Seem to be missing a Weather App on macOS Big Sur

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Seem to be missing a Weather App on macOS Big Sur

I'm running Big Sur 11.4 on a MacBook Pro 16".

I was looking at my Location services in System Preferences, and right below Maps is this option for Weather, it's enabled (checked), but there's a problem triangle (yellow with exclamation point "!" ) indicator. When I hover over it, it says "Application not found at the expected path (/System/Library/CoreServices/Weather.app/Contents/MacOS/Weather)

I wasn't aware that there was supposed to be a default Weather app on macOS. I do not see one in the App Store from Apple. When I go to CoreServices, there is indeed a Weather.app. When I try to Open it, I get this crash report. What's the deal here? Is there a default Mac Weather app that my Mac is missing? Is this something in the works?

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 11.4

Posted on Jul 2, 2021 4:40 PM

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FoxFifth

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Jul 2, 2021 4:50 PM in response to aettic

There is a weather widget in the Notification Center. See: Use widgets in Notification Center - Apple Support

Sorry, but I can't help with the rest or your question.

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aettic Author

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Jul 2, 2021 6:40 PM in response to FoxFifth

That makes a lot of sense... I didn't have any widgets in my Notification Center yet, hadn't set them up. I've added a few, including Weather now. I also set it up to use My Location in the Edit section. The System Preferences Location menu is still missing the icon and still has the issue indicator. I checked in Package Contents for Weather.app, and there is only one thing inside the MacOS folder, it's called ClimateProxy, which is a Unix Executable File.

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briavael

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Jul 26, 2021 6:44 AM in response to utterlylost1234

Toggling cured this warning for me too. Thanks for posting the tip!

It is interesting that the error indicated it was looking for "Weather.app" but despite having the name "Weather" in the Finder, it's real name is "ClimateProxy.app" in the file system. I suspect that may have generated the Location Services warning...

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Jul 13, 2021 9:47 PM in response to aettic

Had this exact problem. Try toggling the checkbox. The warning went away for me after I did that. If not, try re-setting your Weather widget then toggle the checkbox for the Weather app again.

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Seem to be missing a Weather App on macOS Big Sur

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