Jira Cloud for iOS has a brand new issue list widget

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What widget?

Yes, indeed, you read the title of this article correctly. The Jira Cloud app for iOS has just released a new widget for your iPhone's home screen (or Today View) called the Issue List widget. Unleash the confetti!

Learn more about widgets for iOS

As you might know, we previously released a glorious Issue Counter widget that enables you to monitor ever-changing numbers of issues in four different filters:

Image: Issue Counter widget on iPhone Home Screen

Now, we're introducing a brand new Issue List widget that displays a beautiful list of issues – including issue summary, key, and status – within a filter:

Image: Issue list widget on iPhone Home Screen

As you can see above, the Issue List widget shows the top five issues from your selected filter, and clearly displays the filter name (in case you forget which category of issues you're looking at), plus the total number of issues in that filter.

A couple of words about interactions

As you would expect, tapping on an issue in the widget will take you directly to the full issue detail screen inside the app:

Image: Issue tap interaction animation

And when you tap on the title of the filter at the top of the widget, you will go to the full list of issues in that filter, inside the app:

Image: Filter title tap interaction animation

And some iPad love

Did we mention you can use widgets on iPad, too? On a bigger screen, we support a bigger type of widget. And, of course, you can select any JQL-based filter and have multiple widgets on your screen:

Image: iPad Home Screen with two Jira Issue List widgets

How do I get the widget?

Go to your iPhone's home screen, and long-press an empty space (or a widget). When all the apps start to jiggle, select + at the top of your screen, then choose the Jira widget.

We hope this new widget will allow you to focus on your most important tasks, reach your goals quicker, and discover even more ways to work efficiently. 

[kemobetter]

Is there anything like this for Android?

[Oskarosh]

I need that! Maybe this widget will make me organized and help me remember all the most important things I have to do. I always forget about something, and it can be really awkward sometimes. Unfortunately, I own an Android device, and I have not found anything like this for Android devices. There are apps intended for organizing, but they are not that good and colorful. I will check zumroad.com regularly in case someone releases an app like this. But I think I would rather buy an iPhone than look for Android analogies for years. Sometimes iOS is just better.

[Erik Stens]

Please work on an Android version, I'm not buying an iPad just for this widget.