Google widget missing now iOS 16.1.1

I already found the solution. You have to restart iPhone to make the widget reappear. I can't find an explanation to it but maybe restarting it refreshes the state of the iPhone.

My google widget went black a few days ago too! I tried adding it back & didn’t have the option anymore either so I just added the chrome search bar widget, its almost identical it just sends you directly to chrome instead of google.com through safari.

I just had the exact problem on an iPhone, 15 Pro Max running on iOS 17. The fix is to remove or uninstall Google maps, install it back, restart your phone and the option to add Google maps widget will show up again and work properly. It’s requires giving permission again it’s really inconvenient that we need to do this on an iOS 17 and they never fix this for the past two years.

After reading this post I restarted my iPhone instead of deleting and reinstalling. The Google search widget was intact. Thanks to this post.

Your iOS is way out of date. The current version is 16.6.

Friday June, 14th. IOS 17.4.1

Today is the official day that no Google widget is available. At first the YouTube widget was not available, which turned into a blank “black” space in my stack and I had to remove. Only to realize there is no YouTube option to add.

Secondly, Google. Same thing black space, removed, no option to add back. Luckily there was a CHROME option which included a search bar just like Google. It was ugly but functional. And today, June 14th, that widget just went black.

i know both companies got beef but something may have happened in an agreement between them.

Has anybody figured out why since the update my Google widget totally disappeared I can use Chrome, but it’s not in dark mode like my Google app was very disappointed

Guys you can use google chrome instead. while apple or google fix this issue.

Hope it helps

des238 wrote:

It has to be something wrong with the new update.

Umm, no, it has to be something wrong with your phone. Hundreds of millions of users have NOT reported this. And 16.1.1 is an almost year old update; no one should be still on it.

Has anyone found a solution to this? This exact same thing happened to me the other day. The widget became a blank white box. I removed it so I could add it back, but I don’t have the option to add a Google search bar in my widgets any longer.

I have same issue with iPhone 15 max pro OS version 17.3.1

Almost all user friendly widgets are gone and unable to add them back as well :(

Day by day IOS standard is going down. Missing google widgets indicates backward compatibility is not validated with popular apps.

This just happend to me today with the iOS 17.5.1 update my google was blank and I deleted it off my widget so I can add it back and I now I don’t have the option anymore ! does anyone have a solution to this problem ?

It has to be something wrong with the new update.

Abdul Jaish

I have the same issue with google drive widget. It had the preview to my last opened files and now it’s all gone :(

whats the problem or the solution for this?