Temporarily disable today extension

Question

I have a today extension in my app that I want to leave out of the next version I submit to the App Store but keep in the project to submit in a later version.

I've tried removing it from the Target Dependencies of the container app target but it still shows up.

How can I do that?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 14 '15 at 23:55

In addition to removing the target dependencies, be sure to remove the appex from your embedded binaries.

From you main target scroll down and you'll find the Embedded Binaries section. I think your old extension binary is getting picked up in your build.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 15 '15 at 05:31

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I don't know if this suits your particular purpose, but another option is to prevent your Today extension from appearing in the Today center by calling setHasContent:

let bundleId = "com.mycompany.myapp.today"
NCWidgetController.widgetController().setHasContent(false,
                                                    forWidgetWithBundleIdentifier: bundleId)

It will still appear in the Edit screen, and users who have enabled it will still have it enabled, but you can hide it this way until you're ready to show it again, either in a later release, or perhaps when some dependency becomes available.

You can call this method either from the widget or your app.

answered Sep 15 '15 at 05:31

Christopher Pickslay

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Thanks, but I wanted it completely hide it as if the app didn't have an extension in the first place. – Hesham Sep 15 '15 at 06:53
@Hesham did you find a solution to this? – Manoj Mar 24 '21 at 04:49
This is no longer relevant, but the accepted answer worked for me back then. – Hesham Mar 25 '21 at 08:13

Temporarily disable today extension

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