Baby Memos

Settings and extras

Widgets

Seventeen widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen — the latest records at a glance, one-tap logging, and a photo frame — and how to add them.

Widgets show the baby's latest records without opening the app, and the per-type ones create a record from the Home Screen or Lock Screen in a single tap. iOS only lets widgets be added from the Home Screen itself, so the app carries a guide with previews and the steps.

The guide in the app

Settings → Widgets: previews and the steps.
Settings → Widgets: previews and the steps.
The per-type and recent-records styles.
The per-type and recent-records styles.
Recent records and the Lock Screen styles.
Recent records and the Lock Screen styles.

Open Settings → Widgets. The Style Previews carousel shows what each kind looks like with your data:

  • Photo Frame — the baby's photo with name and age. Edit Frame Photo under the carousel picks the picture.
  • Per-type — one type's last record (2 hr ago · 120 ml · Formula Milk) with an Add record button that opens the editor. Bottle, Breast, Diaper, Sleep, Food, Pumping and Supplement each have one, in small and medium sizes.
  • Recent records — the last few records of any type as a list.
  • Lock Screen — a rectangular list and round one-tap widgets for the Lock Screen.
How to add, steps 1–2.
How to add, steps 1–2.
How to add, steps 3–4.
How to add, steps 3–4.

Adding a widget to the Home Screen

Touch and hold the Home Screen.
Touch and hold the Home Screen.
Edit → Add Widget.
Edit → Add Widget.
Baby Memos in the widget gallery.
Baby Memos in the widget gallery.
  1. Go to the Home Screen and touch and hold an empty area until the icons start to jiggle.
  2. Tap + in the top-left corner, or Edit → Add Widget.
  3. Find Baby Memos in the list.
Photo Frame.
Photo Frame.
Baby Recent Activities.
Baby Recent Activities.
Bottle, in two sizes.
Bottle, in two sizes.
  1. Swipe through the styles — Photo Frame, Baby Recent Activities, then one per type — and tap Add Widget on the one you want.
Baby Recent Activities, medium size, with real data.
Baby Recent Activities, medium size, with real data.
Placed on the Home Screen.
Placed on the Home Screen.
The widget with live data.
The widget with live data.
  1. Tap Done. The widget shows the latest records and updates on its own as you log.

More than one baby

Long-press a widget for its menu.
Long-press a widget for its menu.
Edit Widget: choose the baby.
Edit Widget: choose the baby.

Each widget is tied to a baby. When you add one it locks to the current baby, and switching babies inside the app does not change it. Touch and hold the widget, tap Edit Widget, and pick another baby — or Follow the app's current baby to keep it in sync. Add the same style twice to keep two babies side by side.

Lock Screen widgets

The round Lock Screen widgets log a feed, a sleep or a diaper in one tap without opening the app; the rectangular one lists the latest records. Add them the iOS way: touch and hold the Lock Screen, tap Customize, choose the Lock Screen, tap the widget area below the clock and pick Baby Memos.