• background location: always
• battery usage: unrestricted
• don't remove permissions for unused app

and then creating widgets.
For now widgets seem to work. But: they update only once per hour. Is this the intended behaviour? That would make the rain radar widget close to useless.
I now will set my settings and install my apps. I will come back, if the widgets refuse to do their work again. Cross your fingers ... :)

The impossible just takes a little longer!

Same happens whether battery use is set to Unrestricted or Optimised.

Unfortunately, none of these are planned right now. We used to have the auto animation for certain widgets in the far past, but it was technically difficult to update these widgets.

I'd also like to use the opportunity and ask that few things be considered for radar and satelite widgets:

1. Option to have continuous animation play
2. Option to be able to chose the frequency of widget update
3. Option to have transparency control for gray background on radar widget

Thanks in advance

1.Radar widget used to update and run continuously. Sometimes it would glitch but it was a single tap on refresh button and problem solved. It even had transparency option so one could opt out of having a giant gray square widget.

2.Now instead of a refresh button there is a menu that opens up settings and refresh buttons. So to refresh there has to be two taps instead of one. Two taps visually do nothing. Perhaps widget gets updated but it's not reflected in animation because you have to press play to activate it. Another tap. Infact, at least two taps are needed on play button to activate animation. First seems to be activating refresh and second activating animation that runs a few cycles and stops.

2. is overcomplicated, please go back to 1.

And updating widget notification is still perpetually there.

Thanks for your efforts

I'm giving unrestricted access to battery consumption, precise location and notifications just so I can have a widget that's refreshing information on hourly basis but not showing it unless I physically make almost as many clicks as it would take going through parent app???

Man this used to be simple, functional and visually pleasing.

They're not doing that.
Aside from having a perpetual "Updating widget" notification that never goes away, widget animations will cycle few times than stop at random point in their sequence. They will never restart on their own and I have to manually refresh them multiple times before they will update animations, cycle them few times, randomly stop again so I'm back to manually refreshing...