Interact with widgets that now sit ready and waiting on your desktop
PRIOR TO MACOS Sonoma, widgets lived in Notification Center. To see them, you had to click on the date and time in the menu bar or swipe the trackpad. They would then slide out and display info, for you to slide them away again. But now, in macOS Sonoma, widgets sit on the desktop.
And widgets are now interactive. As well as reading info, you can click on them. You can, for example, turn a device onor off in the Home widget, or mark a to–do in the Reminders widget as completed.
HOW TO Add and edit widgets
Widgets can be resized and moved around, and you can use them for apps on your iPhone, even if you don’t have the Mac app installed. If you have both iPhone and Mac apps installed, you will see two versions in the widget gallery —the iPhone version will say “From iPhone” at the top right.
We show you how to add, remove, edit and interact with widgets.
In the Finder, Ctrl–click on the desktop and choose Edit Widgets from the menu. You’ll see the widget gallery. Choose the widget you want to add and drag the large, medium or small version of it onto the desktop.
The process for adding subsequent widgets is the same, except that when you drag it onto the desktop you’ll see a white– outlined rectangle suggesting a position. Let go to drop it there, or drag it somewhere else.
To search for a widget, start typing its name in the search field and it will start to filter suggestions. On some widgets with Mac and iPhone versions, there will be only one result — you can switch at the top right of the gallery.
You can drag a widget from Notification Center onto the desktop. It will disappear from Notification Center, but you can d
