Whereas widgets have been launched in iOS 14 and iPadOS 15, apps equivalent to YouTube have been gradual to maintain up with implementing these, however a current replace has lastly resolved that.

Google launched an replace that allows two widgets – one which permits you to open the search bar on YouTube, and one other which helps you to go on to your subscribed channels and extra.

The larger widget is one thing that I have been eager to see from YouTube since widgets arrived on iOS again in 2020, particularly because it’s an app that I exploit each day on my iPhone and moreso on iPad.

Due to this replace, the flexibility to get to my lunchtime content material has already turn out to be faster and simpler to achieve.

Reducing down on the presses

I am subscribed to a bunch of YouTube channels, whether or not that is a channel a couple of sure collection (opens in new tab) or a compilation channel (opens in new tab) to look at as I eat my lunch. But I’ve at all times needed to go discover the YouTube app on my dwelling display screen, go to my Subscriptions, then view the video.

I’ve at all times seen widgets as shortcuts – as a method of extra simply reaching components of an app in two faucets or much less, and at all times believed that YouTube was an ideal match for this. But Google has at all times been slower than others to maintain up with new options of iOS – in spite of everything, it does have its personal cellular working system to replace and preserve.

Nonetheless, when the corporate does launch updates based mostly on new options, it normally nails the temporary, such because the lock display screen widgets it introduced out in September.

The identical applies right here – having positioned the larger widget on each my iPhone and iPad’s dwelling display screen makes the lunch custom a lot simpler now – the one factor I might prefer to see now’s a lock display screen widget to do the identical, however as that saying (nearly) goes, good widgets come to those that wait.