iPhone widgets not appearing in Sonoma

[SW3029]

My iPhone widgets are not showing in Sonoma. Anyone know if there is a setting you need to enable to get them to show? I'm runnign iOS 17.0.2 on my iPhone and macOS 14.0 on my 16" Intel MBP.

 

[auxbuss]

Here's a walk-through. https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/23/how-to-add-widgets-to-macos-sonoma-and-how-to-use-them

 

[SW3029]

Here's a walk-through. https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/23/how-to-add-widgets-to-macos-sonoma-and-how-to-use-them

Thanks. That article says:

To take a widget you have on your iPhone and add it to your Mac, you need:

1. macOS Sonoma
2. iOS 17
3. Mac and iPhone to be physically near each other
4. Both devices to be on the same Wi-Fi network
5. Both devices to logged in to the same Apple ID

But the problem is I've met all of the requirements above and my Mac still doesn't show any iPhone widgets available.

 

[mgdominguez]

I'm on a similar situation. All of the above requirements are met, and while my iPhones widgets are available, they just don't do anything, they all look like templates. If I add them to the notification center or the desktop and click on them, all they say is "Open <app> on iPhone to continue" where <app> is whatever widget I'm clicking. I open the corresponding app, but nothing happens.

All other "shared" features work ok, like universal copy and paste, using my iPad as second monitor, unlocking my Mac with my watch, etcetera, so it doesn't look like a problem with my devices being on the same network and iCloud account.

Maybe some apps need to be updated. But it's odd that all of the ones I have behave the same way, even though they have been updated recently with support for iOS 17, and I would assume that helps with supporting Sonoma.

-- Update: Fixed --

Well, now I feel dumb. I rebooted my iPhone and now all of its widgets are working correctly. I guess it was the sequence: I had updated to 17.0.2 earlier in the day, but updated my Mac to Sonoma later in the evening. Probably the iPhone didn't "see" the update.

 

[ATC]

Somewhat related, I was able to see and add my iPhone widgets in Sonoma but they don't update. e.g., a 3rd party weather app that only shows the correct current conditions when the widget is added in macOS but its data never updates. If I remove and re-add the widget it shows the correct conditions again but that's it.

 

[richardallan]

I have the same problem on my M1 Mac mini. However, on my old MacBook Pro, which doesn't even support Sonoma (OCLP), it works perfectly?!?