I'm trying to build a WatchOS 9 corner complication with WidgetKit (using Xcode 14 beta 3). I'd like my complication to look like the battery one in the bottom right corner. Here's my view: struct HydrationProgressCorner: View {     var entry: Provider.Entry     var body: some View {         Text("\((100 * entry.progress / entry.target).rounded(.towardZero).formatted())%")             .widgetLabel {                 ProgressView(value: entry.progress, total: entry.target)                     .tint(.blue)                     .widgetAccentable()             }     } } How can I get my text to follow the curvature of the watch face?

Sorry for the length of this post, and all the questions. I have an iOS app written in Objective-C (too big to convert to Swift right now), and I successfully added a WatchKit app and WatchKit Extension some years ago. I also added Home Screen widgets when iOS 14 was released. With the iOS 16 betas I'd like to support Lock Screen widgets, and have also decided to move the WatchKit app/extension to SwiftUI. User journey: MyApp is launched and an item with an image is created. This item is stored in Core Data and its image is stored in a directory in the app's documents directory. A version of it is stored in NSUserDefaults in a shared app group. The user adds a Home Screen widget to show that item. Its data is pulled from the defaults, and the image is loaded from the document's directory. The user installs the Watch app and launches it. The Watch app looks inside the user defaults to retrieve the item. The iOS app sends the image to the Watch and the Watch app stores it locally (it's a small image, taking up barely a few Kb). This all works fine right now. Currently I have these targets: MyApp = main iOS app. MyApp WatchKit = Watch app storyboards and asset catalogs. MyApp WatchKit Extension = code to update the Watch interface. MyApp Widget = Home Screen widgets. MyApp IntentHandler = dynamic intents handler for the Home Screen widgets. Q1. Where do I put the code for the Lock Screen widgets? I figure these go into the My App Widget target because they're widgets and appear on the iPhone? In this video (https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10050) at 07:00 it tells you to duplicate the existing Widget target, change the bundle, change it to run on watchOS and embed it in your existing Watch App. As my original Watch App is written in Objective-C (MyApp WatchKit Extension, above) I can't/shouldn't do that, so... Q2. I think I have to create a new MyApp Watch App target, and perform the video steps on that target? I can create the views for that app, no problem. Most people update to the latest watchOS, and it's only now that watchOS 9 won't support Watch Series 3. Q3. Do I need to keep MyApp WatchKit and MyApp WatchKit Extension around? I can support older versions of watchOS if it helps my users, but they'll probably want to use the new version of watchOS, right? Can you install both versions of the app on your Watch (with watchOS 9), or does the new Swift app override the old WatchKit extension? Q4. Once I've designed the new Watch App's views in SwiftUI to replace the old WatchKit extension, where do I put the code for the complications that are being replaced? The WWDC 2022 videos (above, and a couple linked to on that page) have confused me a bit. Do I put complications views in the new MyApp Watch App target along with the other views that replace the old Watch app, or in MyApp Widget? Q5. The MyApp Widget target contains a bunch of code (WidgetUtils.swift) that populates the Home Screen widgets (and the new Lock Screen widgets), and it would fit right into the new MyApp Watch App target. Can I share that code between the two app targets just by adding WidgetUtils.swift to both target's membership? MyApp sends small images to the current MyApp WatchKit Extension. There's no code in the existing WidgetUtils.swift to handle file transfers because the images for the Home Screen widgets are pulled from the iOS app, so I need to write that in Swift for the new MyApp Watch App. The logic is already there in the old target, but I can't see any sort of equivalent to the WatchKit extension delegate where I currently handle the file transfers. Q6. Where does that go in MyApp Watch App? The existing MyApp WatchKit Extension occasionally asks MyApp for some new data. This is all done in the extension delegate which wakes up the iOS app and updates the NSUserDefaults which the extension then reads from. Q7. How do you do that in MyApp Watch App? Don't be afraid to be verbose in your responses. The more detail the better! Thank you in advance.

Hi, In my apps, the recent iOS 16.0 beta 7 (20A5356a) broke the .timer DateStyle property of the Text view, in a SwiftUI widget. In previous OS and beta, Text(Date(), style: .timer) was correctly displaying an increasing counter. In iOS 6.0 beta 7, Text(Date(), style: .timer) does not update anymore, (and is offset to the left). The other DateStyle (like .offset, .relative, ...) seems to update correctly. Anyone noticed that (very specific) problem ?

Is it possible to see a preview of the Live Activity UI we design? For a regular widget, we pass in a WidgetPreviewContext modifier where we specify the size of the widget to preview. Is it possible to do something similar to see how the live activity would appear without having to run the app and then see how the live activity appears on the Lock Screen?

Hi all, I am working with an older watch app that still uses the older template that combines the WatchKit App and WatchKit App Extension targets. While trying to migrate the ClockKit complication to the new WidgetKit complication, I cannot get the widget complications to load anything from user defaults. It seems like the widget complications are not using the same user defaults as the watch app though being in the same App Group. I experimented with a new watch app using the new SwiftUI template and the WidgetKit complication was able to load data from user default successfully. Did anyone got WidgetKit complication to load data successfully from user default with the older watch app template? Thanks in advance!

HELLO WORLD! I am currently developing an amazing Unity mini Game. The game development has come to the deploying stage. Using Unity allows me to deploy this game on MacOS, iOS, Android and Windows which is fantastic . However, I really need this game to have the iOS widget extension as a key feature on mobile. Just like the "Steve" dinosaur game which can be played in widget. I had seen a lot of tutorials and youtube videos but still cant find a solution which make Unity iOS app into a widget. If I really want to make widget Game on iOS, do I need to develop the whole game all over again in xcode or using GameKit? Really hoping there's a way to simply convert the Unity iOS app into a widget.

I am working on an indipendant WatchOS application which received messages from APNS push notifications. There are three kind of messages and each one has it's own widget which represent the current state of the message category. With WatchOS 9, my ClockKit complications are deprecated and I have to migrate to WidgetKit. I did that, but I am having problems with updating the widgets on time. It seems like I am exceeding the widget's daily limit or somehow the OS throttle the updates (they are not instant after the third update in 2 minutes). The main app and the widget extension targets share the data using CoreData. I need to update the widgets every time the database changes. I am currently using WidgetCenter.shared.reloadTimelines(ofKind: ***). I am calling this function when the app is in foreground and thought that the limit should not be a problem, but it looks like it does. Did someone manage to achieve this kind of widgets update?

I recently raised this post explaining how I couldn't seem to get watchOS 9 complications to work, and I've figured out a partial fix. The original post details the issues with complications - and some are still valid - but this fix applies to both my complications and Home Screen / Lock Screen widgets. I was following the various WWDC 2020/2022 videos and the Emoji Rangers sample code, adding bits here and there, and assuming they were completely valid. Sadly, this bit of code in the widget's dynamic intents IntentTimelineProvider getTimeline really just banjaxed everything: // Create entries for one day, 15 minutes apart let currentDate = Date() for minuteOffset in stride(from: 0, to: 60 * 60 * 24, by: 15) { let entryDate = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .minute, value: minuteOffset, to: currentDate)! entries.append(EventEntry(date: entryDate, event: event)) } If I remove that, and generate a different timeline with specific dates and times (for example: now, in 10 mins, in 2 hours, in a day, etc.) the complications appear correctly, as do Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. The outstanding issues with complications are: The previews all use the same data, but getSnapshot() is supposed to return the data specific to that event from the configuration, i.e. if let theId = configuration.event?.identifier. "Christmas" is correct, but "Gallery Opening" is using Christmas's data. Once I've selected the event I want to use in a complication the edit screen shows it as totally blank, not even a placeholder: I hope this little fix works for you guys. And, if you know how to fix the above issues, let me know. (iOS 16.1 beta 1, Xcode 14.1 beta 1)

I've implemented delegate method suggested in the article https://developer.apple.com/documentation/widgetkit/converting-a-clockkit-app and double (even triple) checked kind and extensionBundleIdentifier of my StaticConfiguration But when I install the app version containing WidgetKit complications they don't replace old ones from ClockKit on the watch face. In the same time old complications are not displayed - I see empty slots. When I check setup in Watch app on the phone I see that old complications remain assigned. If I switch manually to WatchKit based they work fine. It would be helpful if Coffee Tracker code example (referenced in WWDC video and documentation) become updated with migration code.

I am playing around with Live Activities and got everything working on the iOS 16.1 beta 2 simulator using Xcode 14.1 beta 2 (14B5024i). However, running the same code on a real physical device (iPhone X) running iOS 16.1 beta 2 does not show the Live Activity on the lock screen at all. 😵 Did anyone get their Live Activity working on a real device yet, or is this an issue with the current beta? Things I have already checked: ActivityAuthorizationInfo().areActivitiesEnabled returns true on my physical device let activity = try Activity.request(...) successfully completes without throwing and I can see the activity.id printed to the console Other live activities - such as the iOS system timer activity - do show up on my physical device just fine

I like to keep my apps watch face complication up to date when the user completes an activity but calling WidgetCenter.shared.reloadAllTimelines() is not working as well as the old complication update now I want to go back to complications. I used to call CLKComplicationServer.sharedInstance().reloadTimeline(for: <#T##CLKComplication#>) which would update my complication instantly. The simulator seams to up date widgets immediately but now my app has been released pn the App Store it is not updating. Any one else experiencing this.

Is there a way to implement controls for background audio using ActivityKit like in the Apple Music application? I didn't found anything in your documentation about handling actions like this except deep links, but they're not suitable for this use case

I have created a live activity that supports both light and dark mode, and are using the isLuminanceReduced environment variable to display the dark mode version on the always on display for the iPhone 14 Pro. However it seems that this variable is not true when I switch to the Sleep Mode focus state. Even though the Lock Screen gets just as dark, it still shows the light mode version of the activity, which results text being very hard to read. Any idea on what to do to display the dark mode version here? Or a way to have text that looks good in both light and dark screens?

I'm trying to migrate from Complication with CLKComplication to WidgetKit. I have implemented the required methods in https://developer.apple.com/documentation/widgetkit/converting-a-clockkit-app, but the migration is not working. There is no evidence that the method for migration is also called. It was the same with Xcode 14.0.1 and Xcode 14.1RC. class ComplicationController: NSObject, CLKComplicationDataSource, CLKComplicationWidgetMigrator { ...     @available(watchOS 9.0, *)     var widgetMigrator: CLKComplicationWidgetMigrator {         return self     }     @available(watchOS 9.0, *)     func widgetConfiguration(from complicationDescriptor: CLKComplicationDescriptor) async -> CLKComplicationWidgetMigrationConfiguration? {         return CLKComplicationStaticWidgetMigrationConfiguration(kind: "MyWidget", extensionBundleIdentifier: "com.example.myapp.mywatchkitapp.mywidget")     } } What's wrong? Has anyone been able to migrate?

Is there any way a live activity could be started from a shortcut? The example live activities (ordering a ride share, viewing sports scores etc) are good fits for shortcuts and live activities but I'm not able to start a live activity from a shortcut using the new app intents framework. Is it possible to start a live activity from an app intent shortcut?

Before iOS 16.1 my app was woking good, if the user set the app language to other language than his device language, my app, widget + extensions all use this language... After iOS 16.1 if user set the app language to other language than his device language, my app works with this language but the widget + extensions works with the device language, not my app language... For Example:     @Environment(\.locale.languageCode) private var userLocal before iOS 16.1 userLocal would be the app local, after iOS 16.1 it return the device local Any idea why Apple did that? is this a bug? How to set the widget language to match my app language now? even set .environment(\.locale, dose not work when use Strings(table: because it's still get the bundle that match device language.

I'm currently working on a swift widget for my flutter app. When I add a Toggle to my widget and run it, I don't see any toggle. struct MyWidgetEntryView : View {   @State private var on = true       var body: some View {     VStack(content: {       Text("I am title").font(.system(size: 20))       Text("I am text")       Toggle("I am toggle", isOn: $on)     })   } it does show if I change the toggleStyle to .button Toggle("I am toggle", isOn: $on).toggleStyle(.button) I'm using swift 5.5.2 and running it on an iPhone 12 simulator.

I’m trying to create complications für the Watch using the new WidgetKit. While the complications do show up fine in the preview in Xcode and also in the Simulator, on a real device the complications do never shown anything. The complications are listed and can be selected in the watch face settings, but the preview is always black, and when added to a watch face, it shows nothing. I can tap on this „nothing“ and the App launches, so the complication is actually there. But it doesn’t show anything. This is also true for the Watch App on the iPhone, which lets me add the complications to a watch face, but it also shows nothing. But in the Simulator everything works as expected, the complications show their content just fine. So it looks like the code is fine. The iPhone runs the iOS 16.1, and the watch runs watchOS 9.1 (right now the latest public releases) Does anyone having the same issue and maybe a solution or a hint, what exactly I should check?

How to play gif in widget? "网易云音乐" and "one widget" can play gif in the widget. can anyone guide me. Thank you

I'm trying to implement WidgetKit on my watchOS 9.1 app. When I'm editing the watch face, I see the widget looking as I would expect it to be. However, when I then go to the Home Screen, the data is redacted. What's causing that to happen? I don't do anything luminance or security related in the widget's view: struct AccessoryRectangularView: View {   let tide: Tide      var body: some View {     HStack {       VStack(alignment: .leading) {         Text("Height: \(tide.heightString())")           .font(.headline)           .widgetAccentable()         Text("As of: \(tide.date, style: .time)")           .font(.caption)       }              tide.image()     }   } }