Sad news. It has been one of my most used iOS apps for several years.
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Apple-Acquired Weather App Dark Sky Reminding Users That iOS App Shutting Down on January 1
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I’m in search of a new weather app. I used to love ‘weather line’ as its ui was gorgeous and simple. Dark sky was great too. This new iOS weather app bothers me, as you have to keep a finger on the screen too see the time on hour by hour view.
Liked Dark Sky but the accuracy of the rain forecast fell dramatically over the last 18 months..
Also its NEVER the same as the Apple Weather app and frankly I'd expect them to both be very similar so its weird they can be so different
Also its NEVER the same as the Apple Weather app and frankly I'd expect them to both be very similar so its weird they can be so different
See #25 above. If that doesn't enhance innovation nothing does.
Unless Dark Sky has some weather hardware/software that Apple does not have I cannot see the sense in Apple closing down Dark Sky because reading through the comments is appears many users of weather apps do not like Apple's weather app UI and much prefer Dark Sky's but now Apple is including Dark Sky into it's own weather app, an app it appears users do not like the UI. So, if there are weather app users who already did not like Apple's weather app UI, they are not going to use the app just because it incorpates Dark Sky. Apple have shot themselves in the foot with this one.
Yes - I think the original developers of Dark Sky are to be congratulated, but Apple is killing the app, not using it. Or at least that is my impression...
Are you on the iPadOS 16 beta? The weather app isn't included yet if you are still on 15.
Doesn't it work mostly on crowd sourced data, for upcoming precipitation and such? I thought that's what apple was using to send me notification about rain. Apple Weather has no feature to mark that it is raining, how will Apple get this info if they shutdown the app that crowdsources the data?
The new iPadOS 16 weather app on the iPad is quite nice imo and it includes all the features I needed from Dark Sky.
Same here.
Carrot lets users choose among several sources of weather data, Dark Sky being one of them. When the iOS Dark Sky app goes away, does Dark Sky as a source of weather data for other apps also go away?
Incorrect. Apple hasn’t gotten data from TWC since iOS 15.2. The app will tell you this.
From everything that I can see it is comparable...but for the life of me I cant find my single favorite feature, hour-by-hour chance of rain %age...I lived by that.
You know that independent owners tend to control all of Apple’s acquisitions. None are hostile takeovers and more often than not, all the employees get to work on their product with the insane resources available to employees of the worlds most valuable company.
The owners also tend to stick around for a while. Entrepreneurs can only sit still so long without feeling trapped.
Good that the functionality isn't going away. It's my go to app for weather. I have 'Storm Radar', but it's not as informational as Dark Sky. It blows the rest of the weather apps I've collected out of the water.
This is a shame since Apple’s own sound design team cited Dark Sky as an example of outstanding alert notification sound design.
Link to that presentation:
And Apple’s weather app doesn’t have nearly as many notification options as Dark Sky with its umbrella and sunscreen reminders, etc. bummer news.
Link to that presentation:
And Apple’s weather app doesn’t have nearly as many notification options as Dark Sky with its umbrella and sunscreen reminders, etc. bummer news.
When Apple removed Dark Sky from Android, they refunded Android users the cost of the App. Will Apple users of Dark Sky also be offered a refund?
Apple's getting ridiculous. The developers of Dark Sky should write another weather app that goes way beyond what Dark Sky was. Apple must have paid the dev's really well.
