Re: Getting Weather Widget Back On iPhone Home Screen

[CHELA Robles]

I have found that, resetting your home layout screen or your home screen, layout in settings, under general, and reset being the last option I think, or second to last option, one of the options after that is after you double tap on that, is reset, home screen layout, and I found that actually does the trick in getting the widget stack back to the way. It was pretty simple. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 21, 2022, at 11:09 AM, Vicky Collins <vcollins5...@gmail.com> wrote:  This is a little long, but I hope it makes at least some sense and that someone will correct any errors I may have made. Oh, and I am in the United States and currently using an iPhone 12 Mini and an iPhone 13 Mini with iOS 16.0.3, if that makes a difference.   Unless I’ve missed it, I’m kind of surprised that no one has mentioned this widget thing before you started mentioning it a month or so ago. Since I like to keep all my apps in alphabetical order, when I had gotten some of them out of order a few months ago and then reset my home screen, I was surprised to find those stacked widgets as the first things at the top of my home screen. But since resetting the home screen again only brought them back, I just decided to live with them.   When I read your question earlier today, I started looking around again, as since I had decided to live with the widgets, I also wanted the weather to show up first and then the calendar to show up when I did the one finger flick to the right. Thus, it kind of looks like if I double tap and then hold on the weather icon at the top of the screen, then wait to hear the sound to indicate that a context menu has shown up, then flick left and right with one finger till I hear edit stack, then double tap on that edit stack button, then put my finger down towards the bottom of the screen and find the smart rotate button, then double tap on it to turn it off, then find the done button in the upper right corner of the screen, and then double tap on that done button to save the change, weather and calendar should stay constant there and not change to maps or photos or  whatever Apple thinks I want to see at the time.   The only way I can figure to get the weather icon back on the first page is to delete the widget stack, which it kind of sounds like you already did, and then move the icon back to the first page, so I’ll try the steps from the beginning with the widgets intact and see what happens. I once again put my finger on the weather icon on the first page, then I double tap and hold on that icon till I hear the sound, then I flick left and right till I find the remove stack button, then I double tap on that remove stack button, then I flick to the right to the remove button when prompted to confirm, and then I double tap on that remove button. Now to get the weather icon back on the first page, keeping in mind that that will then reorder the placement of the rest of the apps. From the first page on the home screen, I do a three finger swipe to the left to bring up the second page, then I put my finger on the weather icon on the top left of that second page, then I flick down with one finger and hear edit mode, then I double tap and hear started editing, then I put my finger on the weather icon again, then I flick up with one finger until I hear drag weather, then I double tap on the drag weather, then I hear find my as that is the next app on the page, but I flick right with three fingers to get back to the first home screen, then I find facetime in the upper left of the home screen, then I flick down with one finger until I hear drop weather before facetime, then I double tap on that drop weather before facetime, then I hear drop complete once I have done that and weather is once again in the top left of the first page.   Sent from Mail for Windows   From: Margaret Thomas Sent: Friday, October 21, 2022 11:14 AM To: V iPhone list Subject: Re: Getting Weather Widget Back On iPhone Home Screen   I did some more web searches and one from Hadley that the "transcript" was just a sample, but it gave me a hint that I tried with "VoiceOver Quiz and Answers: Rita's iDevice Advice for  December 27, 2021" that I mentioned.  I have partial success.  I once again have a weather widget, but, unfortunately, it's on page 2 of the home screen and not on page 1 where it's more convenient.  I was wondering if I can manage to get it on page 1 if I can remove the one on page2 or should I remove the one on page 2 and try again to get it on page 1?   Many thanks,   Margaret     On 10/21/2022 12:38 AM, Margaret Thomas wrote: > Good Evening, All: > > I thought maybe I had reached enough of need to know on the learning > curve for my SE 2 that I could try a little want to know or curious > about things with the phone and had heard weather widget  stack so many > times on my status bar that I decided to try to investigate widgets. > > When I got the phone home from the Verizon store, it said   Cupertino > and the weather there and not my town and weather in the status bar that > was very annoying.  Several days > later, I asked my computer tech who was here for something else if he > could turn off raise to tap and he did and my town and weather were > magically in the status > bar instead of Cupertino when I looked at the phone when he left.  Maybe > he changed it which was helpful, but I have no idea what he did, so I > hadn't a clue about how to add a widget to the home screen. > Somehow, in my various phone misadventures, I inadvertently added maps > and photos under the weather widget and had a stack.  At this stage, I > have almost no need of either of these two and thought I could remove > them from the stack and keep the very important weather widget.  I read > a bunch of old posts and listened to a podcast by Thomas Domville on > "How to add, remove, and customize widgets in iOS" on Applevis, but only > found how to rearrange items in a stack and how to remove a stack. I > tried removing one of the widgets I didn't want and probably didn't get > far enough along to find a do you really want to delete this widget and > landed on delete stack instead. > > an old post VoiceOver Quiz and Answers: Rita's iDevice Advice for > December 27, 2021 > "51.  What are Widgets and how do you add them to any screen of apps on > your iPhone? > > Answer:  How to Add Widgets to Your Home Screen.  The extra widget > options you can add to your Home screen. Adding these can range from > fun, such as adding > featured photos, to useful, such as having the weather front and center > for your daily planning. > Note:  These instructions were written for sighted persons, who are not > using voiceOver.  If you are using VoiceOver:  when the instructions say > "Tap on > an item", perform a one finger double tap. > 1.  Unlock your iPhone if it is locked. > 2.  Press your Home screen until the icons start to wiggle. > 3.  Tap the Add button in the top left corner. > 4.  Apple will suggest widgets. If your desired widget is there, tap it. > 5.  If you don't see the widget you want to add, scroll down or use the > search bar at the top of the feature. > 6.  Tap Add Widget. > 7.  Tap Done." in doesn't work for me.  How can a blind person tell when > the icons start to wiggle?  I have a hearing problem and can't get the > podcast by Thomas Domville on "How to add, remove, and customize widgets > in iOS" on Applevis to work either.  He did something to get VO to > announce column numbers that I missed and my Today View on     IOS > 15.6.1 does not sound like his demonstration: > > https://www.applevis.com/podcasts/how-add-remove-customize-widgets-ios > > > Also, I'm not clear about what size widget to choose to get all the > extras like barometric pressure when I double tap on the widget. > > My weather app is on screen 2 of my Home screen. > > I'd be extremely grateful if anyone can help me get weather back > prominently like it was before. > > Margaret >   -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.   If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.   Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor.  Mark can be reached at:  mk...@ucla.edu.  Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com   The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. 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