let's be honest, you'll only go deep within all that weather info if you're extremely bored on the nightclub or planning a trip
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iOS 16 Weather App Gets Significant Overhaul With Deeper Dark Sky Integration
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Currently weather app shows me what's happening for the next 24hrs in detail, then I only get one weather icon per day after that! So if it's a friday lunch time and I know it's drizzling on and off for the next 24 hrs in detailed view but ends looking drier, the saturday will show up as drizzly (becaause it was in the morning), but I haven't a clue whether it's likely to dry up saturday afternoon or evening or going back to more drizzle. So it's useless to plan what I'm doing even the next day!
So I still use Dark Sky (that Apple bought to make the Weather App), as that will give me more detailed weather in advance over the coming days with less detail the further ahead it is. But Apple are shutting it down on 31st Dec. Boo. Either make the Weather app as useful as DarkSky or don't shut it down. I'm gonna have to go back to the Met Office or BBC Weather app once they've killed off DarkSky as it stands. 🤬
So I still use Dark Sky (that Apple bought to make the Weather App), as that will give me more detailed weather in advance over the coming days with less detail the further ahead it is. But Apple are shutting it down on 31st Dec. Boo. Either make the Weather app as useful as DarkSky or don't shut it down. I'm gonna have to go back to the Met Office or BBC Weather app once they've killed off DarkSky as it stands. 🤬
I’ve been trying to ditch my weather channel app for years but I keep downloading it to get more detailed forecasts cus apples doesn’t show enough , hopefully that’s fixed now
I live in Nebraska and we can’t regularly claim that all 4 seasons happen in a day it’s not very unusual if it happens. And we seem to get the worst of most parts of the US weather possibilities here: Sub zero Fahrenheit temps in the winter, deluge rains in the spring, highs frequently above 100 Fahrenheit in the summer and high winds possible in any season. Plus tornados, blizzards, droughts and floods, all of these possibly happening within a year. A couple of years ago we had 8 inches of wet snow fall in the morning, and by 4:00 in the afternoon it was 75 degrees (F). Lots of flooding in areas that day.
Edit: And relevant to Apple’s announcement I’ve been a relatively happy Dark Sky user for a few years. If I went with Accu-Whatever or TWC my forecast came from and was tailored around a city 50 miles or more away. I’m sure that most of the data still comes from the same sources but I seem to get notifications relative to where I actually live, and not just a generic forecast with warnings tailored for the large population area while ignoring the rural areas within an hour or two away.
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Wanted to love Apple's weather app. I do not. Used Dark Sky for years. Now, I use My Radar Pro. Love the widget, local lighting/rain/severe weather alerts. It also tracks hurricanes and tropical depressions. Apple Weather does not do that. For that reason, I'm out.
I’m thinking the same thing but only if the Apple Watch app has been updated too. I use that almost more than the phone version.
If you have a device that no longer can get IOS updates then you might have a somewhat valid complaint, but if you are choosing not to upgrade then this is a consequence of your decision.
Phones have a relatively short life. Yes they could be supported longer but because hardware is changing every year and a new OS also comes out every year making and testing that new OS becomes costly for whatever phone brand with no significant new income for the manufacturer. That’s true of all cellphones today from anyone. And the longer a company supports an old phone the more complex that the testing has to be for what is a shrinking market. Not a lot of iPhone 6’s being sold today and a lot of code and programs that won’t work with phones that old or older without a lot of work. And people have voted with their money-they don’t like paying for new operating systems, they expect upgrades to be “free”. So manufacturers build some of the cost of future upgrades into the price of the phone.
Some major improvements for the weather app. Also very happy that iPad is finally getting a weather app.
This. The accuracy of a weather source highly depends on your location. An option to choose a different source would be great. Here in The Netherlands there are apps/weather sources that are more accurate than Dark Sky. Plus using Dark Sky means that some functions are not available outside the US/UK.
If they aren't exposing the Dark Sky / Weather app data to Homekit they need to, it's quite handy for automations.
Currently I get my home location weather data exposed to Homekit via the Homebridge Weather Plus plugin.
Currently I get my home location weather data exposed to Homekit via the Homebridge Weather Plus plugin.
Which weather model (not company) is behind the forecast data? I’d love to see the option to change/compare between different weather models like global GFS, ECMWF or regional/local ones, just like in Windy, to get a feeling how likely the forecast is. Are they saying the same thing the forecast is most likely reliable and vice versa.
In iPadOS, where more data can be presented simultaneously, I’d like to choose what I can see on my display. Some things are more interesting in different parts of the world. Will this be possible?
Will the weather radar have presentation of lightning detection?
I haven’t installed iOS 16 beta, therefore I ask…
In iPadOS, where more data can be presented simultaneously, I’d like to choose what I can see on my display. Some things are more interesting in different parts of the world. Will this be possible?
Will the weather radar have presentation of lightning detection?
I haven’t installed iOS 16 beta, therefore I ask…
The latest reviews on the app has not been so kind.
Is it still worth $4 though?
(Getting a little sick and tired of Wunderground's garbage ads)
Is it still worth $4 though?
(Getting a little sick and tired of Wunderground's garbage ads)
If you are talking about the Dark Sky app the answer is a definite ’No’, because Apple is going to close down the app at the end of 2022. Supposedly they will merge the most popular features of Dark Sky with Apple’s own Weather app but I don’t see any sign that this is happening right now.
Look again. I have hourly rainfall for the next 10 days, air quality, wind etc also