Apple’s updated widgets in macOS Sonoma are not only now available on the desktop, they’re also interactive instead of solely displaying information. Here’s how to use them.
Apple made a headline feature out of the fact that you can now take a widget — an app’s small information window — and place it anywhere on the desktop. Previously widgets lived only in a sidebar that you had to drag in from the right of the screen.
As useful as those widgets could be, the fact is that they were a drag in more than one sense. You had to remember that they existed, then either swipe just so with your fingers on a trackpad, or click on the date in your Mac’s menu bar.
So Apple was right that the new system of having them permanently visible is significant.
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