IOS 14 caught fire with the desktop widget, and users played tricks, and the download volume broke records.

16 In September, Apple held a new product launch conference in the autumn of 2020, and officially launched an upgraded version of iOS 14 system.

The biggest highlight of this system upgrade is the addition of the "widgets" desktop widget function. Apple provides users with a lot of self-creation space, allowing users to freely design and typeset desktop applications. Although the desktop widget function appeared on Android very early, it is undoubtedly a breakthrough for Apple mobile phones with rigid desktop layout.

IOS 14 has only been online for 5 days, and the upgrade rate has exceeded 25%, setting a new high. Behind such a bright performance, desktop gadgets are undoubtedly the biggest hero. Since the launch of iOS 14, many Apple users have displayed their carefully designed pages on the Internet, bluntly saying that they are "online". Many related tutorials have also appeared on platforms such as Little Red Book, Zhihu and Bili Bili.

Look at the online works, you will find that those beautiful pages are basically using third-party apps. These apps adapt to the screen widget function of iOS 14, and provide many beautiful designs, which can make the main page beautiful.

According to the latest statistics of Sensor Tower, a market intelligence company in the APP store, since the release of iOS 14 system in September/6, the total download volume of TOP20 home screen customized apps in the world has reached 5.7 million. Among them, the top three apps, Widgetsmith, Color Widgets and Photo Widget, directly accounted for 95% of the total, with nearly 5.5 million downloads.

Including the above three apps, the download volume and ranking of apps that adapt to the function of iOS 14 screen gadgets in the first time have been greatly improved in a short time. The most prominent one is MyWeather, which was launched in September 2005 and 2065438. Because the mobile phone system comes with weather software, MyWeather has always been very unpopular. However, as soon as the iOS 14 system was launched, "MyWeather" was adapted in the first time and was officially recommended by Apple. "MyWeather" provides many different styles of page design, and the presentation with widgets will be very beautiful, so this APP is very popular. Since September of 17, the download volume of my weather, an unknown old APP in the APP Store, has soared, ranking directly in the position where weather software helps TOP 1 and free application TOP7.

In addition, "Time Matters" has successfully reached the position of Top 1 in the APP Store efficiency list and Top5 in the free application list because it fully supports the screen widget function of iOS 14. Pinduoduo, which you are familiar with, recently launched a widget to display express logistics information, which has topped the APP Store shopping list and ranked second in the total list of free applications.

Although the popularity of iOS 14 screen widgets has not dissipated, there should be more and more widget functions on the APP.

Finally, Attach a list of the top 20 home screen custom applications: Widgetsmith, Color Widgets, Photobox Widget, MemoWidget, Home Photo Widget, Motivation Widget, Ermine, Date Today, Hey Weather, TimeDeck, Widgeridoo, Glimpse 2, Widget Wizard, Widget Web, Locket, ItemMemo, OMDZ, Home Clock Widget and Photo Widgets. Users who haven't started designing screens can download applications according to the list. After all, it is not unreasonable to rank high.