Widgets for apps not available when app moved to SD card

After the 4.3 update to my S4 all of my Widgets for installed apps were missing from my pages.

I looked at this closely and found that if the app was moved to the SD card the Widgets for the related app were not available on my pages anymore.

When I move the app back to the device then the Widgets reappeared in the Widgets tab, and then I could put them back on a page.

I tried reinstalling the apps that had the Widgets I wanted, and then moved them to the SD card again, but that did not correct the issue.

Hopefully this gets fixed or is there a workaround?

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Ann154

That's the way Android has always worked since they first allowed apps to be installed on the SD card in Android 2.2. It is also one of the reasons why default/stock Android OS doesn't allow applications to be installed on the external SD card. Samsung added the code back on some of their devices. Since Android 2.2, if you need your widgets to work the application must be installed on the internal memory space on the device.

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Ann154

Raal

No, it was changed in the update before the latest one. I was able to put apps on the SD card and still have Widgets available.

The last update took that capability away. Still waiting for an update that will again allow the use of Widgets from apps moved to the SD card.

Tidbits

It has always been that way. The reason why it was done this way was because if the device was ever restarted widgets would never load if they were on the home screen.