Dynamic Island is one of the most underutilized cool features of the iPhone. When Apple announced the first iPhone with the Dynamic Island the possibilities seemed endless. However more than 2 years since the release of the iPhone 14 Pro, we have yet to see Apple take full advantage of this space with its first-party apps.
Most popular third-party apps have also been slow in adopting Dynamic Island, with many failing to even add support for it in their apps.
If you are looking to make Dynamic Island more useful, then we have two Dynamic Island Widget apps that let you achieve this.
You can take advantage of your device’s Dynamic Island by downloading the iScreen and Island Widgets apps.
Both of these Dynamic Island Widget apps are available as free downloads and offer some cool widgets for free. However many of the widgets are locked behind a premium subscription. Even if you don’t want to pay, then you still have a few nice options to play around with.
Some of the free Dynamic Island widgets you can get with the iScreen app include the following:
- Panel Island: The Panel Island widget shows at a glance information about your device in Dynamic Island. This includes current brightness, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Cellular data, free space, etc. The widget shows an Apple logo in the Dynamic Island area, which can be long-pressed to access the full widget.
- Calendar widget: The Calendar widget shows today’s date in the Dynamic Island area. You can expand the widget to view a 2 weeks calendar, which can be useful at times.
- App Launcher: The app launcher widget lets you launch up to 10 apps right from the Dynamic Island. You can long-press on the Dynamic Island widget to expand it. You can select which apps you want to include in the Dynamic Island from the iScreen app.
Along with the free widgets above you also get access to a wide range of paid widgets related to Weather, Countdown, Photos, and pet widgets for the Dynamic Island. The premium subscription for this app costs $7.99 per month.
The Island Widgets app on the other hand offers widgets for Activity, Weather, Photos, App launcher, Stocks, Heart Health, and more. Some are free while others are locked behind a subscription that costs $3.99 per year.
