IOS 14 photo widgets

Ha! Same problem!!

Once again Apple get so close to doing something cool but then drop the ball by not allowing us to choose our own pictures. It’s force feeding me pictures I want to keep but don’t want on the widget 🤦🏼‍♂️ Why Apple? Why? It’s not a lot to ask for is it?

You can always download the “photo widget” from the App Store. Open the app, then add all your favorite pictures you want displayed as the widgets wallpaper. You can also edit how long an image is displayed until it rotates to the next one.

once you do that, long press for jiggle/edit Home Screen mode. Press the + button and add the “photo widget” widget. Select widget size.

Then open the “shortcuts” app. Go to automation and press the + button.

select “create personal automation”

scroll down and select “app”. To edit new automation, you want to click choose and select “photo widget”. Also make sure “is opened” is selected and click next.

press + add action and search for “open app”. Press choose in the scripting box and select “photos” app

click next and deselect “ask before running”. then click done

now when you click on the “photo widget” widget on the Home Screen it will redirect to apples default “photos” app where all your albums are stored.

The only problem is, if you ever want to add or delete any of the photos that are rotating as the wallpaper, you will have to disable the new automation that you created because it will always redirect to your albums when you click on the photo widget. But you can always enable it again.

Hope this helps 🤙

If only Jobs were around, these kinds of things wouldn’t happen. It’s sad that the leaders at Apple drop the ball like this. They could have the best phones and software and slump the competition hands down but they want to do slow releases to keep selling new phones every year :( Elon musk needs to start making phones. He would do the end consumer right.

Same! I keep hearing everyone say “just select an album!” I DONT KNOW HOWWwww

OH. MY. GOD. Like literally we have the same problem_- I’m like “ok i want shawn mendes’ face in this widget and when i found out i cant do it i was like “WHYYYYY WHY APPLE JUST WHYYYY”😭😭😭😭

When you go to your photos app, it shows there featured photos, if you hold down the pic you can remove it from featured and it’ll regenerate different ones that’s as close as I’ve been able to “customize”. Still a little annoying you can’t just go pick specific ones off the bat

Ikr

I’m having the same issue. The photos keep disappearing after a while and whenever I try put them back it won’t let me

I have the same question. I use this widget instead of the photos app as a way to access my photos. I would really like to choose the album it opens but if that isn’t an option, is there a way to at least make the music stop playing?

The best solution I’ve found it using Widgetsmith. There’s a photo section and there’s an option that says Photos in Album and you can choose any Apple premade album, a personal album, or a shared album, and it rotates through the photos frequently!

Just went and tried all the third party widgets mentioned here and they all seem to not do what you’d expect. One opened to the main menu of the app when clicked, instead of showing the photo. Another showed it, but was cropped as a square no matter what. Another one almost worked, but had ads that interferes with the functionality (with no premium version to get rid of them!)

The following is the ONLY one I found that gets it right, and it’s free!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photo-widget-the-best-one/id1532588789

I have a different solution: You can make a Pinterest widget and upload your photos to a private board and let the widget only show that specific board.

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