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How to get widgets in OS X notification center?

I just downloaded Yosemite and am trying to set up my notification center. When I click the Edit button in the Today view, the only item available is Social. Where are all the widgets that are supposed to come preinstalled with Yosemite?

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 6:45 AM

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Posted on Oct 17, 2014 7:05 AM

When you open the Notification Center you will see another icon in the bottom right corner. That opens the Preferences. You may find that you have turned off the other preinstalled notifications. If that is not the case click the grid icon at the top of the window and then select the Extensions preferences and check there that the "Today" items are active.

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Oct 17, 2014 8:24 AM in response to Donald

I reinstalled and, in my case, the missing extension is now active. The Preferences>Extensions>All pane is empty and limited to third party extensions, as per description. I did notice during the initial install of 10.10 on that machine there was a hangup during download. It took an additional 45-60 minutes compared to other machines being upgraded. There might have been a glitch during that period on 10/16. Download is quick presently and the re-install was very quick.

Oct 17, 2014 8:26 AM in response to mniels2683

Someone on another forum posted a solution for most of the widgets...


Went into Macintosh HD ▸ System ▸ Library ▸ Frameworks ▸ NotificationCenter.framework ▸ PlugIns

here you can find the widgets you have installed in you mac, what I did was change the name of weather into com.apple.ncpluggin.Weather.appex ; and stocks into com.apple.ncpluggin.Stocks.appex , I'm not sure if this was necessary, though.

Then I just double clicked in each one, it will open with widget simulator app, press the green button and voila, they now appear in my notification center.

Try opening widget simulator manually, located in: Macintosh HD ▸ System ▸ Library ▸ Frameworks ▸ NotificationCenter.framework ▸ Versions ▸ A ▸ Resources

Then just drag the widgets into the widget simulator on your dock and they will appear. It does work, only widgets not found are Calendar and the Social widget is still not working... If we can find fixes for those 2 widgets everything will work perfectly.

Oct 17, 2014 9:06 AM in response to Overbit.Me

If you select More… at the bottom of the Safari Share widget it takes you to System Preferences>Extensions>Share Menu Put a blue tick next to everything you want to use and make sure you also have signed into your accounts at System Preferences>Internet Accounts Again, I think the Share Menu settings have something to do with what shows up in the Notification Center.I found it takes a minute or so for all the networks to show up in the Notification Center. It did not happen immediately.

Oct 17, 2014 9:12 AM in response to Donald

It's blank, I can let it sit there for an hour and it's still blank. Also markup is missing from the extensions menu. There is some sort of bug that caused it to be missing, hopefully Apple can fix it soon. We found all the widgets even the Social ones, but the Social ones won't work because something is not found.

How to get widgets in OS X notification center?

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