WidgetKit widgets vanish in Montery with Xcode 16

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Created Oct ’24

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We have recently added WidgetKit widgets to an existing product, and they've been working great on Macs using Big Sur and later. Recently, when installing a build on a Montery Mac, the widgets were no longer in Notification Center. After some trial and error, we discovered that if we build the project with Xcode 15.4, the widgets appear, but if we build with Xcode 16, the widgets vanish. This seems to happen on Macs running Big Sur or Monterey. The project is being built on Macs running Sonoma (both Apple Silicon and Intel).

Is there a build setting in Xcode 16 that may have this effect?

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Engineer OP

Apple

Nov ’24

Our engineering teams need to investigate this issue, as resolution may involve changes to Apple's software. I'd greatly appreciate it if you could open a bug report and post the FB number here once you do. Bug Reporting: How and Why? has tips on creating your bug report.

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Engineer OP

Apple

Jan ’25

@ski4funSonoma are you still having this issue?

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ski4funSonoma OP

Jan ’25

Sorry, I didn't mean to leave this hanging. It turned out that the problem was the location of the application. It is an accessory app, so we were storing it outside of the Applications folder. Installing it in the Applications folder 'solved' the issue. You can reproduce in Monterey by moving an app containing widgets to somewhere like Application Support. It appears that later versions of macOS can discover widgets outside of Applications, while earlier ones cannot.

Thanks!

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