Where’d the widget go? (18 June 2021)

[JDRoberts]

@brookerj

i managed to add the widget but its a joke instead of running the scene only it opens the app and then runs the scene. any ideas why they have done this ?

@Patricia_Herrera

So why are we now only able to house 4 widgets at a time?

See the following:

No iOS widget

@Automated_House Pointed out in another thread that it is Apple that has changed the behavior of widgets, so that most regular widgets now do open their app. Annoying. But It is smartthings that made the decision to cut the number of scenes on a widget from 8 to 4. The alternative is to use Siri shortcuts for apps that support shortcuts, but unfortunately, smartthings does not. shortcuts are nice because you can add them to the home screen and you can add them to an Apple Watch. And they don’t have to open the app. [image] If you have an IFTTT pro subscription, IFTTT does work with webhooks, so you can make it work that way although it’s annoying. You should also be able to use the webhook method with webcore, I just don’t personally know how to do that. The point is once …