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iOS 26 to Bring Severe Weather Alerts and Widgets for Predicted Travel Destinations

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Apple is expanding the Weather app in iOS 26 with a new feature: Severe Weather Alerts and Widgets for Predicted Travel Destinations. This enhancement offers proactive notifications for locations you may soon visit, leveraging Apple's "Proactive Intelligence" to keep you informed before you arrive.

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The new feature builds on the existing severe weather notification system, which currently supports alerts for a user's current location. iOS 26 uses on-device processing to estimate where you might be traveling soon if the Significant Locations & Routes permission setting is turned on.

This will be particularly useful for travelers, commuters, or anyone planning a day trip or overnight stay, ensuring users are not caught off guard by incoming extreme weather events at their destinations.

To enable this feature, users will need to:
  • Enable Significant Locations & Routes in Location Services.
  • Set Weather app location access to “Always”.
  • Turn on Severe Weather notifications in the Weather app settings.

If these conditions are met, the Weather app can access predicted destinations and deliver timely alerts relevant to those areas. Importantly, Apple states that it may associate the region of your possible travel destinations with your Apple ID, similar to how it handles alerts for your current location.

This feature also integrates with Smart Stacks in watchOS 26 and Widget Suggestions. When enabled, the Weather app can automatically display a destination-specific widget in your Smart Stack, providing at-a-glance weather updates for places you're likely to visit.

Finally, it appears iOS 26 will extend the satellite connectivity for Emergency SOS and Messages introduced in earlier releases to Weather data. This ensures users without Wi-Fi or cellular access can still receive critical weather warnings even when out of range of terrestrial networks.

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Is it limited strictly to weather? Or is that just how it is being explained?

If it works effectively, I'd like to think the system would inform of other major events which could impact - obvious things like earthquakes and volcanoes, and we could probably spend forever discussing what else.
 
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Chaos215bar2 said:
How about actually showing the correct weather for your current location first? Weather widgets are pretty useless when they'll happily show you yesterday's weather with zero visual indication.
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This reminds me of an unfortunate experience we often have: two i*OS devices within 6 feet of each other; Weather on one says “Rain stopping in 5 minutes” while the other says “Rain starting in 5 minutes” 🙃🧐😬☹️
 
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This is hilarious. I live in Charleston. Come on down. It has been raining a lot lately, currently 81F, 27C
 
I wish they finally fix that bug where the weather widget is randomly switching between the 5-day and the hourly forecast.
 
They can’t even get current weather conditions right. I was literally standing at work in midtown Manhattan today when rain was expected an hour later and current conditions were cloudy.

At the time? It was POURING RAIN and THUNDER.
 
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Séamus Boyle said:
They can’t even get current weather conditions right.
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Where I am, the alerts like it will rain in 5 minutes, or stop raining in 20 minutes, are sometimes incredibly accurate.

Can't say I've studied it in detail, but I get the impression that to the north-west there is a weather station which feeds in. So when the weather is coming from there, it is often very good. But less accurate when coming from other directions.

Also, to the north-west is somewhat less hilly. If the weather is coming from the other side of a hill, and there are hills in every other direction, that can affect the coming weather. We can often see hugely different weather between here and about six miles south (next significant town). That is, we can see if we drive there. But we can also often see by simply looking out of the window - the clouds or blue sky above that town.
 
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G725 said:
If this is not a bug how is this supposed to work? How can I disable it?
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You can’t.

Just grabbed this from a 4 year old Reddit post.

'It shows this in the evening when the weather will be significantly different the following day related to temperature or precipitation. This feature is mentioned on Apple's iOS 14 preview page'
 
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