One of the things I really love about iOS 14 on my iPhone is thatI can finally add widgets to any page of the Home Screen. Apple did a beautiful job on making the widget user experience very responsive and fitting those widgets into an otherwise cluttered screen of app icons.
Sadly, the same user experience can’t be appreciated on the iPad, as iPadOS 14 doesn’t let users have widgets on individualHome Screenpages. Instead, widgets are limited to the Today view, just as they always were on iPadOS 13. Bah humbug!
Here to a rescue is a newly released and freejailbreak tweakcalledAnywhere Widgets for iPadby iOS developerPoomSmart, which as the name implies, allows iPad users on iPadOS 14 to have widgets anywhere on their Home Screen just as they could on an iPhone with iOS 14.
As depicted in the screenshot examples above and below, these are the same widgets that you’d use on your iPhone, although they can now be aligned with the app icons on your iPad’s spacious display for an augmented Home Screen user experience.
PoomSmart is known for porting novel features to unsupported devices, and fortunately, Anywhere Widgets for iPad doesn’t disappoint in that sector.
Anywhere Widgets for iPad automatically and intelligently adjusts the iPad’s Home Screen icon grid size to 8×6 (or 7×5 when zoomed) to compensate for the dimensional differences that would otherwise hinder widget fitment alongside app icons on the Home Screen. This allows widgets to look like they belong on the Home Screen with proper buffer spacing between the icons and the widgets.
Those interested in trying Anywhere Widgets for iPad candownload the tweak for free from PoomSmart’s personal repositoryvia their favorite package manager. The tweak works withjailbrokeniPadOS 14 devices whether you’re using thecheckra1nor theunc0verjailbreak, and it’sopen source on the developer’s GitHub pagefor anyone interested in learning more about how it works.
If you’re not already using PoomSmart’s personal repository, then you may add it to your package manager of choice with the following URL:
Will you be downloading Anywhere Widgets for iPad on your newly jailbroken iPad on iPadOS 14? Let us know in the comments section down below.
