Basic iPad widgets are great, but there are many more exciting ones to discover.
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Many iPad owners never truly grasp the capabilities of widgets. Adding a basic Weather, Calendar or Photos widget is limiting; they can do a lot more than just show the temperature and your next meeting, but many of the most useful ones go unnoticed. With iPadOS 27, Apple even brought extra-large widgets to Today View, giving them more room to take advantage of the bigger screen.
Between Apple’s in-house widgets and third-party options, there’s something for new iPad owners
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