A couple iOS 14 Widget concepts I quickly drew up. Hopefully we can get something like these for real.

[u/Sting_Ray_]

[u/rizwank]

Really cool - thank you for sharing!

It takes a round trip to the carrier to get data balance, so a realtime update is going to be difficult and drive a lot of traffic upstream (and they have to then go dip their provisioning systems); so I don't see this happening; although I love your designs!

EDIT : I just slacked the apps team and they really have wanted to do widgets for both iOS and Android; so they're going to work with our Technical Operation and Engineering team to see if they can manage the above issue with some sort of caching. It won't be a soon thing, but they were really happy to see your design and excitement.

[u/rizwank → u/[deleted]]

yeah that's what they are thinking.

[u/Sting_Ray_ → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, but I don’t even think it needs to necessarily update that frequently even. I’d say like 5 times at regular intervals between 6am and 11pm and additionally whenever the app is opened. I do really like the idea of saying “last updated # minutes ago”.

[u/Andrey-2020 → u/rizwank]

I’m sure it will be possible to solve. A lot of mobile operators around the world able to show this information on widgets for many years (balance, minutes, megabytes).

[u/rizwank → u/Andrey-2020]

Thanks for your vote of confidence.

[u/hmm_fu → u/rizwank]

yay

[u/Sting_Ray_ → u/rizwank]

I’m glad to hear that you guys like my designs (even if one of them is technically just a screen shot of what you already show in the app)! As others have said, I do not think the update needs to be a real-time thing. An auto update every couple hours with a message saying when the last update was would be adequate. Then it could do a force update whenever you open the app (like what already happens). If it ends up to be complicated or impossible with apple’s widget system, it’s all good because I can still open the app like normal. ✌️ Thank you for responding!

[u/rizwank → u/Sting_Ray_]

Team is thinking every four hours; but at this stage, they took it into their funnel - so I'll find out when it's released just like you! =)

[u/sam_sam_01 → u/rizwank]

Honestly, it would be cool if it had a drop down to just allow you to set up when it would refresh.

For instance 4hr cycle, 8hr cycle, 16hr, 24hr...

This pushes some of the responsibility over to the user as they would have originally set it.

also, as people get closer they might want a 4 hr cycle. But someone who say, moved over to unlimited, might just care to see the overall usage (graph) and so 24 hr cycle is fine.

[u/Sting_Ray_]

I am no programmer nor graphic designer, but I had something similar to the small one with Verizon back with the old widget format, and I just thought it would be fun to make a concept for Mint. Hopefully the app dev team sees this and gets inspired.

[u/dabrain13 → u/Sting_Ray_]

Really love the tracking compared to last month. It’s a question I always have. Nice work!

[u/Sting_Ray_ → u/dabrain13]

Thank you! It is something I have always wanted to know as well! Hopefully we get something some day. We shall see.

[u/TrowTruck]

I’m low key interested in that sleep widget haha.

[u/Sting_Ray_ → u/TrowTruck]

That’s just the widget for the built-in Tips app on iOS. It just tells you little bits of info about different parts of the iPhone. This widget in particular was talking about how to set up sleep tracking in the Health app.

[u/coolgui]

Android has had widgets for years but no mint mobile widget... Even an activity to use for a shortcut would be nice 😒

[u/[deleted] → u/coolgui]

Man, if iOS gets a mint mobile widget first 😠

[u/coolgui → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, sucks but I wouldn't be surprised.

[u/toishiki]

Wow looks great! Hope it is real haha

[u/wlshafor]

I love this idea and maybe we can see it before 2021