There's also another widget app called 'wdgts' it also have a notification center calculator widget app and the app is free.
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Apple Disallows Previously Approved Calculator Widgets for iOS 8 Notification Center
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There's also another widget app called 'wdgts' it also have a notification center calculator widget app and the app is free.
Anyway this is disappointing news and I certainly hope this is just a temporary thing. I actually emailed Apple feedback prior to this news asking that they bring their own stock calculator to the iOS Notification Center to better match it's Yosemite counterpart.
can I ask why ? OSX has an app draw , has that ruined the operating system ? Hell no, it allows people to organise there applications better.
I love the operating system on iOS, however I hate the fact how lots of apps just make the home screens look like a mess and junk.
Give me an optional to hide them all in one place , while placing the select few apps I use most on the screen.
And give me an option to display some beautiful widgets on the screens I want and make them more interactive and powerful. Or at least split notifications/ today / widgets into seperate parts.
Yup, certainly some free alternatives that are still available (at least for now).
Not for $10 I don't... 99 cents you might have had a sale... especially if it works for iPad, $10 I'd rather just use the included app or count my fingers and toes.
Without the widget I guess many people wouldn't have bothered to pay the $10 for a calculator app.
Edit: Sorry just found that the free version has the widget as well and I downloaded it in a heartbeat and will keep it as long as possible.
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I feel much more upset about the removal of Launcher. I still keep it in my notification centre for quick launching the CarTunes app and Google Maps when I'm driving.
Edit: Sorry just found that the free version has the widget as well and I downloaded it in a heartbeat and will keep it as long as possible.
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I feel much more upset about the removal of Launcher. I still keep it in my notification centre for quick launching the CarTunes app and Google Maps when I'm driving.
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people jumping ship. lol i have like 20 widgets on my phone. this is ONE widget. yes they clearly have strict rules. NO your widget is not a glorified notification because I am using them and they are wayyyyyy closer to widgets than notifications. They are all glimpses of the app; some are going to far in apples mind and putting the entire app on the notification center/which in terms of a calculator is extremely hard not to do being that the entire app is the calculator which is what the widget would be too---maybe if pCalc submitted back an abrv. calculator widget that was half functional they'd be allowed back. My point is theres no need for the mass-freak out like they are ruining Apple widgets. For one they've been around publicly for what 2 months? Lol and secondly there are plenty out there that are plenty awesome...sports centers widget is sick, all the news widgets are cool, wunderlist has a great one, i hear evernotes is very useful. So while I may be searching in the drawer for where my Apple Widget life-vest MAY be; I'm still on the complete opposite end of the spectrum than jumping ship
Damn it
Come on what the ****! First Apple completely crushed me by taking down launcher and now they are taking down simple calculator widgets. You got to be ****ing kidding me. Why? Why the ****?
This **** ain't cool and i'm ****ing pissed...
Come on what the ****! First Apple completely crushed me by taking down launcher and now they are taking down simple calculator widgets. You got to be ****ing kidding me. Why? Why the ****?
This **** ain't cool and i'm ****ing pissed...
Well, for PCalc, there is a legitimate reason.
From my inside sources, iOS 8.2 adds the calculator widget to match the widget on OS X Yosemite. It also adds Calculator app to iPad at long last. In addition, Calculator is getting a redesign for more scientific functions.
Beta is coming next month for developers, and they want the devs to focus on the calculator app and widget during testing. iOS 8.2 also plugs up lots of numerous bugs, and improved handoff functionality with boosted bluetooth signals.
From my inside sources, iOS 8.2 adds the calculator widget to match the widget on OS X Yosemite. It also adds Calculator app to iPad at long last. In addition, Calculator is getting a redesign for more scientific functions.
Beta is coming next month for developers, and they want the devs to focus on the calculator app and widget during testing. iOS 8.2 also plugs up lots of numerous bugs, and improved handoff functionality with boosted bluetooth signals.
people jumping ship. lol i have like 20 widgets on my phone. this is ONE widget. yes they clearly have strict rules. NO your widget is not a glorified notification because I am using them and they are wayyyyyy closer to widgets than notifications. They are all glimpses of the app; some are going to far in apples mind and putting the entire app on the notification center/which in terms of a calculator is extremely hard not to do being that the entire app is the calculator which is what the widget would be too---maybe if pCalc submitted back an abrv. calculator widget that was half functional they'd be allowed back. My point is theres no need for the mass-freak out like they are ruining Apple widgets. For one they've been around publicly for what 2 months? Lol and secondly there are plenty out there that are plenty awesome...sports centers widget is sick, all the news widgets are cool, wunderlist has a great one, i hear evernotes is very useful. So while I may be searching in the drawer for where my Apple Widget life-vest MAY be; I'm still on the complete opposite end of the spectrum than jumping ship
So you would rather have no calculator at all? Because the widget is just a SIMPLE CALCULATOR! It doesn't do anything special. It was just there for SIMPLE calculations. Apple's reason is ********. Widgets can't do calculations in the notification center? Really? What about the OS X calculator widget?
Oh, you know why I jumped ship? Freedom. Apple are just control freak nazis. I just love reading blind fanboy posts.
inb4 fanboys claim freedom to get viruses, malware, etc.
Thanks for the heads up on the Quickgets-geo app... going to download it. Never saw it in the Widgets Apps section. I had assumed that was an all-encompassing list of apps with widgets. Now i'll have to do more searching.
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No involved in you guy's little... discussion.... but... do you call everyone with an opinion different from your own a fanboy?
Nope, just folks on an Apple forum who 99.9% of the time call something Apple doesn't currently include trash; or how it is horrible or useless - until Apple includes it and then they call it revolutionary and amazing.
Ok, understood.
Well, Apple's implementation of "widgets" has been anything BUT revolutionary and amazing. I was excited and optimistic, but am getting increasingly disappointed. I was very bummed that I missed the chance to download that Launcher app that everyone talks about before Apple pulled it... and now this.
But hey... at least I have like 15 different "countdown-timer to some stinking event" widgets to choose from, right!
This is a duplicate feature in the future update of the apple calculator app.
The apple programmers are keying this code feature in as we speak.
Or if it's because the colors too closely match apple's app just rerelease it in pink. It's still October.
The apple programmers are keying this code feature in as we speak.
Or if it's because the colors too closely match apple's app just rerelease it in pink. It's still October.
I don't know why people even get the stupid iphone anymore. If you want a device that you can actually DO STUFF on, including having a calculator widget or a calculator on your notification center, get a freakin' android. No, I'm not a fandroid, but honestly, once you switch, you never look back. Had an iphone for 4 years, the longer I owned it the more pissed off it made me. Even with it jailbroken, there are still so many limits.
Android is not the glitchy, slow os that it was when it first came out. Android has really come a long way and I highly suggest all of you to make the switch. You really have no idea what you're missing out on.
Oh, and what all of you don't realize is that the iPhone is NOT your phone, it is APPLE'S phone and they will control it, NOT you.
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EXACTLY. I just love it how EVERYONE with an iphone PRIOR to the iphone 6 BASHED android users for the LARGE screens. But now that apple has released the iphone 6, apple iphone users SUDDENLY LOVE a huge screen??????
GIVE...........ME...........A............FREAKIN.............BREAK!!!!!
Apple has NEVER done anything original with the iphone! EVERYTHING the iphone has ever had is either a complete copy of jailbreak tweaks and android features. And then once thse same features come out on the iphone, apple fan boys think it's "revolutionary." Give me a break.
You see, I'm not crazy here. Android really is better!!
Android is not the glitchy, slow os that it was when it first came out. Android has really come a long way and I highly suggest all of you to make the switch. You really have no idea what you're missing out on.
Oh, and what all of you don't realize is that the iPhone is NOT your phone, it is APPLE'S phone and they will control it, NOT you.
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EXACTLY. I just love it how EVERYONE with an iphone PRIOR to the iphone 6 BASHED android users for the LARGE screens. But now that apple has released the iphone 6, apple iphone users SUDDENLY LOVE a huge screen??????
GIVE...........ME...........A............FREAKIN.............BREAK!!!!!
Apple has NEVER done anything original with the iphone! EVERYTHING the iphone has ever had is either a complete copy of jailbreak tweaks and android features. And then once thse same features come out on the iphone, apple fan boys think it's "revolutionary." Give me a break.
You see, I'm not crazy here. Android really is better!!
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Seriously? Are you listening to yourself talk? How many iphone users do you know have an extra page on their home screen just for apps that they never use that come preloaded on a stock iphone? Stocks app? Game center? etc etc etc.
And you seriously have the balls to bash androids app drawer? At least I can hide all the apps that I never use and never will use in my app drawer.
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The iphone in and of itself is pretty useless. I think apple wants everyone to switch to android.
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Seriously? Are you listening to yourself talk? How many iphone users do you know have an extra page on their home screen just for apps that they never use that come preloaded on a stock iphone? Stocks app? Game center? etc etc etc.
And you seriously have the balls to bash androids app drawer? At least I can hide all the apps that I never use and never will use in my app drawer.
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The iphone in and of itself is pretty useless. I think apple wants everyone to switch to android.
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No. Pressing on an app icon requires exiting the current app you're using. It also requires waiting a couple seconds for the app to open and load. With a widget, you just swipe down, it's ready to go, and you don't need to exit the app you are on currently.
This I don't feel like being controlled. Also one of reasons I like ios over android or anything else, that is simplicity and uncluttered user interface.
Very dislike widget from the very day it was born, from android widget to windows widget. What for for more functions, but added confusion and slowness.
Nevertheless, hoping for better handling in multitasking.
Very dislike widget from the very day it was born, from android widget to windows widget. What for for more functions, but added confusion and slowness.
Nevertheless, hoping for better handling in multitasking.
