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Homescreen widgets have seen a new resurgence in the past year with Android 12+, and Shazam has just revamped theirs to be more than just a shortcut that opens the app. The old Shazam widget was just a larger shortcut that immediately opened the app on-click to start listening. Version 13.7 introduces a widget that lets you “Shazam music directly from your home screen.” A “Tap to Shazam”…

The first Pixel Watch app update has widely rolled out at this point, with Google last week sharing a few other community updates, including future transit card support. In a vaguely newsletter-esque forum post called “The Google Pixel Watch minute,” a “Trending topics in the community” section provides some interesting answers. As we’ve expected, the company is “planning to bring”…

To coincide with the new Lock Screen widgets, Apple has also redesigned the notification system in iOS 16. Starting this year, notifications now appear at the bottom of your Lock Screen rather than at the top below the clock. This change is proving to be controversial for many iPhone users, but there are a few settings you can tweak that might improve the experience for you… iOS 16…

Android Auto is in the midst of a redesign, and with that has come some big changes to the platform. One of those changes is ditching the persistent, glanceable weather icon in Android Auto’s status bar. But some good news, that’s finally fixed on the original look. The story of a glanceable weather widget on Android Auto has gone back and forth. It was there in the original version of…