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Android 13 brought a new design for the media player widget that appears in the notification panel and on the lock screen. However, you can experience the new widget with only those apps that have added support for it. So far, popular music streaming applications, such as Spotify, Tidal, and YouTube Music, added support for the new widget. Apple Music, however, didn’t. But that’s changing today. Apple Music v4.2, which is currently in the beta testing stage, adds support for Android 13’s new music player widget (via…

Spotify may not have had the strongest 2023, but there have been a couple of quality-of-life improvements that have made the app a little better. One of which is this new feature, which makes it possible to have a Spotify widget on your iPhone Lock Screen screen. You only need to tap it once to launch the app, cutting the process down from the few taps you might have needed before.It's going to require iOS 16 later, due to the customization options that came with the most recent version of iOS, but it's super easy to do.…

Holy moly — Spotify actually added support for an iOS feature before Apple released the next version of its operating system! In a blog post, the company announced it is finally launching a lock screen widget for the iPhone. You’ll need to be using iOS 16, of course, as that is the version of iOS that introduced lock screen widgets, but if your iPhone is up to date, have at it! While it’s cool that Spotify built a lock screen widget, its functionality is pretty basic. Instead of doing something cool…

The new version of Spotify now supports iOS 16 widgets, so you can have a swift way to get to your music from your iPhone or iPad’s Lock Screen or display album art of your recently played music right on your homescreen. Prior to the new version 8.8.26 update, Spotify support for iOS system integrations was almost nonexistent — save for crucial bare-bones support for things like Now Playing so iPhone listeners can have quick access to music controls. Spotify is a bit late in the game to support iOS widgets in the home and…

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020 and a lockdown was put into effect in the UK, I decided to transform my home into a smart one by buying smart lights and cameras. Thanks to Apple's HomeKit, which lets anyone with an Apple device control these appliances through the Home app, it was a breeze to dim the lights and check the cameras on my iPhone.But one glaring omission since iOS 14 debuted in the same year that brought widgets to be placed on the home screen, was the lack of separate widgets to control my lights, and…

Google has recently rolled out a fresh widget for its note-taking and list-making app called "Keep", which allows users to add a single interactive note to their home screen. The "Single note" lets you quickly mark off items from your to-do or grocery list directly from the home screen, making it more convenient. Here’s how you can use the widget on your Android smartphone. Google has recently rolled out a fresh widget for its note-taking and list-making app called "Keep", which allows users to add a single interactive…

AT MWC 2023 last week, Google announced a host of new features and improvements for Android and Wear OS. Among those was a new homescreen widget for its note-taking app Keep, a single-note widget. While the company didn’t tell when this utility will be available, it has wasted no time in pushing it to users. The Google Keep widget is rolling out widely for Android devices.The new widget lets you pin a note or list to the homescreen of your Android phone or tablet for quick access. Tapping it takes you directly to that…

Google has announced nine new features for Android and Wear OS at this week's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. The new features have brought improvements to connectivity as well as accessibility for supported devices. The features include a Google Keep single note widget on home screen, Wear OS' new shortcuts to create notes and to-do lists from the watch face, audio enhancements, and new emoji packs. The new note widget will let users manage notes and to-do lists from the home screen.…

Google is launching some new features for Android and Wear OS soon, including a single note widget for its Google Keep app. The company officially announced the new features during Mobile World Congress. Google says the new features will be available across all countries and regions where Android is supported, too. As well as being available in all supported languages.The new features will not all launch at the same time however. Instead, Google plans to push some of them right away, while others still need a little bit…

NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty ImagesMicrosoft is expanding Windows 11's live caption functionality to seven more languages and more English dialects. The Windows 11 2022 Update launched with system-wide live captions, which generated live captions from any audio content -- but this feature only supported US English. Live captures technically arrived as an accessibility feature, alongside voice access for controlling a PC and text dictation, and natural voices for Narrator. But live captions can be a useful tool for…