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With the launch of iOS 14 in September, Apple launched Home Screen widgets for the primary time, ushering in an unprecedented wave of customization for the iPhone.
Several apps shortly emerged permitting customers to personalize their Home Screen with customized widgets and icons, and new analysis by Sensor Tower reveals that nearly 15% of iPhone customers within the U.S. have put in at the very least one app to do exactly that.
The Sensor Tower report tracked the obtain numbers of 5 of the preferred Home Screen widget apps – Widgetsmith, Color Widgets, Photo Widget: Simple, WidgetField, and Photo Widget – and located that they’d been downloaded from the U.S. App Store 13 million occasions since iOS 14 was launched on September 16.
Installs peaked through the week of September 21, reaching 3.eight million downloads, and this month they’ve hit 1.7 installs to date. Collectively, the 5 apps have reached an estimated 45 million installs throughout the globe thus far.
When it involves apps that provide substitute icons for different apps, the highest 5 embody Brass, App Icons, Icon Changer +, ScreenEquipment, and Icon Themer, which have collectively reached 1.eight million iPhone installs within the U.S. since September 16, in line with the analysis.
As the report notes, iPhone customers have maintained their curiosity in including Android-style customized widgets to their Home Screens over the previous two months, and with the latest information that customized app icons now not route via the Shortcuts App in iOS 14.3 Beta 2, that curiosity is just prone to proceed.
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