Everything New in the iOS 16 Weather App

[SFjohn]

Dark Sky app now says it will end support Jan 2023 because of iOS 16 integration.

Wow, that’s interesting. I love Dark Sky, I hope this will have it’s ease of use. It looks complicated with all the different screens… 🤷

 

[JohannesO]

1) Which of the above representations is the equivalent for DarkSky's grayscale strip? I find those quite usable.



2) In Europe in iOS 15, DarkSky data is not yet used, only The Weather Channel and with the end of the year, the DarkSky app seems to stop working.
I'm curious if Apple will also give us DarkSky data here with iOS 16 or if they will leave us out in the cold for a while.

 

[Jana_CZ]

Why is no one mentioning the elephant in the room? There is one weather app feature that I can't do without, and I can't believe Apple's app still doesn't have.

Weather Radar

Until it includes a weather radar, the app will remain woefully incomplete.

It’s there.

 

[one more]

Will it finally be possible to change the pressure from inHg to hPa or mb ?

I believe that it is determined by your device’s regional settings @ Settings > General > Language & Region

 

[Yptcn]

Hopefully I believe I saw somewhere there would be a change in Language & Region. I'm in France but for a few reasons including the News app I set my location to US. At least for now I can set the temperature to °C 😉

 

[NightFox]

Is there anything here for those not in America - ie. the use of local Bureau of meteorology sources, so that, you know, the weather App can accurately perform its main function?……

I don’t care about the predictions, but actual weather is what I want. Weather is using "best-ish guess". Use the countries offical (accurate) weather please.

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.

Wondering where Apple sources its data? I find the weatherzone app more reliable.

There's a good support note here from Apple which provides what sources it uses and details regional differences in app functionality:

Feature availability and data sources in the Weather app – Apple Support (UK)

Find out more about regional availability and data sources for features in the Weather app.

support.apple.com

which is also accessible from a link right at the bottom of the weather app screen

 

[NightFox]

...Always used AccuWeather for radar only, but now that they are peppering me with ads, looks like I'll just go to the default iOS app.

Yeah, enjoy that while it lasts. By the sounds of it, it won't be for long though

 

[breather]

I wish we Could choose who provides the data to the weather app.
Would love to have SMHI as data provider

 

[CyberGene]

I’m probably missing something but in the latest iOS Beta with these new weather functions I can’t find an hourly chart of rain chance. There’s a widget I can put on the Lock Screen that shows a single chance value but I’m not sure if it’s an average for the day, a maximum or a current value. There’s the precipitation module in the app that shows the amount of precipitation but without chance it doesn’t mean a lot. Is this a big omission by Apple?

Luckily enough I can still see the hourly chance of rain on my Apple Watch which is using the latest official watchOS, not beta.

 

[ironpony]

Flipping through ten (10) modules ... some of that data should be combined. While deciding how to do something given the days weather others are announcing the data while I am flipping through modules to assess. Slow down and enjoy the weather I guess.

 

[melchior]

I wish we Could choose who provides the data to the weather app.
Would love to have SMHI as data provider

This. As long as it is The Weather Channel it is irrelevant to me.

 

[George Dawes]

Wish it had animations , I know it’s a bit frivolous, but it’s pretty . And nothings more important than pretty stuff , especially on an iPhone

 

[one more]

Thanks. Wow, they state the Australian bureau of meteorology (BOM) as one of their sources, but that can’t be right as the forecast never lines up with that of the BOM. I don’t get it…

Yes, this is indeed strange. I hope Apple are still actively working on their weather data sources and ways of populating the Weather app correctly before iOS 16 comes out for all in two weeks.

 

[one more]

I’m probably missing something but in the latest iOS Beta with these new weather functions I can’t find an hourly chart of rain chance. There’s a widget I can put on the Lock Screen that shows a single chance value but I’m not sure if it’s an average for the day, a maximum or a current value. There’s the precipitation module in the app that shows the amount of precipitation but without chance it doesn’t mean a lot. Is this a big omission by Apple?

Luckily enough I can still see the hourly chance of rain on my Apple Watch which is using the latest official watchOS, not beta.

It is there if you click on hourly forecast section and then switch to rain. ✋

 

[splitpea]

I’ll miss Dark Sky. This just doesn’t have the same information density.

 

[AlexisV]

I see this issue has still not been resolved, presumably because it's not seen as an issue.

"40% chance of rain" is NOT the weather.

Is it cloudy with a period of rain at some point, or is it clear blue sky all day with the outside chance of a shower?

 

[PhillyGuy72]

I swear every day I see something new and more cool in iOS16. This just looks awesome!

..and PLEASE APPLE. Do not sticks ads in the Weather app come 2023-2024...or ever. It's too beautiful to mess with.

WANT to update on day one, but I will wait for any potential bugs, major issues, or battery drain reported.

 

[PhillyGuy72]

This. As long as it is The Weather Channel it is irrelevant to me.

TWC used to be a great app...and website...and channel. I deleted that silliness a few months ago.

Any interesting weather story I wanted to see...I'd have to deal with 1-2 30sec painful commercials. ugh But the app in general went way downhill in the last 3-4 years.

The desktop website, you can't even view this site unless you disable AdBlock. Meh...forget it.

The channel itself, I'd have that on all the time way back in the day, 80s-90s...Today, unless theres a hurricane or snowstorm, all I see are reality based show. *But its better than the AccuWeather channel, I swear they run weather reports and maps on reruns. You can't have a rerun of a weather report! 😆

 

[CyberGene]

It is there if you click on hourly forecast section and then switch to rain. ✋

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Yeah but that’s the precipitation amount in mm. What I need is also the precipitation chance in percentage for every hour. These both should be presented together. Consider the following: there’s 100% chance of light rain at 10 AM VS there’s 20% chance of heavy rain at 5 PM. In Carrot you see them both on the same chart. In the iOS Weather app you see only a single percentage value on the main screen but I’m not sure if it’s an average for the day ahead or current chance (or max? But when?). Oddly enough, on the Apple Watch there’s hourly chance in percentage but not amount. It’s the regular Apple mess… 😕

 

[Piplodocus]

Can anyone tell me if the iOS 16 weather app now gives detailed hourly weather for more than 24hrs, then just daily?

I find the current iOS 15 weather app useless because this is all it does.

If like lunchtime today (weds), I'm pondering if it's raining tomorrow evening so I can ride my bike, I just get hourly til tomorrow lunchtime, then if the rest of thursday and friday are just a single percentage rain cloud I have no idea which part of the day is likely to be bright/dry or drizzling. Hence the current one is totally useless compared to DarkSky, BBC Weather, Met Office, or any of the other weather apps out there. Only 24 hrs of hourly weather, then just daily might be ok if you live somewhere like California where I guess it's pretty hot most of the time, but useless in the UK where it can often be relatively dry most of the day, but drizzling for a few hours. All weather forecasts are somewhat unreliable, but I regularly use a 3-day forecast to largely give me the right idea if it's raining in the morning, afternoon or evening in a day or two's time.

I'll be super annoyed if they shut down DarkSky while only giving me 24hrs of useful weather, then just 1 weather icon per day for the next 10 days.

 

[one more]

Can anyone tell me if the iOS 16 weather app now gives detailed hourly weather for more than 24hrs, then just daily?

I find the current iOS 15 weather app useless because this is all it does.

If like lunchtime today (weds), I'm pondering if it's raining tomorrow evening so I can ride my bike, I just get hourly til tomorrow lunchtime, then if the rest of thursday and friday are just a single percentage rain cloud I have no idea which part of the day is likely to be bright/dry or drizzling. Hence the current one is totally useless compared to DarkSky, BBC Weather, Met Office, or any of the other weather apps out there. Only 24 hrs of hourly weather, then just daily might be ok if you live somewhere like California where I guess it's pretty hot most of the time, but useless in the UK where it can often be relatively dry most of the day, but drizzling for a few hours. All weather forecasts are somewhat unreliable, but I regularly use a 3-day forecast to largely give me the right idea if it's raining in the morning, afternoon or evening in a day or two's time.

I'll be super annoyed if they shut down DarkSky while only giving me 24hrs of useful weather, then just 1 weather icon per day for the next 10 days.

In iOS 16 beta right now you can get a rather detailed daily forecast for the next 10 days.

Here is an example for this coming Saturday (in French, but you can get an idea). I’ve chosen to display rain, but you can choose between 8 different parameters for each of these days (T, UV index, Wind, Rain, Feels like, Humidity, Visibility and Atm. pressure).

 

[bradman83]

“Next-hour precipitation forecasts and precipitation notifications are available for Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.”

I’m assuming OP doesn’t live in one of the 3 locations that supports the feature.

I’m in Canada and don’t have precipitation or radar in the weather app (that I can see at least).

Radar maps are in the iOS 15 Weather App but they're unnecessarily hard to locate because by default Apple defaults the view to temperature (at least if there's no rain nearby). Look for a map showing a temperature gradient, click on See more, click on the Layers icon, and switch to Precipitation. Granted I'm US-based but the map shows global radar data when zoomed out so I'm not sure why it would be disabled for non-US/UK/IRE locales.

 

[EdT]

I’ve liked Dark Sky but going by how Apple has integrated apps that they have purchased in the past I don’t expect Apple Weather to become Dark Sky, but with an Apple name. There is an almost-good sameness with most Apple apps, where they take away features that are different or efficient or insightful because of NIH-not invented here- and re-insert the look and feel from Apple apps that were invented at Apple.

They don’t buy intellectual property to incorporate it, they buy IP to prevent the competition from getting it.

 

[ericg301]

Why is no one mentioning the elephant in the room? There is one weather app feature that I can't do without, and I can't believe Apple's app still doesn't have.

Weather Radar

Until it includes a weather radar, the app will remain woefully incomplete.

Uh radar has been in the weather app since last year

 

[ericg301]

It is there if you click on hourly forecast section and then switch to rain.

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And the hourly chart shows up when it’s raining.