Apple brought widgets to iPhones with iOS 14, a feature that Android smartphones have had for well over a decade. While iOS widgets look stylish, they lack the interactivity of their Android counterparts. Reportedly, this disparity could end with iOS 16 though, courtesy of a feature called InfoShack.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Recent-iPhones-could-receive-interactive-widgets-with-iOS-16.596066.0.html