Hello everyone, it's Gelindigkeit here, and I'm here with a new and exciting video.
So for this video, I'm going to talk about how to decorate your phone using the new iPhone update, iOS 14.
I'm pretty sure a lot of you guys are confused about what this widget things are and how everyone is decorating their phone so aesthetically, so I'm going to teach you how to do that.
So yeah, let's get started!
So first of all, I'm going to talk about the basic widget features. Your homescreen is probably going to look the same unless you touched anything after the update.
If you swipe left, you'll be able to see a bunch of widgets going on or not depending on what apps you have. You'll probably have different widgets than me.
Then, if you swipe to the right, there's this thing called 'App Library'
So first of all, the basic widgets. You tap the 'Edit' and then you click the plus icon on the top. Then, you'll be able to see a bunch of different tools right here.
You can add your Screen Time widget, Photos widget, Maps widget, Calendar widget, or whatever kind of app you want.
Let's say you want to add 'Batteries' so that you can see the amount of batteries left all the time.
So for widgets, there are three sizes. Small, medium, and large.
Let's go for small. 'Add Widget', and if you add the widget, this widget is going to stay over here
or what you can do is just press the homescreen and you'll see the plus sign again on the top. Then, you'll see the same feature that you saw.
So you can either choose to add it on a certain page or just keep it on the left side.
Let me add a clock now. 'Add Widget'.
So I have a clock. Basically because I have a clock widget right here, I don't want the clock app on my phone anymore. Let's say that I don't want it anymore.
Then what I can do is I click on the clock app. The clock app that I have
and then 'Edit Home Screen' and click it, and then you're going to click 'Remove from Home Screen'.
But don't worry because this is not deleting the app forever.
Like I said, there's this 'App Library' on the right, and you'll be able to see the clock app still in the library.
So basically, App Library is like keeping all the apps depending on their category, but you're not deleting them forever. They're just stored in the App Library
So I saw that some people just moved all their apps into the App Library, and they decorated their home screen with pictures and calendars.
You can do that as well or you can keep some apps or not like me, so yeah. That's what you can do.
There's basically three things added to my phone.
First one is the photo widget, second one is the reminder on the top, and the third ones are those different icons for the apps I have.
Yeah, so I'm going to take you through all three of them.
So the first one, let's go through the photo. How to add photo widgets on your phone.
So if you want a photo widget on your background, you have to go to app store.
and then you have to download this thing called 'Widgetsmith'
This app right here on the top.
I realized that a lot of people use Photo Widget, but I'm not going to talk about Photo Widget because
compared to Widgetsmith, Photo Widget doesn't have a lot of tools and I think they're kind of limited, so I'm just going to talk about Widgetsmith for this video.
So I opened Widgetsmith and I have a bunch of small widgets and have a medium widget as well
but I don't think you guys will have it, so I will take you through on how to do this.
So you click the 'Add Small Widget' or if you already have a default widget, then you can click that and then press the 'Default Widget'
Now, here you have so many options. you can actually add this Month&Date widget or this clock widget.
Depending on what you want, you can click anything. The ones with the locked icon, they're not free so I don't want to use that.
Alright, so I'm gonna click on 'Photo' because I want photo widget, right?
And then I click 'Selected Photo' and let's say that I want this cute rabbit picture as a photo widget.
Then I go to that and I'll just rename it. You don't have to rename it but I like to rename it because it gets confused when a bunch of names are on the list.
I'll just say 'Cute'... 'Cute rabbits'
Oh my gosh, I can't even spell rabbits.
Alright, so 'Cute rabbits' is now on the list.
What I can do now is I go to the page that I want to add this photo of the rabbits.
So I press it and I click the plus. If you scroll down, you'll be able to see Widgetsmith. 'Small Widget' right here.
Then, because I made it to a small widget, the cute rabbit photo, I'm gonna add this small one.
The reason why I don't have the cute rabbit right now is because I have a bunch of small widgets. You saw it, I have different photos for the small widget, so.
Click that. 'Edit Widget'
Go to the small one and now I'm gonna select 'Cute rabbits' and voila! Cute rabbit photos right here.
This is how you add photos. If you want a photo with a medium size, you go into 'Medium' and do the exact same thing. If you want to go for the larger one, go to 'Large' and do the exact same thing.
Not only you can add photos, but you can also add calendars and clocks like how I said about Widgetsmith.
Let's say I want to add a medium sized clock. I'm going to go to Wigetsmith and click 'Add Medium Widget'
It's going to give me a random widget all the time so I go to 'Default Widget' to edit that.
Then, I want time, so I click 'Time' and here, there are so many options you can choose.
You can actually choose the location and you can actually choose the font. I want go for this simple one.
And then the colour of the writing.
I'm gonna go for white and then the colour of the background as well.
So there are so many options. I'm gonna go for 'Cream', let's say.
I'm gonna do that and I am going to say 'Cream coloured time'
So that's what I have as my second medium widget. Then, what I can do is press it again, click the plus, scroll down, and click 'Widgetsmith'
I am going to select medium because I made the time thing as to medium widget and then 'Add Widget'
But look, it gave me the first widget so remember, you have to do the 'Edit Widget'
Go to 'Medium', and click the 'Cream coloured time' and it's going to give you this thing that you made.
Alright, so that was it for adding photo, schedule, and so many widgets with Widgetsmith and now I'm going to take you through howI added this 'Reminders' widget right here.
For this one, you need Reminders app you might have it already or you might not, so make sure you have that on your phone.
Alright, so open the reminders app and you'll see this home screen.
You click 'Add List' on the bottom right and then you'll be able to see this.
You might not be able to see the symbols right here. If you don't see the symbols, go to Settings.
Click the top button where your name and Apple ID, iCloud this thing is
and then click iCloud. Make sure the 'Reminders' is on. If it's not on, I'm pretty sure it's not going to show the symbol so make sure it's on.
If you still don't see the symbols, make sure you update the app, 'Reminders'
After you do all that, you'll see colours and so many symbols you can use.
So let's say I want my Reminders button to be sky blue.
and then there's actually this emoji option as well, so you can choose an emoji that you want as the symbol.
A picture of this cat. Alright.
I'm gonna name it whatever. Let's say that I name it as 'Schedule'
and then I click that and now, I'm going to click 'New Reminder'. Then I just, you know, write whatever I want.
If you want motivational quotes or if you want to see motivational quotes all the time you open your phone, then add motivational quotes.
If you want to use it as a to-do list, add to-do list.
So this time I'm gonna use it as a to-do list. Let's say, I don't know. 'Go grocery shopping', 'Clean my room', 'Go for a walk'
Alright, click 'Done' and go to the home screen. So, again. Press it, click plus and you're gonna add 'Reminders' right here.
You can actually choose which one you want to go for. Small, medium, or large. It doesn't matter.
'Add Widget' Just like Widgetsmith, I'm going to click it and click 'Edit Widget', go to 'List' and click 'Schdule' because I want that one on my home screen.
Click schedule and then it's gonna show up like this. So you can actually click it and go 'Edit Home Screen', and you can actually change the location as well.
If you want this photo on the top, yeah.
So now you have all the reminders time and the cute rabbit photo as well.
Now, how do you change the icons for each apps?
For this one, you need an app called 'Shortcuts'. So Shortcuts look like this. After downloading that open Shortcuts.
Click the plus icon on the top right, click 'Add Action', click 'Scripting', and then 'Open App'
Now you click 'Choose', so you're going to choose the app for the icon. so if you click on the icon, which app do you want it to open to?
Let's go for YouTube. I want to open YouTube,
and then click this three dots on the top and you just add your shortcut's name. Just do it as whatever.
It doesn't really matter and now 'Add to Home Screen', and here, basically this name is how it's going to show on the home screen.
So unlike the actual name, let's say I want to add 'YouTube' and then the smiley face or like, 'YouTube' and a heart.
Now I'm going to click on the icon. 'Choose Photo' and I'm going to select the photo that I want as the YouTube icon.
Let's say that I want to add this photo of my dog.
'Choose' and it's going to show up like this on your home screen.
Click 'Add' and it's added. If I go onto home screen, it's added.
Right here, my dog, and it's YouTube.
One thing that's a bit frustrating for this feature is that once you click it,
it goes onto like this. Basically, it's not leading you straight to YouTube. It goes to Shortcuts first, and then the Shortcuts leads you to YouTube.
So I don't really recommend setting it up for an app that you might be rushed when you're using it.
For example, let's say you have to take a picture of something very quickly but if you set it up like this for the camera,
it's going to take a longer time to load the camera up so I don't really recommend that but it's your choice, so.
Again, you can have totally different setup than what I have. Play around and do whatever you want depending on what kind of style you have.
If you continued watching my videos until here, congratulations because I'm actually going to give you some tips for decorating.
A lot of people ask me, 'How do you get those aesthetic pictures for the widgets and for your instagram and everything?'
So what I do is basically you know, for the music, I have this cute little icons right here and also if you look at it closely, I have different font.
'Lysn', 'Canada Post' right here, so I'm going to take you through on how to do that.
Click the three dots again.
Do that 'YouTube' and then I'm just going to set it up as 'new one'
Alright, so let's say I want to set YouTube as a cute different font. What I do is U usually just type cute font generator.
It'll give you a bunch of these generator. You can choose whatever you want.
If there's 'Copy and paste' written on it, that's the best one, so I'm gonna click 'Instagram Fonts Generator'
Then, because it's the YouTube app, I'm gonna say 'YouTube'
and it's gonna show me how 'YouTube' is written as a different font right here.
Let's say I want... I'm gonna go for this one right here.
Copy, and then I paste that.
Voila! So now onto how to get those pretty png looking icons.
'Aesthetic png'
and you'll be able to see a bunch of different png right here
or you can go on to apps like Pinterest and then find one that you like.
I'm just going to go for Sandylion.
There's this cute cat sticker picture. I'm going to add that to photos.
Select cat photo and then adjust the size as how I want.
Do it like that. 'Choose' and this is how it's added.
'Add', 'Done', and now it's totally done.
There's an icon for YouTube but let's say I don't want that anymore. Delete that and now, I have this cute YouTube icon as the font that I want and the icon that I want.
and then the last one, if you look at my Reminders tab, I have this cute twinkly icon and emoji things, right?
'Sparkle copy paste symbols' and then you will be able to see 'Fancy Sparkles and Symbols' right here.
'Nature Mood' or whatever and a bunch of stars,
so let's say I want the stars. I do that, 'Copy' and then you just add that to the Reminders tab or the name for your icon or whatever.
So yeah, basically that's how I get my photos and fonts.
I know that a lot of you guys asked me about my wallpaper.
Well, basically for my wallpaper, I took a picture of the NCT album that I have... That's how I got my wallpaper. I just took a photo of it.
I just really like this page, so. I don't think you guys can get it from online unless someone scanned it, but that's how I got mine,
so you can search for an aesthetic wallpaper or take a picture of something that you want as your wallpaper like me. Yeah, that's what you can do.
Alright guys, so that is it for my widget tutorial. I hope this helped.
I hope it wasn't really confusing. I tried to do my best explaining it clear and concise.
If you have any additional questions, feel free to comment down below as well.
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