Android 16 extends predictive back navigation to three-button navigation. You can now see a preview of the previous screen by long-pressing the back button. Additionally, apps targeting Android 16 ...

F or iOS 17, Apple introduced interactive widgets that let you control certain app functions right from the home screen or lock screen. Since then, you can tick items off your to-do list, press ...

The home button for a long time had been the way to easily go back to your home screen from anywhere on your phone, whether you're sending a text in the Messages app or scrolling through Instagram.

Large apps: If the default icon size feels too small, Apple lets you enlarge them while customizing your Home Screen in iOS 26. Turn apps into widgets: Long-press an app to turn it into a widget ...

This three-button corner swipe gesture isn’t available yet in Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3, but I managed to enable it with a bit of tinkering. Here’s what it looks like in action: ...

Apple is also updating the Photos app, Safari, FaceTime, Phone, and more. As part of Apple's Liquid Glass redesign, announced at WWDC 2025, the new iOS 26 will rework some native Apple features ...

Web Apps. When you add a website to your ‌Home Screen‌ in ‌iOS 26‌, it always opens as a web app. Web apps were available on the ‌Home Screen‌ in ‌iOS 18‌, but web developers ...

Still, apps and widgets on the main screen already function virtually identically to the iPhone. Gurman said this will be the biggest update to iPhone since iOS 17 in 2013.