Yes. There is the option to migrate to the Apple Weather API for third party apps. There is a cost per use for this to the developer.
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Apple Pushes Dark Sky Users to Revamped Weather App as Shutdown Looms
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I will miss the UI for Dark Sky.
I find Carrot to be quite nice, and the free version (one location) works just fine, and you still get as much snark as you can handle 🤪.
Foreca is also very nice, again for the free version.
I find Carrot to be quite nice, and the free version (one location) works just fine, and you still get as much snark as you can handle 🤪.
Foreca is also very nice, again for the free version.
Stock has has alerts, as I’ve gotten them, eg. rain in 5 minutes, smog alerts, frost/freeze alerts. I’m using 4 weathers till the end of Dark Sky just to compare & contrast. The alerts do not pop-up at the same time though, so you’ll want to try and find the best for your area.
I like dark sky best and it seems like i have tried many weather apps. The apple app is not very useful. I do have carrot for my watch and use radarscope to track storms. I loved how dark sky predicted storm fronts day in advance and how you can use the slider to go back and forth in time.
Downloaded Ventusky as my latest dark sky replacement and it has some possibility but is not nearly as clean or easy to use.
Downloaded Ventusky as my latest dark sky replacement and it has some possibility but is not nearly as clean or easy to use.
Right now we are under a freeze watch. Weather Channel popped an alert and has a banner in the app.
Carrot Weather banner in the app. (Don’t have alerts turned on)
Alexa app push notification and yellow ring on devices.
Stock App? Nothing no push no banner inside the app no info whatsoever about the advisory.
Before someone asks, yes I have notifications turned on for my current location and the city itself.
It makes no sense I live in a city outside of Atlanta every app except the stock app is getting proper weather alerts. The alerts in the other apps all showed up in a 15 minute span and it’s been over an hour now.
Also everyone is talking about Carrot which I’m grandfathered into a plan but it’s data comes from Dark Sky so isn’t it on the chopping block too?
Totally agree. Dark Sky still has a much easier way to show when to expect rain and by what percentage is the likelihood. In the revamped Apple Weather, you have to make several clicks to get that information. In Dark Sky, that information is just right there.
I can live with the new iOS weather map, especially with the graphs they added in iOS 16, but the watch app desperately needs an update. The weird dial view that only shows 10 hours ahead isn’t very helpful when I want to see what tomorrow morning looks like
Is there any app out there that can replace the 1-hr precipitation forecast graph?
anyone know a good alternative that works like dark sky on the watch and the phone? the stock weather app is trash on the watch. its so annoying they’re retiring this app. 🤦♀️
The Dark Sky API is now rebranded as WeatherKit:
WeatherKit - Apple Developer
WeatherKit brings valuable weather information to your apps and services through a wide range of data that can help people stay up to date, safe, and prepared.
Apple’s weather app is one of the worst user interfaces imaginable. Information should be attainable at a glance - open the app, have readily quick access to everything at a glance. It’s not even close, it draws your eyes all over the place, you have to scroll, click, transition between tabs and windows to get a clear understanding of all the necessities of weather.
Truly awful. Laughably bad.
Don’t know about the watch, but for iOS I use Hello Weather.
Will use it til it stops, ends and dies. Too bad they will shut DarkSky down.
Love the widgets on my Macs. No need to open apps to see the weather forecasts. Unless I am out and uses iPhone of course.
I checked AccuWeather awhile, api was ok but not more. There's more to check when DarkSky totally dies one day.
Love the widgets on my Macs. No need to open apps to see the weather forecasts. Unless I am out and uses iPhone of course.
I checked AccuWeather awhile, api was ok but not more. There's more to check when DarkSky totally dies one day.
Dark Sky isn't glanceable either. It actually shows less information than Apple Weather and requires MORE scrolling.
The Weather app has gotten much better in recent years thanks to the Dark Sky data.
Rain prediction is dreadful in the Apple app. It frequently contradicts itself. Daily summary will say no rain is expected in the next 24 hours, right next to a chart showing rain at specific times in the same period. 
It is. I’ve asked Siri if it’s rainin, she said no….but it was, and continued to rain for 30 minutes last week 😳🫣Rain prediction is dreadful in the Apple app. It frequently contradicts itself. Daily summary will say no rain is expected in the next 24 hours, right next to a chart showing rain at specific times in the same period.
I have the DarkSky forecast.io graph embedded in my community weather web page. I haven't found any indication that Apple is going to have the equivalent web link. My viewers really like the simplicity of the current view. At least this should continue working until the end of March.
I want Apple to buy the Allergy Plus app or some other allergy reporting app so that I can just ask Siri what allergens are out and the pollen count. That should be reported in the Weather app, but it never seems to be. This is almost as important as hyper local weather but unfortunately Apple doesn’t seem to think so.
I know right!? all the information should be on the page that you can scroll and the drop down menu can be a filter. Best of both world.
You would think so, but in the case of the UK they must using a different source as I get different forecasts with each App, the Dark Sky app is generally more accurate. Going to miss Dark Sky as I tend to use it still in preference to the Apple one.