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Apple Watch Ultra Weather App Wrong Cities?

I just got the Apple Watch Ultra a few days ago and had to do a force restart today on the watch. I noticed the same thing for my weather. On my iPhone under Settings, Privacy & Security, Location Services is turned on, and Weather has Always selected and below that Precise Location is turned on. Then on my iPhone under the Watch app under Weather, I have Current Location as my default city and below that I have mirror my phone. Then under my Apple Watch under Settings, Weather, and then selecting Default City it shows a green check mark for Current Location. The situation is when you either force restart or shut down your watch using the various types of shut downs/restarts that when the Apple Watch re-powers that you have a different city selected and even have different cities (Cupertino, NYC, etc.) listed under the Weather app on your Apple Watch when you didn’t have them on that list before you restarted your watch. So every time you power your watch on again, you have to manually delete those cities and have your default location selected when it should’ve been selected anyways when you restarted your watch? If anyone has an answer, it would be much appreciated.

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Posted on Jan 9, 2023 8:15 PM

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Pilerman

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Posted on Feb 12, 2023 7:43 AM

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.

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Ferd II

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Feb 12, 2023 1:14 PM in response to lobsterghost1

lobsterghost1 wrote:

I'm not sure the advice to never restart (or force restart) is the answer.

Concur...just deleting Cupertino, restored all of my previous selections. FWIW, I have a fully updated Series 7, and a fully updated iPhone 14.

Feb 26, 2023 9:01 AM in response to Brittany1416

Hi,

I have the Iphone 11 and Watch 7 (about 10 months old).

This issue happened to me twice this week (including this morning). It started when I travelled to Dallas (from Vancouver BC) and wanted to select Dallas as default. It switched okay but the next day Ottawa was my default city. Then I powered down the watch and restarted, nothing changed. Had to do it manually.

Then upon returning to Vancouver I manually changed the default city which worked the way it was supposed to. Then this morning I was in Ottawa again (the watch was...emotionally)...with Ottawa as the default. Again, reset it manually to Vancouver.

Thank you

Feb 4, 2023 8:42 AM in response to bmurphy315

If it was a software issue, it would effect everyone. It simply isn't. I own Apple Watch Ultra and have no such issue with my watch. I'm on WatchOS 9.3, the most current WatchOS.

A-Rae04

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Jan 18, 2023 6:38 AM in response to bmurphy315

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

Feb 4, 2023 9:29 AM in response to bmurphy315

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.

Feb 4, 2023 9:34 AM in response to jennalanae

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!

Feb 12, 2023 7:56 AM in response to Pilerman

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.

bmurphy315 Author

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Feb 14, 2023 10:09 AM in response to Pilerman

I updated my iPhone to iOS 16.3.1 and my Apple Watch Ultra to OS 9.3.1 yesterday and it’s still doing the same thing. Of course when Apple comes up with a new software update, they don’t put anything in the description/notes telling you exactly what “bugs” they fixed. They just want you to be assured that they fixed something but you have absolutely no clue what that fix was. I’ve just come to accept the developers will not resolve this issue anytime soon.

bmurphy315 Author

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Jan 18, 2023 6:55 AM in response to A-Rae04

No. I’ve spoken to 4 people through Apple and nobody has an answer. My best guess is that it’s a software issue with OS 9.2. Whether this gets resolved when the new OS comes out will be the answer.

A-Rae04

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Jan 18, 2023 7:00 AM in response to bmurphy315

Thanks for the update and sorry to hear no fix yet. 🤞🏼 it’s fixed with an OS update

Artkra

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Jan 20, 2023 3:35 AM in response to bmurphy315

Hi! I’m having exactly the same issue. I have my watch for over a year now. Any idea what is going on or how to fix it?

Feb 12, 2023 1:24 PM in response to Ferd II

And this appears to be a simple solution, which is works and is what I will be recommending to others who have this issue.

Apr 21, 2023 7:11 PM in response to smittyrocks

This is the only solution that’s worked for me so far, but it’s annoying to have to do if my watch dies/reboots.

Manduh87

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Oct 2, 2023 9:30 AM in response to bmurphy315

Okay this exact thing just started happening to me and I can’t send any texts. Is there a fix for this?

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