When macOS Big Sur is finally released later this year we expect to see a few new widgets, both from Apple and from third-party developers. You can glance at a widget version of an app to view the latest information and access features, functions and controls - all without having to open the app itself.

There are very limited options for tweaking your widgets in Catalina. Some of the most popular Widgets from Dashboard arent even available (such as Stickies).Īs with on iOS and iPadOS, the widgets shown are from apps you have installed already. Therell be a new way to access your widgets and notifications.Īs before, the way you add widgets is slightly different depending on the version of macOS you are running. How you access the Notification Centre is about to change in Big Sur, so well cover how it works in both Catalina and Big Sur below. We have a separate article about How to use Widgets in iPhone and iPad. Please also post if you encounter problems, notice something wrong, or just find something that could be improved.This should mean that there are more Widgets available on the Mac than ever.

This widget has been explicitly tested on 10.4 'Tiger', 10.6 'Snow Leopard', 10.9 'Mavericks', and 10.13 'High Sierra', but it should run on Tiger through Mojave. Previous versions of this widget required you to add your own API keys, but this is no longer necessary-just download and run! (Optional instructions for adding your own key are still included in the download it's a good thing to set up if you have a few minutes to spare.) Then I rewrote it again a few months later to use the Weatherbit API after Apple bought DarkSky, and again after getting frustrated with Weatherbit. Luckily, the widget is all just editable Javascript code, so I rewrote a portion of the code to use the freely-accessible DarkSky and MapQuest APIs. The Weather dashboard widget that ships with Mac OS X 10.4 – 10.14 broke in 2019, when the APIs it uses went offline.

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