Developer page on Apple website:
" Keep your widget up-to-date. To remain relevant and useful, widgets should periodically refresh their information. Widgets don't support continuous, real-time updates, and the system may adjust the limits for updates depending on various factors. Finding the right update frequency for your widget depends on knowing how often the data changes and estimating how often people need to see new data. For example, a widget that helps people track a beach's tides could provide useful information on an hourly basis, even though tide conditions change constantly. If people are likely to check your widget more frequently than you can update it, consider displaying text that describes when the data was last updated. For developer guidance, see Keeping a Widget Up to Date. " source
"Many widgets have predictable points in time where it makes sense to update their content. For example, a widget that displays weather information might update the temperature hourly throughout the day. A stock market widget could update its content frequently during open market hours, but not at all over the weekend." source
I noticed recently with a third party stock widget there was a major delay between what was shown in the widget and when I opened the app or checked Yahoo stock or my broker app to see it 'live'.
I also noticed that Carrot weather developer mentioned that the higher the subscription Tier the more a widget will be updated which probably also has to do with the fact of the costs he has to pay to all the third party weather sources since there are similar limitations in the app to change weather source per week.
" Keep your widget up-to-date. To remain relevant and useful, widgets should periodically refresh their information. Widgets don't support continuous, real-time updates, and the system may adjust the limits for updates depending on various factors. Finding the right update frequency for your widget depends on knowing how often the data changes and estimating how often people need to see new data. For example, a widget that helps people track a beach's tides could provide useful information on an hourly basis, even though tide conditions change constantly. If people are likely to check your widget more frequently than you can update it, consider displaying text that describes when the data was last updated. For developer guidance, see Keeping a Widget Up to Date. " source
"Many widgets have predictable points in time where it makes sense to update their content. For example, a widget that displays weather information might update the temperature hourly throughout the day. A stock market widget could update its content frequently during open market hours, but not at all over the weekend." source
I noticed recently with a third party stock widget there was a major delay between what was shown in the widget and when I opened the app or checked Yahoo stock or my broker app to see it 'live'.
I also noticed that Carrot weather developer mentioned that the higher the subscription Tier the more a widget will be updated which probably also has to do with the fact of the costs he has to pay to all the third party weather sources since there are similar limitations in the app to change weather source per week.
