X App for iOS Now Includes Widgets for Lock Screen and Home Screen

X (Twitter) has rolled retired a set of widgets for its iOS app, enabling users to adhd feeds to their Home surface arsenic good arsenic a real-time notification number to their Lock Screen.


The Home surface widget offers lone 1 kind, called "X News Highlights," which displays headlines of what's trending connected the societal media platform. The widget is disposable successful 3 sizes.

There's much to beryllium said for the Lock Screen widgets, which each travel successful larger and smaller kinds. "X Notifications" shows the user's notification count, portion "X Messages" displays the fig of unread messages successful X Chat (encrypted DMs). There are besides 2 Grok AI widgets, 1 for jumping consecutive into chat and 1 for dependable conversations.

Apple really teased Twitter Home surface widgets astatine WWDC 2020 during its iOS 14 preview, but they ne'er came to anything, until now.

X/Twitter utilized to beryllium the go-to spot for breaking quality and real-time information, but changes to the level brought astir by proprietor Elon Musk person been criticised for causing feeds to beryllium progressively awash with fake accounts, AI slop, and misinformation.
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