Apple's Dark Sky Weather App Gains Improved Location Search and Other New Features

[MacRumors]

Apple in March purchased popular iOS weather app Dark Sky, and has begun integrating the Dark Sky features into iOS with the release of iOS 14. The Dark Sky app, priced at $3.99, continues to be available, and today Apple released an update for the app.

Dark Sky version 6.8.5 features a new extra large watch complication to be used with watchOS 7, and it includes improved location search with more suggested and relevant results to make it easier to find just what you're looking for.

There's also a new location icon to indicate when Precise Location has been disabled in the iOS 14 Privacy settings, and there's a fix for an issue that could cause a duplicate forecast page after moving it from Recent Searches to Saved.

Apple in iOS 14 introduced real-time minute-by-minute precipitation readings for the Weather app, which is something that Dark Sky specializes in. The Weather app also now supports severe weather events and provides details on when there will be a significant shift in weather coming up.

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[farewelwilliams]

android users feeling the rain today

 

[macsplusmacs]

Widget?

 

[Drew Johnston]

I have been using DarkSky for years now, but hate that you can't get the app in Canada... Always says not available in my country, so I am forced to use the website version.

 

[iLoveDeveloping]

Anyone else having issue with location in iOS 14? Even maps app can’t find my exact location like iOS13 could unless I go outside to get GPS. When I was using iOS13 maps (and apps) showed me sitting in my exact house on the map. Since ios14 it’s like a 5-600 meter “location”. And before you say it, I have precise location NO! That’s the first thing I witched on. It’s just not finding me like before on WiFi networks. It’s really frustrating!

 

[macsplusmacs]

Nope. No widget.

 

[Bornee35]

I have been using DarkSky for years now, but hate that you can't get the app in Canada... Always says not available in my country, so I am forced to use the website version.

Try carrot weather. It uses the dark sky API

 

[cjake]

App Store still shows 6.8.4 as the current version, not 6.8.5

 

[rwilliams]

It's weird that this is now an Apple app and there's no widget for it.

 

[Steve121178]

Try carrot weather. It uses the dark sky API

It probably won't when that agreement ends though.

 

[reallynotnick]

I can't figure out if I should buy Dark Sky or if Apple is just going to make it free/discontinue it in favor of their own weather app, it's been weird since they bought it since it isn't clear what they want to do with it i.t

 

[masterleep]

Maybe someday the Weather app for phone will work on iPad. It's only been a decade.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I can't figure out if I should buy Dark Sky or if Apple is just going to make it free/discontinue it in favor of their own weather app, it's been weird since they bought it since it isn't clear what they want to do with it i.t

I wouldn’t buy it right now. It is a good app but, it may not be around as for much longer it is current state.

 

[Gator5000e]

The old widget still works, just has to go on the old widget screen, not the first page of the home screen.

 

[ryanasimov]

What watch faces does the "extra large complication" work with?

 

[DocMultimedia]

Still my favorite weather app, but widgets would be nice, and with Apple owning it you never know when it will get pulled. Similar to Snapseed. Google bought it and they continue to update every so often.

 

[moarpower]

App Store still shows 6.8.4 as the current version, not 6.8.5

Mine updated to 6.8.5, 19 hours ago

 

[RockTheGlobe]

Maybe Apple will finally launch a native Weather app for iPad. Federighi is so intent on making it "distinctive" and "great in the space," but it's not like they haven't put in effort over the past several years to make other, minor things render well on iPad.

 

[GadgetBen]

I feel like Apple could have done much more with this given the time they have had.

Not even a widget for the new iOS!

 

[drinkingtea]

Dark Sky never gets my weather forecast right, which is annoying. It'd be nice to use the app.

 

[ignatius345]

Dark Sky is pretty great. Their alerts have been generally spot on for locations I've used it.

I find that, for US locations, this NOAA graphic gives me everything I want in a forecast in one glance. (This is the link to the NYC version, but you can find yours under "hourly weather forecast" when viewing the weather for your city on their site.)

 

[Powermax]

Still not available in my country. Is this US only?

 

[Nishko]

I wish Dark Sky finally came to Europe. It has the best UI really and the accuracy seems to be fine.

 

[fbara]

I always found Dark Sky to be very inaccurate with the forecasts, at least for my area.

I’ve used Forecast Advisor (forecastadvisor.com) to help guide me to the most accurate forecasts.

 

[fivenotrump]

USA, UK, and Ireland: so not much Europe yet...