r/widgy • u/down_lucky • 1d ago
My Home Widget Battery widget with tiny cute expressions
Someone asked for a similar widget so I made my own version
r/widgy • u/duke4e • Jun 02 '22
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Widgets can fetch data every 15 minutes (that includes various things like Battery Status, Weather, Agenda, and Health).
Widgets can update the display every minute. That means widgets can show the correct date and time, but other information will have a 15-minute 'lag'.
To circumvent this, you can edit the widget and add 'Reload Widget' Tap Action, so you can always be up to date with a simple tap on the widget.
While widgets can't be natively transparent, you can place a special 'Transparent widget' image on the bottom layer of your widget.
Widgy has all the necessary tools to make this as simple as possible. Just go to the 'Manage' tab, and tap on 'Set Transparent Background'.
Hiding the name under your widget is not something that is officially supported.
Some apps replace their name with a special Unicode character, but those apps usually have problems with getting their updates out, since there's a fair chance to get app update rejected due to the app hiding its name.
On iPad, Apple choose to hide all widget names. As there's no option to hide the name on the iPhone, there's no option to display it on the iPad.
Since all widgets are slightly different dimensions across Apple devices, choosing a specific font size would make widgets look good on one device type, but not on others.
The editor provides you with 'Line Mode' options for the text layer, that are designed to help you control your text size.
In Widgy, go to the 'Manage' tab, select your widget slot, and tap on the 'Reload Widget' button.
Try re-adding the widget to your Home screen.
Restart your device.
If none of the above helped, then the problem is that your Widgy reached the miserly small iOS memory limit. Try hiding some of the image and symbol layers and checking out if the widget now loads on the Home screen. If that helped, now you at least know the cause of the problem.
Widgy doesn't support any third-party apps and doesn't integrate with their APIs.
This is a long known iOS bug, but there's a fix for it. Just go to the 'Settings' tab in Widgy, tap on 'App Icon' and pick any icon you want. This will force iOS to reload the widget list and make Widgy visible.
If that doesn't help, try restarting your device a couple of times.
Widgy uses Yr.no which is completely free, and it's normally not that far off, so we use that instead of asking for ongoing subscription for Apples weather.
You can try going to the 'Manage' tab, and tap on 'Widget Settings/Location For Weather/Reset To Automatic Location'. This should force a location and weather reload.
User-managed fonts aren't accessible to widgets. That's just how the widgets work on iOS, and there's nothing we can do about that.
Small widgets can have just one Tap Action. Having more than one on a Small widget will result in unexpected behavior. This is a system limitation, and there's no workaround for this.
Watchy isn't a complete replacement for stock Apple Watch Watch Faces, since there are no developer APIs to make them stay as permanent Watch Faces.
This means Watchy is just another regular Watch app, but you can tweak the watchOS settings so that the app lasts an hour on your screen. After that time, the app will exit to the stock Watch Face.
To make returning to Watchy simpler, Watchy offers complications (Apple Watch Face 'Widgets') of all sizes that just lead you back to the Watchy app. So after adding those complications to your stock Watch Face, in the worst case you're a tap away from Watchy.
Restart both your iPhone and Apple Watch.
Turn off Bluetooth on your iPhone and try to Sync, then turn Bluetooth on and try to Sync again.
Reinstall the Watchy app.
Watchy is only available on the latest major watchOS version, so be sure you're up to date with system updates.
Make sure that Watchy is listed under the 'Installed On Apple Watch section' in the Watch app on your iPhone. If it's not, scroll a bit more down and tap on 'Install' next to Watchy.
Try installing directly from the Watch.
Open the Watch app on your iPhone, then go to General/Wake Screen/Return to Clock and pick 'After 1 Hour'. This will give Watchy an hour of screen time.
To make returning to Watchy simpler, Watchy offers complications (Apple Watch Face 'Widgets') of all sizes, that just lead you back to Watchy app. So after adding those complications to your stock Watch Face, in the worst case you're a tap away from Watchy and custom 'Watch Faces'.
Watchy requires various permissions; depending on the type of data that is being displayed on the current Watch Face.
Open the iOS Settings app, scroll down to Widgy, and make sure that all permissions are enabled.
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When designing your Watch Face, use the dual light/dark mode colors. On Watchy dark mode colors are being used when Always On Display is enabled.
You can disable Always On Display from the Watch Settings menu. Open the Settings app on your Apple Watch, go to Display & Brightness, and toggle the 'Always On' option.
Series 3 doesn't have a full-screen display. What you see is the actual screen size of your Watch. Only newer Watch models have larger, almost bezel-less screens.
Just swipe left/right on your Watch to switch to the previous/next Watchy.
Please try to keep feature requests in the comments below, it helps me keep track of requests and prevents the sub from getting more cluttered. Please make sure that no one else has already requested a feature.
r/widgy • u/down_lucky • 1d ago
Someone asked for a similar widget so I made my own version
r/widgy • u/Jfrenzy30 • 18h ago
r/widgy • u/Mr_Janchus • 1d ago
Has anyone created a widget that lists tasks in ClickUp? Or really any project management app? Microsoft ToDo has great lock screen and Home Screen widgets for this, but my company uses ClickUp and it does not.
r/widgy • u/iitsjpbaby • 2d ago
Can anyone help me make this lock screen widget with widgey? If you have a QR code for it I’d appreciate it very very much. Because I don’t know how to make one from scratch.
r/widgy • u/Tommy28562856 • 2d ago
Used before on iphone, now changed to Oppo and wanted to know what are my best alternatives
r/widgy • u/Andromeda_0507 • 6d ago
Did ios have an update recently that causes the white border tint to be more prominent than before? I know ever since liquid glass it has always been visible, but since today the white borders have been more visible.
r/widgy • u/usher2005ca • 6d ago
Can someone make me a countdown widget for the September 9 Apple event? It’s at 11 a.m. (MDT) my time
r/widgy • u/Brilliant_Okra1341 • 7d ago
Widgy will present sleep information if sleep was activated after midnight, if activated before midnight it will present nothing, how i can fix this ? And no this has nothing to do with beta software
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Found this on Pinterest. But no idea how to create this and also new to this community. Hoping to learn how to create these interphases
r/widgy • u/Equivalent_Boot_1904 • 8d ago
hi everyone, i recently made this widget with the app iScreen and ive been in love with it, but the app is taking up SO MUCH space on my phone and i wanted to know if i can set it up on Widgy widgets as it’s the one i use for my other widgets, or any other app if available, it’s pretty basic but i wanted it ✊🏽
Looks like my last post got deleted.
Apple released extra large widgets with iOS 27.
Is that a work in progress or am I missing something? This is what I see in the app (checked App Store to make sure I had latest updates)
Any help or update is appreciated.
r/widgy • u/Satsuma_Imo • 9d ago
I have a weather widgy set up to display current temperature (not feels like) in °C, but for some reason the temperature is a couple degrees off. Right now it's 22° in Apple weather but the display in the widgy says 21°. In a few hours it'll be 25° but the forecast in the widgy says 23°. Why is this happening?
It has location "City" for the weather location--do I need to pick "Neighborhood" or something for more local accuracy?
r/widgy • u/Frequent_Sign7007 • 12d ago
Is it possible to animate images in my widget?
Would like to animate the sun so it turns over the earth
r/widgy • u/astralmelody • 12d ago
This widget displays fine in Widgy, but when actually placing it onto my homescreen, it’s forcing the border elements (all opaque grey, not at all transparent) to be partially transparent and overlap, instead of a consistent color.
I’ve been toying around with some of the usual culprits (namely Tint Mode Visibility and Color), but it won’t budge, it always makes the corner triangles overlap.
Why is this happening, and is it fixable?
(please ignore sloppy fonts and spacing, it’s a work in progress lol)
r/widgy • u/Beautiful_Royal_8010 • 12d ago
How do I remove the contours of Liquid Glass in the main screen widgets?