How to Customize iPad Home Screen Widgets on iPad OS?

If you want to personalize your iPad tablet and give it a more unique touch with respect to the applications that you have downloaded on your device, it is recommended that you use the widgets, since with this application you can order other applications and put them on the home screen.

Its main function is to make it easier for the user to access their favorite applications, you can also use widgets on iPhone and iPod, this application is very known and used by userss that drive Apple devices. But widgets have also been created that you can download for free for Android.

1. On your iPad you are going to slide the screen until you get the ‘view today’
2. Anywhere on the screen that’s empty, you’re going to long press and then you’re going to select where it says ‘Add’
3. Then the widgets will appear and you will select one
4. Then you are going to choose the size of the widgets and click on ‘Add widgets’
5. Finally click on the ‘OK’ option and in this way you will have added the widgets in today’s view

Enter the widget screen editing options

To enter the editing mode of a widget you just have to press on this application and a menu will appear and there it is where you will decide if you want to edit it or notin case yes, in the menu that appears, you are going to select the option ‘Edit widgets’

Enable ‘keep on home screen’

1. You must go to the ‘Settings’ options
2. Then select on ‘Home Screen’
3. Then you will select the option ‘Keep on home screen’

With widgets it will be easier for you to search for all your favorite applications, you can add it to the home screen and thus have everything information in the foregroundfollow these steps so you know how to put widgets on the home screen

1. On your iPad, you are going to press on an empty part of the screen
2. Then in the upper corner of the screen you will see the option ‘Add’, when it appears you press on the
3. Then a list will appear, where you are going to select the widgets and you are going to then click on ‘Add widgets’
4. Finally click on ‘OK’ and you will have the widgets on your home screen

How to remove a widget from the home screen?

Sometimes not all Apple users like to use the widgets because they don’t know how to take advantage of this application, so if you’re tired of having this app on your home screen, Next I will show you the steps to eliminate it

1. The first thing you should do is go to the home screen of your iPad
2. Then with your finger you are going to move to the left or right, until the ‘widget list’you are going to go to the last options and you are going to select the one that says ‘Edit’.
3. Then all the widgets that you have added will appear, you will eliminate them one by one, next to each application the ‘Delete’ option appears
4. Finally when you have finished deleting everything, you are going to press ‘Done’

How to resize widgets?

This is a very easy function to perform, since changing the size of the widget can be done while you are creating it or when you already have it on the home screen, in case you already have the widget on your home screen and you want to put it bigger or smaller, all you have to do is click on the widget until it gets on edit mode.

Then with your fingers you can enlarge it up or down and to make it smaller you can drag your fingers towards the center of the screen so that this action is executed, and when you finish you just have to press anywhere on the screen and so on. you will have changed the size of the widgets.

If you want to have your home screen more organized, one way to do it is to create folders and thus organize each of the applications you have, so that when you want to search for an application you already have it in one folder on home screenspecifically in the widgets you created, to create a folder and better organize all your applications, follow these steps.

1. On your home screen you are going to press the screen, until the option ‘Edit screen’ appears at the top
2. To create the folder, what you have to do is drag one application over the other in the widgets, and you are going to do this with the other applications.
3. If you want to change the name of the folder you created, you must press on it, until it appears the ‘Rename’ optionclick on that option and change the name.
4. Lastly, if you have finished moving all the applications to the folder, click on ‘OK’

As a curiosity you can not only use the widgets on iPadyou can also add widgets on iPhone and you can even install and uninstall widgets on Android device as they are apps that are created especially for other mobile devices.