Today-Widget "Unable to load" error

Question

From time to time widget crashing with "unable to load" error. Is anyone know how to fix it? Widget haven't requests to server or smth else.

PGDev · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-05T16:04:22.060

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Unable to load in today extension mostly appears when:

You extension crash due to some reason
It takes more memory than what is provided by the system. (Memory Limit : max 16MB approx.)

Debug your app extension to find out the exact problem.

Refer to Xcode's Debug Gauge for Memory and CPU utilization.

Edit:

Debugging today extension

You can debug your extension the same way you debug your main project. Just select that particular target scheme in your Xcode and run the project.

Now try using the breakpoints and other print statements in the extension’s code and you are good to go. Happy coding..

edited Oct 05 '18 at 16:04

answered Mar 18 '17 at 02:48

PGDev

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Second part was my problem. Just removed a few images and it's work properly. – Ildar.Z Mar 20 '17 at 08:05
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Please let me know how to debug the Widget? – nitin.agam Oct 05 '18 at 09:17
@iDev750 I've updated the answer for debugging the widget. – PGDev Oct 05 '18 at 16:04
@PGDev Thank you and I have solved my problem. Actually, I was getting crashed because UIImageView was unable to find the image which was I'm using. Thank you! – nitin.agam Oct 08 '18 at 07:32

ho2103 · Answer 2 · 2020-08-09T14:47:58.727

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REBOOT the device.
This saved me.

edited Aug 09 '20 at 14:47

answered Aug 09 '20 at 14:31

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Thank you for this tip! Was very helpful in addition to the accepted answer. – Mikrasya Jun 23 '21 at 02:24

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 08 '18 at 20:20

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I have faced this error I used a custom view. But forgot to check Is initial viewController. Set an entry point form "show attribute inspector" as an initial view controller

answered Jun 08 '18 at 20:20

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 01 '20 at 07:28

I have faced the same issue where it wasn't showing anything. Even my debug option was not working. I found an article online which helped me a lot. I would like to recommend this here.
Most of the time it is the size of the content view that crashes the widget. in that case, use this code snippet in TodayViewController.

Code snippet

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool)
{
    var currentSize: CGSize = self.preferredContentSize
    currentSize.height = 200.0
    self.preferredContentSize = currentSize
}

Link for further research.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 04 '20 at 20:00

Make sure you have more than 0 rows

I have built a today-widget similar to Building a Simple Widget for the Today View.

I had none of the above issues. Mine was 0 row (I had no data for this particular day and hence, 0 row). I did not expect that it could be the problem since in the main-app, you can have empty table-view.

If you see unable to load message, make sure you have at least 1 row.

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Apr 24 '20 at 15:06

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Set this in viewDidLoad:

extensionContext?.widgetLargestAvailableDisplayMode = .expanded

edited Apr 24 '20 at 15:06

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answered Apr 24 '20 at 09:20

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 03 '20 at 14:26

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In my case NotificationCenter.framework was accidentally deleted from Link Binary With Libraries in Build Phases tab in widget target.

answered Nov 03 '20 at 14:26

Volodymyr Smolianinov

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Today-Widget "Unable to load" error

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Make sure you have more than 0 rows