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mlowery531
Copper Contributor
Mar 01, 2023

Phone Link Widget is not available on the + Add Widget List

Windows 11 Insider Preview 10.0.22621.1325

Phone Link 1.23012.169.0

The option to add the Widget isn't on my list of available widgets.

 

Phone Link Widget

  • Ondrej_Novak's avatar
    Ondrej_Novak
    Copper Contributor

    I have same issue but the for me even the Game pass and Massenger are not showing up. I added picture in the spoiler.

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  • jerrylf1971's avatar
    jerrylf1971
    Copper Contributor

    same issue here, but after a while it showed up but now its gone after me having to reset windows 11, but even after reinstalling everything and I do mean everything it does not show up now thats a problem

    mlowery531 

    • dnelms1's avatar
      dnelms1
      Copper Contributor
      I also don't have the option to put phone link into widgets, on two computers that I have. I have updated the microsoft store's library of apps. Documentation says Windows Web Experience Pack should be in the apps list, but I cannot find anything like that.
  • Benji1140's avatar
    Benji1140
    Copper Contributor
    This problem still exists without any explanation or fix.
    • menegator's avatar
      menegator
      Brass Contributor

      I had the same problem, the widget disappeared mysteriously two weeks ago without me changing anything. Today I got an "Windows Web Experiance pack" update and all of the sudden I got the phone link and messenger widget back! (the other two are missing because I have uninstalled spotify & xbox since I don't use them)

  • Ceroes's avatar
    Ceroes
    Copper Contributor
    Me as well I have. Yet we still have to be tortured by the news against our will...
  • jerrylf1971's avatar
    jerrylf1971
    Copper Contributor

    mlowery531After a restore point the widget vanished, then even after a complete reinstall of Windows and updating everything I still had to do something else to get the widget to show back up, I did a simple repair of phone link while it was running then the widget bar showed up it being available so they need to fix it where you can manually add the widgets from any microsoft app from windows store or else get rid of them dam widget bar completely, it don't wanna work 85 percent of the time anyway even if it has something to do with Edge

  • PeterBrodersen's avatar
    PeterBrodersen
    Copper Contributor

    mlowery531For what it's worth: In my case it showed up as "ms-resource:AppName". That would be the Phone Link widget (as recognized by the icon). However I do understand that it might not show up for everybody, but at least this might be helpful to a few people.

     

     

     

  • mlowery531's avatar
    mlowery531
    Copper Contributor

     

    mlowery531 

     

    FYI, After I initiated an MS Store update of the Phone Link App, the option to add the widget became available. So my problem has been solved. Hope this helps.

  • b3n11's avatar
    b3n11
    Copper Contributor
    This problem is still existing and no clear communication from MS still.
      • b3n11's avatar
        b3n11
        Copper Contributor
        Update: I had to install the optional updates from the Settings -> Windows Update -> Advanced Options -> Optional Updates. Well hidden menu and was not expecting it will fix the problem, but it did.

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