Widget disappears

I've found that this is a rotating bug with folding phones. When you rotate the phone screen after you open it the phone resets the homescreen and resizes it to have the new aspect ratio. The widget disappears then. Swiping up on the home button brings it back but that is annoying. Hopefully we get a fix.

The same goes for the Fold 8(android17) I use. This didn't happen even a year ago.

Thanks for reporting, and thanks to everyone who added their device here. This is the largest thread we have on widgets that stop rendering until something forces the launcher to redraw, so it is the right place to gather the reports.

Collecting the workarounds mentioned above: restarting Niagara brings the widget back, and a reboot does too. Neither is a fix, but they beat waiting.

The most useful thing anyone can add here is a pattern: whether it starts after the screen has been off for a while, after changing the wallpaper, or after switching between widgets in a stack. Several people report it with stacked widgets specifically, so mentioning whether yours is in a stack helps as well.

Samsung Fold 7, this happens to me with all of my stacked widgets, probably like 20 times a day. AccuWeather, Todo, etc. They randomly fail to render unless I swipe through them or open and app and close it.

It happens with my phone too. Generally, a launcher restart solves it.

I have similar issue and found that in my Samsung Fold 7, if changing the wallpaper in the phone’s setting then the widget will no longer be disappeared.