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Get Widgets Widgets on iOS are all included with an associated app. For example, the Evernote app includes an Evernote widget. You don’t have to install anything separately. To get widgets, just install an app that includes a widget. For example, Evernote includes a widget that allows you to quickly add notes and Yahoo! Weather offers a weather widget with photos. News apps could offer widgets with recent stories.

Productivity apps could offer quick access to your tasks. Airline apps could display information about your next flight and even a boarding pass on this screen.

We’ll see more apps include new types of widgets in the future. Enable Widgets RELATED: To enable widgets, open the notification center.

Tap the Edit button at the bottom of the Today view. If you used iOS 7, you’ll notice that the confusing “Missed” tab is now gone. There are now just two tabs here — the Today view, and a Notifications view that lists all recent notifications.

You’ll see a list of your installed widgets. The standard parts of the Today view — Today Summary, Traffic Conditions, Calendar, Reminders, and Tomorrow Summary — are all now preinstalled widgets. Below them, you’ll see a list of widgets from apps you have installed.

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Tap the + button next to a widget to enable it. You can then touch the handles at the right side of the screen and drag them up or down to rearrange your list of widgets.

Tap the – button to remove a widget from the list. You can’t re-order some of Apple’s included widgets, but you can remove them from the list if you don’t want to see them.

For example, the Today Summary widget will always appear on top of the Today view — unless you remove it, in which case it won’t appear at all. You can’t make it appear further down in the list. Access and Use Widgets You can access widgets from anywhere — whether you’re on the home screen, in an app, or on the lock screen — by swiping down from the top of your screen and accessing the notification center. They’ll all appear on the Today view in the order you arranged them. These aren’t Android’s widgets: There’s no way to place widgets on your home screen, and there’s also no way to create multiple different screens of widgets you can swipe between. Depending on the widget, you can use buttons to quickly access parts of an app — like Evernote’s quick-note-taking buttons — or tap the widget to open the associated app. Do Widgets Drain the Battery?

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RELATED: Widgets only run and refresh their data when you open the notification center. They don’t have the ability to use “background refresh” — so, for example, the Yahoo! Weather widget here isn’t automatically checking for new weather throughout the day. This makes them more battery-friendly. If you’re not looking at them, they’re not using your battery. You shouldn’t see a noticeable battery drain from using widgets.

Of course, you could take this to extremes — if you added twenty widgets that all needed to refresh data from the network and frequently accessed your notification center, you’d probably. That’s it for widgets — they’re all confined to the Today view in the notification center. There are no home screen widgets, nor are there lock screen widgets like there are on Android.

Widgets also can’t be resized or positioned horizontally — something the seems a bit silly on an iPad’s much-larger screen.

Advertisement You probably haven’t used Dashboard in years, but there is that one widget you wish you could just turn into an app. A free program called lets you transform any Dashboard widget into a dedicated app, complete with its own dock icon. This has a lot of great uses, if you have the right widget in mind.

For example: I’ve long wished I could turn the – which lets you use your Mac’s keyboard to control XBMC on another computer – as a dedicated app. That way I could launch it without the need to ever touch my mouse, and find something to watch.

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Here’s how I set that up for myself, and how you can transform any widget you like into it’s own app. This might prove useful, because it seems like the Dashboard will be going away in the next couple of years. Turn Any Widget Into A Mac App To get started head to and download Amnesty Singles. Run the application and you’ll see the following screen. Leave this open and you’ll always know when to expect that important package (though some might prefer the more advanced from the same company). Another potentially useful widget is, which gives you a quick way to copy symbols to your clipboard – perfect when you can’t remember the proper keyboard shortcut.

And if you love sports, be sure to check out, which lets you see live scores from all four major North American sports leagues. These are just a few, I’d like to know what you find. Let me know which widgets you convert into apps in the comments below.

How Does This Work? Way back in 2009 we showed you using a simple trick: developer mode.

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When Amnesty was first released, some assumed the program was a wrapper for that trick. Not so says Danny Espinoza, the man behind the app: “Amnesty is a reverse engineered, feature complete version of Apple’s Dashboard server.” Until 2013 Amnesty was a commercial program, but it’s since been open sourced and releasee to the public. Amnesty Singles is a stripped-down version of Amnesty, also free since 2013, that provides a single program to run a wide variety of apps from. The End Is Nigh Be warned, Dashboard fans: the end is coming. The Dashboard is dying. Most users ignore it, and not many developers are building things for it. Replace all of your Mac's Dashboard widgets using the new Today view in Yosemite., which is why Apple included an option to turn off Dashboard entirely in that release.

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This is why I’m glad Amnesty is around, and free. With it you don’t need to worry about losing your widgets, forever, when the next Mac OS X update comes around (because there’s a good chance that might happen).

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