A photo widget, having your favorite faces or scenes right on your Home Screen is a great way to start your day. You have a couple of ways to add a photo widget on your iPhone Home Screen. One option is obviously using the Photos app widget provided by Apple. The other is to use a third-party app with a custom widget. Here we’ll explain how to use both ways to display a photo widget on your iPhone. Show Add the Photos app widgetAlong with its other apps, Apple offers a widget for the Photos app. This is probably your first choice when you want to add a photo widget, and it’s easy to do. Here’s how:
Adding the widget is the simple part. Selecting the photos you see in the widget is where things get difficult. Pick the photos for the Home Screen widgetUnfortunately, Apple’s Photos widget does not let you pick the photos you want to display in the widget. As you will see when selecting the widget size, the photos that display come from your Memories and Featured Photos in the Photos app. And, Featured Photos are chosen by the Photos app, not by you. Currently, the only control you have over this is to exclude pictures, and another limitation is that you can only exclude pictures considered Featured Photos from the widget. To do this, follow these steps:
Again, this process doesn’t work for removing Memories or excluding photos within Memories that display in the Photos widget. However, if you don’t like a Memory, open the Photos app and go to the For You section. From there, tap the More button and choose Delete Memory. Alternatively, you can tap a Memory and tap once again on the playing Memory to reveal the controls. From here, tap the More button > Manage Photos to unselect the photos you don’t want to appear in this Memory. Add a photo widget with WidgetsmithIf you’re disappointed in the limitations with Apple’s own Photos widget and actually want to change the photo in the widget, you do have another option. Widgetsmith is a free, third-party app that lets you create custom widgets, and luckily, you can add a photo or an entire album straight from your Photos app. And best of all, you choose the photos and get to change them anytime! Here’s how:
Now that you have your photo or album widget created, add it to the Home Screen like any other widget from the Widget Gallery. You can also follow the same steps as above for adding the Photos widget, but instead, pick Widgetsmith and the size of the photo widget you created. Once the widget is on your Home Screen, tap and hold it, pick Edit Widget, and select the photo or album widget. For more: How to use Widgetsmith on your iPhone You can add a photo widget to your iPhone Home Screen easily. If you don’t mind only seeing Memories or Featured Photos, then use Apple’s Photos widget. But if you prefer to pick the photos you see, check out Widgetsmith or a similar app for creating custom widgets. Check out next:
Can you change iPhone widget featured photos?Open the app. Tap the + in the middle of the screen. Select the photo you want to display on your home screen. Return to the home screen.
How do you add and remove featured photos on iPhone?Open the Photos app on your device. Tap the For You icon. Tap the featured photo you want to removed from the Featured Photos section. Tap the trashcan icon.
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