Calculator is missing in the Control Center on iPad pro

ilovedaisies wrote:

Fine? MichelPM, I hope this has been a discussion, and not an argument. I feel my response to xi1008 was needlessly challenged, and I’ve done my best to respond kindly to all your postings.

Additionally, this might offer an explanation: I’ve had that same calculator available on every iPad I’ve had... Perhaps that means, because it’s there and has always been there — as I’ve recovered my iOS system and downloaded apps with every hardware upgrade — that’s why it shows up as an available Widget? After all, some personally downloaded apps will show up as available Widgets, while others will not.

What matters is The Calculator is available as a Widget, and have we responded to xi1008 with a ‘quick’ remedy? Wouldn’t you agree?

Linda

Okay, I agree.

Yeah,

I will have to agree with Demo.

For the short time you have been here helping out here with other users' iPad issues, you have been doing a pretty bang up job of it!

I am just very nitpicky as I can possibly be about giving accurate details to any user that comes here looking for answers/solutions.

Have always been like that here from day one.

AND, sometimes, I am usually fairly blunt about it and that usually, for me, ends up leading to varying levels of disagreements and arguments.

So, I will apologise, somewhat, as we are all fellow users that come here fairly regularly to help out our fellow users, in distress, here in the ASC, and that is a good thing for all of us here to be doing!

I just always feel the need to be more accurate and elucidate more on a giving issue or problem when I post replies here.

A somewhat failing/character flaw on my part, I suppose, but I usually mean well.

Most times, as wife is always keenly pointing out to me and everyone else we meet, “my bark is always worse than my bite”

😉😁

No! I didn’t mean you! Oh, gosh. No. I was thanking you for mentioning it, and agreeing with you. After that, I was just offering an explanation. (PS Not sure what OT or OP means..)

I do thank you for your comments about my doing a great job — I’m trying! — as well of reinforcing my hopeful comments about using a Widget!

MichelPM wrote:

Then the calculator widget must be new to iOS 11/12, then.

It is NOT available in iOS 10. I have no calculator widgets at all.

It sounds like there is some perhaps some confusion. Widgets are not the icons in the Control Center. Third party apps have had the ability to add widgets since there have been widgets. Some do, some don't. Third party apps, of course, can't add icons to the Control Center.

If you don't have a Calculator widget, it's because either the calculator app you're using doesn't include one or you have added it.

ilovedaisies wrote:

No! I didn’t mean you! Oh, gosh. No. I was thanking you for mentioning it, and agreeing with you. After that, I was just offering an explanation. (PS Not sure what OT or OP means..)

OT = Off topic

OP = Original poster (the person who started the thread)

There you go, xi1008! And thank you...

I, too, had mine in the task bar ‘till I found too many other things I wanted to put there which cluttered it up. So long as you know a Widget is an option — and you’ve got it in your task bar, now — you’re all set! That’s wonderful... Perhaps, as you go along, you’ll investigate and find some Widgets, in one way or another, to be helpful.

We’re an Apple Support Community team, but we’re volunteers, who don’t know one another, possibly, all that well yet. And we’re all coming from a position of wanting to be helpful. And we each have different gifts! But we all want to help! Only, there are forum rules, too. So, so sorry you got involved in the flutter of all of this.

As you learn more, possibly, you’ll be contributing suggestions, too — if you subscribe to the feed — for others who are just learning, as yourself. I’m still a newbie, too, and I’m amazed that there are opportunities, here or there, to help in small ways...

Linda

Yes,

I know what widgets are.

I have a good deal of these laid out in my notifications panel.

I have no widgets for any of the calculator apps I use.

And there is no native iOS calculator app OR native widget for iPads, currently.

As I have tried to keep pointing out.

But I am done with all of this.

The OP got we they were looking for.

Good deal, IdrisSeabright. Perhaps, MichelPM can try downloading a different calculator app, and see if, then, he can add it to his widgets! That’s so long as Widgets were/are available for his model iPad...

... and good to, finally, understand that not all third-party apps can show up as Widgets. Great to know...

Thank you!

Linda

If you try downloading the Calculator app you recognized as being third-party — or others? — perhaps, it will show up as a Widget, then, for you, too! It’s incredibly handy to have a calculator with easy access.

I am not looking for, nor need a calculator widget in my notifications panel.

I can get to my calculator apps fairly quickly and all of my calculator apps use a tape roll that will always keep my calculation/tabulation data until I manually clear the numeric tape roll.

The widgets I use in my notifications panel, cover quicker access to my camera/video apps, weather apps, calendars, news apps, recipes apps and music related apps.

My old favorite is still available. Give this one a try.

Calculator‰ by Tim O's Studios, LLC

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calculator/id486645049

Hi, MichelPM,

I don’t think I understand. I use my Calculator widget all the time:

Daisey's screen shot is IOS 12 something. The widgets list can be found at the bottom of Siri app Suggestions..

I checked my iPad 4 and Widgets were available at least from IOS 10. Memory fails me if they were available earlier.