Jesus, people will complain about everything nowadays.
Just go back to a flip phone at this point
Just go back to a flip phone at this point
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Weather App Gains Apple News Section in iOS 16.2
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The motive for this is effectively an ad for Apple News.
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I think we miss Scott Forstall's iOS era when everything was just simpler and user intuitive. Now it's more about $$$.
Unless I can pick my news source I don't want it.
Good to see some people do notice it's an ad for Apple News.
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If Apple wants to promote ads. How about targeting other iOS stock apps like Podcasts, iTunes store, Books, and iMovie? Those that are not being used daily.
Can you make it go away or do you have to be bombarded with more climate change swill ?
I’m downloading the beta. Let the complaints begin. Their suggestion box is gonna be stuffed. 🤘😝👍
Would this still be shown if you deleted the Apple News app?
Regardless, tacky, but if they leave it below the 10 day forecast, I don't see it as much of an issue. I only ever look at the current conditions and 10 day forecast. And likely it's weather related news, targeted to the location, so unless they start showing articles about anything but weather... again, I don't see why there's a reason to cry foul.
Regardless, tacky, but if they leave it below the 10 day forecast, I don't see it as much of an issue. I only ever look at the current conditions and 10 day forecast. And likely it's weather related news, targeted to the location, so unless they start showing articles about anything but weather... again, I don't see why there's a reason to cry foul.
How about Apple fires all these people, eliminates News and the rest of their garbage, and just gives me a damn forecast?
Miss Dark Sky. No other app I have tried works as good. I did try My Radar Pro - it was ok. I liked the hurricane tracking feature. However the native app is just a huge miss. I was happy to hear they bought Dark Sky but a year or two later, still nothing worth noting as to what they did with it.
What weather app do you use now?
What weather app do you use now?
I don't want the Jupiter damned news in my weather. Keep your politics and other negative info to yourself. I just want to see if it is raining.
I use the native for daily and My Radar Pro for detailed/specific radar.
Yep. That was why I dropped Carrot Weather - the snark started to become all about a certain fellow of a fruit hue.
Try CalcBot, I use it on every Apple device I own. Better than Apple's calculator in my opinion.How about no ads and a calculator app for an iPad OS
Ads under your eyelids eventually.
iLids.
iLids.
I hate Apple weather because it’s too complicated, not enough simple information without scrolling and shuffling around. The use of screen real estate is meh to me.
I don’t expect Apple to add politics to a weather app, but if an article explains more extreme weather patterns coming to a region as a result of climate change, I don’t consider that to be politics.
Weather, climate and climate change are sciences, but the mess we humans created by dealing (or failing to deal) with it is definitely politics.
That said, I agree and don’t see the added value of having articles in the weather app. Except for Apple wanting to drive more traffic to their failing News service.
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Science doesn’t care what you think. Climate change is real.
Please make it so you can turn it off. In maps I have annoying guides i cannot turn off. Now annoying news I cannot turn off? I am sure the news app is amazing but I don’t use it and don’t want it.
I think the main point here is we just want to check the weather, not read about climate change in a weather app.
Would be easy for Apple to implement down the road with Live Activities. It's just sports scores for now, but Apple could sell that space to retailers. Out running an errand? Get an ad from a nearby McDonald's or other restaurant for $X off a combo meal.