Possible to use location in widget

[claas]

Hey,

loving the widget support in Scriptable so far. Is there a way to use Location inside a widget-script? If the code is run inside an widget I get a error message, if I run the script inside the app everything seems to work fine:

Best
Claas

[mattlehrer]

Yes, I have this issue, too. It looks like the privacy settings are set up not to ask for access to location “always,” only “while using the app.” I think that is the problem. If anyone has a solution, I would love to hear it.

[yehudab]

I have the same issue as well.
Posted a sample script in the widgets thread:

Widget Examples

Is there a way to use Location from a widget? When running from the app, I can get the location, but from a widget, I see this error: [image] I noticed that apps like Maps and Weather now have new permission under privacy: While using the App or Widgets. Maybe Scriptable is missing this permission? Update: Using non-beta versions of iOS 14.0 and Scriptable 1.5 (161) Update 2: Here is a minimal script to demonstrate the issue: let widget = await createWidget() if (!config.runsInWidget) { …

[yehudab]

Good news: Issue is fixed in the latest TestFlight beta (1.5.1) — along with many other new features.
Thanks @simonbs for the quick update!