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MacStories Weekly: Issue 233 - July 17, 2020

Widget Adaptation: My Early Thoughts on iOS and iPadOS 14’s Widgets

Ryan

Widgets are the feature of iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and macOS 11 that I initially felt largely indifferent about, but now I’m actually pretty excited. Widgets in previous OS versions have always been useful to me, but I never had the thought that they needed a big refresh. So when Craig Federighi debuted the new...

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Ryan is an editor for MacStories and co-hosts the [Adapt](https://www.relay.fm/adapt) podcast on Relay FM. He most commonly works and plays on his iPad Pro and bears no regrets about moving on from the Mac. He and his wife live in New York City.
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