Can an API POSTT "Start Timer" Script also start the IOS lock screen timer?

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I have written a JS API script that I run from my IOS device to start the timer as per the script below.

It starts the timer across my iPhone, iPad and Mac when I open the Toggl app, however it does not start the lock screen widget timer on the IOS devices. The Mac menu bar timer does show up though which is nice.

I am currently using the Scriptables app and IOS shortcuts to start the timer.

If I start the timer inside the Toggl app itself then the lockscreen widget timer will be displayed on the one device I started the timer on.

But I cannot figure out how to get the lockscreen widget to also show up using the API call - and ideally it’d be great if it could show up on both IOS devices.

Is this possible at all?

// icon-color: red; icon-glyph: clock;

// ===== CONFIG =====
const TOGGL_API_TOKEN = "SuperSecretToken";
const DEFAULT_SESSION_NAME = "Work Session";

// ===== GET WORKSPACE ID =====
async function getWorkspaceId() {
  const tokenString = `${TOGGL_API_TOKEN}:api_token`;
  const authHeader = Data.fromString(tokenString).toBase64String();

  const req = new Request("https://api.track.toggl.com/api/v9/me");
  req.headers = { "Authorization": `Basic ${authHeader}` };

  const response = await req.loadJSON();
  return response.default_workspace_id || response.workspaces?.[0]?.id;
}

// ===== START TOGGL TIMER =====
async function startTogglTimer(description) {
  const tokenString = `${TOGGL_API_TOKEN}:api_token`;
  const authHeader = Data.fromString(tokenString).toBase64String();
  const workspaceId = await getWorkspaceId();

  const req = new Request("https://api.track.toggl.com/api/v9/time_entries");
  req.method = "POST";
  req.headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Authorization": `Basic ${authHeader}`
  };
  req.body = JSON.stringify({
    description: description,
    workspace_id: workspaceId,
    duration: -1,
    start: new Date().toISOString(),
    created_with: "Scriptable Pomodoro"
  });

  try {
    const response = await req.loadJSON();
    console.log("Timer started ✅", response);
    return response.id;
  } catch (e) {
    console.error("Failed to start Toggl timer ❌", e);
    return null;
  }
}

// ===== RUN =====
(async () => {
  const timerId = await startTogglTimer(DEFAULT_SESSION_NAME);
  if (timerId) console.log(`Started timer ID: ${timerId}`);
})();
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