Google widgets available for iOS 16 lock screen

Google widgets for the iOS 16 lock screen are available. They should already appear on your iPhone.

Google widgets for the iOS 16 lock screen are officially available. As the American giant explained in September, these widgets provide interesting information at a glance and useful shortcuts to certain features of Mountain View’s applications.

Google widgets available for iOS 16 lock screen

For example, Gmail can display the number of new messages, and Maps can offer a link to one of your most frequent trips (like office-to-home) or searches for specific destinations, like restaurants. In the meantime, widgets for Chrome and the Google app can help you launch a web search, perform a voice command, or launch a function such as translate via Lens or the Chrome Dino game part.

Other widgets are a bit more specialized but just as useful. Google News can show you the latest Drive news and give you quick access to recommended and/or favorite files. It also makes it easier to listen to YouTube Music as you can easily launch a playlist at any time.

YouTube and YouTube Music also have their own lock screen widgets. You can easily navigate through your YouTube subscriptions or search for a song on YouTube Music.

They should already appear on your iPhone.

Widgets should automatically appear when you start customizing your lock screen. As usual, they are especially interesting on the always-on screen of the iPhone 14 Pro or Pro Max. Either way, no matter what device you use them on, they should make Google apps more appealing to iOS. And sometimes even this novelty could give them an advantage over versions of Android that only show a limited amount of information before unlocking the device.