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iOS 16 Weather App Gets Significant Overhaul With Deeper Dark Sky Integration

Pirate! said:
I hope there’s way less/no weather channel integration. I really dislike when I get sent to that site that has so much unnecessary garbage and so little useful information on every single page.
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Super annoyed by that too. I'm sure Weather Channel pays them handsomely for the service, but I'd way rather read a weather alert on good old NWS, without any ads.
 
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I have used the DarkSky app for years and consider it THE BEST. When Apple acquired them, I was a little concerned that that greatness might not come forward. However, this certainly looks like they've absorbed the "best of" Dark Sky and then some. I look forward to giving it a try. Will it actually replace the independent Dark Sky app? TBD
 
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I like Dark sky, it’s an app that really has probably grown more of any other weather app over the last three years, however; I find myself gravitating more towards AccuWeather specifically for my region.

The only knock I have on Dark sky, it’s almost providing too much information, where it’s convoluted. And I get it, they’re doing that to provide the user as much info as possible, but sometimes ‘less is more’.
 
Looks incredible. And most importantly, has Apple privacy. Folks don’t really appreciate how shady most of these 3rd party weather apps are with your location data...
 
turbineseaplane said:
So you can use it on a device not getting iOS 16
Isn't that sort of obvious?
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Obviously.. but why would Apple unbundle the stock weather app and develop new features to what will be an outdated software version once realised.. when’s that been a thing? So in a more lengthy way, why should / would Apple do this?
 
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I would really appreciate precipitation alerts in Germany... for me that's the only weakness in the app. But doubt this will expand beyond US and UK any time soon
 
Fraserh02 said:
Obviously.. but why would Apple unbundle the stock weather app and develop new features to what will be an outdated software version once realised.. when’s that been a thing? So in a more lengthy way, why should / would Apple do this?
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There is a degree of flexibility available, for example I have the weather widget on my IPadOS screen, touch that on screen brings the new deep sky based weather app. So you have choice to use what suits you. You can set up weather widgets on iOS and MacOS.
 
Mick-Mac said:
Is there any reason this has to be an iOS16 only thing? Why can't it just be an app also available to earlier versions of iOS once released?
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It would be nice if a lot of the default apps were handled this way, where we didn't need an entire OS update to get some new features. Especially for the default apps you can uninstall.

As far as being available to previous versions, they could still require a higher OS, like how my brother can't update or download several apps on his old iPad mini.
 
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I still only use Dark Sky.

For whatever reason Apple still wants to stick with this awful new UI that is completely unreliable for predicting precipitation patterns.
 
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mnsportsgeek said:
Can we please see the 1 hour radar while zoomed out further? The 12 hour radar when zoomed out is inaccurate and absolutely useless. Hopefully iOS 16 corrects this.
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1 hour is limited to only UK, 48 states USA, Alaska, Hawaii. Perhaps they will encompass more as development proceeds for this app. The 12 hour is the only mode not location restrictive. (showing weather pattern animations)
 
MallardDuck said:
Now if it would support personal weather stations, it's be cool.
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Why stop at the Wundermap, you also have all the personal air quality stations too.
fire.airnow.gov

AirNow Fire and Smoke Map

This map shows fine particle pollution (PM2.5) from wildfires and other sources. It provides a public resource of information to best prepare and manage wildfire season. Developed in a joint partnership between the EPA and USFS.
fire.airnow.gov fire.airnow.gov

But now dependent on your screen size resolution you might be overwhelmed with too much info. :D
 
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