Apps That Have Added iOS 16 Lock Screen Widget Support

[macduke]

I’m surprised at how few first-party widgets there are. Like how is there not a mail widget of any kind? Especially with an always on display so I can see my current count since I practice inbox zero.

I also find most text-heavy widgets to be pointless. The widget is so small and the text is so large that you only get a few words before it’s cut off. Apple needs to increase the max widget height.

Slightly unrelated but why does the people selector for backgrounds only have a small subset of the people I have set up in my photos app? Like I can select my wife and kids but for some reason my brother in law is there even though he’s hardly in any photos but I can’t select photos of my grandma even though she has her own section I can look up in the photos app. It’s so weird. Just goes to show that combined with the widget issues above, the new Home Screen feels half-baked to me.

 

[lindros2]

To repeat others - and I am running GA so I didn’t install the normal release, but the rest of my family did today.

1. Updated apps after iOS 16
2. Opened apps
3. Restarted
4. Removed and re-installed apps
5. Made sure all settings were normal with LBS and notifications
6. Ample storage

All Apple ones show. ZERO third party do (my wife has 10+ eligible, I only have a few).

This is the same sh-t on iPhone 12, 12 mini, 13 Pro, and 11 Pro.

 

[Shirasaki]

I want one that can offer the same level of information as now-discontinued app called Vidget. Especially network download upload speed meter and CPU usage. Thankfully I have a local copy of the app so I can still install it (the beauty of keeping ipa files around), but it’s only a matter of time before apple drops legacy widget support in iOS entirely.

 

[svish]

More apps should be adding widgets for lock screen real soon.

 

[yellow8]

Why not listing QuickScan instead of Scanner Pro? The widget is even nicer.

 

[Stiksi]

I do so hope that my favourite app “LifeRemaining” gets a widget as soon as possible. It’s a real nifty little app that takes all your existing medical conditions, family history of medical conditions, income levels, education level, and all the data from the health app and uses GPS to track where in the social-economic global chain you live, and gives you a very accurate countdown to your most likely time of death.

Now, whenever the madness of happiness first spreads its joyous tendrils out to give me false hope, I can simply lift my phone and be reminded of how pointless and futile it all is. Sure, I could just simply open the app and look at the pretty countdown graphs and most probable cause of death, but that’s extra steps needed, time I could be better spending watching my life meter go down.

To have this on the Lock Screen is a real game changer for me.

Does it sync with your calendar? Would be nice to be able to plan my deadlines accordingly.

Readdle Calendars (free version; I assume the paid version too).

Also, like their home-screen widgets, they show events which are current. Unlike the stock Calendar app which removes any event from display once it's 15 minutes past the start time.

The stock calendar also starts showing entries from tomorrow if there are none today with no indication other than that the starting time is over 15 minutes ago. Incredibly confusing.

 

[The Game 161]

Lock launcher

Try that it lets you add your apps on lock screen

 

[Stiksi]

Why only 4 widgets allowed?

Battery life? Always-on screen shows the widgets all the time.

 

[adammusic]

Pedometer++

Best step counter.
Way better interface that the stock Fitness app.
Simple & easy.
Steps only.
Scroll to see all previous steps by day.
No tapping each day like in fitness app.

 

[adammusic]

Would love some kasa smart plug widgets or lifx bulb widgets.
Smart home controls basically, that dont take you in to the app.

 

[Smigit]

Lock launcher

Try that it lets you add your apps on lock screen

Looks like Pro IAP is free for launch too. Grabbed it.

 

[Steve121178]

Just one line of widgets? Fail.

 

[Liquid Galaxy]

The fact that you have to offload and reinstall for the widgets to appear is a very annoying bug. Hope that its solved soon.

 

[slplss]

I hoped you could use the whole screen real estate for widgets. This isn't Apple Watch, yet I feel it has even less of widgets and useful information displayed at once. It doesn't have to always look pretty, Apple, let us make it as ugly and useful as we wish.

 

[maxsab]

Anyone else not seeing them? Tried a restart after updating but they’re still not appearing

It looks like you need to reinstall an app sometimes in case you had it before iOS 16. I hope Apple will fix that soon

 

[maxsab]

Headway, book summaries app, also got them. It shows your current streak and the progress towards filling it.

 

[Carlos-sz]

Anyone else not seeing them? Tried a restart after updating but they’re still not appearing

I don't see any third party lock screen widget.

 

[harrisondavies]

Just one line of widgets? Fail.

Some people are so ungrateful. Some is better than none.

 

[Steve121178]

Some people are so ungrateful. Some is better than none.

It's not a case of being ungrateful, it just seems half-arsed. I thought I'd be able to have all the key useful info available at a glance, such as weather, email & whatever else is important etc. There's only space for about four widgets! Four!

 

[Yptcn]

Looks like Pro IAP is free for launch too. Grabbed it.

Me also ! Thanks for the info

 

[machpost]

Open the apps and then try.

I realized that I was looking for the Google app widgets, which apparently haven't been deployed yet. I got the Facebook widgets working with an additional app update.

 

[pacorob]

I did want to mention that I have a created this 'iOS16 Lock Screen Widgets & Live Activities' (Wiki) mid-August and have been updating it since in the 'iOS16' subgroup. I have found 240+ apps that support lock screen widgets in the meantime and added to the AppRaven list (best viewed in the app to sort as well) and will update the earlier Wiki post ASAP as well and might create separate genre collections in AppRaven as well.

For me personally it worked as a developer of the 'Trein app' suggested on Twitter to adjust the main language to English (as I had Dutch) to see all my third party lock screen widgets since before doing that I also saw a few third party apps but e.g. not Carrot Weather, Cheatsheet, Launcher widget. A reset of my iPhone didn't help. I have read that other users which had English as main language already I suppose had to remove the specific apps and reinstalled which solved it for them.

 

[kaufeenx]

Not sure if it's a beta thing or not, but I don't have any of these despite being on the gold master version.

 

[felixen]

Anyone else not seeing them? Tried a restart after updating but they’re still not appearing

Same here, I only see the native iOS widgets on my lockscreen

 

[thenightfly42]

Same here. I have a bunch of the mentioned third party apps installed and none have widgets available for the lockscreen. I’ve restarted and opened the apps.

Here's a MUCH less data-destructive method to refresh the apps and add widgets: Change your device language to something else. Then change it back. Settings > General > Language & Region > Preferred Languages.