Widgetkit widgets added to minus one screen without user knowledge?

Hi all,

I worked on launching widgets so I keep an eye out for them. With that said, I noticed a couple of my (both first and third party) apps had duplicated widgets on the minus one screen that I had not added.

Since I’m not sure when they were added, everything I tell you is speculation. With that said, I did have these apps’ Today Widgets before. So maybe that’s related?

Anyways, I’m worried this is affecting our metrics since we see many widgets installed but not interacted. We use widget center getCurrentConfiguration to get the number of widgets installed.

Any insight? Is this a known bug or a known feature?
Widgetkit widgets added to minus one screen without user knowledge?
 
 
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