The iPhone and iPad Spotify app now includes home screen widgets

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  The two sizes of the Spotify widget in iOS 14. [credit: Samuel Axon ]

Spotify-one of Apple's main rivals in both the latter's services strategy and in antitrust investigations-has released a new version of its iPhone app that supports home screen widgets, one of the flagship features of iOS 14.

Last month's release of iOS 14 brought home screen widgets-previously only the domain of iPads and Android phones-to iPhones. As we noted in our iOS 14 review, the value of the feature depends entirely on strong adoption and clever uses by third-party app developers.

Releases of widget-supporting apps from developers have been slow. Part of that was because Apple launched iOS 14 with less notice to developers than usual, meaning many were racing to play catch-up. But even now, a month later, the roster of widget-supporting apps has only grown a little.

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