Apple Watch Ultra Weather App Wrong Cities?

Hello bmurphy315,

To help us get a better understanding of the issue, we’d like to ask a few questions.

1. Just to confirm, it seems like new or additional cities are added every time the Apple Watch is restarted, correct?

2. Do you ever receive an error or message before this occurs? If so, what does the error say?

3. Do you experience the same behavior on your paired iPhone, or only the Apple Watch?

The above information will help us plan how to proceed.

Please also check out this link, which has some good information on using and checking Weather on Apple Watch, which may help: Check the weather on Apple Watch

Choose your default city

1. Open the Settings app  on your Apple Watch.

2. Tap Weather, tap Default City, then choose a city.

3. You can also open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap My Watch, then go to Weather > Default City.

Conditions for that city are shown on the watch face, if you’ve added weather to the face.

Thanks!

Hi bmurphy315,

Thank you for letting us know more about the issue.

From here, we'd like to get you in touch with Apple Support for further assistance with this. You might be able to contact Apple Support here: Contact Apple Support

Thanks!

I've come to the conclusion that you (and several other folks) are correct!

While the weather on my watch didn't seem to have any problems, it occurred to me that I hadn't ever shut it down and restarted it. I've had this watch since the first week of December and I've never turned it off (rebooted it).

That's what I decided to do this morning so that I could see if I'd experience the same issue. I did!!

My watch showed my location based (GPS) related weather and then when I clicked on the widget, then hit the back arrow, I could see three: GPS location, Cupertino, and New York.

Next, I unlocked my phone and opened the Apple Weather app on it. After a short delay, the list on the watch magically changed. My saved cities replaced the Cupertino and New York.

I guess that you could say that I learned something new today!

I concur with what everybody else is saying, the watchOS doesn’t remember where it left off.

Two things:

1. Don't shut off the watch, mine had been on for 70ish days.

2. If you do have to shut off the watch or it completely dies, just know that you'll need to open the Weather app on the phone so that the two can sync.

I guess that we all need to fill out and submit this form requesting that they look into this slight inconvenience.

Feedback - Watch - Apple

My 8 does exactly what everyone says is happening.

I figured that it was something that got addressed with iOS 16.3.1 and watchOS 9.3.1 but no, same thing.

It's only after a watch restart. It just doesn't remember what it was doing before the restart.

After rebooting the watch, I click on the weather widget and the heading of the screen is based on the GPS location of the watch. If I click the back arrow (upper left corner) it opens a list. In the list there are 3; GPS based, Cupertino, and New York.

Then if I open the weather app on the phone and give it a few seconds... Bingo! The watch syncs to the same cities as the ones in my phone. I can be watching the watch screen as the change happens (when it syncs).

See the screen shots.

Instead of deleting Cupertino on the watch, just open the weather app on the phone and then the watch will "Mirror my iPhone" if that's how they have the settings.

And... This 'issue' doesn't bother me because I don't regularly shut off my watch. I only did so to see if my watch would do what everyone says is happening to them.

Are there any updates to this? This also randomly happened to me ~1 week ago and I’ve tried all the recommendations I could find. I’ve double-checked the weather settings on my watch and iPhone. This is really frustrating. Any suggestions? I am on an older watch (Series 4) with OS that is up to date and an iPhone 11 with 16.2

This has been happening to me too for over a month. I was so excited this week when my watch told me there was an update available. Unfortunately the update did not fix the issue. Apple really needs to fix this issue because I check the weather on my watch about 100 times per day and I’m tired of accidentally dressing for New York’s temps when I live in TX…

I agree. I have tried all of the above and it resets to New York and Cupertino every morning when I restart the watch. I have it set to “mirror my iPhone” as well as location services turned on. Even when it does successfully mirror my iPhone (after I delete NY/Cupertino daily), it often shows the wrong temperature for my area.

I also want to add that I have had this watch for years and it has never been an issue so obviously my settings are not incorrect. This just randomly started occurring one day several weeks ago with no changes made by me. It is an unnerving problem!

After reboot of the Watch, open the weather app, wait for it to update the Current, Cupertino, NY, then delete Cupertino and your actual cities will show up. Sounds like a strange workaround but it works for me every time. .

jennalanae

The Ultra watch is very new and your watch must be an older series.

I'll try to help you right here in this thread but it could get confusing and it would actually be better if you could create a brand-new thread of your own.

With all of that being said, hopefully I can get you fixed up in this single reply.

Here we go:

Using your phone, go into Settings (gear icon), > Privacy & Security, > Location Services, > Apple Watch Faces

Make sure that Apple Watch Faces is set to "While Using the App".

I'm pretty sure that this will get yours working. It is my belief that an update added this new Privacy and Security and for some reason, most people's watches defaulted to "Never".

My fingers are crossed 🤞

I dunno........After EVERY iOS and WatchOS update, I Force Restart my devices. My Apple Watch Ultra has never defaulted to Cupertino or NY and certainly didn't after WatchOS 9.3. I'm not sure the advice to never restart (or force restart) is the answer.