Everything New in the iOS 15 Weather App

[coachingguy]

I gave up on the limited Apple Weather app a while back… I’ve tried many apps, as a HS Coach, a reliable weather app with good reader is a must… hayd all th crap with the Weather Channel app… Used Darksky for awhile… Finally settled on AccuWeather abt a year ago… Hoping Apple steps up with iOS 15 Weather app… but not holding my breath.

coachingguy

 

[HiVolt]

Hey Apple, make it for iPadOS, along with the calculator.

I truly don't understand why in 11 years of the iPad, they still haven't made a weather app for the iPad.

Truly bizarre. the flippin' widget opens a flippin' webpage.

 

[SFjohn]

Hey Apple, make it for iPadOS, along with the calculator.

CalculatorPlus totally free iPad app, zero tracking.

 

[Shirasaki]

The Apple Watch solar face has them. So yeah.

Also, do you imagine that Apple’s target demographic is more ignorant than the average person? Because that would be a rather ignorant assumption to make.

Apple’s target demographic IS more ignorant than the average person, mostly. Intelligent people with critical thinking skills aren’t the majority.

So yeah, including these four different types of twilight doesn’t make too much sense in weathers app. But could be punched into another setting toggle so people can enable it, given data is provided.

 

[michaelant]

Crap, this is the first software thing my iPhone X won’t do. I like those animated weather backgrounds. Looks like I’ll miss out on a bunch of new ones. Otherwise, my iPhone X still feels fast.

 

[meson]

I gave up on the limited Apple Weather app a while back… I’ve tried many apps, as a HS Coach, a reliable weather app with good reader is a must… hayd all th crap with the Weather Channel app… Used Darksky for awhile… Finally settled on AccuWeather abt a year ago… Hoping Apple steps up with iOS 15 Weather app… but not holding my breath.

coachingguy

I like AccuWeather's forecast, but turn to Storm Radar for the basic radar functions. Storm Radar was awesome as a free app until it got purchased and paywalled the lightning strike and storm tracking layers.

 

[quietstormSD]

I actually have been using the weather app a bit more in the most recent iOS. Glad they are putting all these improvements on iOS 15. Now only if they can get the icon to show the current temp and conditions 🤔

 

[KenaiAndrews]

The A11 Bionic has left the chat ...

 

[citysnaps]

Will the app allow temperatures of 69?

Not if the raw temperature data Apple collects is in whole number Celsius degrees. And then converted to rounded whole number Fahrenheit degrees.

 

[entropys]

I am amused that on the temperature map you move into the red zone at temperatures above 80 Fahrenheit.

Americans can be such wusses.

 

[macduke]

As an absolute weather nerd I have a subscription to Snowflake Weather (Snowflake Plus) and RadarScope (Pro Tier Two). Those are the best ones I’ve found.

Once upon a time Weather Underground used to be good but they ruined the app and I got tired of dealing with all the crap so I left.

I love weather apps. I fully designed a weather app years ago but never built it. TBH it reminds me a lot of what Snowflake is today. You Mac guys know iStat? Same company makes Snowflake, Bjango. The Apple Watch app is nice too, while the iPad one could use some work since it’s just scaled up.

The nice thing about RadarScope is that the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac apps are all great. Living in the Midwest I use all of them frequently, including this evening when a line of severe storms came through. I like using it to spot tornadoes five minutes before the sirens go off, but I used to be a storm chaser and have a lot of experience deciphering everything from the basic velocity to correlation coefficients, and specific differential phase at various tilt angles using a higher resolution raw radar feed than you get from any other app. RadarScope is the gold standard for radar apps and I’ll fight you if you disagree, lol. I mean it’s got friggen shear contours and mesoscale outlooks baked into the map along with real-time storm chaser reports and conditions with damage and you can even use it to AirPlay and draw on it and use tools to calculate distance and you can tap on storms to view more info about the track direction and what time it will arrive to different locations and 30 archive of radar and you can save out the radars to different animation file formats and multiple panes to compare different scans and it’s just the best!!

 

[svish]

Weather maps are a great addition. Cool animations 😎. Precipitation alerts are also good. Overall quite a few improvements to the weather app

 

[contacos]

Redesign app: still doesn’t release it for iPad. Guess the M1 isn’t powerful enough to handle those weather animations on a big screen

/s

 

[ProMacs]

But will it display 69 degrees?

 

[matrix07]

You don't really expect Apple's target demographics to understand the difference between actual, civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight do you?

There are all 4 twilight on Apple Watch.

 

[GadgetBen]

Apple really hasn’t grasped why people use Dark Sky.

Here in the UK it rains a lot. We like to check the radar to see what might be coming in later and throughout the day. I tried the new app but I’ve reverted back to Dark Sky until it goes down.

Dark Sky just works Apple, don’t try and change it.

 

[hagar]

Looks great. And I’ll be a happy user. I would also love the precipitation alerts in my region.

But can’t help but feel Apple is slowly killing another market if they expand their stock apps too much.

 

[orbital~debris]

I’ve not seen any information about pollen forecast.

The dats seems to be available - the (UK) Met Office app can be configured to sen pollen alerts and these are fairly detailed, giving info on the types of pollens active on any day, and when certain spore seasons are starting/in full flow/ending along with an overall pollen count level.

This would also be a nice integration with Health app.

What’s pollen forecasting like elsewhere on Earth?

 

[mjt2810]

Apple really hasn’t grasped why people use Dark Sky.

Here in the UK it rains a lot. We like to check the radar to see what might be coming in later and throughout the day. I tried the new app but I’ve reverted back to Dark Sky until it goes down.

Dark Sky just works Apple, don’t try and change it.

It’s not bad. I too am in the UK, Dark Sky was my ‘go to’ but the iOS 15 Weather app appears to match Dark Sky in my London location. See attached

 

[Briskit]

Still feel like the square info icons when you scroll down in the weather app should be place-able on the home screen like widgets.

 

[SurferPup]

I found their weather app to be incorrect by 1 to 2 degrees Celsius compared to what it feels like to me then I verify with a domestic weather app, WeatherZone. Possibly a delay in weather information being transmitted from our weather stations or rounded mathematical conversions from metric to imperial back to metric?

 

[emulajavi]

Still no iPad App!!

 

[ksgant]

With Dark Sky on iPadOS, you click on it's widget, it opens the app and you get the data IN the app. With the Weather widget on iPadOS 15, you click on it and it opens Safari to the Weather Channel page...filled with ads.

 

[Macula]

Does it display wind speed in Beaufort units? If not I’ll have to stick to my Weather Line subscription.

 

[RightMACatU]

Never had any issues with design. The real problem is weather accuracy. It's always way off on the "Feels like" and "Precipitation" forcing me to use another app.