How to Remove Widgets from Today Screen of iPhone or iPad

How to Remove Widgets from Today Screen of iPhone or iPad

The Today screen of iOS contains many widgets for things like weather, news and tabloid headlines, calendar, maps, suggested apps, stocks, amongst others. This Today screen is available on the left-most screen and is accessible from the lock screen or Home screen of an iPhone or iPad by swiping to the right (unless you , that is). Some users may wish to declutter the widgets that show up on this swipe-over Today screen of their iOS device, and remove widgets that are not applicable or useful to them. Maybe you dont want your calendar visible at the widget screen, or maybe you dont want to see tabloid headlines mixed in with news, or maybe you dont want to stocks or apps on the widget screen, whatever you decide is your choice. This article will show you how to remove widgets from the Today widget screen of an iPhone or iPad. Remember if you have previously , youd only be able to edit and remove widgets by initiating this process from the Home Screen instead of the Lock Screen. Ready to remove some of the widgets from your Today widget screen of iOS? Here is how the process works: Now when you return to your Today widget screen, the widgets you removed will no longer be visible. This process is the same on iPhone and iPad. You can also remove all widgets from the iOS Today widget screen if you want to, but then accessing that widget panel would be fairly bare, and itd probably be better just to at that point. There are many widgets to adjust, remove, or add, just browse through the list and remove the ones that are not applicable to you, and perhaps add the ones that are. Adding widgets is just a matter of scrolling further down and tapping the green (+) plus button at the Add Widgets screen of iOS. Or you can , but thats limited to iPhone because iPad does not have 3D Touch support at the moment. Many third party apps also have widgets, so the more apps you add to your iPhone or iPad the more options you will have to customize the widget screen. Note this applies to modern iOS versions only, which have the Today widget screen view. This is different from earlier and mid-range iOS versions, if youre still running an older iOS version thatd be the instructions to follow instead.