What were you doing: Testing out the random note widget.
What happened: Tapping on the random note widget (home screen and lock screen) takes me to a random note. Exiting back to the home screen or lock screen and then tapping it again shows the same random note.
What did you expect to happen: I would expect every tap of the random note control to show me a new, random note.
Unsure if this is a bug report or feature request but it’s a bummer I can’t use Random Note as a way to bounce around randomly in my note archive. I’d love a way through a widget, (or even in the UI) to just continually ask for random notes.
I just tried it. I had the same result as you. However, I don’t know how that widget is supposed to work, as I’ve never used it before. Meaning, how frequent is it supposed to offer a new random note? On iPadOS 17, it is showing me a preview of the note in the widget, so in that sense it is working properly by giving me what I see in the widget when I tap on it. So, how often is the widget supposed to “rotate to a new note?”
So it’s not an iOS 17 issue. Not sure if it’s a bug or feature request at this point but functionally I feel it would be much nicer if you launching the random note forced the widget to refresh.
I’m not on iOS beta, and can confirm I have the same behavior.
I am guessing that Bear now shows a new note every few hours. (I didn’t really count/time, but that’s my impression.)
I would like it to show me a new random note every time I press it. The reason is – that I could then do a daily, for example, 15-min session of random notes review!
Hello Gavin,
yes, the random note widget is not supposed to refresh on tap and provide a new random note every hour. However I can see this as a possible enhancement of how the widgets work and we’ll check if it’s doable.