Hey there, I'm implementing Watch Complications in an existing project, and I'm having the problem that transferCurrentComplicationUserInfo(_:) works exactly as transferUserInfo(_:) is described in the documentation, but not as it should. That is, when the WatchApp is opened, func session(_ session: WCSession, didReceiveUserInfo userInfo: [String: Any] = [:]) receives the data sent by transferCurrentComplicationUserInfo(_:). If not, the data is queued until the Watch App is opened again. In other words, transferCurrentComplicationUserInfo(_:) never wakes up the ExtensionDelegate when the Watch App is not running. Has anyone experienced the same thing and know how to fix it? More details: Testing on iPhone 11 (iOS 17.1.2) and Apple Watch SE (WatchOS 10.2) I made sure that the quota of 50 is not exhausted when I test. The WatchApp is still dual-target (I want to avoid having to migrate to single-target and SwiftUI lifecycle) Watch App code: class ExtensionDelegate: NSObject, WKExtensionDelegate, WCSessionDelegate { let session = WCSession.default override init() { super.init() if WCSession.isSupported() { session.delegate = self session.activate() } } func session(_ session: WCSession, didReceiveUserInfo userInfo: [String: Any] = [:]) { WatchWidgetSessionHandler.shared.processComplicationUserInfo(userInfo) } } IOS App code: class WatchAppDataManager: NSObject, WCSessionDelegate { override init() { super.init() let session = WCSession.default session.delegate = self session.activate() } func sendDataToWidget(for kinds: [WatchWidgetKind]) async { guard WCSession.default.activationState == .activated, WCSession.default.isComplicationEnabled else { return } let widgetsData = dataProvider.getData(for: kinds) if !widgetsData.isEmpty { WCSession.default.transferCurrentComplicationUserInfo(widgetsData) } } }

Hi all, I am trying to create a widget for my app but I cannot use the Preview feature of Xcode. Xcode enters a build loop and builds the project over and over. There is no error or message. There is only a loading spinner and lots of build. It doesn't matter how much time I wait, it never finishes. I tried to clean the build folder, delete all preview simulators, quit, and reopen the XCode but nothing helped.

After updating our app some of our users are seeing that their widget has gone blank, the whole widget it just white. The only way to make the widget render again is to reboot the phone. This seems to be happening randomly and mainly on iOS17. Looking on the web, seems like other people are also having this issue so hopefully Apple will make a fix at some point but I'm wondering if other people have had this issue and figured out a workaround to stop it happening? Thanks.

Following article Creating a widget extension on developer.apple.com (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/widgetkit/creating-a-widget-extension) I encountered a problem with XCode preview: it shows an error with message | RemoteHumanReadableError: Failed to launch agent | No plugin is registered to launch the process type widgetExtension. Can someone help me? macOS 13.4 XCode 14.3.1

Hello all, I'm facing a major bug where all my app's Interactive Widgets stopped working on iOS 17.4 - testing on multi devices and iOS simulators. App Intent + SwiftData. Stopped working totally. Any advice?! Thanks a lot.

When I upgraded the system to iOS 17.4 Beta, the AppEnum in my code became invalid. I selected an AppEnum option on the desktop widget, but the widget did not synchronize.

Hey I try to post my issue here but keep getting a sensitive problem, so I posted on stack overflow (See here), but really appreciate your help on any forum. The post is about an issue with the auto refresh of the widget and the same behaviour when refreshing from a button in the widget (Done with AppIntent).

Hi all, I am experimenting with Widgets and I would like to add to my SwiftUI app a Widget that can be run on iOS 14. My Mac has macOS Sonoma 14.4, I am using Xcode 15.3. My SwiftUI app can target back to iOS 14. When adding a Widget with Xcode 15.3, the Widget can only target iOS 17. If I downgrade the minimum iOS version of the Widget extension, then my project doesn't compile anymore. I have tried multiple attempts to solve this problem. All of them have failed. If would be nice if someone could give me help on one or more of them: I have tried to install Xcode version 12.5.1, but apparently it is not possible on Sonoma. (It gets installed, but then I get an error on the first execution) I have tried to install a virtual machine in Parallels with macOS Big Sur, but I wasn't able to find the IPSW installation file from the Apple developer downloads. I have created a widget with Xcode 15.3, then replaced the files with the content of a new widget found in a YouTube video, and modified the project.pbxproj inside the xcodeproj as in the attached file (essentially I have added WidgetKit as a framework with an older version, that doesn't require iOS 17) Now: the full app compiles I can test the widget in the Xcode preview I can't deploy the app on both my iPhone with iOS 17.4, and on a Simulator with iOS 15. As I am not expert, probably I miss many steps or I have done many errors. Can anyone please help me in adding an iOS 14 Widget on Xcode 15.3 on Sonoma?

How in interactive widgets in ios 17 to prevent the opening of the application by clicking on the widget? Sometimes the user may miss the button and opening the application is inappropriate in this case

Hello, When an app is updated, if a widget was set to show in standby (smart rotate / suggestions turned off), it is removed and must be re-added. This seems to be a really bad UX. Is there a way to to prevent this, or is it an iOS bug? Noticed on 17.3 / 17.4 Thanks

I have an iOS app with widgetkit extension, and the widgets stopped updating. I attached the console, and saw these lines for widgets of my app: com.apple.widget.myApp::myWidgetKind::-6207022974507159915:417E34:[ {name: Widget Refresh Policy, policyWeight: 0.010, response: {Decision: Must Not Proceed, Score: 0.00, Rationale: [{onOverrideList == 1 AND IndividualBalance == -1}]}} ], FinalDecision: Must Not Proceed} The IndividualBalance == -1 apparently means that the app was updating widgets too often, but what about onOverrideList == 1? There seems to be no info online about this flag, and LLMs seem to suggest that the app got onto some kind of Apple's blacklist for updating too often, is that right?

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.

Widgets are activated by the iOS system at regular intervals, and the task code defined in the TimelineProvider is executed. How long can this task code be executed at most? I don't think the system will allow tasks defined in the timeline to be executed continuously (looking like a background resident program), so there must be a time limit. If you know, or if there are related document links, please let me know Thank you.

When I upgraded the system to iOS 17.4 Beta, the AppEnum in my code became invalid. I selected an AppEnum option on the desktop widget, but the widget did not synchronize.

I am working on a radio app. This is the first time and I have a problem with lock Screen Audio Card. According to docs It looks ok but could you please check why I can not display Audio Now Playing Card on lock Screen. 2 Code samples, 1. Now Playing and 2. Logic of current song and Album art. 1. Now Playing // Create a dictionary to hold the now playing information var nowPlayingInfo: [String: Any] = [:] // Set the title of the current song nowPlayingInfo[MPMediaItemPropertyTitle] = currentSong // If album art URL is available, fetch the image asynchronously if let albumArtUrl = albumArtUrl { URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: albumArtUrl) { data, _, error in if let data = data, let image = UIImage(data: data) { // Create artwork object let artwork = MPMediaItemArtwork(boundsSize: image.size) { _ in image } // Update now playing info with artwork on the main queue DispatchQueue.main.async { nowPlayingInfo[MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork] = artwork MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.default().nowPlayingInfo = nowPlayingInfo } } else { // If there's an error fetching the album art, set now playing info without artwork MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.default().nowPlayingInfo = nowPlayingInfo print("Error retrieving album art data:", error?.localizedDescription ?? "Unknown error") } }.resume() } else { // If album art URL is not available, set now playing info without artwork MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.default().nowPlayingInfo = nowPlayingInfo } } 2. Current Song, Album Art Logic let parts = currentSong.split(separator: "-", maxSplits: 1, omittingEmptySubsequences: true).map { $0.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespaces) } let titleWithExtra = parts.count > 1 ? parts[1] : "" let title = titleWithExtra.components(separatedBy: " (").first ?? titleWithExtra return title } func updateSongInfo() { let url = URL(string: "https://live.heartfm.com.tr/listen/heart_fm/currentsong")! URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url) { data, response, error in if let data = data, let songString = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8) { DispatchQueue.main.async { self.currentSong = songString.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines) self.updateAlbumArtUrl(song: self.currentSong) } } }.resume() } private func updateAlbumArtUrl(song: String) { let parts = song.split(separator: "-", maxSplits: 1, omittingEmptySubsequences: true).map { $0.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespaces) } let artist = parts.first ?? "" let titleWithExtra = parts.count > 1 ? parts[1] : "" let title = titleWithExtra.components(separatedBy: " (").first ?? titleWithExtra let artistAndTitle = artist.isEmpty || title.isEmpty ? song : "\(artist) - \(title)" let encodedArtistAndTitle = artistAndTitle.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: .urlQueryAllowed) ?? artistAndTitle albumArtUrl = URL(string: "https://www.heartfm.com.tr/ArtCover/\(encodedArtistAndTitle).jpg") }

Hi, I have few questions regarding the widgets. I would like to know whether widget and app extensions are same ? This link(https://developer.apple.com/app-extensions/) says widget is type of app extension but I am not quite sure as few link in web says they are different. so need to confirm here :) Can a widget share same bundle id as the main app ? so basically can we use the same provisioning profile as the main app? If we use the same bundle id and provisioning profile, will there be any issue during the app store submission process.?

There is a code: func getData() async -> [Data] { do { let token = try ServiceData.getTokenThrows() let listData = try await ServiceData.fetchDataNew(token: token) // always return list data return listData } catch { return [] } } func entities(for identifiers: [DataModel.ID]) async throws -> [DataModel] { return await getData().filter { identifiers.contains($0.id) } } func suggestedEntities() async throws -> [DataModel] { return await getData() } func defaultResult() async -> DataModel? { return await getData().first } } Sometimes during assembly, when changing user data, the data in WidgetConfiguration Intent @Parameter is not received, although they are in the console, and EntityQuery methods do not throw exceptions. Does anyone have any ideas?

Hello! I'm working on the watchOS app that provides user with multiple fancy complication sets. There are about 50 widgets in our WidgetBundle now. With this amount we reached memory limit and the app crashes: Thread 1: EXC_RESOURCE (RESOURCE_TYPE_MEMORY: high watermark memory limit exceeded) (limit=15 MB) I inspected complicationExtension.appex content and find out that most volume is occupied by the executable: Localized strings (12 langs) altogether - 165 KB Assets.car - 1.1 MB Imported fonts TTF files altogether - 866 KB complicationsExtension executable file - 8.2 MB Why it takes so much space and how can it be made smaller?