Why aren’t the widgets interactive? Like why can’t I click on one of the days and find out what events are on it instead of it redirected me to the app itself? Might as well hit the app icon then.
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Sounds like without the "Tomorrow" header there's more space for it all. It would be interesting to see if there were 4 or more events, how would that get displayed.
Finding a number of Apple widgets in the small version are pretty much useless. Sadly.
I have found I need a half screen calendar widget or greater to have it be effective during workdays.
Other apps can do it. Why can’t/won’t Apple? It’s not they are reinventing the wheel ...
Ya the widgets are lame. You can’t interact with them which is a step back. It’s just window to information that take you to the app.
Says who? Why can’t widgets be interactive to a degree?
Says Apple.
Thats just what widgets are.
Maybe in the future widget functionality will be improved, but even widgets in iOS13 are like this.
Not only are they wasting space, they don't always update.
Create an event on another device (with iCloud calendars) and there's a chance the widget will won't show it. It's even worse with third party apps.
I enabled background refresh for Readdle Calendars, ran the app a few times, and then created an event on my laptop. An hour later, not only didn't it show in the widget but the notification didn't go off as Readdle Calendar had no idea about the event.
The stock Calendar app did send a notification but even the stock widget didn't show the event for at least 30 minutes. Plus there's still the bug where the stock Calendar widget removes events 15 minutes after the start-time, regardless of the end-time.
Unless widgets actually update when you swipe to the screen showing them, they're going to become annoying and eventually unused.
Create an event on another device (with iCloud calendars) and there's a chance the widget will won't show it. It's even worse with third party apps.
I enabled background refresh for Readdle Calendars, ran the app a few times, and then created an event on my laptop. An hour later, not only didn't it show in the widget but the notification didn't go off as Readdle Calendar had no idea about the event.
The stock Calendar app did send a notification but even the stock widget didn't show the event for at least 30 minutes. Plus there's still the bug where the stock Calendar widget removes events 15 minutes after the start-time, regardless of the end-time.
Unless widgets actually update when you swipe to the screen showing them, they're going to become annoying and eventually unused.
Not true. For example the Reminders widget: iOS 13, you can tick off reminders from the widget. iOS 14 - nope, you can only open the Reminders app.
Not sure I ever read an official statement saying that but I get your drift.
Wow, the complaining that goes on. Apple gives you something you didn't have before and you just puke all over it. Got it.
Syncing and status have gotten worse over the last several months. I assume iCloud servers are the problem. It doesn’t synch notifications or the clearing of reminders. The iOS 12.x weather widget keeps telling me I’m in Puerto Leguizamo, which never happened prior to a month ago. I don’t have much confidence I’ll see any benefits to using these new widgets in iOS 14.
Yup. You can also expand and contract the weather widget in iOS 12.
Widgets are not a case of reinventing the wheel. If you are going to do it, do it right.
Some things that Apple rolls out for iOS/iPadOS feel like they came from a college project class.
Apple: We are going to allow widgets to migrate beyond the today screen. HOWEVER we are also going to dumb them down.
It's new functionality that doesn't work perfectly. Your argument seems to be that as long as it's new, it doesn't have to work well. My argument is that if we keep moaning they may improve it
I have plenty of interactive widgets.
This for example. Press different buttons to control various parts of my home alarm system.
Ummmm my Tesla widget allows me to unlock, open the car, and turn on the ac right from the widget. When it gets update to iOS 14 standard it’ll make you go to the take you to the app itself. That’s a step back in functionality. Same with me thermostat app. Let’s change the temps right from the widget. So no widgets are not just windows to the application. They can be bite sized live app on the screen that lets you interact with the most important functions.
I think there is a difference between single-action buttons, or HomeKit-based functionality, and full interactivity. But in the end, if you wanna better calendar widget, use/buy a different one like Fantastical which seems to offer the functionality he requested.
Whats interesting is that Fantastical on my iOS13 iPhone can display more events than on my iOS14 iPad despite both still being OS13 "Today View" widgets. Probably has to do with there now being size restrictions to iOS14 widgets; on my iPad it displays 1 with a "View More" button that which launches the app. Be interesting to see what a native iOS14 version of the Fantastical widget will look like.Apple: We are going to allow widgets to migrate beyond the today screen. HOWEVER we are also going to dumb them down.
It's new functionality that doesn't work perfectly. Your argument seems to be that as long as it's new, it doesn't have to work well. My argument is that if we keep moaning they may improve it
My argument is that it may not work well so let’s cut them a little slack while they work to improve it. Go ahead and point out the deficiencies, but don’t call it “pointless” or “useless”, etc..
It’s better than what we had before (zero)!
Was that actually a feature? I just checked my iPhone running iOS13 and neither Calendar nor Up Next have any kind of swipe feature.