While iOS 11 brought a myriad of neat and easily accessible widgets, including shortcuts to Weather, Maps, Siri App suggestions and more to the platform’s Spotlight Search page, it would probably be more beneficial for users if these widgets were more aptly available (and more easily accessible) directly from the iOS home screen’s icon grid, itself.
Android devices currently offer robust customization features and the ability to incorporate live widgets into the home screen app icon grid – as well as the ability to place the icons essentially anywhere on the screen there is space available for them.
While iOS allows users to rearrange their app icons into an order (and even sub-categories), the iOS UI unfortunately does not allow for complete customization of the Home screen where icons can be placed wherever the user wants.
While it’s unlikely Apple will introduce a major top-to-bottom UI refresh from that vantage point, it would certainly benefit users if they had more control over the customization and configuration of their apps and widgets.
