Apple’s updated widgets in macOS Sonoma are not only now available on the Mac’s desktop, they’re also interactive instead of solely displaying information. Here’s how to use them.
A headline feature of macOS Sonoma is 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, and perhaps were out of sight, out of mind.
So much so that 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.
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