Easily build widgets and make them available in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS using the WidgetKit framework and the widget API for SwiftUI. Now you can use WidgetKit to create widgets for the iPhone Lock Screen, as well as complications in watchOS. And starting with iOS 16.1, you can create Live Activities to deliver timely updates.
What’s newWidgets are becoming even more powerful in even more places. Now you can use WidgetKit to build support for interactivity and animated transitions, so people can take action right in your widget. Once you rebuild for iOS 17, with just a few simple changes your existing widgets will look great in StandBy on iPhone, on the Lock Screen on iPad, and on the desktop on Mac. With SwiftUI, the system adapts your widget’s color and spacing based on context, extending its usefulness across platforms.
Live Activities built with WidgetKit and ActivityKit are now available on iPad to help people stay on top of what’s happening in your app in real time, right from the Lock Screen.
With widgets in iOS 16, you can let people quickly glance at the latest information from your app on the iPhone Lock Screen.
You can also provide the latest information from your app on the Home Screen of iPhone and iPad.
Smart Stacks are sets of widgets that use on-device intelligence to surface the right widget at the right moment based on factors like time, location, and activity. Even widgets that haven’t been manually added are suggested in Smart Stacks based on past behavior and on intent donations for new events.
In watchOS 9, you can provide timely, relevant information with full-color images, text, and dynamic gauges on more than a dozen Apple Watch faces using WidgetKit.
Get started with Live Activities to help people stay on top of what’s happening in your app. ActivityKit lets your app provide live updates through glanceable experiences powered by WidgetKit and SwiftUI — right on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
Use Xcode and these resources to build widgets and complications.