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iPhone Widgets won't work!
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I guess it might be. I'm not sure how to check. Wouldn't the graphics still show up though?
eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
Not if the graphics are set to load based on the weather condition. If the widget can't get the weather condition because the API is broken it does not know which graphics to load.
I see, so how can I find widgets that no longer use yahoo API? Seems as though most still attempt to use it or the Dev hasn't updated it to another site.
eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
Yeah, that's the problem right now.
A lot of these widgets aren't maintained any more, or they come as part of themes that are no longer maintained.
There's one dev I am aware of that has updated his widget APIs but I don't use his widgets.
Frankly, I think it's going to come down to new devs making new widgets. Although, Schnedi seems to be popular so perhaps he might update his.
In short, I don't know.
Will22
macrumors 65816
That explains why mine stopped updating.
Is there any other way around this, how do I get it to use my GPS weather?
eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
Someone on reddit mentioned opening the widget code and replacing every instance you find of www.yahooweather.com with www.xml.yahoo.com.
I tried that with one of my widgets, didn't work. YMMV.
As to GPS weather…well, Widget Weather 2. It'll handle all that. It works in iOS 9.
But………the problem is that WW 2 is an all or nothing tweak. Meaning, Location Services will ALWAYS be ON. No matter what settings you use.
If you can live with that then it works. But if you don't care for your battery being hammered then it's not for you.
They mention something about it being redesigned, but I've seen no new release.
Also, it does leave some trace behind when uninstalling. Make sure if you uninstall it that you have shut off access to it in Location Services before you uninstall it. Otherwise, you'll have to reinstall it, do that and then uninstall again. This is because the piece it leaves behind remains in the Location Services list.
StarkCity
macrumors 6502a
http://www.junesiphone.com/articles/ Here's the link to the fix. I've successfully got a few widgets working. Credit to June for posting.....
eyoungren
macrumors Nehalem
Yeah, I messed with that the other day. Not working for me.
Frankly, I'm getting tired of mess that iWidgets seems to be so I'll probably be looking for something different now.
StarkCity
macrumors 6502a
I feel ya'.... Took me a few tries as well ..... After I got one working I just started copy pasting the entire modified main.js And location.js folders from one widget to another. Some took it, some didn't. Pretty sure June's lock screen builder works. I might mess with that.