5 Best Widgets For Galaxy S9 To Customize Your Home Screen
Everyone wants to make their smartphones unique to their own personality and likes — on iOS, that’s a little difficult to do, but with phones that run Android — such as like the Galaxy S9 — it’s really easy to customize your home screen. You can do so easily with custom wallpapers, icon packs, and custom launchers, but you can also take even more control over your home screen by using something called widgets. Widgets provide you quick access functionality to some apps without having to go in an app itself. For example, if you wanted to start streaming some music, you could simply press the Play button on the widget on your home screen instead of having to launch the app and find the playlist that you want to roll with.
So if you want to take better control over your home screen, follow along below and we’ll show you the best widgets for your Galaxy S9. Let’s dive right in.
Google Calendar
If you use a calendar app a lot to manage your schedule and upcoming events, Google Calendar is an excellent way to do that. Google Calendar, however, comes with its own widget that you can place on your screen. You can choose to place the widget in your desired grid size of choice (i.e. 1×1 2×2, etc). Depending on the grid size that you use, you might never have to open the Google Calendar app again — just manage your days and weeks straight from the widget on your home screen!
Download it now: Google Play
Spotify
Managing music can be a frustrating experience, especially if you just want to dive right in instead of picking and choosing your playlist. That said, just download Spotify on your phone, place their widget anywhere you want on your home screen, and then you can press the Play button to immediately start streaming your favorite tunes. Now you can play and pause music directly from the widget, and even skip or go back a track, if you so choose.
Download it now: Google Play
AccuWeather
Everyone wants to know what the weather looks like for the day, especially during the winter seasons when workers want to know how long their commute is going to look like. That’s what AccuWeather is here for — to provide you with accurate information on how hot or cold it will be, whether it will be snowing or raining, and so on. Apps like this are great to have on your phone, as they’ll often provide you with warnings about weather advisories. The app itself can be fairly complicated to manage, but thankfully, AccuWeather has a really nice built-in widget that you can place on your home screen for quick access to daily weather forecasts.
Download it now: Google Play
Clock
Another excellent app that you can customize your home screen with is one that generally comes built into Android by default — Google Clock. If you don’t have it, you can still download it from the Google Play Store for free. Once you do, you can set up the clock widget on your home screen for a better way to watch the clock, or get quick access to things like alarms and timers. Depending on the widget size you go with, Google Clock will even allow you to manage multiple alarms within a single widget.
Download it now: Google Play
Google News
Google News comes in as our first choice for a great way to customize your Galaxy S9 home screen, and that’s because the news is generally so difficult to manage. Sometimes the news can pull you in with content that you really don’t want to consume your time with, leading you from one infuriating article to another. That’s why Google News is here — a quick and easy way to get highlights and only the important information of all the happenings in the world. On top of that, you can setup the Google News widget on your home screen to get quick access to all of the current news highlights available.
Download it now: Google Play
Verdict
As you can see, there are a lot of excellent apps that come with widgets to customize your Galaxy S9’s home screen. In the early days of Android, you would have to do download widgets from widget makers to customize your home screen, but now, most app developers are including widgets alongside their apps. Do you have a favorite widget you use on your home screen? Let us know what it is in the comments section below!