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Unable to add iPhone widgets to Mac desktop

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HoosierInFL

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Jun 9, 2007
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When I open the Widgets window in Sonoma, the From iPhone button is missing. My iPhone also has the beta installed. I've rebooted both devices many times, turned off/on iPhone Widgets in Settings, but nothing works. All other Continuity features work, but not this one. Any ideas on how to make it work?
 
I was able to import a widget from my iPhone and add it to the Notification Center on my MacBook Pro by clicking on the "What's New" pop-up window at the top of the widgets column and selecting an iPhone widget from the drop-down list on the left. The widget then appeared in the main window along with instructions at the bottom to drag it either to the Desktop or Notification Center.
 
I watched a Youtube video that shows a person enabling iPhone widgets in the Mac settings and they get an option to select their iPhone from a dropdown menu. I do not get that option when I enable iPhone widgets.
 
I had that option selected under Desktop and Dock settings, but there was no drop-down menu to select an iPhone.
Also, when I restarted my MacBook and entered the Notification Center the widget I'd previously imported from my iPhone was no longer available. When I added it a second time and clicked on its menu item, I was told to open the application on the iPhone to continue! What's the point of adding a widget if you can't run the application on your MacBook?
 
I also can't use the iPhone widgets (no selection available).
But i also don't see the battery status of my other devices.
So maybe the Apple-ID connection is not very well in this Beta.
 
So can you only use actual iPhone "widgets" or full-blown apps (and they're just calling them "widgets" on the Mac?)

For instance, I'd like to have such apps as Life360 on the desktop (which you can already do unofficially with Apple Silicon).
 
no it is literally the widget if it is also available on iPhone. Why would they call an app a widget? Also apps can already be installed on Apple Silicon IF the developers allow it so that part wouldnt even be anything new.
 
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contacos said:
no it is literally the widget if it is also available on iPhone. Why would they call an app a widget? Also apps can already be installed on Apple Silicon IF the developers allow it so that part wouldnt even be anything new.
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Thanks. I didn't think iPhone apps were officially supported on macOS yet so I thought this might be Apple's way of doing it.
 
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