Good morning, if I understood correctly, Live Activities will come on a later iOS 16 update and are not present on the current iOS 16 beta. I think that might explain the lack of documentation on the subject. What I'd like to understand is what could be the best path to take to make sure we're prepared to build a Lock Screen widget with Live Activities. Is a Home Screen widget a good starting point? Does anyone know? Can an Apple engineer shine some light into the topic? Thank you

I'm excited to already have a widget/complication running on watchOS using WidgetKit. It's a great framework! Next, I need to get some settings from my iOS app over to the watch to help configure the widget. Ideally, I'd like the user to be able to change settings on the iOS app, and have them reflected in the watch widget pretty soon after without having to do anything on the watch. (From early testing, updateApplicationContext is decent because it can still be sent even when the watch app isn't active, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to wake up to process this incoming data until the user manually opens the app on the watch again. But maybe I've missed something.) Anyway, what's the best way to do this configuration between phone and watch?

Hello, I am trying out the new Watch Complications in WidgetKit and I am stuck on the widget '.accessoryCorner'. Unfortunately, I can't find a way to create a curved text as shown in the image in the upper left corner ('HON'). Using the '.widgetLabel' does insert a curved label in the second line, but the text above it in the first line remains horizontally arranged. Has anyone found a solution for this yet? Thanks for the help Thomas

I bought new iphone 11 and when i made the photo widget it says no contant available, i did leave it all night with the charger on but nothing changed, i sign out and re-log into apple id and removed the widget , restarted the phone but the situation is the same, what should i do??

Incompatible widget content The body of the widget entry's view contains the following unsupported types: PlatformViewRepresentableAdaptor. All I have in the body of my accessoryCircular widget is: ProgressView(value: 0.3, total: 1.0) Any way to fix this?

I'm using musickit on iOS 15 in my APP. I want to detect user change the player's play state when app enters the background.

Has anyone been successful creating a widget configuration that uses any of the "Measurement" type parameters? I'm running into crashes in the Widget/Home Screen when I try to do so. I am building a widget that provides functionality to 'nearby' points of interest. I just discovered that SiriIntents support specifying a Measurement type now --> Distance. When I have my configuration "nearbyDistance" parameter type set to the measurement type of Distance, adding the widget from the widget gallery crashes it after I hit the add button and it doesn't get added. This works: This crashes the Widget Preview and doesn't add the widget to the Home Screen: Right before I add my widget, things seem to be good: As soon as I tap Add Widget, this happens: I have created a feedback for this and attached some recordings and a sysdiagnose: FB10002319

We have a bit of a complicated build process and need to build the Widget outside of our main app and repackage since we are using a cross platform framework. I tried scripting out updating my Widget's Marketing Version but agvtool won't update the MARKETING_VERSION in the project.pbxproj file. Therefore, we end up getting these emails from Apple: ITMS-90473: CFBundleShortVersionString Mismatch - The CFBundleShortVersionString value ‘1.2.2’ of extension ‘MyiOSApp.app/PlugIns/widgetExtension.appex' does not match the CFBundleShortVersionString value ‘1.2.3' of its containing iOS application ‘MyiOSApp.app'. I run this and it says it's updating in the Widget plist (but not the project.pbxproj) so when I build with xcode via command line it doesn't update and when we submit to the App Store we get the above message from Apple: /usr/bin/agvtool new-marketing-version $(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :CFBundleShortVersionString" ../My.Crossplatform.App/My.Crossplatform.App.iOS/Info.plist) Setting CFBundleShortVersionString of project ios to:    1.2.3. Updating CFBundleShortVersionString in Info.plist(s)... Cannot find "ios.xcodeproj/../YES" Updated CFBundleShortVersionString in "ios.xcodeproj/../widget/Info.plist" to 1.2.3 I've had to resort to manually updating then submitting every time. What is the correct way to update the MARKETING_VERSION in the project.pbxproj file in a CI environment using bash?

Hi, my App has two kind of widgets. On some iOS 15.4 and 15.4.1 devices, one widget works perfectly fine and another can't load data even in the Widgets Gallery. But for most devices the two widgets work both fine!!! My 15.4.1 iPhones and iPad can't reproduce the problem. The problematic widget only display a redacted view: The widget should look like: Both of the widgets use Core Data to fetch data and shared UserDefaults to get user settings. The problematic widget is a task calendar, so it has some data but not very large. I've try to collect crash log using TestFlight, but there's no crash logs. I've implemented placeholder getSnapshot and getTimeline in the widget's IntentTimelineProvider. I'm not using unwrap optionals in SwiftUI. It's frustrating. My users love this widget but can't use it. Any idea why this problem happen?

much like the notes app, would be it be some way to lock apps on a home screen pages from moving around unintentionally to another home screen? i’ve had several occasions where my phone screen apps get moved around by having the device in awkward positions or holding it a funny way (i.e getting out of a car in a tight space, while holding your phone). i’m not sure whether this is or is not a feature yet, but, any insight would be appreciated!

I am building an app with the WidgetKit extension (created using File > New > Target > Widget Extension). When I run the app scheme on my Mac, I can see my local app and add the widget in the widget sidebar using "Edit Widgets." However, when I build the app using the iOS scheme on my iPhone, I cannot add the widget to my phone, as it does not appear in the widget selection window. The app works perfectly fine and launches. I am using an iPhone 13 pro on iOS 15.4.1. Is this a recent bug? A couple of months ago on a different project, this was working.

So I was watching the WWDC video [Add configuration and intelligence to you widget] (https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10194) and it seemed like there Xcode automatically generated the IntentHandler.swift file. But I can't find the IntentHandler.swift file in my Xcode. Of course, I added Widget as target checking add intent configuration, and also added intent parameters too. What I am doing wrong here? Or is that I Xcode doesn't automatically generate IntentHandler.swift file ? Thanks

Our app added a widget extension. but some of devices can't search widget in Widget Gallery. We found workaround. Delete app Reboot device Install app Why does this happen? What's a better solution? Is this iOS bug? If iOS bug, please let know bug report link to us.

The widget family obtained via @Environment(\.widgetFamily) is wrong when preview widgets in Xcode 13.3. The problem can be reproduced by creating a default app project and a widget extension in Xcode 13.3.

Hi, I am working on a widget for my existing Mac app. The problem I am running into is that when I add a Link from the widget to the main app, the method 'openURLs' isn't called at all: - (void) application: (NSApplication *)application openURLs:(NSArray<NSURL *> *)urls  So I'm not able to direct the app on how to best handle the widget tap. I'm trying to work around that by trying to detect if a Link was selected. Something like this could work Link("Test", destination: URL(string: "https://duckduckgo.com")!) .environment(\.openURL, OpenURLAction { url in print("---> testing link actioned") return .systemAction }) When I add this to the main app, it works fine. But when I add something like this to the widget, the completion handler isn't called (supposedly). Can someone confirm if this was supposed to work inside a widget? Or is it only something that works from the main app?

I have a CoreData database, and I have attempted to migrate it to an app group to share it between my main app and a widget extension. The database seems that seems to be fetched by the app and the widget seem to be completely separate from each other. My CoreData code (persistence.swift) import CoreData struct PersistenceController {   static let shared = PersistenceController()   static var preview: PersistenceController = {     let result = PersistenceController(inMemory: true)     let viewContext = result.container.viewContext     let newUserData = Userdata(context: viewContext)     newUserData.hourly = 15.3     let newSession = Session(context: viewContext)     newSession.id = UUID()     newSession.start = Date()     newSession.end = Date()     do {       try viewContext.save()     } catch {       let nsError = error as NSError       fatalError("Unresolved error \(nsError), \(nsError.userInfo)")     }     return result   }()   let container: NSPersistentContainer   init(inMemory: Bool = false) {     container = NSPersistentContainer(name: "FManger")     let storeURL = FileManager.default.containerURL(forSecurityApplicationGroupIdentifier: "group.omaribrahim-uchicago.FManger")!.appendingPathComponent("FManger.sqlite")     var defaultURL: URL?       if let storeDescription = container.persistentStoreDescriptions.first, let url = storeDescription.url {         defaultURL = FileManager.default.fileExists(atPath: url.path) ? url : nil       }     if defaultURL == nil {         container.persistentStoreDescriptions = [NSPersistentStoreDescription(url: storeURL)]       }     container.loadPersistentStores(completionHandler: { [unowned container] (storeDescription, error) in         if let error = error as NSError? {           fatalError("Unresolved error \(error), \(error.userInfo)")         }         if let url = defaultURL, url.absoluteString != storeURL.absoluteString {           let coordinator = container.persistentStoreCoordinator           if let oldStore = coordinator.persistentStore(for: url) {             do {               try coordinator.migratePersistentStore(oldStore, to: storeURL, options: nil, withType: NSSQLiteStoreType)             } catch {               print(error.localizedDescription)             }             // delete old store             let fileCoordinator = NSFileCoordinator(filePresenter: nil)             fileCoordinator.coordinate(writingItemAt: url, options: .forDeleting, error: nil, byAccessor: { url in               do {                 try FileManager.default.removeItem(at: url)               } catch {                 print(error.localizedDescription)               }             })           }         }       })   } } My Widget data constructor and main function import WidgetKit import SwiftUI import Intents struct Provider: IntentTimelineProvider {       func placeholder(in context: Context) -> SimpleEntry {     SimpleEntry(date: Date(), data: .previewData, error: false, configuration: ConfigurationIntent())   }   func getSnapshot(for configuration: ConfigurationIntent, in context: Context, completion: @escaping (SimpleEntry) -> ()) {     let entry = SimpleEntry(date: Date(), data: .previewData, error: false, configuration: configuration)           completion(entry)   }   func getTimeline(for configuration: ConfigurationIntent, in context: Context, completion: @escaping (Timeline<Entry>) -> ()) {     var entries: [SimpleEntry] = []     @FetchRequest(       sortDescriptors:[NSSortDescriptor(key: "start", ascending: false)],       animation: .default)     var sessions: FetchedResults<Session>           if (sessions.count > 0) {       let checkedIn = sessions[0].end != nil       let totalMinutes = totalMinutes(sessions: sessions)       var auxMinutes = 0.0       if (checkedIn) {         auxMinutes = timeBetween(fromDate: sessions[0].start!, toDate: Date())       }               let currentDate = Date()       for i in 0 ..< 5 {         let entryDate = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .hour, value: i, to: currentDate)!                   let cSession = fromMinutes(minutes: (Double(i) * 60) + auxMinutes)                   let widgetData = SimpleEntry.PayData(currentSession: cSession,                            grossTotal: totalMinutes * 15.3 + cSession,                            paycheckDay: Date() + (7 * 24 * 60 * 60),                            checkedIn: checkedIn)                   let entry = SimpleEntry(date: entryDate,                     data: widgetData,                     error: false,                     configuration: configuration)                   entries.append(entry)       }     }     else {       let entry = SimpleEntry(date: Date(),                   data: .error,                   error: true,                   configuration: configuration)       entries.append(entry)     }     let timeline = Timeline(entries: entries, policy: .atEnd)     completion(timeline)   } } @main struct Widgets: Widget {   let kind: String = "Widgets"   let persistenceController = PersistenceController.shared   var body: some WidgetConfiguration {     IntentConfiguration(kind: kind, intent: ConfigurationIntent.self, provider: Provider()) { entry in       WidgetsEntryView(entry: entry)         .environment(\.managedObjectContext, persistenceController.container.viewContext)     }     .configurationDisplayName("Pay Tracker")     .description("Check your current shift's earning, total earnings, and the date of your next payment in a glance.")   } } I am pretty sure I did something wrong, but what is it?