Google Chrome comes with widgets for iPhone. You can also play the popular Dino game through them

After last November, Google released an update for its iOS mobile browser Chome only last month. Even after such a long wait, however, it brought nothing but fixes for a few bugs. Only the current version marked 90 brings news. These are mainly widgets from which you can even launch the Dino game. The company rather uncharacteristically skipped versions 88 and 89 and comes up with the one that unifies the mobile browser designation with those for other operating systems, i.e. Android, Mac, Windows and Linux, which it released in the middle of last month. The main novelty is widgets, which you can use with iOS 14 on both iPhones and iPads.

There are three in total. The first is 2x1 and offers access to search, incognito mode, voice search and QR code scanning. The second one of 1×1 size redirects you to a new tab where you can start searching and finally the third one of the same size offers a redirection to the Dino game, in which you jump over obstacles in the role of a dinosaur. In addition to these three variants of widgets and the necessary correction of several known errors, the last novelty is the password manager used in the mobile browser, which can be found in Settings.

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They are not widgets like widgets 

Apple brought a new form of widgets together with iOS 14. For applications that support them, you can add various shortcuts to their functions by holding your finger on the device screen and the plus symbol for a long time. It sounds nice, but of course there is one major catch. As with any other widget, even those in the 90th version of the Google Chrome browser are only a possibility of direct redirection to the function of the application that it offers. Widgets are not interactive in iOS. Even though it looks like it, you can't start typing a URL directly into it, nor can you play a dinosaur game in it. In any case, the Chrome application will be launched first, and only then will the desired function to which the widget refers be activated.

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However, since interactive widgets are one of the functions that their users call for most often, we hope that we will see them in iOS 15. We will learn the shape of the new operating system for iPhones at the opening event to start the WWDC21 conference, which is planned for the date from 7. until June 11.