iOS 27's Weather App Has a New Way to View Forecasts

[MacRumors]

Starting with iOS 27, Apple's Weather app offers new hourly and 10-day overviews for precipitation and wind that you can quickly view at a glance.

While this sort of information was already accessible elsewhere in the app, you can now quickly tap between conditions, precipitation, and wind overviews.

You can view the percentage chance of rain or snow each hour and day, as well as estimated wind speeds, and the information is accompanied by visuals.

iOS 27 is currently in beta. The update is expected to be released in September.

Article Link: iOS 27's Weather App Has a New Way to View Forecasts

 

[klasma]

Someone should tell the UX designers about WCAG contrast requirements. 😉

 

[SilmarilFinder]

Hopefully it also works more reliably

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

More accurate weather would be nice. Accuweather app is more accurate. Apple Weather is mostly wrong.

 

[Justin Cymbal]

One of Apple’s best acquisitions in years!

Apple Acquires Weather App Dark Sky

Apple has acquired weather app Dark Sky, Dark Sky's developers announced today. Dark Sky is one of the most popular weather apps on the App Store, known for its accuracy and storm warnings. Our goal has always been to provide the world with the best weather information possible, to help as many...

www.macrumors.com

 

[P K]

The app automatically selects which view to use based on which factor is most important/relevant at the moment. You can also set a default view in the settings.

 

[jz0309]

If the forecast is more accurate, I'm ok...
It's been bad...

 

[Powerbooky]

While this sort of information was already accessible elsewhere in the app, you can now quickly tap between conditions, precipitation, and wind overviews.

I used to have this in a 3rd party weather app years ago... and I have to say as I did then, lots of small indicators are not the way to go. It only makes the UI more cluttered. The weather app in iOS18 and iPadOS18 is just fine. And don't forget, even in 2026 the rain/precipitation forecast isn't that accurate to have many indicators on a timeline. In my area, the rain forecast is usually wrong... both time and location is mostly way off. Even the severe weather notification, is either too late or never sent.

 

[DocMultimedia]

In many of the third party apps you can choose which provider to get the data from. And many now have multi forecast graphs. Carrot is great. Acme (by a former Dark Sky person) is also great.

 

[maknik]

What I'd really like, in addition to more detailed precipitation forecasts, is a sun forecast. The icons give you a vague idea, but an hourly percent cloud cover prediction would be really useful for planning outdoor activities. Dark Sky had it but Apple never adopted that part, and Accuweather used to have it before they hid it away like everything else useful behind their paywall/ads. Weather.us has a really nice graphic with not just cloud percent, but a little chart of high, middle and low cloud cover prediction over the next three days.

 

[jbachandouris]

The app automatically selects which view to use based on which factor is most important/relevant at the moment. You can also set a default view in the settings.

The default is dumb. Want temperatures for the week not precipitation. Changed it in settings but shouldn’t have to.

 

[tennisproha]

That's great but what was wrong with how Dark Sky displayed it? This is a step in the right direction but there is no timescale on the graphic so the little icons are vague to interpret.

 

[bluecoast]

I’d like how Apple denotes the weather icon for each day.

Often I’ll see a rain icon - I’m in the uk! - and then when you drill down to the data it might rain for an hour at 5am or 12pm etc. and else it’ll be fine.

But the icon looks like it’s going to be rainy conditions all day.

 

[TheDailyApple]

One of Apple’s best acquisitions in years!

Apple Acquires Weather App Dark Sky

Apple has acquired weather app Dark Sky, Dark Sky's developers announced today. Dark Sky is one of the most popular weather apps on the App Store, known for its accuracy and storm warnings. Our goal has always been to provide the world with the best weather information possible, to help as many...

www.macrumors.com

I wish they continued offering Dark Sky's interface. And—for where I live at least—Dark Sky's next hour precipitation was more accurate than Apple Weather's is now.

 

[LogicalApex]

One of Apple’s best acquisitions in years!

Apple Acquires Weather App Dark Sky

Apple has acquired weather app Dark Sky, Dark Sky's developers announced today. Dark Sky is one of the most popular weather apps on the App Store, known for its accuracy and storm warnings. Our goal has always been to provide the world with the best weather information possible, to help as many...

www.macrumors.com

There are many of us that question that. Mainly because Dark Sky had much more accurate weather predictions than what Apple Weather has been delivering after the acquisition.

I have no idea where Apple Weather sources its data or where Dark Sky sourced theirs, but I've always chalked up this dramatic decline to being either Apple doesn't want to pay what is being asked of them for the source data or the source data feeds don't want Apple to have their data (so they can make more selling it to other outfits).

Dark Sky was freaky accurate on what it was focused on doing... Predicting if you were going to get rained on and how long you had to wait before you could escape rain imposed shelter.

That's great but what was wrong with how Dark Sky displayed it? This is a step in the right direction but there is no timescale on the graphic so the little icons are vague to interpret.

It looks like the time scale on the little graphic is aligned with a few hours before and after sunset. So you can see what it looks like across the day. That's much more helpful where I live anyway. Where you might have a 90% chance of rain for a day only for that rain to be between 2 and 3am.

 

[Markwebbvt]

Sometimes it shows me rain showers....but I live in the desert!

 

[Cobra502]

I would really appreciate the tried and true radar color scheme red, yellow & green for rain and blue and pink for snow/sleet. I am not fond of the color scheme currently used. Everything else I have learned to live with.

 

[actcyclist]

I like the rain view over the week showing what part iof the day it’s concentrated. At the moment I have to open each day to check if its just rain overnight or actually during daylight.

Apple weather is the most accurate where I am. I thinks it’s because I’m between major locations and apple’s algorithm doesn’t just default to one or the other but calculates for this location.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

Where's the button in the new Weather app that lets you use generative AI to change the weather?

 

[FoxyKaye]

If the forecast is more accurate, I'm ok...
It's been bad...

Yeah - I've just learned to add three to five degrees to the daily high that Apple Weather gives me. Dark Sky was bang on and I loved both its forecast and presentation. Maybe someday Apple Weather will fully capture what was.

 

[Charlie Bonesx]

The apple weather app is my favourite UI

(despite the fact it will give a rain icon for an entire day, then when you drill down it’s 20% chance of 1 mm from 2 am to 3 am)


It’s too bad that where I live it is BY FAR the least accurate

 

[Séamus Boyle]

In nyc, it just accurately predicted a thunderstorm while weather channel said it would rain in 20 minutes. Like the skies opened up and it poured. Take that for what it’s worth.

 

[Séamus Boyle]

My weather channel subscription ends in 10 minutes. Think I’ll stick with apple weather now for a bit.

 

[svish]

Good to know about the changes. Hopefully it will be more accurate too.

 

[thegerman]

Hopefully, it will help to better anticipate events such as thunderstorms, hail, the risk of tornadoes, storms, heavy rain, flood risks, wildfires, dry spells, heat, localized drought, and elevated fire risk