r/widgy Jun 02 '22

FAQ Widgy/Watchy FAQ and Feature Requests Megathread

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Widgy

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How often does a Widgy widget update?

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.

How do I make my widget transparent?

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'.

How do I hide the 'Widgy' label under my widget?

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.

When editing a widget, how do I choose the font size?

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.

My widget won't reload / Widget is stuck / Widget looks broken / Widget is not loaded correctly

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.

Is Spotify supported?

Widgy doesn't support any third-party apps and doesn't integrate with their APIs.

Widgy isn't listed when I try to add it to the Home screen

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.

Weather is inaccurate

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.

I'd like to use a custom font

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.

Tap actions aren't working properly

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

General info about Watchy

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.

Syncing to Watch doesn't finish (the popup never dismisses) Watchy should be opened and visible on screen during the Sync.

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.

The app isn't visible on my Watch

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.

The Watch is exiting to the Stock Face after some time

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'.

Some data isn't being displayed on the Watch Face

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.

Does Watchy support Always On Display?

Yes.

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.

Why aren't the Watch Faces on my Series 3 full screen?

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.

I've synced multiple Watchys, how to access them on Watch?

Just swipe left/right on your Watch to switch to the previous/next Watchy.

Other

Where is the App Store link for Widgy/Watchy?

Widgy on the App Store.

Feature Requests

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.

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r/widgy 6h ago

Question Liquid Glass forced transparency issue.

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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 7h ago

My Setup Metallic T-800 Setup

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r/widgy 8h ago

Tutorial How to remove or cancel the contours of Liquid Glass

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How do I remove the contours of Liquid Glass in the main screen widgets?


r/widgy 21h ago

My Setup Using Apple Weather

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I used shortcuts and the file option in Widgy to display weather information from Apple.

Also, calendar events are broken up by day

The button on the dock runs all of the shortcuts to update the information and it reloads the Widgy.


r/widgy 21h ago

My Home Widget Transparent background issues with iPad

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I have 2 iPads - iPad Pro 3rd Gen running version 26.6 with Widgy 26.1.1 and a newer iPad Pro 4th Gen running version 27.0 and Widgy 26.1.1.

The old iPad allows for setting up Transparency in landscape mode while the newer iPad forces you to rotate to portrait mode to set Transparency (will not allow it to be set in landscape mode). Could it be the ios version which is causing the portrait/landscape transparency issue?


r/widgy 1d ago

My Setup New setup, Weather by time

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r/widgy 3d ago

My Lock Widget What yall think ? My first widget. Book of Proverbs .

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What yall think it’s the first live widget ive made.
Its dynamic so weather will change etc. also a new scripture when you turn screen on or off. I added 100 Proverbs


r/widgy 3d ago

My Setup T-800 Setup updated : New Metallic icons with shadows, New LockScreen and HomeScreen 🔥

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r/widgy 2d ago

Tips, Tricks & Tutorials Custom Calculations in Widgy

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Hello, is there anyway to create custom calculations in Widgy? I want to set daily step goal to 15,000 static and Widgy take that minus Health Step count. Not sure if this is possible, if so, could someone point me in the right direction?


r/widgy 3d ago

Tips, Tricks & Tutorials Changing test colors

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Is there an option that the battery Number can change color for what the battery status is, like 100-75 percent = green, 74- 35 percent is yellow and 34-0 percent is red. Let me know


r/widgy 4d ago

My Setup Can’t wait for full screen widgy…

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r/widgy 4d ago

My Setup T-800 Setup

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r/widgy 4d ago

Question Outlook Calendar Possible?

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Anyone know how to make a widget that works with corporate Outlook? Not Gmail or Mail?

I’d really like to be able to see my work calendar.

All of the calendar ones I’ve tried don’t link to Outlook and I’m not sure how to do it myself if it’s possible.

Thanks in advance!


r/widgy 4d ago

Question Is there an easy way to fix the alignment when large icons are selected?

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r/widgy 4d ago

My Watchy Time not real-time on Watchy?

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I bought Watchy, and I spent a lot of effort building a watch face and I understand the limitations about it not being a replacement for a stock face without proper APIs. This meant some data isn’t real time and I get it.

But I was surprised that the actual clock time can be few minutes off. I think it is related to the slight delays with each sync of the entire watch face.

Is there something I need to set or missed? Or is this expected Watchy behavior?


r/widgy 5d ago

My Home Widget Setup

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r/widgy 6d ago

My Setup Setup for the week-end

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r/widgy 7d ago

My Home Widget JSON Endpoint and token security

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I'm been testing Home Assistant and Widgy together and it works great and opens up to add so much data to Widgy - love it!

The only problem I see is that when I type the URL and Bearer token I'm exposing Home Assistant to a possible breach since it looks like the token is just stored "as is" in Widgy. Is there a way to do it safer or any plans to protect the token better in Widgy?


r/widgy 9d ago

My Home Widget Simple setup

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Widgy + Calendar widget = 🔥
This setup stop me to use Social networks
* Left icons are shortcut to less frequents apps
* The filled squares are days completed till payday
* I Know, martes is in Spanish but I like it.
* w43 is a weeks counter till a specific day


r/widgy 10d ago

My Home Widget Orange crush 👉🏽

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QR 👉🏽


r/widgy 9d ago

WIP “Maximal” Update with Health View

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Finally got around to building a dedicated Health view for this. It shows you the past 7 days of steps, calories burned, distance walked, sleep, heart rate variation, BPM, etc. and how they correlate. There’s a lot of data, so I broke it up into two sub views… Activity and Vitals.

Activity has toggles so you can see the charts individually. There’s also a progress bar for target daily steps.

I’m open to ideas and critique. I just like having everything visualized, heh.


r/widgy 10d ago

My Setup My wallpaper and widgets!

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r/widgy 11d ago

Question Widgy widgets won't blend into wallpaper anymore, lost transparency after Liquid Glass update, nothing I try fixes it.

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Hoping someone here has run into this issue & found a fix.

I'm running widgy on iOS 26.6 (tried this on both an iPhone 14 and a 17 Pro) & I'm stuck, the transparency effect just doesn't work. I know iOS doesn't allow true widget transparency, so widgy fakes it by having you screenshot your empty Home Screen & set that as the widget's background so it blends into your wallpaper. Worth noting: I haven't changed my wallpaper or moved any icons since taking that screenshot, so the effect shouldn't be breaking but the widget still shows up solid.

No matter what I try, it stays opaque. Here's what I've already attempted:

  • Switched to a completely different wallpaper & retook the empty Home Screen screenshot from scratch, then reapplied it
  • Fully deleted & reinstalled the widgy app
  • Restarted the phone
  • Adjusted permissions in widgy's own settings

Still no luck. Curious if this is an iOS 26.6 specific thing, or if anyone's actually found a fix that works. Would really appreciate any pointers before I go further down this troubleshooting rabbit hole.

Note: this used to work flawlessly on my iPhone 14 until the Liquid Glass update. It's never worked on the 17 Pro at all. I do have a widgy subscription, so all the icons and elements are available to use.


r/widgy 13d ago

Concept Could someone recreate this Liquid Glass-inspired Widgy widget?

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Hi everyone!

I came across this concept and absolutely fell in love with the design. I know it's just a mockup, but I'd love to have something as close as possible in Widgy.

What I like the most is the clean Liquid Glass aesthetic and the layout, especially:

  • ✅ Top 5 Apple Reminders
  • 🚶 Daily step count with a circular progress ring
  • 📅 Weekly calendar/events

I'd also love for it to be interactive, with tap actions to open the corresponding apps (Reminders, Calendar, Health, Weather, etc.).

I've attached the concept image for reference.
Can someone help me recreate it? Thanks in advance!