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Add intelligence to your widgets

On iOS 14, there’s smart rotate on stack widgets where it could scroll automatically to widget which provides relevances informations to the user. This could be achieved by using relevance signals from the widget or use behavioural patterns learned from app usage.

New on iOS 15, there’s widget suggestions. With widget suggestions, system can automatically insert widget into a smart stack.

Widget intelligence overview: Donating widget to the system.

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  • Donated from an app to tell the system to insert a widget into a stack
  • specific time based or based on behavioural releavance
  • support both static and intent configured widgets.

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