Calculator widget

please bring it back! it was the only useful widget

this is so annoying i wouldn't have updated if i had known they would take the calculator away!

Ditto! A calculator would be really helpful

Yes! Pleeeaassee! I miss it so much. It was so quick and easy to use. I used it every day :(

I agree! I used it daily for invoicing and even calculations for measurement! Please add it back :)

sportsman800 wrote:

Same here. Really miss having the calculator on the side bar to slide out and use. Big disappointment it is not there.

I really hate to see someone be disappointed. So, I would recommend looking at PCalc in the App Store. It no longer has a Notification Widget because of the changes Apple imposed. However, it does have a popup from the Menu Bar and I think is the best calculator available for Macs. Plus it's not buggy like the Mac calculator.

I was missing it, too, so I used Automator to create a simple Open Calculator quick action:

It adds a menu item to my Services menu and launches the standard Calculator app that comes with macOS. Then I selected Services Preferences from the Services menu (which opens System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Services) to assign a keyboard shortcut. Now I can press F19 to launch the calculator:

I wanted to add another Quick Action to quit Calculator, but the Calculator app doesn't support Services, so I still use Cmd-Q when I want to quit. Not a big deal, but not as convenient as pressing F19 a second time to quit.

At least now from any app that supports Services, I can press F19, perform my simple calculations, and Cmd Q to quit. It's even better than the Notification Center widget I was using in Mojave or the Dashboard widget I used before, because as soon as I press F19, the Calculator app has focus and I can begin typing on my number pad. Previously, I often had to use the mouse to give the calculator widgets focus before I could enter numbers.

andre_duarte wrote:

Yes, please add it, it was very useful. I would say that you could even improve it to do some more complex operations like exponentials

Apple is not reading here for suggestions. Use the feedback page if you want Apple to know your thoughts:

Product Feedback - Apple

I haven't upgraded to Big Sur yet, but if there is no widget and you use the calculator a lot can't you just put it on your dock or put an alias on your desktop? Either of these methods would be fewer strokes than Spotlight or Launchpad.

Ok, I realize I was not clear about it, but in Catalina, if you would slide left to get the Calculator, it just pops the simple one and, I may be wrong, but you cant configure it to always show as the cientific or programming one.

kris_wlcpl wrote:

Well, it was very handy and I used it multiple times a day. Apple why?

This is a user-to-user technical support forum. No one here can answer why Apple does a particular thing. And, Apple doesn't answer that sort of question here.

You can let Apple know you'd like to see it back here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Meanwhile, considers some of the workarounds posted in this thread.

Shakespeare1066 wrote:

Where can I submit my request to ad a standard calculator in widgets in Mac OS Big Sur so that I will do some good? Any suggestions?

The feedback link has been given seven times so far in this thread, including in the very first post.

Yes, please add it, it was very useful. I would say that you could even improve it to do some more complex operations like exponentials

Please add a Calculator widget! Standard at least.

You're not talking to Apple here, so posting requests here for its return is a waste of time.

Please use: https://www.apple.com/feedback/