iOS 17, bringing full interactivity that will let you check off tasks, play music, and access your Home controllers interactively, right from a widget, without taking you into the corresponding app. All of Apple’s first-party apps will offer these new widgets right away, and it’s a safe bet that third-party developers are already hard at work to have their apps ready for the fall when iOS 17 launches to the public.