With iOS 18, Apple has customized Control Center and even your lock screen more with support for widgets from third-party apps. The article below will share some great applications that you can use to make the most of the redesigned Control Center.

Everyone knows the importance of staying hydrated every day. Waterllama makes tracking your daily water intake fun and easy. This full-featured app lets you track your water intake from anything you drink, including more than 40 popular beverages.
The app provides smart reminders throughout the day to make sure you remember to drink water. The app customizes the amount of water you need depending on your activity level, weight, climate and gender.
With the app's Control Center widget, you can open the app or quickly add a custom amount of water or other beverage to your total daily water intake. Both widgets have animations to make staying hydrated a little more fun.

If you're looking for a more powerful Camera app from Apple, Halide Mark II should be at the top of the list. This app has an easy-to-use gesture interface that you can use with one hand, plus many other great tools like full manual exposure control, including shutter speed, ISO, and white balance .
With the app's Process Zero mode, you can bypass Apple's image processing to get perfect images without the need for a highly processed interface.
While the app has a Control Center widget for quick app launches, it's also the perfect replacement for Apple's Camera app on your customizable iOS 18 lock screen. Although the app is free to download, you need to register to use it.

Todoist can help you keep track of almost any task imaginable. Thanks to natural language technology, you can easily add one-time or recurring tasks. For more complex tasks, you can create a project viewed as a list, board, or calendar to manage your time and tasks.
Using Control Center widgets, you can quickly add a task to an app or open an app in a specific view, like tasks you need to complete today at work or even in personal life.

Along with an extensive dictionary, this app offers some great vocabulary tools for anyone wanting to improve their language skills. The app brings language to life with Word of the Day featuring great illustrations. Tap a card to learn more about the word, such as origins and synonyms.
You'll find a number of actions you can add to Control Center using the app's widgets. You can quickly open the app to search for a word through text, scan a word with the camera to see its definition, or start the app's Reading Mode, which provides Live Activity to help you. Quickly find out the meaning of words from Dynamic Island or lock screen.

Spark makes managing huge amounts of email a little easier. One of the best features of the app is that it automatically sorts the most important messages at the top of your inbox. Newsletters and announcements are automatically grouped below so you can address them later.
You can use the application with multiple email accounts at the same time. Other great features include built-in AI to help write emails for you and collaboration functionality with team members. This is also a great way to optimize your email productivity on your Mac.
The application provides 4 widgets you can add to Control Center. With these widgets, you can quickly launch apps to write emails, search, jump directly to attachments, or view your calendar.

Whether you're looking to take the perfect photo in great light or find the perfect time for another outdoor activity, Lumy can help. The app can tell you information about major solar events like sunrise, sunset, golden hour and more in your location. After sunset, the app will also tell you everything you need to know about the moon and its phases.
The app even integrates with the mood logging function in the Health app and can suggest time out to improve your mood.
Besides quickly opening apps from the Control Center widget, you can also choose to start the Live Activity timer for a specific event like sunset or golden hour, or receive notifications about that event.

Crouton makes cooking easier. The app is both a recipe organizer and a meal planner. Before the week starts, you can plan your week using the recipes stored in the app.
Crouton can even automatically create a plan. When it's time to cook, the unique step-by-step mode lets you focus on each step with both ingredients and specific quantities. You can even move between steps hands-free so you don't have to touch the screen when your hands are dirty.
The app's Control Center widget provides one-touch access to the app's recipe import feature. Thanks to AI, you can enter recipes using a single photo instead of entering them manually. The application also supports both plain text and images.

Plinky helps save any link you can find, whether it's a video, article, social media post, or something else. With the app's extension widget, you can save links with just one tap in Safari or other popular browsers. In the app, you can use folders and tags to organize your saved links by popular topics like news or entertainment.
With Control Xenter widgets, you can quickly launch one of the app's actions, like saving a copied link or selecting a tag or folder in the app to access.

Peak makes it easy to gain clarity on your fitness goals. With this app, you can create custom dashboards with the exact metrics you want to see, like steps, exercises, activity laps, etc. Each metric can also display blocks like charts, targets, totals and trends for better understanding.
If you don't want to open an app every time you want to see relevant information, you can rely on the app's Home or Lock screen widgets. You can use the app's Control Center widgets to quickly view pinned goals or blocks, see progress on any metric, and record important information like weight or BMI.
Adding widgets to Control Center or the lock screen is a great way to get one-touch access to apps you use often. It's nice that Apple has finally opened Control Center to third-party apps in iOS. But that's just one of the many great features iOS 18 offers.