Everything New in the iOS 16 Weather App

[DotCom2]

I know a weather freak who’s gonna absolutely love this!

 

[a.jfred]

... but still not able to see the humidity on my Watch, which is kinda where I really want to see it.

 

[anthogag]

I like the app. It could be better if weather conditions on the Lock Screen played sound. Lighting…rain…wind…birds chirping…insect noises on a hot day…

 

[LV426]

Looking good. Next item on the checklist: an iPad version of the calculator app.

 

[bgarnett]

The new app looks great, however, like its predecessor is a fail for temperature accuracy in Australia. I’m in Perth, WA northern suburbs where it’s currently 7°C but the weather app reports 10°C. Wondering where Apple sources its data? I find the weatherzone app more reliable.

 

[Grayburn]

forgot to mention the surprise feature: ads

Not seen one and I’ve had every beta version installed.

 

[TonyC28]

I wish the radar was better but the app looks good.

 

[jimbobb24]

Air quality index is nice, now i know when to stop breathing.

Just wear a mask at those times.

 

[jimbobb24]

Looking good. Next item on the checklist: an iPad version of the calculator app.

If they do that I was full scientific and graphing options.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Thx! But you forgot to mention the new macOS version of Weather that’s bundled with Ventura.

It wasn't mentioned because this article is solely about iOS.

 

[exoticSpice]

I really love the new weather app. There is so much more useful info showing now. It looks stunning!

The iPad OS should have been here a long time ago. Glad, it finally made it to the iPad OS.

It also made it to macOS

 

[kuwxman]

Inaccuracy 😍🙏

Well, this is just a repackaged DarkSky so that makes sense.🤣

 

[ericg301]

Maybe it’s time to finally ditch Carrot as my main weather. This update is impressive

I was hoping to as well but the watch app has been untouched. (The apple one that is).

My carrot subscription renewed right after wwdc so I guess I’ll hang on for another year.

 

[August West]

Lots of nice additions. Being a cyclist I really love they've added detailed wind data. I currently use WU but having it on the phone will be handy.

 

[doboy]

like it 👍

 

[sorgo †]

I like the app. It could be better if weather conditions on the Lock Screen played sound. Lighting…rain…wind…birds chirping…insect noises on a hot day…

Just go outside lol

 

[SSDGUY]

Hopefully the weather app has an IPad OS calculator.

 

[coolfactor]

I honestly find it strange that Apple invests so much into making a great Weather app, but won't install a native Calculator app on the iPad, or move the Mac's volume indicator to the side of the screen. 🤣

 

[bradman83]

Do we know who is feeding the data for the app? Especially in Canada? Weather.com is tok IS centric and often wrong for Canadian locations.

In iOS 15 Apple uses legacy weather sources like weather.com, the NOAA (US), and Environment Canada along with extra data from the Dark Sky API. With iOS 16 Apple will finally be repackaging and deprecating the Dark Sky API into the new WeatherKit API that pulls from Apple's "all new Apple Weather Service" (which is presumably just Apple's name for the repackaged and updated Dark Sky forecasting algorithms). For some areas Dark Sky's forecasting is great, for other areas it's not so great.

One advantage of weather apps like Carrot is the ability to select your data source and have it feed into the same consistent interface, so you can use the source that seems most accurate for your region, including Dark Sky/WeatherKit.

 

[JMO1]

Do the wind arrows orient with the iPhone or how do you know which way the wind is blowing. In the image above it says south, but the arrows change at least 90 degrees over the day

 

[Tozovac]

No bland white-out screens, and what appears to be more button-looking buttons are the most welcome additions!!!

 

[PsykX]

Great wrap up Juli, as always.
You're especially good at selling iOS 16. Weather is a phenomenal upgrade IMO.

Sometimes I see articles like "What's new in Reminders" for example and think "well, I have iOS 16 and there's absolutely nothing new", but you always find valuable stuff. Great article once again!

 

[psxp]

In iOS 15 Apple uses legacy weather sources like weather.com, the NOAA (US), and Environment Canada along with extra data from the Dark Sky API. With iOS 16 Apple will finally be repackaging and deprecating the Dark Sky API into the new WeatherKit API that pulls from Apple's "all new Apple Weather Service" (which is presumably just Apple's name for the repackaged and updated Dark Sky forecasting algorithms). For some areas Dark Sky's forecasting is great, for other areas it's not so great.

One advantage of weather apps like Carrot is the ability to select your data source and have it feed into the same consistent interface, so you can use the source that seems most accurate for your region, including Dark Sky/WeatherKit.

thanks for that info, very informative. 👍🏼

 

[spartan1967]

Geez... No dewpoint option for a widget? Now I won't be missing a thing waiting until all the bugs are worked out before I install this version.

 

[aapl owner]

Nice update but where is the dew point measurements and graphs. Dew point is more relevant than humidity.