Can somebody bring me up to speed on the changes in iOS 18 to resource constraints in widgets? They go into a crash loop if images are over a certain size? But what is the size? And is it different per-device?
It looks to be about 500x500 for a small widget, if I'm reading the logs right. Not 512, because why would it be 😛
@stroughtonsmith I believe there are 3 different resource limits (which have all existed since widgets started, but some got stricter in iOS18).
1) a 30MB memory limit while refreshing the widget
2) an archive size limit on the complexity of the swiftui view
3) an image resolution limit
2&3 seem to vary based on device/size and I believe are not specifically documented. Generally for #3 the limit seems roughly the size of a widget’s pixel bounds. So you have to resize down based on family.
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