Apple Weather App Experiencing Outage [Update: Fixed]

[Wx_Man]

Still hit or miss as of 7:00 am East Coast Time here in Florida April 29.

 

[dray100]

They claim it’s fixed lol not even the weather app still fails to load still bunch of bugs needed fixed iOS 26.5 should stay in 2 more betas before .

 

[Paul1964]

Nope. Never heard of it. Using myradar (provides some satellite and all the NWS watches and warnings I want), lightning pro and accuweather for basic current data. I find the individual apps work better.

I use Apple Weather and Windy. Windy has a really good lock screen widget - it gives me the next 5 days weather at a glance.

 

[ElectricPotato]

I've switched to Apple's Lemonade Stand. The UI is dated, but the soundtrack is groovy, accuracy is about the same and there is never a data outage.

 

[Nicky G]

This has been an ongoing issue for me for weeks, usually solved by force-quitting Weather (it will then start to pull forecast data again). Curious if anyone else has noticed this?

 

[AppleMega]

Like many in these comments, I too have had the data fail to load over the last few weeks. Force quitting Weather usually makes it appear.

 

[jml12286]

I wish I could use a different weather app on the watch as the default Apple weather is sometimes as much as 10 degrees or more different than all other weather data for my area.... Reported to Apple a few times with no fix. Not sure where they are pulling their weather data from but it is not accurate most of the time for me.
Apple please fix you data or at least let me choose a different source.

 

[ThomasJL]

Apple Weather was less buggy when Scott Forstall was leading iOS development. It also had more artistic graphics due to Forstall’s championing of skeuomorphism. But now, thanks to Tim Cook being clueless and mediocre, Apple Weather copied Microsoft’s tasteless flat design.

 

[Paul1964]

Apple Weather was less buggy when Scott Forstall was leading iOS development. It also had more artistic graphics due to Forstall’s championing of skeuomorphism. But now, thanks to Tim Cook being clueless and mediocre, Apple Weather copied Microsoft’s tasteless flat design.

I don't think Tim Cook is responsible for the Weather App design. He has people working for him that handle that.

Whether it's tasteless is a matter of opinion. I quite like the clean look.

 

[Vasilioskn]

Everytime it rains the apple weather app shows sunny with some clouds.

 

[Winterpark]

Hasn't worked for us in a long time. I have now deleted almost every native Apple app on our devices. Apple maps gone, Apple weather gone, Mail gone, Apple news gone......List goes on.

God I sure hope the new CEO fixes the company I once adored.

 

[Winterpark]

I don't think Tim Cook is responsible for the Weather App design. He has people working for him that handle that.

Whether it's tasteless is a matter of opinion. I quite like the clean look.

Tim Cook has been entirely responsible for the failures at Apple recently. He was the CEO. He leads everyone.

 

[jonblatho]

I wish I could use a different weather app on the watch as the default Apple weather is sometimes as much as 10 degrees or more different than all other weather data for my area.... Reported to Apple a few times with no fix. Not sure where they are pulling their weather data from but it is not accurate most of the time for me.
Apple please fix you data or at least let me choose a different source.

Apple Weather is brutally bad for areas with even remotely variable weather over the course of any given day, especially days with strong warm/cold fronts. I can only make an educated guess (as a degreed meteorologist), but it appears that Apple Weather relies solely on a blend of weather forecast models and does not directly ingest surface observations to adjust when the models' initialization conditions are wrong.

Observations get ingested into weather models for initialization conditions and then that gets thrown into the blend as model runs complete, which can take several hours. Models often underestimate the speed and intensity of cold fronts, especially strong ones, so on days with a strong cold front that's ahead of schedule, you can see Apple Weather religiously sticking to its guns on its incorrect forecast and showing "current" temperatures 10°F or more above actual until the forecast catches up to reality, either by simple timing offset or reality getting ingested into the forecast.

Not ingesting surface observations at all (again, seemingly) is a…fascinating choice. But Apple doesn't have to deal with the consequences in sunny, steady-state Cupertino. They should take a Great Plains spring/fall for a spin.

ETA: They seem to do better on "is it raining," but I can also tell you that the precipitation map displayed in the Weather app appears modeled. As of 11:40 PM CDT April 29, 2026, it shows a bullseye of moderate precipitation in east Texas about halfway between Houston and Tyler (see first screenshot). Compare that with the MRMS QCed reflectivity mosaic in the second screenshot and you can see it's more or less completely made up.

 

[fzJNotIBOxgnbqejSeVCvJScL]

I prefer a weather app that's platform agnostic and not part of any 'ecosystem'.

 

[Paul1964]

Tim Cook has been entirely responsible for the failures at Apple recently. He was the CEO. He leads everyone.

He's responsible for the company's overall direction and strategy - not individual design elements, though maybe he signs off on some of it.

If Tim is to be criticised it would be for allowing the company to lose focus on software quality on his watch. It's OK to focus on revenue but if you want that revenue to continue you need to also focus on what brings the revenue in, the products and services.

I'm interested to see the direction the new guy takes the company. Hopefully he'll have the passion that Steve Jobs had but without the arrogance that came with it.