The best 10 iPhone widgets for iOS 10

One of the most underappreciated features on the iPhone are its lock-screen widgets.

Several apps and Apple’s own software allows you to send emails, check photos, and other common tasks without ever unlocking your phone.

In fact, Apple has placed even more emphasis on lock-screen widgets in iOS 10, the latest software version for iPhones and iPads.

If you swipe right on the lock screen, you’ll find the newly redesigned widgets page.

It’s pretty useful if you need information at a glance – but you’ll need to dial in what’s important to you, first.

Here's how to supercharge your widgets in iOS 10:

First things first, you'll need to find your widgets screen. You can access it from the lock screen by swiping right — the same direction as slide-to-unlock used to be.

It's easy to edit the order your widgets appear in. Apple puts a handy button at the bottom of the screen. Some apps let you expand the widget too, to get more information.

Apple's own widgets are pretty good, but if you really want a useful widgets screen, you'll want to install some third-party widgets from the App Store. Here's the default Apple screen:

Yelp is great for finding something nearby quickly. Foursquare and Apple Maps' widgets are good alternatives if you don't like to use Yelp.

Wikipedia will let you pick up the last article you were reading where you left off.

With Shazam's widget, you don't need to boot into the app to figure out what song is playing.

If you're always trying to figure out what to make for dinner, Kitchen Stories has a redesigned widget that will serve a single receive. New York Times Food also has a good widget that does the same thing. Expand the view to take a sneak peek of that day's featured recipes.

Amazon lets you keep track of what packages are coming your way.

ESPN puts all your favorite teams and their scores a swipe away.

MLB At Bat does the same thing, but just for baseball. The scores also seem to get updated faster and there's a bit more contextual information.

Fantastical mixes a quick look at your day at a glance with an effective month view. Many of the BI Tech staff are big fans.

Looking for twee decorations? Etsy offers a quick look at recent purchases and shipments as well as suggesting new twee decorations you might want to buy.

Dark Sky is one of the most useful weather apps on the iPhone, and its widget is excellent.

And of course, if you want to disable the widgets screen entirely, it's possible. Head to Settings > Touch ID & Passcode, scroll down, and then uncheck Today View and Notifications View.

Source: Lifehacker