Almanac and Dial dress up from October 24 to 31, then go back to normal. Off in Settings if you would rather not. New marks. A small glass dot shows what an update added, until you have seen it. Spotify opens straight to Home. The App Store tile has its real icon.

Your language. The widgets now follow your phone: dates, days and the words beside them in Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, German and French. Twenty-five apps, by request. HBO Max, Lightroom, Dropbox, Flighty, Infuse, TickTick, Oura, Hevy, NFL, Amazon Music, Letterboxd, Libby, Plexamp, PlugShare, Trade Republic, Twingate, UniFi, Aqara Home, Google Fit, Athlytic, My Renault, Flightradar24, DER SPIEGEL, Apple Sports and Edits. HBO Max, Libby, Flightradar24 and DER SPIEGEL open straight from the widget. Every one was tested by hand on a phone. Also: the purchase screens now say exactly what each buys. Pro is the drawer and its extras; each widget is its own purchase.

Fixes, with thanks to everyone who wrote in. • Halo and Console: the lit key and today's date are readable again under the Tinted and Clear Home Screen looks. • Widgets no longer grow with the phone's Larger Text setting, so Halo's Outside screen keeps its keys on the panel. • Frontpage shows the right day for each occurrence of a repeating event, and prints a date for reminders more than a week away. • Google Photos opens on your photos, not on search.

Frontpage fetches its headlines on its own now. They used to refresh only when you opened the app, so the morning paper could carry last night's news. The widget checks the feed itself whenever its copy is older than 45 minutes, the way it already does for the weather.

Two fixes. • The app no longer crashes on the Widgets tab when Music reports no playback time for the current track. If WhyNot closed on you the moment it opened, this is the one. • Frontpage's Tomorrow weather really is tomorrow. It was reading one day too far along the forecast.

Halo can now ask for Reminders. The Next screen printed "Allow Reminders in WhyNot" and the Halo card had no key to do it. It has one now, under the weather and calendar row.

More apps open straight from the drawer, and the list explains itself. • New, by request: Gemini, Grok, Home Assistant, WeChat, WhatsApp Business, Chase, WHOOP and Cal AI. • Fixed: DuckDuckGo, Expedia, Messenger, Headspace, eBay, TIDAL, GitHub, American Airlines and Camera+ now open the app instead of a website or the App Store. • The app picker now says what the list is and how to ask for an app. • FaceTime, Translate and Stocks have left the list: iOS offers no link that opens them.

Halo. Three screens in one large widget, and your wallpaper shows through. Home has the week, what is next, and today's steps, Move and Exercise from Health, with the goals. Next has the next events and reminders with a live countdown. Outside has the weather drawn from sunrise to sunset, hour by hour and four days out. The keys at the foot switch screens on the spot, every block opens its app, and one slider sets how much of the wallpaper comes through. Eight accents. Almanac, free. The month on a card, in Flip's material. Two keys turn the pages, the name brings today back, and the medium shows two months side by side. Pick the accent for the month's name and today's mark. Also: • Vinyl follows light and dark on its own now. • Frontpage headlines an all-day event when it is on a later day, with the date once it is more than a week out. • Find My launches from the drawer again. • More apps in the drawer, by request: Tapo, BlueEye, Deye Cloud, UGREEN NAS, ABRP and others.

Dark icons. Your real app icons, redrawn for a dark Home Screen. Pick Dark in the drawer's styles. The four styles are now Light, Dark, Mono and Ghost. More apps launch straight from the widget. Over half of the list now opens with no stop in WhyNot, and the picker still tells you which is which. Fixes, with thanks to everyone who wrote in: • Glass now turns on the moment you choose it. No more black drawer. • Console no longer flashes white when you tap a day. • Renaming a drawer works when it has a scene. Tap the name or the pencil. • After you change a permission in Settings, WhyNot reopens where you left it.

Fixes. Picking an app already in the drawer now swaps the two slots instead of adding it twice. A tile lifts the moment you hold it. The large Dial's calendar block opens Calendar. Every widget's buttons work in the Clear look, and the Vinyl preview matches the Home Screen.

Glass. A new look for the Mini Drawer that lets your wallpaper show through the widget. Pro, on the Scene row of the drawer editor. Rearrange. Hold a tile in the editor and drag it where you want it. The others slide out of the way. 330 apps. The app list nearly tripled. Can't find yours? Search for it in the picker and tap Request, and it goes on the list to add. Also: smoother scrolling in the Widgets tab, every drawer preview on a proper wallpaper, and a handful of fixes.

Fixes. Console and Frontpage now explain when Calendar access is set to Add Events Only and take you to the right switch. The Flip clock follows your phone's 12-hour or 24-hour setting. Purchases in Settings no longer wrap mid-word. Requires iOS 26 or later.

Vinyl: your record on a turntable, turning while Apple Music plays. The album artwork is the label, the arm lifts when you pause, and back, play and next work from the widget. Small and medium, light and dark. Ajax and Tapo join the drawer.

Scenes: dress a drawer in a place. Car, Movies, Music, Smart Home, Travel, Fitness, Work and Social, each with the apps that belong there. Part of WhyNot Pro; Movies is free to try. Tally: a desk calculator on your Home Screen, small and large, every key working, the result kept. New filter on the Widgets tab.

Frontpage: your day printed as a newspaper front page, in the tall widget size new to iOS 27. The next event as the headline, two more events and your reminders in columns, headlines from a source you choose, tomorrow's weather. Three newspaper typefaces. Console, Golden and Frontpage packs, bought once.

Real app icons load on first launch, every time. A Settings page in WhyNot's own style. An optional note when a new widget is released, nothing else. Region-only apps like SkyShowtime get their icon.