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Notification Center Weather Widget
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What do you mean? I have weather in NC and have since the first day I began beta testing iOS 7.
I mean like it was in IOS 5, the banner at the top constantly showing the weather and not have to have location services on, just turn on wi fi when you wanted the banner to update.
Do you understand what I'm trying to say?
They could have done it, yeah. But it wouldn't have been consistent with the UI guidelines they proposed for widgets to begin with.
Pity, I like for example the Living Earth widget and would prefer that kind of widget using the stock weather app. The only thing we get is the text stating the current weather conditions right?
Guess I'll just have to keep Living Earth on my phone.
Thank you to everyone who helped
Yahoos is pretty decent. May want to give that a try.
Yahoo weather? Can I set my location manually and when I turn wi fi it updates the weather conditions on that location and doesn't ask me to turn on location services everytime?
Cause it always asks me to turn on those location services.
Not as many weather widgets work without location services. One that does is Weather Underground, and I believe there are a few other ones as well (some paid).
You can set location manually but for the widget to work you will have to have location services on. Its not that big a deal though. I have not seen it register in battery use at all (unless actually using the app of course)
And Yahoo is run by weather underground now but it still needs location on for the notification widget to work. Not tried the regular WU one though.
They've been my favorite and most accurate weather app for a couple of years now, and I'll give them credit for having not just one, but two widgets...neither of which I use. LOL
Their hourly "clock" forecast drives me nuts; it takes up too much NC real estate while being very difficult to actually read. The new weekly forecast widget that was added with the latest update is much better laid out, but I'm finding that current to very near future conditions are more important to me in the quick look function that an NC widget provides than looking that far ahead. If I need a week view, I end up opening the app instead.
Up here in the very damp and dreary Pacific Northwest, it's still the Dark Sky widget for me, hands down. Simple, functional, accurate beyond belief.
(Yahoo's weather widget is still the prettiest, hands down, but again, it takes up too much space for my tastes. And in my location, it's never the most accurate.)
Both.
In my area, US Weather is more accurate usually. But Foreca has the barometric pressure forecast for 10 hours ahead, which is useful for those of us with weather triggered headaches.
In my area, US Weather is more accurate usually. But Foreca has the barometric pressure forecast for 10 hours ahead, which is useful for those of us with weather triggered headaches.
Just for the record, and in my case, Yahoo Weather widget on my iPad 4 and iPad Mini-R (both iOS 8.1.2) screws up and gives an error message in a black blank space "Unable to Load" every few days. The first week in December it was out for 5 days; usually it fixes within 24 hours or so. No amount of fiddling with the iPads has any effect; it comes back on its own inexplicable timetable.