Chrome For iPhone: Now Comes With Home Screen Widget Support
Chrome has got even more helpful for the iPhone. The search engine giant has introduced three new widgets to the app, including scan QR, shortcuts to search, and many more.
Google has updated Chrome for iPhone users and added the most requested feature, with the tech giant finally adding widgets to the home screen. It is the latest app among many other apps that Google has already introduced with widget support. Now, iPhone owners have more ways to interact with the most popular web browser.
Previously also, the search giant has added widget support to various other apps. For example, it added widget support for Google Voice on iOS for the home screen. The iPhone owners can easily set up the home screen widget of the Google Voice iOS app using the 21.16 version. It is easy to set up if you are running the latest version. It is better to go to the Home screen page of your iPhone that has enough room for a medium-size widget taking up two rows of app icons.
Holding and pressing anywhere on the home screen page will let you to the Edit mode. Here, you have to tap on the plus sign displayed on the screen’s upper left. The screen will open and let you to the Widget Library. From there, you can either search for the Google Voice widget using the text box displayed at the top or scroll down.
Widgets were first added to the iPhone with the iOS 14 software update. Apple iPhone owners and fans asked the tech giant for years to add widgets to their iOS devices. Now, widgets have become the staple on the home screen of any iPhone. These widgets can be used for various things, such as viewing the upcoming calendar appointments, weather reports recently played songs on Spotify, and many more.
The developer support for widgets introduced on iOS has been made strong in recent months with the iOS 14 software update release. With the iOS 14 update release, more and more updates were added to the iPhone. Surprisingly, Google has been a strong supporter of introducing widgets. It added widgets to Google Photos, Google Voice, Google Search, and more.
Chrome is the latest app of the search engine giant that has got its widgets. The widget is included with the 90.0.4430.78 version update. The update began rolling out to the App Store on May 10. Once you download the update, it adds three widgets for the users like Search, Chrome Dino Game, and Quick Actions. Quick Actions feature a few useful Chrome shortcuts such as voice search, a QR code scanner, a search bar, and Incognito mode.
Search can be taken as the smaller version of the recently added widget that shows only a search bar and nothing else. Chrome Dino Game is a shortcut to the iconic dinosaur game of the search engine giant. It allows users to dodge pterodactyls coming towards them and jump over cacti endlessly. Chrome Dino Game may not be the most productive widget among the three, but it can give you the most fun.
Google Chrome Widget: How To Add It To The iPhone Home Screen
The process to add these widgets to your iPhone is the same as you follow to add any other widget. Hold down the widget or app that’s already on the home page. Now, click the ‘Edit Home Screen’ option. after then, click on the plus icon appearing on the left upper corner. While scrolling down, click on the Chrome shortcut and then select any of the three widget options. You can do it either by clicking on the ‘Add Widget’ option at the bottom screen or holding and dragging on the widget.
iPhone owners who are constantly using Google chrome on their iPhones should appreciate these widgets. The Quick Actions widget is packed with multiple shortcuts making it incredibly useful despite taking a lot of room. Even though the Search widget is not so much feature-rich, using it to start a search within Google Chrome has become much more manageable.
Above all, it is great to see that the search engine giant uses Google Dino Widget to embrace the vast popularity of its dinosaur game. The latest updates for Google Chrome are available for download. So, make sure that the widgets are showing up correctly.
Learn to add Chrome Dino Game, Search, and the Quick Actions Widget including voice search, incognito mode. It is rolling out with Google 90 version on iOS devices.
Patricia Daniels is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at bitdefender.com/activate, and a professional cybersecurity analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.
