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3rd party widgets
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Where in the heck are all the 3rd party widgets? Did Apple simply not sell or promote iOS 14 to the big app makers or are they simply not interested in updating. I’m shocked ESPN/Bleacher Report/Yahoo Sports don’t have widgets for the home screen yet.
Is it possible that scores can’t update in the background which leads to app makers not prioritizing? I’m lost why there are so few 3rd party widgets, let me know what I’m missing.
TIA
Is it possible that scores can’t update in the background which leads to app makers not prioritizing? I’m lost why there are so few 3rd party widgets, let me know what I’m missing.
TIA
I don’t believe they can update frequently enough to be useful. Same issue with watch complications.
I still use the old style ESPN widget for scores, on the today screen.
I still use the old style ESPN widget for scores, on the today screen.
Pretty disappointed. Not by the limitations of iOS 14 widgets, but rather, I think they are simply unattractive and they could have made them look a lot better.
It's all a visual thing. For important apps, it's cool to set up a single widget for it. I can choose my background colors (or transparency) and personalize it. I think it's neat.
What a freaking mess this one is. So much opportunity... why not an option for ALL of my favorite teams?
Haha I just came into this forum to see if there were any sports widgets that I couldn't find. Disappointing that this seems to be a limitation of the widgets themselves.
That's out of developers control so I can't fault them for that limitation. That's on Apple.
The larger widgets allow for multiple games, but only by league, etc... if I have 3 teams that are faves, why do I have to choose for the widget... they really dropped the ball on this one.
How do you use old style widgets in iOS 14? I'm missing the old favorites widget in particular
You can still have them in the old place, swipe right from the home screen, if they exist as an option however the favourites one doesn’t exist any more so you can’t add it.
It depends on whether or not the app still offers the old widget. In case of the Phone app Apple removed the Favorites widget it seems. There are some third party or shortcut alternatives as I recall.
Well, what functionality would you like from specifically a social media widget?
Any interaction makes sense...hit on area of the widget to launch into the "update" function...somewhere else just to open notifications...
Instagram... show a random person I’m following latest post. Or let me to choose a person to see their latest post...
Twitter could do the same..
Facebook... I guess as well...
I am sure they will come. These big companies have long roadmaps for development. I am sure these widgets are on there somewhere.
The more I use IOS 14, the more disappointed I am that Apple's functionality for them are basically just glorified apps. They aren't interactive, so having a sports widget doesn't really seem necessary, and they still have them on the far left side. It is a shame though because they did look good at the WWDC presentation. It also isn't good how developers complained about the whole public release being a day after the GM release but most of these developers probably had no intentions to bring in Widgets anyway. It's been a month and a half since the main release now.
It's really hit and miss depending upon the apps functionality. Fantastical has amazing widgets. As does SnipNotes. But anything time dependent is just not going to work great. ETA rolled out a live updating widget but includes a timer to indicate when it was last updated. From my experience, those updates can be anywhere from minutes to hours, and developers have very limited abilities to make those updates happen faster.
