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by koch 1249 days ago
Similarly as a developer (and maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a while since I've looked at making a widget), you are incapable of adding interaction.

I think taps are supported, I don't even know if you can scroll in a widget?

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You can't scroll in them. You can't even intercept the tap event, you just add intents to views and iOS will open those intents.

The reason for this is supposedly battery life. For the bigger widgets on an iPhone that feels a little over the top, but the widgets system underpins the lock screen widgets which are now possibly always on, and the watchOS "complications"/widgets, which can also be always on. Because of that I can understand it.

Calendar widget scrolls just fine
How do you get it to scroll? I use it myself in list view but it’s static
The calendar widget on iOS definitely doesn't scroll
It does not scroll.