Anyone else seeing this? The small fitness widget doesn't show progress when the screen is locked. If you unlock the phone, it will update but as soon as it's locked again, it is back to showing no progress. Is this a privacy setting?
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Fitness widget doesn't update when locked?
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I have also noticed this, as I don’t use Face ID (depth cam died). The only way to make the fitness widget to display information when waking up the screen is to have passcode turned off, making your phone completely insecure.
Just came here to post the same thing. It makes it useless in current state.
Would love to hear if somebody figures out a solution -- if there is any.
Would love to hear if somebody figures out a solution -- if there is any.
There is no solution as fitness data is classified as / part of your Health data, which requires your phone to be unlocked to be accessed. It‘s essentially a hard-coded security mechanism to prevent unauthorized access to your health data.
Do you have „Lock Screen Widgets” enabled in Settings > FaceID & Passcode ?
EDIT: you are right, it’s broken… as mentioned shows / updates only after phone is unlocked…
EDIT: you are right, it’s broken… as mentioned shows / updates only after phone is unlocked…
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This is hilarious. These companies know everything about us, but they're giving us Privacy Theater regarding ... the number of hours we've stood up today on the lock screen of our own devices.
That's a privacy feature. The Apple Watch complication has worked the same way for years (when you aren't looking at the screen health data is hidden – the AW knows when you are "looking" at it by a wrist raise motion).
Apple treats health data privacy very seriously. Health widget data will only show when Face ID sees you are looking at the phone (on Touch ID iPhones, you'll need to place your finger on Touch ID - but not press it).
Thanks for the explanation, makes sense in a settings POV but in the real world, nope. Given that the rings show how much I moved, stood up, and exercised, it seems Apple could give users the ability to put that outside the privacy wall. If not, the widget is just a shortcut.
On my iPhone 8 I can only see it for a millisecond when the phone unlocks with a fingerprint before it goes to the Home Screen.
Tbh this is completely useless. The Home Screen remake is just plain awful.
Tbh this is completely useless. The Home Screen remake is just plain awful.