Slack – the cloud-based crew communication platform – is bringing three new widgets to the iPhone, the corporate introduced through a social media put up on Monday. The brand new widgets add catch-up, standing view and different functionalities to the iPhone’s dwelling and lock screens, enabling customers to leap immediately into the completely different tabs of the Slack app. This growth comes a month after the platform launched developer-focused options, a brand new portal and enterprise instruments on the TrailblazerDX developer convention.
In a put up on X (previously Twitter), Slack launched three new iPhone widgets: Catch Up, Standing and Slack Launcher. As per the corporate, these widgets could make the “workday simpler”. The brand new Catch Up and Standing widgets could be positioned on the iPhone’s dwelling display. Catch Up takes customers on to the Catch Up tab on Slack, enabling them to maintain up with unread channels, newest DMs and mentions.
Three 3⃣new Slack iOS widgets are right here to make your workday an entire lot simpler. 👏
Add the Catch Up widget, Standing widget, and Slack Launcher widget to your gadget and keep within the know on the go. pic.twitter.com/bEak0coGZK
— Slack (@SlackHQ) July 22, 2024
In the meantime, the Standing widget is accessible in single and multi-views. Whereas tapping the single-view window opens up the standing window throughout the Slack app within the chosen workspace, customers can change their standing or clear it from the widget itself utilizing the multi-view window.
Along with dwelling display widgets, Slack additionally launched Slack Launcher for the iPhone’s lock display. As per the corporate, it takes customers on to their final workspace to atone for the most recent conversations.
Slack Standing Widget on iPhone
Devices 360 workers members have been capable of confirm the supply of the brand new Slack widgets on iPhone following the most recent app replace. The widgets work as marketed.
Slack AI Globally Out there
In April, Slack rolled out its synthetic intelligence (AI)-powered assistant, Slack AI, to all customers globally. It’s obtainable as an add-on buy to customers with a paid subscription to the platform. Slack AI presents options resembling recaps, search, and dialog summaries. Utilizing search, customers can sort a query within the search bar and the AI assistant will flick thru their private conversations and organisational communication to search for the reply.
With the recaps characteristic, customers can generate highlights for any channel they’re part of with a click on. These options are a part of Slack’s broader technique to save lots of customers’ time and enhance their productiveness utilizing AI.
