Changelog

Widgetsmith 6.2 brings a brand-new widget type: Background Sounds!

Beyond the standard White and Brown Noises, this release includes sounds from nature, including various intensities of rain, forest sounds for both daytime and nighttime, and waves at the beach. These sounds are high quality and uncompressed, creating seamless loops for a rich soundscape. Create an immersive ambience right from your home screen.

The sounds can be played right from your home screen and combined with a photograph to set the scene perfectly.

Premium users get access to the entire collection of sounds, as well as custom controls. These include a Sleep Timer and the ability to mix Background Sounds with other audio playing on the device.

This release also includes several bug fixes for a few small issues related to widgets displaying the weather, sunrise/set information, and more.

I’ve added five new themes crafted to help you embrace warmer temperatures and the colorful new life that Spring brings each year. Each new theme can be customized with various fonts and colors to make your home screen bloom!

- Building on the popularity of the new interactive music widgets, I've added a new style which showcases your album artwork at full size.
- I've also added an option to always play albums in order when playing music collections. This is great for when you have a collection of both playlists and albums. You can shuffle the playlists, but keep the albums in order.

- This update collects all the great Christmas Holiday and Winter themes into one place to make it easier to style your widgets with some festive cheer.
- I also added a new Tree shape for the Photo Locket widgets
- Plus, I fixed a bug where the analog clock widgets hands could spin around at the top of each hour.

A quick bug fix update to correct a situation where photo widgets are shown as gray boxes on some iPhones.

This update includes a new fully navigable interactive calendar widget, and also adds the ability to create photo widgets using the share button in other apps.

This update includes a collection of new themes designed to perfectly coordinate with the new phones which are arriving this week.

Version Five introduces interactive widgets, allowing for some really dynamic experiences including:
- Build interactive photo galleries
- Thumb through and play your favorite music albums
- Browse upcoming days on your calendar
- Toggle between photographs and informational widgets
- Or even play a game right on your home screen

This update (v5.0.2) includes a few quick fixes:
- Display of circular widgets on the home screen
- Some photos not loading into collections
- Fixes for music collection editor and handling of custom playlists
- Adds a Small Timezone widget for use in StandBy

Interactive widgets have allowed me to create some really dynamic experiences including:
- Build interactive photo galleries
- Thumb through and play your favorite music albums
- Browse upcoming days on your calendar
- Toggle between photographs and informational widgets
- Or even play a game right on your home screen

This update brings with it the 2023 Summer Collection of themes. All of these are made to celebrate the newly added Womprat font. This font is a beautifully crafted combination of futuristic origins and versatile forms.

Building on the overwhelming popularity of the music widgets, this update adds the ability to set the played music to either Shuffle or Repeat as you prefer.

This update adds a brand new exciting widget type, *Music Widgets!* These widgets let everyone showcase their favorite music right on your home screen. Search for your favorite Album, Playlist or Song in the widget editor, or choose from a personalized selection of music recommendations. Plus, if you're an Apple Music subscriber when you tap on the widget it will automatically start to play.

This update adds a new type of album widget, Most Recent in Album.

The idea for this widget came from a user who wanted to have a privacy focused method for ambiently sharing photos with their loved one.

In their case they have a shared iCloud photo album into which they add photos of things they see which remind them of their spouse. They wanted to then be able to add a widget on their spouses iPhone which dynamically showed the latest of these.

I loved the idea and so added it to Widgetsmith. This is built completely on iCloud Photo Sharing, Widgetsmith never shares or uploads your photos itself.

Small update to fix issues with weather data display.

When I launched Widgetsmith on September 16, 2020, I had no idea what was coming. That Widgetsmith would lead the wave of iPhone customization and bring so much joy, to so many.

Widgetsmith just had its *100 millionth download*. A number that I find truly staggering to consider.

To think that something I built in my basement could reach and enrich so many people's lives is genuinely overwhelming.

Thank you for being one of those 100 million and choosing to make Widgetsmith part of your life. Widgetsmith could never have gotten to this point without people like you sharing it with their friends and family. You are a part of something really special.

To celebrate this momentous occasion I wanted to do something special. So I've been hard at work adding a new way to make your widgets even more awesome, *Gradient Backgrounds*.

This new widget background type lets you elevate your aesthetic in a whole new way. Specially for this celebration I've added a handful of golden gradient themes, free for everyone, because why not celebrate with a bit of bling.

Then, for Widgetsmith Premium subscribers, I've added a who bunch of premium gradient themes and the ability to edit the gradients however you'd like.

You can adjust the number of colors, gradient angle and offset. Adjust the gradient exactly how you'd like it.

Just in time for Valentine's Day I've added a collection of heart shaped themes.

I've added a New Year's Fireworks theme and a couple of snowy themes to get us through the winter.

Minor bugfix to address a rendering issue introduced in the last update.

Fixes for display with larger Text Size settings.

Pull on your Christmas Sweater and cozy up next to the fire, the Christmas Collection is here! A range of new widget styles to liven up your home screen this Christmas season.

This update is focused around filling in some gaps in the widget options including:
- A Date & Time medium widget
- Wind speed & Direction widgets
- A Week Number Lock Screen widget
- More Battery options
- and improves the rendering of the help videos.

I've improved the structure of the Help tab to make it more helpful and clear.

Lots of fixes in this update:
- Fix Lock Screen text widgets not opening relevant tools
- Fix Location names not getting updated in widgets after edit
- Open the Calendar tool for Date widgets
- Fix for Symbolic Moon Widget display in Home Screen widgets
- Add simpler clock index styles showing only hour ticks

With Halloween just around the corner I wanted to add one more theme to the Autumn Collection, Candy Corn!

This update fixes an issue where Lock Screen widgets would fail to load, causing gray boxes to appear in widgets.

- A fix for a situation where some widgets would turn gray when several timed widgets are used
- Add the ability to export the Autumn Collection as wallpapers (bottom of Tools tab)

This update introduces a new artwork style that can integrate directly into your backgrounds, giving you a great new option for styling your widget. The Autumn 2022 Collection is the first artwork of this type, and is themed around the best things about Autumn.

This update is a bug fix update cleaning up most of the issues I've had reported in since launching v4:
- Fix tide widgets not showing correctly on lock screen
- Fix text color option not appearing in Moon Phase
- Fix Lock Screen calendars not showing all day events
- Add Large option for Analog Clock
- Add option to set URL for Timed Widgets

New in Version 4.0:
- An improved widget editor to make widget creation and configuration simpler and more intuitive.
- Widgetsmith provides a wide array of lock screen widgets in all of the new styles.
- The ability to isolate the people in images from their background and import images with transparency.
- A robust set of new tools that which automatically launch within Widgetsmith whenever a widget is tapped. These are contextual to each widget. For example, tapping on a weather widget brings up the weather forecast for the selected location.

4.0.2 allows for multi-line rectangular widgets on the Lock Screen and fixes a typo.

New in Version 4.0:
- An improved widget editor to make widget creation and configuration simpler and more intuitive.
- Widgetsmith provides a wide array of lock screen widgets in all of the new styles.
- The ability to isolate the people in images from their background and import images with transparency.
- A robust set of new tools that which automatically launch within Widgetsmith whenever a widget is tapped. These are contextual to each widget. For example, tapping on a weather widget brings up the weather forecast for the selected location.

- An improved widget editor to make widget creation and configuration simpler and more intuitive.
- Widgetsmith provides a wide array of lock screen widgets in all of the new styles.
- The ability to isolate the people in images from their background and import images with transparency.
- A robust set of new tools that which automatically launch within Widgetsmith whenever a widget is tapped. These are contextual to each widget. For example, tapping on a weather widget brings up the weather forecast for the selected location.

This update fixes a long running issue where certain images would appear flipped when added to widgets. It also addresses an issue where widgets had their borders skew.

The next of the seasonal theme collections is here! The summer themes are all inspired around the concept of the Summer Blockbuster. Just like different movies fit with a particular mood, these themes cover a variety of looks. Plus a handful of brand new fonts!

Quick bug fix to address a crash that slipped into the last build.

This version adds three major new widgets:
- On This Day Widgets, show a random photo taken on this day in year's past
- Air Quality Widgets and Tool, shows the air quality details and index
- Pollen Widgets and Tool, shows the active pollen types and plants for your location

- Added Help walkthroughs to help get people started
- Fixes for Date labels in certain languages

This update is featured around two major updates:
- The introduction of seasonal collections. The Spring 2022 Collection is here! I'll be rolling out theme packs at the start of each season, designed to give your phone a new fresh look.
- The weather tool has been completely overhauled to supercharge your weather widgets. Now whenever you tap on a weather widget you'll be presented with a rich, graphical forecast of the selected location. This includes hourly, daily and radar weather data.

Additionally a new set of fonts has been added to give your a variety of new styling options.

This is a small update to fix an issue where calendar widgets would get strange black lines along the their top with certain events.

Fix for a bug that could cause Widgetsmith to freeze up when the Photo permission was turned off.

2.8.2 fixes a crashing issue on older OS versions.

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New in version 2.8 you can now apply Photo Filters to all photo based widgets. These allow you to style your photos as shown within your widgets, without having to filter/style the original images. So you can make the widget fit your aesthetic with just a few taps.

The update also adds a handful of new analog clock styles and improves their rendering on latest updates.

v2.8's marquee feature is the addition of Photo Filters to all photo based widgets. These allow you to style your photos as shown within your widgets, without having to filter/style the original images. So you can make the widget fit your aesthetic with just a few taps.

The update also adds a handful of new analog clock styles and improves their rendering on latest updates.

Fix for Time based widgets that didn't correctly update after Daylight Savings changes.
Better Help and Support options

This update contains a number of fixes and improvements to the Widgetsmith Premium purchasing system to provide a more reliable purchase experience. It also addresses a situation where your Widgetsmith Premium features would continue to be accessible after your subscription had ended.