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iOS16 Lock Screen Widgets & Live Activities 3rd party Apps

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So are the live sports scores on the lock screen done by league apps (NFL, NBA, MLB, etc.) or by the new Sports focus in the Apple News app?
 
Such an exciting feature. But the ability to add on 4 widgets(or less if using a widget that takes up 2 spots) seems to limiting. Hopefully this will be expanded to a 2nd row in the futrue.
 
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seanwithoutanh said:
I ran into the same issue with apps I updated earlier today (in iOS15), though I'm seeing widgets for apps I installed post-iOS16-upgrade. Your mileage may vary but I had some luck offloading the apps through Settings-General-iPhone Storage then reinstalling (that preserves all the data, logins, etc.) Worked for Carrot, Fantastical and Overcast.
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Thanks! That worked for me.
 
Outdoordude01 said:
I'm not seeing any 3rd party widget options on the lock screen; only the default Apple ones so far.
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Synomenon said:
When I try to add lock screen widgets, I'm not seeing Carrot in the list at all. I've updated it, launched it and rebooted my phone.
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I noticed that only some third party widgets appeared on the lock screen to add. Other third party widgets weren't available. In the end a developer on Twitter indicated that it worked for him to change the main language of your iPhone to English which is what I did and then all my third party apps such as Carrot and Cheatsheet were appearing as well. Someone else indicated that their only solution was to remove and reinstall the apps that aren't appearing (since restarting the iPhone didn't solve it). Do keep in mind that the developer did have to update their app in recent days to support the lock screen widgets so do that first.

There are currently already 197 apps that I'm aware of that support lock screen widgets. See TS link to AppRaven list I created. I will try to add the majority here as well when I have time for it.
 
About the 3rd party Lock Screen Widgets not showing up:
The 3rd party app won't show up on the widget list if it was updated with widgets before you installed iOS 16 on your device. If you install iOS 16 first, and the update the app, the Lock Screen widgets show up.
This is a bug in iOS that Apple will have to fix.

As mentioned, you can reinstall or offload the app, or change device language to fix the bug on your device.
 
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whileago said:
About the 3rd party Lock Screen Widgets not showing up:
The 3rd party app won't show up on the widget list if it was updated with widgets before you installed iOS 16 on your device. If you install iOS 16 first, and the update the app, the Lock Screen widgets show up.
This is a bug in iOS that Apple will have to fix.

As mentioned, you can reinstall or offload the app, or change device language to fix the bug on your device.
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Incredible that this bug made it through to general release.
 
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miamialley said:
Disappointed I'm not seeing a sports score widget from ESPN or theScore. Anyone found one?
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Live Activities is coming in iOS16.1 or later.
There are some third party lock screen widgets though but these update less frequently:

- FotMob - Soccer Lilve Scores
- Sports Alerts
- Forza Football - Live Scores
- Box Box Club
 
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Thanks for all the suggestions to add to the list.
In the meantime there are already 345 apps that support lock screen widgets (that the community and I know about).
If there is demand for it I can update the TS with the most interesting ones.

I really like also the empty widget 'Widget spacer!' by developer Richard Shilton which is a bit like Clear Spaces is for the homescreen widgets :)
 
Synomenon said:
When I try to add lock screen widgets, I'm not seeing Carrot in the list at all. I've updated it, launched it and rebooted my phone.
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The first app updates start to appearing in the App Store that have Live Activities (and Dynamic Island) support e.g.

- Timelogger Plus (App Store, website) by Filipe Martins
- Liftin' Workout Tracker (App Store, website) by Valter Hemmi
- Crouton: Cooking Companion (App Store, website) by Devin Davies
- Tally Quick Counter (App Store, website) by Agile Tortoise
- OneWidget - Lock Screen Widget (App Store, website) by OneNice Tech
- FotMob - Football Live Scores (App Store, website) by FotMob AS
- CardPointers for Credit Cards (App Store, website) by CardPointers LLC
- Magica - Mileage Tracker (App Store, website) by Dimitri Giani
- Aviary 2 (* the developer did abandon the previous version and didn't support existing users :mad:)

And I've seen quite a few other apps announcing an update soon with support on e.g. Twitter:

- FlexLog
- Rippple for Trakt
- Coffee Book
- Session - Pomodoro Focus Timer
- CalAlert
- Sports Alerts
- Drafts
- LookUp: English dictionary
- Any Tasks
- Planny
- Tide Guide
- FastBot
- Pestle: Recipe Organizer
- SmartGym
- Bolt
- MyMoves
- Structured - Daily Planner
- Scorespot

I can't wait to try it out when iOS16.1 comes out.
 
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Download/Buy Aviary 2 (live in App Store, will work when you run iOS16.1) at your own risk.

Dev abandoned (out of the blue) the first version and left paid customers out of pocket. And then decided to make Aviary 2.

No remorse shown towards previous paid customer or gave them discount.

Very shady dev.

I would advise you @pacorob to not promote this dev or his app.
 
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Sal09 said:
Download/Buy Aviary 2 (live in App Store, will work when you run iOS16.1) at your own risk.

I would advise you @pacorob to not promote this dev or his app.
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Thanks for letting us know. Users can always check out the App Store reviews so decided to retain it but added a note to it.

I've added quite a few apps that support (or soon support) Live Activities to the TS but please note these will only work with iOS16.1 when released and if the apps are updated to support it.
 
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