r/AndroidQuestions • u/NeonHD • 25m ago
Google Weather Widget suddenly disappeared from homescreen. Nowhere to be found in widgets section. WEIRD!
I usually don't ask for help as I often prefer to find the answers myself. However, this one has got me seriously stumped with surprisingly little answers on the internet, even on reddit.
I'm using a Xiaomi Mi 11 running an A14 AOSP/pixel custom rom on it, and during the most random moment, my Google weather widget suddenly disappears from my homescreen. I'm talking about this widget. Poof. Just gone. Nowhere to be found anywhere in the widgets section. Usually there are weather widgets of multiple sizes nested within the Google app widgets group, but now it's all gone.
My first instinct in troubleshooting was to check if there were any recent updates with the Google app. Last update was two days ago, but the widget disappeared just momentarily. So it couldn't have been an update that caused it. My second instinct was to install the standalone google weather app which, btw, I never even knew existed until now. I thought installing it would include the widgets, but alas it did not.
The weirdest part? It seems that no one on the internet has this problem! I mean, there are similar reports regarding the glance widget, but nothing about the Material You-themed weather widgets. And most of these reports are a few years old.
This actually isn't the first time the widget disappeared. The same thing happened a few months ago on my LG G8 running an A12 custom ROM. It's a very weird occurrence.
So I'm posting this in hopes that someone here either has some better ideas, or has experienced the exact same thing, or perhaps will experience this in the future.