iOS 14 widget - clock with sweeping seconds

It is not possible for 3rd party widgets to animate on the scale of seconds. The only way your widget can change that fast is if you use the provided relative time text strings which can tick seconds. Attempting to create timeline entries for every second will not work correctly. In my testing it doesn't end up refreshing any faster than every 5 seconds in the best case scenario.. Hour/minute dials are certainly possible since 1 timeline entry every minute is well within reason, just don't try to create an entire day's worth of entries at one time.

Pro tip: If you are trying to update on the minute, make sure you zero out the seconds for your timeline entires since it is really easy to end up using whatever seconds value gets returned by Date()

Thanks a lot jcgoforth!

So if I understand correctly you can tick seconds but only if it's a digital clock with numerals? The default apple homescreen clock widget with an animated seconds dial is not possible then? (with the sweeping orange seconds indicator)

Thanks for the tip on updating on the minute as well!