Since the introduction of widgets on iOS, the Stocks widget is one of the few widgets I use1. I like it to see how the market reacts without opening the Stocks app. When you click the widget you open the associated app. For the 2x2 Stocks widget this not only opens the Stocks app, but also immediately loads the detail view for the list item you clicked. Since forever, I miss the option to prevent this when clicking on the widget and only to open the Stocks app. This takes me always one more click to dismiss the detail view when I just want to get a general feeling on what’s happening.
This happens for the 2x2 sized widget. When using the 2x4 sized widget, you can click in the middle of the widget (inside the gap of the 3x2 grid) to only open the stocks app without preselecting anything.
I generally don’t use them too much. I like the calendar widget to see what’s happening today, that’s mostly it. ↩︎