Need to quickly check what your friends are up to? Jump straight to a conversation? With Zenly’s widgets, you can see what the crew are up to at a glance, from your home screen.
Zenly has single and multiple friend widgets, with the latter showing up to three friends. Widgets let you check what your friend is currently up to, like whether they arrived at school or whether they’re still snoozing off the party from the night before. It also shows the number of unread messages you have on Zenly. 🔢
How to Add a Widget on iOS?
On iOS, widgets are available on devices running iOS 14 or later.
- Long-press an empty area of your home screen and wait for the jiggle
- Tap the + button at the top of the screen
- Scroll down and choose Zenly
- Choose either a single or multiple friend widget
- Tap “add widget”. it will be added to your home screen prefilled
- To change which friends are shown or the order tap on the widget
- Press the home button to save
You can change a widget at any time by long-pressing and selecting the option to modify.
How to Add a Widget on Android?
Before you dive in, please note that if you’ve downloaded Zenly from our website (official version for China mainland) or from the Huawei App Gallery you won’t be able to add widgets. 🥺
From your device’s homepage
- Long-press an empty area and tap the widgets option
- Scroll down to Zenly
- Tap, hold and drag the widget to where you want it
- Select the friend to appear in the widget
- Press the home button to save
From a friend’s Zenly profile page
Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo devices and all devices running an Android version below 10 cannot add a widget from a friend’s profile page.
- Go to a friend’s Zenly profile page
- Scroll down to the bottom of their friend list to the widget section
- Tap the option to add. The widget will be automatically added to your device’s homepage
You can change the widget’s location by tapping, holding and dragging to your preferred location.
Sometimes, friendships end. 😢 If this happens, a message explaining this friend is no longer available shows for single friend widgets. For multiple friend widgets, the friend will just disappear. 💨
Want more widgets? Let us know! 📬