How to Add Clock Widget to Your Android 12 Home Screen – Guide
Android 12 is set to be the biggest update to Android yet, with a ton of new features and improvements that will give users more control over their devices. If you’re not familiar with Material Design, this new customization tool will let you apply your own colors to the system UI, based on the wallpaper you’ve chosen. ..
To add a new Material You-inspired Clock widget on Android 12 Home Screen, follow these steps:
- Open the Settings app and navigate to the System section.
- Scroll down and select the Clock widget option.
- Toggle on the Material You theme and set the clock face to your favorite design.
How to Get Material You Clock Widget on Android
The new clock widget is only available on Pixel Smartphones with Android 12 Beta 5. If you have already enrolled your device in the Android 12 Beta program, you can update it to Beta 5 by opening the Settings app and going to System > System Update. If an update is available for your device, it will show up on the next screen from where you can download and install it.
Once the latest beta version is installed, you can access the Material You Clock widget directly from your Home Screen. ..
How to Add Material You Clock Widget to your Home Screen
After running the latest version of Android 12 Beta 5 on your Pixel device, you can now add the Material You Clock widget to your Home Screen. To do this, tap and hold on an empty area of your Home Screen and select the ‘Widgets’ option from the floating menu.
The pop-up menu.up Widgets screen on Android 12 Home Screen shows a list of all widgets that can be added to your Android 12 home screen.
The clock on the wall is ticking away.
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You can drag the analog clock widget from within the ‘Clock’ section to the desired part of your Home Screen.
If you have the Dark theme turned off, you will see a lighter background with dark colors to indicate the hour and minute hands and a circle to represent the “seconds” hand. ..
When your device’s dark theme is turned on, the analog clock will take up a darker background with light colored hands.
You can drag and drop the ‘Digital Clock’ widget from the ‘Clock’ section to any part of your Home Screen. ..
The widget is available in the Google Play Store for $2.99.
This is what it looks like when the Android dark theme is enabled. The app’s interface is black and white, with a few icons in the center of the screen. The text in the app’s main window is in a small font, and there are no icons or other graphical elements.
You can drag and drop the ‘Stacked’ widget from within the ‘Clock’ section to the desired part of your Home Screen.
The Stacked widget provides the same information as the digital clock widget, but this time the pill’s design is inverted to be shown vertically instead of horizontally.
When you activate your device’s dark theme, this is what it looks like when you’re not using it.
You can drag the ‘World’ widget from the Clock section of your Home Screen to the desired part of your Home Screen.
If you have added time zones to the Google Clock app, the World widget will show times from two different time zones. The square boxes with rounded corners and different themes will be on your Home Screen.
When you turn on the Dark theme, these widgets get darker backgrounds with lighter text that are more contrasty.
Why does the Clock widget on Android 12 change color?
If you want to change the color of the Clock widget, you can do so by opening the ‘Wallpaper & Style’ app and selecting a new color. ..
In our tests, we noticed that the Clock widget doesn’t always apply the color you selected in ‘Wallpaper and Style’, but changes its colors as you drag it across the wallpaper. This is because the clock widget is designed to use Theme colors based on where it is placed on the wallpaper. In the footage below, you’ll see that the Clock widget’s colors change as it’s dragged from one position to another. ..
The widget first appears with a white background color above the areas highlighted in orange. This background changes to a lighter shade of green when the watch is moved lower to an area that focuses more on the green side of the spectrum.
Final note
This guide will show you how to add a clock widget to your Android 12 home screen. If you have any questions about this article, please do not hesitate to ask us. Additionally, please share this guide with your friends and family so that they too may enjoy using a clock widget on their Android 12 home screen.
