.timer Styled Text does not count up or down in Lock Screen Widgets

Hi, I have an interesting problem about Lock Screen Widget Complications.

I prepared a widget which have .timer styled Text to display dynamic dates in my lock screen widget. It works fine in my iOS 16 (with Xcode beta - 6) simulator both debug and release modes. However the timer styled text is not counting up or down in my real device with debug mode, displays static time on screen. Also does not work testflight build of my widget development either.

Do you have any idea about this issue?

I'm also getting this. I doubt Apple are denying timers in Lock Screen widgets as there's so little processing involved (and there's nothing in any documentation to say they don't work in those Widgets), so it might just be an issue in the betas.

There's been an issue for a while in iOS 16 betas that the timers in Home Screen widgets don't run either, so it's likely connected to that.

Seeing the same using Xcode RC and the release version of iOS 16. All built using the Release settings.

On top of the timer not counting down, the Text view element seems to take up any horizontal space that it can. Center alignment in VStacks no longer work as a result.

Filed a bug report and hopefully this gets fixed soon.

Seems the issue is fixed with version of iOS 16.1 beta

.timer Styled Text does not count up or down in Lock Screen Widgets
 
 
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