ActionWidget

ActionWidget Support

Questions, problems or ideas? Email lukasz.wudarski@protonmail.com and include your iPhone model, iOS version, and what you tapped and what happened. Please leave out passwords and tokens.

Getting started

  1. Set up a button. Open ActionWidget, tap Widget 1, then a button. Enter the address the button should call, choose the method and add anything else the request needs. Tap Send Test Request to try it.
  2. Add the widget. Touch and hold an empty spot on the Home Screen, tap Edit > Add Widget, search for ActionWidget and add Widget 1 or Widget 2.
  3. Tap a button. It shows a spinner while the request runs, then a checkmark when it worked or a cross when it didn’t.

CarPlay

With iOS 26, your widgets also work in CarPlay. On your iPhone, open Settings > General > CarPlay, choose your car, then Widgets, and add ActionWidget’s widgets. On cars with a touchscreen, you can tap the buttons right on the car’s display. The buttons run in the background, so your iPhone can stay locked.

More widgets

Tap + in the app to add a widget. To show it, add Any Widget to the Home Screen, touch and hold it, tap Edit Widget and choose your widget. In CarPlay settings, tap ⓘ next to Any Widget instead. To remove a widget you added, swipe left on it in the app. Widget 1 and Widget 2 always stay.

Common questions

The button shows a cross. The request failed or returned a status that doesn’t count as success. Open the button in the app and tap Send Test Request: it shows the status or the error. By default, statuses from 200 to 299 count as success; you can change this under Response.

A device on my home network doesn’t respond. Send a test request from the app first, so iOS can ask for permission to reach your local network. You can check it in Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network.

“The certificate for this server is invalid.” The device uses its own (self-signed) certificate. If you trust the device, turn on Allow Self-Signed Certificate for that button.

The server asks for a user name and password. Enter them under Authentication. Basic and Digest (MD5 or SHA-256) are supported. For token sign-in, add an Authorization header instead.

Tapping a button opens the app instead. The button isn’t set up yet: it needs a full address starting with http:// or https://, and any problem shown in the app fixed.

My changes don’t show in the widget. Widgets update when you leave the app, so go back to the Home Screen.

Does it work while my iPhone is locked? Yes, once you’ve unlocked it after the last restart.

Can a button show a picture? Yes. If a successful response is an image, such as a camera snapshot, it appears behind the checkmark for a few seconds. SVG images aren’t supported.

Privacy

ActionWidget collects no data. See the Privacy Policy.

ActionWidget requires iOS 26.