Apple’s new iPadOS comes packed with features such as new multitasking features, Sidecar, new text gestures, new Keyboard shortcuts and major overhauling to the Files App. One of these features is the newly redesigned home screen. Learn how to remove widgets from your iPad Home Screen.
Many users enquired if there is a way via which one can disable the widgets from their home screen.
In this short article, we will walk you through steps using which you can remove these widgets from your Home screen or enable them to keep track of your favorite widgets.
Let’s get started!
How to remove widgets from iPad Home Screen
On your iPad Home Screen, swipe up from underneath the time/date to reveal the ‘Edit’ button at the bottom of the screen
Tap on the Edit button
Toggle off ‘Keep on Home screen’ to remove the Today’s view
Tap on the minus sign on the left of the widgets to delete the widgets
You have to do this for all the widgets that are currently active
Tap on Done at the top right corner of your screen when complete
Now, when you go to your iPad Home screen, your widgets and today’s view should be gone.
How to Enable Todays’ View and Widgets on the iPad
If you change your mind and want to re-enable your widgets on your iPad Home screen, follow the steps below.
Swipe right on your home screen to minimize the icons
Swipe up on the left section of your home screen
This reveals the Date/ Time and the Edit button
Tap on the ‘Edit’ button
Toggle ON ‘Keep on home screen”
Add your desired widgets back by tapping on the green ‘+’ button
When complete tap on ‘Done’ at the top right corner of your screen
Using the Today’s view of your iPad running iPadOS, you can also pin unto two of your favorite widgets to the home screen. Your pinned widgets will always stay on your home screen until you remove it from settings using ‘Edit’.
We hope this article was helpful in providing you some pointers around using widgets and Today’s view on your iPad running iPadOS.
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The latest update n the iPad is incredibly obnoxious. How can I revert back one version and restart the loading of this so I can disable many of its functions?
I am on the most current iOS, and would love to enable Today’s view on my Home screen – but when I click edit in the Widgets, I don’t have the ‘Keep on home screen’ option at all! What gives?
Let’s go to Settings > Display & Brightness or Settings > Home Screen & Dock and toggle on Keep Today View on Home Screen there. Restart and then see if the option shows up in your widgets.
Thanks! I had not seen the setting in the Display/Brightness pane. I had set my icon size to ‘Bigger’ which greyed out the Today View options (for obvious reasons). All fixed and working now.
I cannot remove the today view from my home screen, no mater what. Remove all the widgets? Nope that does not do it, Keep on Home Screen turned off, not that does not do it either. I have just lost a third of my screen, I hate this.
The latest update n the iPad is incredibly obnoxious. How can I revert back one version and restart the loading of this so I can disable many of its functions?
How to remove widget at the bottom of screen
The iPad is rubbish. Little more than a toy. How do I get my money back?
Apple’s privacy policy is a joke–they removed the ability to disable individual cookies .
It is a poor quality product that can only load programs from a single source.
I’m sure children love it but it is not a serious computing machine.
Shame on Apple for misrepresenting the iPad as privacy focused high quality machine
I am on the most current iOS, and would love to enable Today’s view on my Home screen – but when I click edit in the Widgets, I don’t have the ‘Keep on home screen’ option at all! What gives?
Hi MCC,
Let’s go to Settings > Display & Brightness or Settings > Home Screen & Dock and toggle on Keep Today View on Home Screen there. Restart and then see if the option shows up in your widgets.
Thanks! I had not seen the setting in the Display/Brightness pane. I had set my icon size to ‘Bigger’ which greyed out the Today View options (for obvious reasons). All fixed and working now.
Took a while to find this page, but resolved my problem of having Today’s View on main iPad air page. Thank you.
I cannot remove the today view from my home screen, no mater what. Remove all the widgets? Nope that does not do it, Keep on Home Screen turned off, not that does not do it either. I have just lost a third of my screen, I hate this.
Lightly swipe left on the home screen.