Can you no longer Pin widgets to the left of the Home Screen? 😢
I was hoping you still can as it was so useful and convenient.
iPad Pro, iPadOS 15
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There are many changes within iPadOS15 - of which one is the loss of the “pinned” Today view on the first Home Screen.
Whilst you are now able to freely position widgets on any of the Home Screens, you have lost the “compact” first Home Screen layout (that shows a compressed 5x6 grid of App/Folder icons) to which the Today view could be “pinned” in Landscape screen orientation. Now, without the compressed view, Widgets when placed an any Home Screen individually occupy elements of a 4x6 icon grid - and will displace some App/Folder icons to another Home screen as necessary.
The net effect of adding Widgets to the Home Screen(s) results in reduced efficiency in using available screen space on Home Screens. In iPadOS 15.x, you do still have a slide-out Today view for the first Home Screen - as before.
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