Widgets and the Live Activity

Bolus can show your next meal outside the app, so the answer to “what am I eating next” is already on your screen.

The Home Screen widget

Next meal is a Bolus widget you can add to your Home Screen or as a Lock Screen accessory. It shows the next planned meal and whether its ingredients are ready.

To add it: touch and hold an empty part of your Home Screen, tap Edit, then Add Widget, search for Bolus, and pick the size you want.

Tapping the widget opens Bolus on that meal.

The Live Activity

About an hour before a planned meal, Bolus can put that meal on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island as a Live Activity, with whether the ingredients are ready and a tap through to the meal.

It ends on its own once you have marked the meal, and expires by itself if you do not. There is nothing to dismiss and nothing to set up: it uses the same notification permission as your reminders. See notifications.

If they are blank

• Straight after installing, give it a few minutes. The widget fills in once Bolus has your plan.
• “No meals planned” means there is no current plan, usually because the weekly review has not been done. See if you miss the review.
• “All done” means every meal today is already marked.