I recently bought a new Samsung S24 Ultra phone. I exported my k-9 settings from my S21 Ultra and imported them into my S24. Everything worked fine except the unread emails widget is missing. I have seen other similar posts but this is where it gets a bit stranger. On the S21, I have version 6.802 of k-9 installed. The unread widget is still on my home screen and is working although it no longer appears as an installable widget.
On the S24 that also has 6.802 installed, there is no unread widget option to install at all.
So it looks like if you had the unread widget installed previously, it will still work but somewhere during a version upgrade, it disappeared as an installable widget.
Neither phone has “move to storage” options and I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling on the S24 but the widget is still missing. I don’t want to make any changes on the S21 since the home screen unread widget is still working but no longer an installable option. If I remove it, there is no way to get it back on the S21. Unfortunately I will have to send the S21 back in a few days because of the trade-in program.
If only there was a way to copy an installed widget from one phone to another.
I have seen several others who have mentioned the same issue where the unread widget doesn’t appear to be available to install. Does anyone have any ideas why or how to get the widget back? I had two phones with the same version of k-9 installed and one has the widget and the other was missing. Unfortunately I traded in the old phone. On the new phone there appears to be 3 k-9 widgets listed but I can only select 2 not 3. The unread widget does not appear. Very strange. .
If you wait long enough it may come back.
I had the same problem on Samsung devices, I cannot remember what the OS and One UI versions were at that time, but the widget is now available with K-9 6.904 on Samsung Tab S9 / Xcover6 Pro with Android 14 and One UI 6.1