Overview
- Home Screen support centers on a single widget called X News Highlights that shows trending headlines and opens the topic in the app, available in small, medium, and large sizes.
- Lock Screen widgets include X Notifications for real-time counts and X Messages for unread X Chat (encrypted DMs), plus two Grok options for instant chat or voice, each in two size variants.
- X announced the rollout with a company post, framing the widgets as a faster way to view top news, shortcuts, and alerts across iPhone and iPad.
- Apple first previewed a Twitter Home Screen widget in 2020, but the feature did not ship until this release under the X rebrand.
- Recent coverage also underscores concerns about content quality on X, citing fake accounts, AI-generated posts, and misinformation that may affect the usefulness of glanceable headlines.