How to Put a Streak Widget on Your iPhone Home Screen

Why visible streaks survive and hidden ones die

Habit researchers keep landing on the same boring, powerful truth: environment beats willpower. You check your phone dozens of times a day; whatever lives on that first screen gets dozens of free impressions. A streak buried inside an app needs you to remember it. A streak on the home screen reminds you — every unlock is a tiny confrontation: 17 days. Still going?

There's a second effect. When your streak is public to yourself — visible between the Messages and Safari icons — skipping stops being a private, deniable act. The empty flame would sit right there, on the screen you look at 100 times a day.

Adding the widget, step by step

1. Touch and hold an empty area of your home screen until the apps jiggle.
2. Tap Edit → Add Widget (the + on older iOS versions) in the top corner.
3. Search for the app — e.g. "Fix Your Life" — in the widget gallery.
4. Swipe to pick a size. Small shows the essentials; medium fits more context.
5. Tap Add Widget, drag it where your eyes land first, and tap Done.

Small or medium? Placement matters too

• Small widget: your streak count with the 🔥 flame — a scoreboard. Perfect next to your most-used apps, where you can't miss it.
• Medium widget: streak plus the question of the day. This one doesn't just remind you the habit exists — it starts working on you before you've opened anything. "Are you doing everything necessary to achieve your goals?" between your mail and your camera changes the texture of a phone-unlock.
• Put it on the first screen. A widget on page three is a widget in a drawer. Prime real estate or nothing.

Your home screen is the most-viewed surface in your life. Rent one square of it to the person you're trying to become.