Widget Presets That Change With Your Day

Your morning and your night need different buttons

During the day, you might reach for meal, potty, and diaper logs. After bedtime, Sleep and Wake may matter more. A home-screen widget is useful when the buttons you need are already in front of you, especially when opening another screen feels like one task too many.

EchoMom Shortcuts puts care buttons on your iPhone or Android home screen. Widget presets let you keep more than one useful layout, and EchoMom's agent can help build and update them through conversation. You can start with a request as ordinary as: 'Make a widget preset from the care events I log most often.'

What is a widget preset?

A preset is a saved set of widget buttons, including their order, labels, and any details filled in ahead of time. Switching presets brings that setup back without rebuilding each button. Presets belong to your account and the selected child, so one child's setup does not automatically become another child's layout or another caregiver's setup.

Built-in layouts such as Bottle and care, Sleep and nursing, Playtime, and Toilet training give you a starting point. Customize a built-in layout to save your own named copy, or create a preset from scratch. The original built-in layout stays available.

A layout can hold up to six ordinary buttons. Some session controls, such as a nursing bar, occupy a whole row, leaving room for fewer separate buttons. Check the preview to see what will fit. These are EchoMom Shortcuts buttons on the phone home screen; the Quick Actions inside the app are configured separately.

Related reading: Customize EchoMom Shortcuts

Start with what you actually log

You do not have to guess which buttons deserve the space. The agent can review recent care logs, check which widget actions are supported, and create a named layout from the useful matches. Give it a time period and a clear goal.

For a child whose recent logs are mostly meals, toilet visits, diapers, and sleep, one possible layout is Meal, Potty pee, Potty poo, Pee, Poo, and Sleep. Another family's logs may call for a different set. A care event can have several useful buttons, and some logged event types have no widget shortcut, so the result is a selection rather than a copy of every category in the log.

This creates a layout based on the records available when you ask. It does not automatically rebuild itself whenever your habits change. Ask for another review when the current buttons stop fitting your day.

• 'Look at the last seven days and make a preset called Everyday with my most-used care buttons.'
• 'Explain which buttons you chose, and keep the layout to six buttons.'
• 'Keep Meal and the potty buttons, but replace a diaper button with Bath.'

Describe the change in everyday words

The agent can add, remove, reorder, and relabel supported widget buttons. It can also save supported starting values, such as a bottle amount or a diaper type. You can ask for a small change without learning the names used behind the scenes.

Be specific about whether you want to change the current widget or update a saved preset by name. A temporary change to the current buttons is different from editing the preset that an automation will apply later. Saving a preset through the agent also applies it immediately, so check the resulting layout even when you are preparing something for tonight.

A saved value is a shortcut for recording a fact you already know. Check that the amount, type, or other detail matches what happened before tapping. If it varies each time, use the regular logging screen where you can enter the details.

• 'Move Sleep and Wake to the front of my widget.'
• 'Add a formula bottle button with 120 mL filled in and label it Bottle 120.'
• 'Save this layout as Evening, so I can return to it later.'

Related reading: Ask EchoMom to Set Up the Widget You Need Tonight

Give daytime and nighttime their own presets

A preset becomes more useful when you do not have to remember to select it. Ask the agent to create a schedule, or update an existing one, using the names of the layouts you want and the times that suit your household.

For example, Everyday could hold your usual meal, potty, and diaper buttons, while Evening puts Sleep and Wake first. If medication logging is already part of your care routine, you can also request a Medicine button. That button records care; the preset does not decide whether medicine is needed or what dose to give.

Check the agent's reply for both preset names, both times, the repeat days, and the timezone. A schedule changes the active layout at those times. It does not log a feed, start sleep, or record medicine just because the buttons become visible.

• 'Use Everyday at 8 a.m. and Evening at 8 p.m. each day, in my child's timezone.'
• 'Update my existing day and night widget automations to use those presets.'
• 'Move the evening switch to 7 p.m. and keep the morning switch as it is.'

Keep improving the same saved layout

You might try the nighttime layout and realize it needs a few more options. Continue the conversation: 'Add Temperature, Pee, and Poo to my saved Evening preset, keeping Sleep, Wake, and Medicine.' That makes six supported buttons without having to rebuild the routine.

When the automation applies a preset by name, it uses that preset's saved buttons. Updating the existing Evening preset keeps the same nightly switch useful. Creating a second preset with a different name would require pointing the automation at that new name.

Time is not the only trigger. You can also ask for a preset to be applied after a newly logged care event, such as switching to Toilet training after a toilet log. The trigger is the record reaching EchoMom, not the app independently detecting what your child did. An offline log needs to sync before a server automation can respond.

Connect the conversation to the widget on your phone

Start while signed in, with access to the child's agent and an internet connection. Account access, plan limits, and caregiver permissions still apply. Confirm the child in the conversation and the child assigned to your phone's widget, because those selections can be different.

Apple and Android provide the home-screen controls for adding widgets. Use the platform guides below for those steps, then return to EchoMom to manage the buttons. Widget refreshes depend on the phone receiving and applying the update. If the old layout is still showing, open EchoMom with a connection, check the widget child, and allow it to sync.

1. Open Settings > App and choose Home-screen widget child.
2. Under Widget quick-log buttons, choose Customize buttons and check the child shown in the editor.
3. Turn on Let EchoMom manage these if you want the agent to change the buttons and save presets for that child.
4. Use Ask the agent to describe the layout you want, or Automate preset changes to ask for a routine. You can also open EchoMom from the bottom navigation.
5. Review the saved layout in the widget preview. If you have not already added EchoMom Shortcuts, add it through your phone's widget picker. The agent configures its buttons; you place the widget on the home screen.

Sources: Apple Support: Add and edit widgets on iPhone · Android Help: Add widgets to your home screen

Related reading: Add EchoMom Shortcuts to Your Android Home Screen · Use EchoMom Widgets on iPhone

Keep the setup easy to trust

Read the buttons before using a freshly changed layout. A widget tap can record care immediately or act on a timer. After your first real use, open Log and check the child, event, time, and saved details. Keep labels short and avoid personal health details that someone looking at your home screen could read.

You can review and pause scheduled routines under Settings > Profile > Help & legal > View automations. Manage those routines separately from Let EchoMom manage these: turning off permission for conversational button changes is not a substitute for pausing an existing automation.

Start with one useful preset. Add a second when another part of the day needs different buttons, then ask EchoMom to handle the switch. The point is to make recording your actual routine easier, with a setup you can understand and change as life moves on.