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Weather Up: The Interactive Weather Widget I’ve Been Looking For

After several years of non-interactivity, widgets became interactive again last year in iOS 17. What we mostly saw emerge were widgets with buttons – either huge, chunky buttons like on the Shortcuts widget or small buttons like on the Reminders widget. Those are great and all, but some developers decided to push those boundaries.

The first and most noticeable app to do so was, unsurprisingly, Widgetsmith. Its Music Collection Flow widget allows you to browse through your music collection in much the same way you could on iTunes back in the day. Other widgets from the likes of Widgetpod also offer a great deal of utility. That said, the one that I’ve been waiting for is a fully interactive weather widget.