iOS 26.4 added brand new widgets for the iPhone’s Home Screen, but you might not know that fairly recently, Apple also upgraded its popular Photos widget in two ways.

Out of all iPhone Home Screen widgets, Photos undoubtedly is among the most popular options.

Plenty of widgets offer valuable utility, like showing your upcoming calendar events. But widgets for the Photos app have a special surprise and delight element that’s hard to match.

And in iOS 26, Apple’s Photos widgets gained two new options:

Spatial Scenes

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Spatial Scenes are a new iOS 26 feature that let your photos gain depth so you can pan around and see them react to your movement. It’s a fun parallax effect.

The Spatial effect is an especially great feature for your Lock Screen wallpaper .…