Photo Widget — The Best One

Photo home screen widgets

Published by: Sindre Sorhus
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Description

Put photos on your home screen using widgets. It also works great with StandBy.
Create as many photo widgets as you like with one or more photos per widget. If you choose more than one photo, it will change photos on a time interval (which can be customized in the settings). Each widget can have separate photos. You can also show photos from an album in your photo library.

■ Features
- Widgets with a single photo.
- Widgets with multiple photos that change on an interval (slideshow).
- Widgets showing photos from an album in your photo library (slideshow).
- Three widget sizes.
- Import photos from the photo library or the file system.
- Tapping a widget can either show a larger preview of the photo, open a URL, or run a shortcut.
- The “Album” widget has a setting to show a random photo only from the most recent `n` photos in the album, where `n` is the number you choose.

■ How it works
First, decide whether you want to select the individual photos to show (1) or just choose an existing album from your photo library (2).
1. Add photos to the app which you can later choose from in a widget. Then add the “Photo Widget” widget with the “Photos” type and edit the widget to pick the photos to show.
2. Add the “Photo Widget” widget with the “Album” type and edit it to choose the album.

■ Limitation
If you make two or more widgets of the same size where all of them are set to show all the photos or the same album, they will show photos in the same order. This is a limitation in the iOS widget system. You can work around this by giving the widgets unique names in the widget configuration.

■ Tip
If you have a widget that cycles between photos and you want to force it to skip to the next photo, long-press the widget, select “Edit Widget”, and then close the edit view. The widget should now have a new photo.

■ FAQ
〉 How do I add a widget to the home screen?
When on the home screen, long-press on the background (not on any icons), press the top-left “+” button, and select “Photo Widget”.
〉 How do I edit a widget?
When on the home screen, long-press on the widget, and select “Edit Widget”.
〉 Why can I only add 100 photos to the app?
This is because of a technical limitation in the iOS widget system. Hopefully, it can be increased in the future. It should be enough for most users though.
If you use the “Album” widget, there’s no limit to the number of photos.
〉 How can I hide the name of the app shown below the widget?
This is not possible. App developers have no way to hide it.
〉 How is this different from the built-in “Photos” widget?
The built-in widget only shows photos from “Memories” and “Featured Photos” in your photo library. There is no way to customize it or pick the photos to be shown.
〉 Can I show an animated GIF in a widget?
This is not possible.
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User Rating

4.75 out of 5

28 ratings in Australia

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Photo Widget Reviews

Brilliant

Hewitt234 on

Australia

Love this app. Beats Apple’s own photo widget in that you can select a specific album. Great work!

Excellent

cool_coolcoolcool😎 on

Australia

Thank you for making this and sharing it for free!

It works and it’s Free!

squidlips08 on

Australia

Once again an example of how Apple should make an app work, but don’t, so then you have to go elsewhere. This is app that elsewhere, to get photos on your Home Screen. I prefer to make a stack of 10 photos (maximum) I can swipe through myself as opposed to having them change via the time setting. Just great well done. Only one improvement is that when you edit the stack to delete photos of change them around it would be good to see the thumbnails, though this could be a limitation by Apple.

Very nice

ejekvmdkkfk on

Australia

Probably one of the best ones I’ve seen. Other apps have started asking for subscriptions and there’s ads and bugs, but this one has worked pretty well and the instructions are clear too. Good job!

Great!

R-J  ™ on

Australia

Great Photo widget app that is free with no pesky ads! Thank you!

Bedienung

Klaus(mauz) on

Germany

Die Benutzung ist viel zu umständlich

Funktioniert hervorragend

Ein Befürworter on

Germany

Einfach zu bedienen und macht genau das, was man im IOS nicht kann: Bilder für den Rückblick auswählen.

Joy for everyday

Vic voxx on

Germany

As we all have pictures, we especially love among the thousands er have, we need these simple solutions . Thank you!

Beautiful

Juliet Ock on

Germany

A beautiful app. Especially because it's about the self-defined playback of photos. If that's what you're looking for, you've found the right App.

Funktioniert nicht mehr mit IOS 17

MiNo 1234 on

Germany

Hab die App immer gerne benutzt jetzt funktioniert sie seit dem Update nicht mehr

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