Widgets, Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight

Orrique reaches beyond its own screens. You can keep your scent of the day on your Home Screen or Lock Screen, log a wear with your voice or a single tap from Control Center, search your collection from Spotlight, get a gentle reminder to log or rate, and follow a live wear on the Lock Screen. This article covers all of those system surfaces: Home and Lock Screen widgets, the Quick-Log control, Siri and Shortcuts, Spotlight search, notifications, and the wear-session Live Activity.

In short

Almost every system surface works without opening the app. The one piece that needs Pro is the wear-session reminder. Everything else is Free.

When to use this

Reach for these when you want Orrique to fit into the rest of your day without opening the app every time:

• You want to see today’s pick, your streak, or a bottle running low at a glance.
• You want to log a wear in one tap or by talking to Siri.
• You want to find a scent quickly from your Home Screen or your Mac.
• You want a daily nudge to log a scent, or a reminder the next day to rate how it wore.
• You are tracking a wear live and want to watch it dry down from your Lock Screen.

Most of these are on iPhone and iPad. A few differ by device, which is called out in each section and again under Good to know.

How to use it

Pick the surface you want and jump straight to it:

Home Screen widgets

Six widgets, from a small streak to a large scent of the day. Jump to Home Screen widgets

Lock Screen widgets

Tinted accessory shapes plus one-tap Quick Actions. Jump to Lock Screen widgets

Quick-Log control

Log a wear in one press from Control Center or the Action button. Jump to the Quick-Log control

Siri and Shortcuts

Log by voice, or build Orrique into your own shortcuts. Jump to Siri and Shortcuts

Spotlight search

Find any scent from your Home Screen or your Mac. Jump to Spotlight

Visual Intelligence

Point the camera at a bottle and match it to your shelf. Jump to Visual Intelligence

Notifications

Morning prompt, next-day rating, and the dry-down nudge. Jump to Notifications

Live Activity

Follow a wear and its dry-down from the Lock Screen. Jump to the Live Activity

Home Screen widgets

Orrique offers six Home Screen widgets, each doing one job:

Widget	What it shows
Scent of the Day	Today’s logged scent, or a pick if you have not logged yet, with quick Wear, Log, and Rate buttons. Comes in small, medium, and large sizes. The large size also shows your last seven days, a scent waiting for its rating, and your lowest bottle.
Rhythm	Your current wear streak and the last seven days.
Pinned Scent	One scent you choose, with its rating, wear count, and when you last wore it.
Rate Yesterday	A scent you wore that is still waiting for a next-day rating.
Running Low	The bottles with the least left, so a near-empty favorite does not surprise you. The medium size lists up to three.
Scent Fingerprint	Today’s scent drawn as its living seal, the shape of what you are wearing.

To add one:

1. Touch and hold an empty area of your Home Screen until the icons jiggle.
2. Tap the plus button in the top corner.
3. Search for or scroll to Orrique.
4. Swipe to the widget and size you want, then tap Add Widget.
5. Tap Done.

To remove a widget, touch and hold it and choose Remove Widget. To change one, touch and hold it and tap Edit Widget (where the widget supports editing, such as Pinned Scent).

Pinning a specific scent

The Pinned Scent widget lets you choose which scent it shows:

1. Touch and hold the widget.
2. Tap Edit Widget.
3. Tap the scent field and pick the scent you want to keep on your Home Screen.

A freshly added Pinned Scent widget shows a “Pick a scent” prompt until you choose one, so it never silently stands in a different scent.

Logging from a widget

On the medium Scent of the Day widget, a “Wear it” button appears when nothing is logged yet. Tapping it opens the log screen already set to today’s pick. The medium Pinned Scent widget has the same “Wear it” button for the scent you pinned. Tapping any other part of a widget opens the matching screen in the app (Today, the scent’s detail, the rating screen, and so on).

When a widget logs without a named scent, it uses the day’s suggested pick, the same pick the Today screen shows. See Today for how that pick is chosen.

Lock Screen widgets

On iPhone, Orrique also offers Lock Screen widgets in the small inline, circular, and rectangular shapes, plus a Quick Actions accessory with one-tap “Log” and “Add” buttons. Several of the named Home Screen widgets, including Scent of the Day, Pinned Scent, Rhythm, Running Low, and Scent Fingerprint, also appear as Lock Screen accessory shapes, so you can keep the same widgets below your clock, not only a generic set plus Quick Actions.

1. Touch and hold your Lock Screen, then tap Customize (you may need to unlock first).
2. Tap your Lock Screen, then tap the widget area below the clock.
3. Find Orrique and tap or drag the widget you want into a slot.
4. Tap Done.

Lock Screen widgets are tappable and take on your Lock Screen tint, so they read as part of the wallpaper rather than a colored card.

Quick-Log control (Control Center, Lock Screen, and Action button)

Orrique includes a control that logs a wear in one press, without opening the app. You can add it to Control Center, your Lock Screen, or assign it to the Action button on supported iPhones.

To add it to Control Center:

1. Swipe down from the top-right of your screen to open Control Center.
2. Tap the plus button (or touch and hold an empty area) to add a control.
3. Tap Add a Control and search for Orrique’s “Quick-Log a Scent.”
4. Touch and hold the control and choose the scent it should log. If you leave it unset, it logs the day’s suggested pick.

When you press the control, it logs a wear of that scent in the background, using its usual sprays, placement, and occasion, then briefly confirms. The control’s label always shows the exact scent a press will log, so it never quietly logs something else.

Siri and Shortcuts

You can run Orrique by voice or build it into your own shortcuts. Some phrases act in the background and confirm out loud, others open the app to a screen:

Say this	What it does	Where it happens
”Open Orrique” or “Show today in Orrique”	Opens the app to Today	Opens the app
”Wear [scent name] in Orrique” or “Quick-log [scent name] in Orrique”	Logs a wear of that scent with its usual settings	Background
”Log a scent in Orrique”	Asks which scent you wore, then logs it	Opens the app
”Log a formula in Orrique”	Logs a layered formula	Opens the app
”Add a scent in Orrique” or “Scan a bottle in Orrique”	Starts adding a scent	Opens the app
”Rate yesterday in Orrique”	Opens the rating screen	Opens the app
”Save a scent rating in Orrique”	Records a rating	Background
”What is my most worn scent in Orrique”	Answers out loud or on screen	Background
”What did I last wear in Orrique”	Answers out loud or on screen	Background
”How many scents do I have in Orrique”	Answers out loud or on screen	Background

To use the Shortcuts app:

1. Open Shortcuts and tap the plus to create a new shortcut.
2. Tap Add Action and search for Orrique.
3. Pick an action (for example Log a Scent, Open a Scent, or Log a Formula).
4. Fill in any details the action asks for, then save and run it.

When you say “Wear [scent name],” Siri logs a wear using that scent’s usual settings. If you say “Log a scent” without naming one, Siri asks which scent you wore. The full “Log a Scent” action also lets you set sprays, a placement zone, notes, and the date worn. If you leave those out, it uses sensible defaults (one spray by default, today’s date).

The read-only questions (most worn, last worn, collection summary) answer out loud or on screen without opening the app.

Spotlight search

Orrique adds your scents to your device’s search, so you can find them from the Home Screen or your Mac:

1. Swipe down on the Home Screen (iPhone or iPad), or press Command and Space on a Mac.
2. Type a brand, a scent name, a note, or a tag.
3. Tap a result to open that scent in Orrique.

You can also include your diary entries in search. Turn that on in Settings under Privacy, with “Include diary in Spotlight search.”

Visual Intelligence (iPhone)

On iPhone models with Apple Intelligence, you can point the camera (or share a screenshot) at a fragrance bottle and Orrique can surface matching scents from your collection in the Visual Intelligence results. Tapping a result opens that scent’s detail in the app. If nothing in your collection matches what the system reads, no results appear.

Notifications

Orrique can send a few gentle local reminders. You manage them in Settings, on the Notifications screen:

• Morning scent prompt: a daily “Today’s scent” reminder at the time you choose. Turn on “Morning scent prompt,” then set the Morning time. Tapping the notification, or its “Log a Scent” button, opens the log screen.
• Next-day rating reminder: a reminder the day after you wear a scent, so you remember to rate how it held up. Turn on “Next-day rating reminder” and set the Next-day time. Tapping it, or its “Rate Now” button, opens the rating screen.
• Wear session reminders Pro: when on, you get a single quiet “drying down” nudge during a tracked wear, around when the scent is projected to settle into its base notes, plus an automatic recap when the session ends.
• Silent (no sound): turn this on to deliver all of Orrique’s reminders without a sound.

The first time

The first time you turn on a reminder, the app asks permission to send notifications.

Live Activity (tracking a wear on the Lock Screen)

When you start a wear session, a Live Activity appears on your iPhone or iPad Lock Screen (and in the Dynamic Island on supported iPhones). It shows the scent, a live elapsed timer, a dry-down progress bar, and the current phase (top, heart, or base), all tinted in the scent’s color.

1. In Orrique, start tracking a wear (for example from the Today screen). You can also say “Start a wear in Orrique,” and later “End a wear in Orrique” or “Resume a wear in Orrique.”
2. The Live Activity appears on your Lock Screen and ticks live.
3. Tap the “Check-in” button to record a check-in, or tap the activity itself to open the app and add a note.

When you end the session in the app, the Live Activity goes away right away.

On the Dynamic Island

On iPhone models with the Dynamic Island, the same wear shows there too. The compact state shows the scent’s color and elapsed time at a glance, and tapping to expand reveals the scent name, the live timer, the dry-down progress, and the current phase.

What to expect

• Widgets open the app at the right place when tapped: Today, a scent’s detail, the rating screen, your insights, and so on. The “Wear it” buttons open the log screen pre-set to that scent.
• The Quick-Log control, Siri logging, and Shortcuts logging record the wear in the background and confirm with a short message (“Logged [scent] in Orrique”). Your widgets refresh to match.
• Spotlight and Visual Intelligence results open the scent (or diary entry) you tapped.
• Notifications open the matching screen when tapped. Their action buttons (Log, Rate) can act without fully opening the app.
• The Live Activity updates as your wear progresses and clears as soon as the session ends.

A wear you log from a widget, control, or Siri shows up in your diary and your stats. If you logged it while the app was closed, the app reconciles it the next time it runs, so the numbers across the widgets, Today, and your diary agree.

Good to know

Device differences

Surface	iPhone	iPad	Mac	Apple Watch
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets	Yes	Yes	No	No
Quick-Log control	Yes	Yes	No	No
Visual Intelligence	Yes	Yes	No	No
Wear-session Live Activity	Yes	Yes	No	No
Siri and Shortcuts	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Spotlight	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, the Quick-Log control, Visual Intelligence, and the wear-session Live Activity are iPhone and iPad features. The Mac app does not use these. On Mac, you get a menu bar status item, the app menus, and keyboard shortcuts instead (see the Mac App article).
• Apple Watch has its own app and a “Today’s Pick” complication, which is the Watch equivalent of these widgets, rather than Home or Lock Screen widgets. See the Apple Watch article.
• The Quick-Log control and Visual Intelligence require a recent iPhone (Control Center controls and Visual Intelligence are newer system features), and Visual Intelligence needs Apple Intelligence hardware.
• Spotlight works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, but not on Apple Watch.

Pro requirements

Pro on this screen

Wear session reminders Pro (the dry-down nudge and the auto-recap) are the only gated feature here. The toggle shows a Pro badge until you upgrade. Everything else is Free: the Home and Lock Screen widgets, the Quick-Log control, Siri and Shortcuts, Spotlight, the morning prompt, and the next-day rating reminder. See Pro Subscription.

Answers to common questions

How do widgets and the control read my data?

To stay fast and lightweight, widgets and the Quick-Log control read a slimmed-down copy of your journal that leaves out bottle photos. This is why they show a drawn bottle shape rather than your photo. They update right away when you change something in the app. If the app has not run for a while, there can be a longer delay before they refresh, since the system controls how often widgets reload.

A few widgets show only one thing on purpose: Rate Yesterday surfaces a single scent waiting to be rated, and Running Low leads with your lowest bottle (the medium Running Low lists up to three). The Quick-Log control will refuse to log if the scent you set it to is no longer wearable (for example moved to your wishlist), and it tells you why rather than logging the wrong thing.

Why does Siri not know a scent I just added?

When you add a new scent, Siri learns its name the next time you open the app. So if “Wear [new scent] in Orrique” is not recognized right away, open Orrique once and try again.

Does Spotlight search sync through iCloud?

Your device builds its own Spotlight index. It is not shared through iCloud. On a new device, your scents appear in search once your collection finishes downloading and the index is built. Including diary entries in Spotlight is optional and stays off until you turn it on. Turning it on does not change where your journal lives: it stays on your device unless you have iCloud Sync enabled.

Are notifications and the Live Activity per device?

These reminders are scheduled on your device, not sent from a server, so they will not appear on your other devices at the same time and do not survive erasing the device. Your reminder settings (which reminders are on, and their times) do follow you across devices when iCloud Sync is on. The Live Activity is shown only on the device where the wear is being tracked, and it relies on the system allowing Live Activities. If you have turned Live Activities off in your system settings, none will appear.

If something is not working

A few small things can make a surface look stuck. Most clear up on their own:

• A widget or control looks out of date. The system decides how often widgets reload, so there can be a delay after the app has not run for a while. Open Orrique once to nudge a refresh.
• Siri does not recognize a scent you just added. Open Orrique once so Siri can learn the new name, then try the phrase again.
• Search has no results on a new device. Spotlight rebuilds its own index per device. Wait for your collection to finish downloading, then let the index catch up.
• The Quick-Log control will not log. If the scent it is set to is no longer wearable (for example moved to your wishlist), the control refuses and tells you why. Set it to a wearable scent.

For anything that persists, see Troubleshooting.

Related articles

Today Where the day's pick comes from, and how to log or start a wear.

Apple Watch The Watch app and the Today's Pick complication.

Mac App The menu bar item, menus, and keyboard shortcuts that replace widgets on Mac.

iCloud and Sync What follows you across devices, and what stays local.

Troubleshooting Fixes for stuck widgets, Siri, and Spotlight.