How to Add Kraken Widgets to Your iPhone Home Screen

Want your portfolio at a glance the moment you wake your phone? Adding a Kraken widget to your iPhone Home Screen takes less than a minute, and once it is there you never have to open an app to check a price again. This guide walks you through the exact steps to add a crypto widget to your iPhone using Widgets for Kraken, then shows you how to customize it and fix it if it ever stops updating.

Widgets for Kraken is an independent, third-party app for the Kraken exchange. It connects to your account read-only, so it can display your balances, prices, and profit and loss, but it can never trade, deposit, or withdraw. Your data stays on your device and syncs through your own iCloud.

Which Kraken home screen widgets are available?

Before you add anything, it helps to know your options. Widgets for Kraken offers a full range of Home Screen widgets in every size Apple supports, so you can pick the one that matches how you like to track the market:

• Single-coin widget — track one asset with its live price and 24h change. Great for a coin you are watching closely.
• Multi-coin widget — show several coins side by side in the medium or large size for a quick market overview.
• Portfolio widget — see your total balance, allocation, and 24h or all-time profit and loss at a glance.
• Small, medium, and large sizes — smaller sizes keep it minimal, larger sizes pack in more coins, a mini chart, and more detail.

Prices update live over WebSocket while the app refreshes in the background, so your Kraken widget on iPhone stays close to real time rather than showing a stale number from hours ago.

Customize your widget

Once a widget is on your Home Screen, long-press it and tap Edit Widget any time to fine-tune what it shows, depending on the size and type you picked:

• Coins — select a single asset, or for multi-coin widgets choose the exact list of coins you want to follow.
• Portfolio vs price — switch between your total balance with allocation and a pure price ticker.
• P&L window — show 24h change or all-time profit and loss depending on what matters to you.
• Appearance — color accents and an optional mini chart adapt to light and dark mode automatically.
• Size — remove the widget and re-add a larger size to fit more coins, a chart, and extra detail.

You can add as many widgets as you like — for example a small single-coin widget next to a large portfolio widget — and stack them so they share one slot and you swipe between them.

Widget not showing or updating? Quick fixes

If your Kraken home screen widget is not appearing, not updating, or shows an old price, work through these checks in order — one of them almost always solves it:

• Confirm you are signed in — open Widgets for Kraken and make sure your Kraken account is still connected. If the session expired, reconnect and the widget will refresh.
• Check Background App Refresh — go to Settings, General, Background App Refresh and make sure it is on for Widgets for Kraken, so it can update prices while you are not in the app.
• Make sure you are online — a widget showing a stale price often just means the device lost connection. Open the app once to force a fresh fetch.
• Stay off Low Power Mode — it throttles background updates, which can leave a widget looking frozen until you open the app.
• Re-add the widget — if a widget is blank or stuck, long-press it, choose Remove Widget, then add it again following the steps above. This clears most glitches.

Ready to put your portfolio on your Home Screen? Download Widgets for Kraken from the App Store, start your free trial, sign in to Kraken read-only, and add your first widget in under a minute. A lifetime purchase is also available if you would rather pay once.