Where did my desktop widgets go? They are gone.

someguynamedcarl wrote:

My desktop widgets are no longer on my desktop but the feature is still enabled in settings. They appear to vanish after the machine goes to sleep or displays a screensaver. I'm only running Apple-produced widgets on Sequoia 15.1 and have had this issue for several versions of MacOS. They have yet to reappear when I restart the machine. Does anyone know how to bring them back? Updating to 15.1 did not address it. Anyone have any suggestions for making them persist?

Make some changes to your settings and compare your results,

then come back to your preferred settings and test.

ref: Add and customize widgets on Mac

if no insight or resolve —A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies