Weather app showing wrong current location

[Morac]

I have a Series 11 running WatchOS 26.2 which I bought last month. Twice so far when I’ve gotten home the weather app and complications show a town several miles from me that I drove through on my way home as the current location. If I ask Siri the weather it shows my home town as does Maps. Only the weather app is wrong so it seems like a problem with the weather app. Weather on my iPhone and iPad are correct.

When this happens nothing I do can fix it. Restarting and force restarting doesn’t fix it. Toggling location permission between always, never and back to always doesn’t fix it either. The only thing that does is basically leaving my home and going some place else.


One thing that seems to trigger this is having a watch face with a weather complication. I normally use the snoopy watch face and have a work focus watch face with a complication. Sometimes the watch doesn’t switch back to Snoopy and those two times were the times I saw this problem.

I did find a few Reddit threads saying this is a bug in WatchOS 26, but there aren’t a lot of comments on any of them.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[jz0309]

I have a Series 11 running WatchOS 26.2 which I bought last month. Twice so far when I’ve gotten home the weather app and complications show a town several miles from me that I drove through on my way home as the current location. If I ask Siri the weather it shows my home town as does Maps. Only the weather app is wrong so it seems like a problem with the weather app. Weather on my iPhone and iPad are correct.

When this happens nothing I do can fix it. Restarting and force restarting doesn’t fix it. Toggling location permission between always, never and back to always doesn’t fix it either. The only thing that does is basically leaving my home and going some place else.


One thing that seems to trigger this is having a watch face with a weather complication. I normally use the snoopy watch face and have a work focus watch face with a complication. Sometimes the watch doesn’t switch back to Snoopy and those two times were the times I saw this problem.

I did find a few Reddit threads saying this is a bug in WatchOS 26, but there aren’t a lot of comments on any of them.

Anyone have any ideas?

What does the weather app on the phone show? For all I know watch pulls it from there

 

[Morac]

What does the weather app on the phone show? For all I know watch pulls it from there

As I wrote in the OP the weather app on my iPhone and iPad show the correct location.

I tried contact Apple Support, but they refused to do anything unless I reset the location setting on my iPhone and removed any VPNs even though the problem shows up on the watch when the phone is off and the watch is on WiFi.

FYI here is one of the Reddit threads discussing this issue.

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[ELman]

I'm having the same issue. It started this past weekend. I have tried everything I can besides resetting the watch and it still shows the incorrect area in the weather app. Maps and other apps that use the GPS on the watch are fine.

 

[Morac]

Mine fixed itself when I updated to watchOS 26.2.1, but I feel that had to do updating and not because it was fixed. I’ve found the only work around is to not use complications with weather when driving home.

 

[uknation87]

I’ve had the same issue with my U3 and I ultimately have to click on the weather icon on my watch, have it pull up and it seems to refresh at that point.

I’ve not had this issue in the past and I’m updated on the software and it is still happening.

Hopefully someone figures out a fix.

 

[ELman]

Mine fixed itself when I updated to watchOS 26.2.1, but I feel that had to do updating and not because it was fixed. I’ve found the only work around is to not use complications with weather when driving home.

Hopefully 26.3 fixes it, but like you said it may work temporally due to the update.

 

[Spenny25]

Had the same issue since watchOS 26 came out on 3no apple watches in my household (1 Ultra 2, 1 Series 11 and 1 Series 7), was hoping the various updates would sort it but unfortunately not.
Location services are all set correct and the phone updates fine, never had issues with watchOS 11.

There are a number of people on reddit as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/1nj4d86/watch_os_26_weather_update_location_not_updated

Hopefully 26.3 will sort it out