Carrot whether on iOS is best weather app out there. https://www.meetcarrot.com/weather/
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Apple Pushes Dark Sky Users to Revamped Weather App as Shutdown Looms
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The Weather app is quite useless here as it doesn’t use the local data and always provides wrong results, making people unprepared for the real situation.
Yes good bye Dark Sky, you were amazing.
But I do like the cross OS support that the new weather app we got with Apple purchasing Dark Sky in 2020. iOS/IPadOS and even MacOS now has a far superior weather app then being stuck with generic weather.com app that was never very accurate for location or predictions.
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So since many of us paid for DARK SKY weather app, are we're going to get a refund from APPLE? 🤔🤔
Dark Sky or not - Apple's Weather App is absolutely inaccurate and sucks. For weeks, it reports temperatures that are 20 degrees off of reality for anywhere near my zip code/location. They claim the data comes from Weather Channel - but its site reports totally different numbers which are relatively close to reality.
All 6 devices are on current OS releases and give the same worthless numbers. (E.g., like saying it is +18 when it is actually -5)
All 6 devices are on current OS releases and give the same worthless numbers. (E.g., like saying it is +18 when it is actually -5)
Close to Apple campuses it is linked to multiple local weather stations separated by zip code. But like every online service you could live in an area that doesn't offer much except by city only rather then multiple locations.
One of my most favorite apps of all time. I bought/gifted Dark Sky for at least a dozen friends back in the day too. I'm really going to miss the custom notifications for temperature and wind that I've set in Dark Sky which several times a year I absolutely need. I don't think Apple's "Weather" allows you to set custom notifications yet unless I totally missed it???
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That is a very good question. What's going to happen to our $3.99? Where did that money go?
Goodbye Dark sky - you had cloud cover which apple weather doesn't to see if you should have a picnic or if you are vitamin d deprived like
You had percentages of rain per hour which apple weather doesn't.
some other apps how how much sunshine per hour or per day!
We have gone back into the 'dark' ages😵
You had percentages of rain per hour which apple weather doesn't.
some other apps how how much sunshine per hour or per day!
We have gone back into the 'dark' ages😵
Well to look at those consumer WiFi connected air quality monitors that that https://fire.airnow.gov/ shows for Montana some states lack a good localization of weather stat providers. Same can be seen via https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap for Montana.
In the new weather app the cloudy icon and the rain icon (cloud with a teeny tiny droplet of water) are practically indistinguishable. I can’t tell at a glance if it’s gonna rain or not in the hourly view. That was so easy to tell in Dark Sky’s UI. I also prefer the vertical orientation of dark sky’s hourly view which took advantage of the large amount of vertical space so you could see what the hourly weather is gonna be on a particular day without scrolling. With the apple weather app there’s so much extra tapping to select drop downs then scrolling horizontally to see a timeframe in the future… it works but it’s clunky
I too love Dark Sky and it's UI, will miss it. I hate the fact that I can set the location tracking to 'While Using' for Dark Sky and still receive notifications, but for Weather app I need to change that to 'Always' to receive notifications.
I’m getting Yahoo Weather flashbacks.Agreed! Soon Apple will implement weather news and ads. Less is more!
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Anyone remember THAT s*** show? (Beautiful app, then they without warning introduced ads and utterly destroyed its beauty. Someone at Apple, maybe Ive, told Yahoo exec he was jealous of the yahoo weather app design)
RIP Yahoo weather. The OG best looking weather app.
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Which pops up the cities sidebar every time even though I’ve turned it off. Once the app unloads from RAM the sidebar returns taking up useless space
Dark sky should be kept open for another six months. And Apple should put more effort into learning why so many people prefer its UI.
It’s so easy to read, uncluttered and simple.
It feels very Apple like.
Apple’s weather app is a cluttered mess, with so many dials/panels and you can hide them or customise them.
It’s so easy to read, uncluttered and simple.
It feels very Apple like.
Apple’s weather app is a cluttered mess, with so many dials/panels and you can hide them or customise them.
See, buy the iPad then you won’t have issues with icons being too small…
…wait a minute. 🧐
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I agree it's a well-made OG weather app but it stopped getting the updates. It still has a lot of potentials. I love the UI weather data it shows.
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Apple Weather is so bad. It litterly said on top Drizzle with rain animation, Snow as the forecast directly underneath 😂😂😂. it was doing neither at the time... but at 26F it should be snowing. Dark Sky was just a much better layout for a vertical screen with better presentation of info. Bought Radarscope but its different use.
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In Las Vegas, September, we had a dust storm. I wish I had checked Dark Sky to check the weather during that day.
I’ll be using Dark Sky right up to the moment they throw the switch. I’ll miss it.
Going to miss the API. Had it running dew point, temperature and precipitation probability data daily.
It was very easy to use and much more accurate than any of the other open apis.
It was very easy to use and much more accurate than any of the other open apis.
No. You never get money back when apps go away. It's in the App Store rules. It's just like when you buy a regular OSX program and the developer decides to ditch the product.
I’m especially going to miss the Dark Sky Apple Watch complication. I wish Apple would add that as an option to their weather complications.