One of the big new features of iOS 14 is Home Screenwidgets, which provide information from apps at a glance. The widgets can be pinned to the Home Screen in various spots and sizes, allowing for many different layouts.
- This widgets allows you to quickly search the Prototype documentation, it’s quite simple to use: For instance if you are looking for documentation on “Event”, just type “event” – if you want some details on “Event.observe”, just enter “Event.observe'. Tags – HTML ( MAC Dashboard Widget ) Tags – HTML Homepage ».
- Login with Spotify, enter your information, and once you’re logged in you will see the next page: Click on the “get a now playing widget for you stream “here” button (highlighted in red). You will be sent to a new page in a new window: Add your “user ID” from the prior page to the box on this page, and click enter.
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Many third-party apps have released widgets, and now evidence that Spotify is developing its own official widget has appeared in a TestFlight beta.
Spotify is gearing up to launch in the US after much anticipation, and Simplify for Mac is a very, well, simple way to control the app without looking at its main window, while getting a beautiful artwork widget on your desktop at the same time. You can download Simplify at $2.99 on the App Store.
The widget is currently available in small and medium sizes, with the former designed to display the artwork of the last played artist, song, or album, while the latter size shows four of the same content elements.
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Unfortunately there are no play, pause, or next song buttons, since Apple only allows widgets to present read-only information, with interactive elements such as scrolling elements or switches not allowed, presumably due to battery life considerations.
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Instead, both widgets include the text “Listen to Music and Podcasts,” and tapping the widget opens the Spotify app. Based on user reports on Reddit, the Spotify widgets don’t yet display album artwork, but the fact that they exist at all proves that Spotify is working on them.
Last month, we reported that Spotify is testing dedicated support for direct audio streaming to Apple Watch without being connected to iPhone.
There’s no indication that the appearance of the beta feature is tied to a particular version of watchOS or iOS, but hopefully it won’t be long before the ability to stream Spotify from the wrist will be available to all subscribers.