I hope you’ve been enjoying the new iOS 14 widgets! This update brings you some app and widget additions and fixes as well as some more customization options!
What’s new:
• Widgets should update more reliably from the app and shortcuts
• All three widgets have more appearance options including custom colors
• The Saved Timers widget has a compact mode option
• Improvements when editing time entry start and stop times
• And more!
Read on for more details!
Widget Updating
The widgets (especially the Current Time Entry widget) should update more reliably from the app and shortcuts. iOS puts limits on widget updating, so widgets still may not update immediately depending on what iOS decides. You can still pull-to-refresh in the app to try to update the widgets.
Widget Appearance Options
All three widgets have more appearance options. In addition to System, Always Light, and Always Dark, you can choose from Always Black (where the widget will always have a black background), Black in Dark Mode (where the widget will be white in light mode and black in dark mode), and Custom Color.
If you select Custom Color, two more parameters will appear: Custom Hex Color to input a hex code (with or without the ‘#’) and Text Color to select black or white for the widget’s text.
Saved Timers Compact Mode
In the Saved Timers widget, there’s an option for compact mode. This will show two more timers in the medium size and four more timers in the large size.
Editing Start and Stop Times
On iOS 14, when editing time entry start and stop times, the time picker is now above the calendar for quicker time editing.
Use Wheels to Edit Times
Also for devices on iOS 14, there’s a new option in Settings to use the old wheels to edit times instead of the new date picker.
More Goodies!
• Details in the Time Tracked widget can now also be grouped by clients.
• When editing the current time entry in the app, the stop and delete buttons take up a single row instead of two rows (unless the device is using an accessibility text size).
• As in the Saved Timers and Time Entries tabs, you can now pull-to-refresh in Settings to refresh the app’s data.
A note on the old Timery widget: If you’d like to use the old widget, it’s still part of the app and hasn’t been removed. If you don’t see it in your list of legacy widgets, try restarting your device.
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As always, thank you for using and supporting Timery! If you have a question or suggestion or run into an issue, please email me at
[email protected].
I hope you’re staying safe and staying healthy out there! Happy time tracking!
~ Joseph Hribar