Here's What's New in the iOS 17 Weather App

[tong_si_nan_pei]

All I hope is that they improve weather data outside the US. But I think that has more to do with the back end data collection than the app itself.

Here in Bangkok, it has said it is raining continuously for the last few months. Every hour of the day.

 

[75Batt]

I won't be really happy with it until they bring back Dark Sky's ability to show historical weather for any date and location going back many years. Absolutely no reason to have removed that.

I mean that’s data that needs to be stored. And for what reason?

 

[75Batt]

The app is nice but the weather data is so inaccurate! It’s ok to know whether it will be hot or cold but more than that is hazardous.
Is a trillion dollar company not capable of pulling regional data from regional providers and not from some US centric service that has no interest in the quality of their data??

Not had any problems here in the UK. That’s not US centric

 

[Xenomorph]

I hope the new weather app feature is "Stop not working". I've lost track of how many times it just shows up blank for me.

Those poor iPhone 8 & iPhone X users are going to be left with its broken weather app and broken notifications and all the other crap people hate about iOS 16.

 

[VulchR]

Would be awesome to have tide details as well for those living near the coast.

Great point, provided it is accurate, but I think tide predictions can be expensive because of all the modelling involved and something tells me Apple might not want to make the investment. I have a dedicated app which charges a small yearly fee (£6) for tide prediction (I walk along the coast in Scotland quite a lot and being stranded on a sand bar is not only embarrassing but potentially lethal). Still, at this point I am not sure I would trust Apple to get tides right given their forecast errors for the weather.

 

[Tzerlag]

Is it called a rearcast or a backcast?

Aftcast!

 

[ericg301]

Ok but will it actually work without outages every other week?

that's what the "yesterday" addition is for - "see what the weather was yesterday while the app was down."

 

[cfountain72]

"Apple does not appear to have made any changes to the data that is used for the Weather app, despite complaints of its inaccuracy following the incorporation of the Dark Sky app."

Sooooo, it's not just me.

Has anyone determined if the cloud motion in the app is based on the windspeed? I feel like I read that somewhere, but in actual use, it doesn't appear to be the case?

 

[ksloth]

As a person affected by seasonal allergies, I'd find it really useful if Apple would add pollen-count data, forecasts, allergen 'season' info etc. to Weather.
🤧
Could also integrate with Health for symptoms.

I live in the pollen capital of the USA, and I was just thinking about this very thing yesterday. Would be awesome to have in the weather app.

 

[BeefCake 15]

I need a pollen indicator.

 

[theredsoxman]

My biggest gripe with the weather app is the number of steps to see precipitation broken down hour by hour. If I want to know if it's going to rain at 10am Saturday morning, it's a 3 steps awkward process.

Dark Sky was magical with this. One step and done. When Dark Sky came back randomly for a few days, it made matters worse. I suddenly remembered how good it was and how annoying it is now.

 

[orbital~debris]

I live in the pollen capital of the USA, and I was just thinking about this very thing yesterday. Would be awesome to have in the weather app.

Where is the pollen capital of the USA? Might be somewhere to cross off my travel list 😅

 

[derekamoss]

Here is how the MSN Weather app looks. It might have what people are looking for and it's really accurate.

 

[Jana_CZ]

Who’s already on the beta, would you please be able to confirm - is it finally possible to dismiss the “severe weather” warnings? So that they don’t take space on top of both the Weather app & widget (seriously - I don’t need to see a “high temperatures” warning all summer to know that it’s going to be hot 🙄)
Thanks!

 

[mikext]

Who’s already on the beta, would you please be able to confirm - is it finally possible to dismiss the “severe weather” warnings? So that they don’t take space on top of both the Weather app & widget (seriously - I don’t need to see a “high temperatures” warning all summer to know that it’s going to be hot 🙄)
Thanks!

I HATE this. I've had an "Air Quality Alert" for a literal week and it's all because the Texas government has issued an Ozone Action Day encouraging people to carpool to work.

It takes over the current conditions widget so I can never quickly glance at the temperature on my home screen.

 

[VulchR]

I HATE this. I've had an "Air Quality Alert" for a literal week and it's all because the Texas government has issued an Ozone Action Day encouraging people to carpool to work.

It takes over the current conditions widget so I can never quickly glance at the temperature on my home screen.

I thought the government in Texas likes ozone.

Seriously though, that sounds annoying. Is there no way to dismiss the alert?

 

[ksloth]

Where is the pollen capital of the USA? Might be somewhere to cross off my travel list 😅

Willamette Valley, Oregon. Here is the pollen count from a few days ago.
Just brutal... but beautiful here!

 

[Desertdan]

Still enjoying carrot for now.

 

[mikext]

I thought the government in Texas likes ozone.

Seriously though, that sounds annoying. Is there no way to dismiss the alert?

not to my knowledge

 

[keith57]

Another thing … Not being able to easily edit units in the app to what I want to see means I hardly ever use it for real forecasting, when out in the wilds, etc

 

[TwoBytes]

but can you see the rain percentage per hour on any day in the future?
OR how much sunlight is predicted per hour, on any given day in the future?

No?
I'll stick with weather pro and miss dark sky!

 

[_Spinn_]

Sounds good but I wish they would update radar to be more useful like MyRadar Pro

 

[Jana_CZ]

I HATE this. I've had an "Air Quality Alert" for a literal week and it's all because the Texas government has issued an Ozone Action Day encouraging people to carpool to work.

It takes over the current conditions widget so I can never quickly glance at the temperature on my home screen.

Ok I just installed the beta as it’s available publicly now.
We can’t dismiss the alerts but IT’S NOT SITTING ON THE TOP ANYMORE!!! 😃 Also, it’s not displayed in the weather widget either. Yay!

UPDATE: Sadly it’s back… 😐 after restarting the iPhone (language switch), the extreme weather warning moved back to the top and yes, it’s sitting in the widget again. Doh… 😣

 

[Blue Hawk]

The good thing would be to make the weather app useful in Europe. I'm in Germany and %90 of the forecasts and current conditions are always wrong. When it's raining, it shows cloudy or sunny weather. When it's sunny or cloudy it shows rainy weather. Reported it for many times not no improvement.

 

[VulchR]

The good thing would be to make the weather app useful in Europe. I'm in Germany and %90 of the forecasts and current conditions are always wrong. When it's raining, it shows cloudy or sunny weather. When it's sunny or cloudy it shows rainy weather. Reported it for many times not no improvement.

I wonder if Apple used the same sources as Dark Sky for the US but saved costs by downgrading the sources of information in Europe. In Scotland Apple's Weather app is not even remotely as accurate as Dark Sky was.