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> he AW is doing a lot more in the background

For Apple-blessed stuff only. They tightened third-party widget update budget so badly third-party widgets that should provide up-to-date information are essentially unusable. E.g. large Weathergraph widget still works because it shows a day-long forecast, so being an hour old is rarely noticeable, but Fantastical (can keep showing outdated event for a while and miss the actual schedule) or Battery Grapher (can be up to 30 percent points off from the actual battery status) are absolutely unusable.



Thanks - Weathergraph author here. The tightened update budgets are just a part of a puzzle, another bad parts are:

- no background updates (for non-Apple apps, of course) once the low power mode is enabled

- a buch of long unfixed bugs, like this one https://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=5568946145067008 - a WidgetKit cache of rendered widgets gets randomly corrupted (race issue when rendering maybe? seems to happen more often with a complex widgets), and once it happens, the specific widget stops updating until device restart (and app has no way of finding out that this happens)


Off-topic: thank you for the app! It's (subjectively, of course) by far the best weather widget out there - and I've tried a number of them. Really appreciate your work.


If you know about the events in advance, you can hand them to watchOS and have it display them for you. So I'm surprised to see calendar apps struggling with this…


You are correct. Calendar apps are less affected than e.g. battery monitor, but still suffers from meeting reschedules or new events.




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