Basic iPad widgets are great, but there are many more exciting ones to discover.

Many iPad owners never truly grasp the capabilities of widgets. Adding a basic Weather, Calendar or Photos widget is limiting; they can do a lot more than just show the temperature and your next meeting, but many of the most useful ones go unnoticed. With iPadOS 27, Apple even brought extra-large widgets to Today View, giving them more room to take advantage of the bigger screen.

Between Apple's in-house widgets and third-party options, there's something for new iPad owners and power users alike to discover. To explore your available widgets, touch and hold an empty spot on the Home Screen of your iPad, tap Edit and then hit Add Widget. Depending on the app, you may have various options, including different sizes. Then, just place the widget where you desire.

In case you weren't already aware: you can turn an existing app icon into a widget by touching and holding it, then picking a widget size from the menu. However, not all apps support this.

If you're always waiting on a package, Parcel's widget is great for showing upcoming deliveries without opening the app. It supports up to 300 delivery services, including UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL and Amazon Logistics, and there's also a map widget in different sizes that shows where a package is.

Getting deliveries into the app is easy. By connecting your Amazon account, orders are added automatically, which means no copying and pasting tracking numbers.

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