The new Widgets feature on Sonoma is very nice. But as far as I can tell each widget appears on every Desktop/Space.
Is there any way to assign widgets specific to a particular Space?
If this cannot be done in Sonoma natively are there 3rd party apps that can do this?
That would be really unfortunate. I have my MBP 16 on a stand next to my 27ā monitor, and use it mostly for Messages. It has its own Space, and I was planning on putting widgets on it. I donāt want widgets on my main monitor because I want to focus on the task Iām doing (thatās why I have separate Spaces). Thanks for the heads-up.
From the macOS Sonoma review by John Voorhees (emphasis mine):
What you canāt do with widgets on the Mac is overlap them or stack them the way you can on the iPhone or iPad. I feel like I have plenty of room to place widgets on the Studio Displayās 27ā screen without stacking, but that limitation will undoubtedly be a problem for some 13ā MacBook Air users (myself included), especially if youāre used to being able to assign different widgets to multiple Home Screens on a similarly-sized 12.9ā iPad Pro. Thatās because you canāt place a unique set of widgets per Space on a Mac. So, if you were hoping to create different sets of widgets and assign them to project or task-specific Spaces, youāre out of luck, which is a shame and something Iād love to see Apple address in a future update.
Not only canāt we place widgets in a certain Space Theyāre not interactive? I tried to scroll the Reminders widget to see more than three and it wouldnāt do it. And, theyāre grey when another window has Focus?
Apple, seriously, please:
The settings for Widgets are included in the āDesktop and Dockā settings and allow you to select Automatic which changes style depending on focus or permanent Grey or Colored.
In order to scroll you have to click the scroll bars(I havenāt tried this).
Setting the Widget Style to Full Color worked! They are no longer greyed out.
But I canāt seem to scroll them or find any scroll bars. For example, I have 9 reminders in my Reminders widget, but it only shows 7 and I canāt scroll it:
I am not sure I follow you here. Were you able to somehow create a widget that is only in one Space and not in all of them?
That probably would be up to the developer of the widget - though sliders arenāt directly a thing.
I had an interesting public discussion with @kcase yesterday about the OmniFocus XL widget. They at least are constructive about design.
Iām confused as well. They seem to hop to whatever ādesktopā (space?) you are on.
On a related note, I like how the ones I place on my widescreen external display are independent and persistent whenever I reconnect my MacBook.
Overall Iām really like this addition to MacOS!
Yes, but it may be because Iām using an external monitor. I have eight Desktops, and MacOS automatically assigned my MBPās monitor to a Desktop 9 that doesnāt appear in Mission Control. I put my widgets on my MBPās monitor. When I disconnect the external monitor, Desktop 9 is gone and I donāt see the widgets at all. When I reconnect it, theyāre back on Desktop 9. So it looks like itās a situation that only works if youāre using an external monitor and you put the widgets on the Mac and not the external monitor.
On a related note, I like how the ones I place on my widescreen external display are independent and persistent whenever I reconnect my MacBook.
This is also what Iām doing, but opposite: my widgets are on my MBPās monitor, and stay there when my external monitor is connected. When I disconnect my external monitor, I donāt see the widgets.
Iām relying on that nice external display behaviour.
Ah thatās cool. So you only prefer to have widgets on your MBP when monitor is connected? How do you set it to act that way?
I have my MBP up on a stand as a second monitor (photo posted yesterday on this thread). I mostly use this for Messages and when I need to put a window there because it wonāt fit on my main monitor due to other windows already in use. So I figured this would be a good place to put some widgets to glance at during the workday. These are my settings:
