X For IOS Finally Offers Widgets, Five Years After First Teasing Them

X For IOS Finally Offers Widgets, Five Years After First Teasing Them

X for iOS has finally rolled out widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen.

Over five years ago, at WWDC20a Home Screen Widget for Twitter was shown off in the reveal video for iOS 14. However, these never ended up materializing.

Now, X has finally added support for both Home Screen widgets and Lock Screen widgets for their app for iPhone and iPad:

This new update brings only one option for a Home Screen widget, called “X News Highlights”, which shows headlines of what’s trending on X. Tapping one will open the topic within the app. This widget comes in three sizes:

X has a larger variety of widgets for the Lock Screen. First of these is “X Notifications”, which shows your current notification count. Next is “X Messages”, which shows the number of unread messages in X Chat.

Finally, there are two widgets for Grok, one for quick access to chat and one for voice. All four of these widgets include a larger and smaller variant.

Wrap up

In the end, the Home Screen widget did end up being fairly similar to the one shown off in WWDC20, albeit without the background image. What do you think of these new widgets? Let us know in the comments below!

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Author:Dylan McDonald
Published on:2025-12-14 17:00:00
Source: 9to5mac.com

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