My Apple Watch defaults to Cupertino, even though my weather app on my iPhone does not have Cupertino listed. It’s obviously not syncing with the app on my iPhone and I can’t seem to add my location on my watch, even when I select the “Add City” button on my watch. Any suggestions?
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This is a quick check to see whether the setting is not set to something else than what you believe it should be.
This is a quick check to see whether the setting is not set to something else than what you believe it should be.
I finally found the solution with the help of Apple Support. On your iPhone, go to settings, go to Privacy and Security, Click on Location Services, scroll down to Weather, Change the setting to Always from Never. I did not check if the other settings would work but “Always” solved my problem.
In a phone call with apple support they suggested actions that apparently fixed the issue with the weather.
Note that previously you could recreate the Cupertino weather issue by powering off the watch and powering it back on. Now when you do that, you see the notation "Loading Weather..." on the watch face, and although it takes a while, weather data for all your locations will appear. and when you add or delete a location on the watch or in the weather app on the iphone, the change will be reflected on the other device immediately.
Great work Apple!
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Apple has released new versions of IOS and WatchOS that fix this issue:
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I think I figured it out without needing to select “always” on location services. Just delete Cupertino from the list of cities on you Apple Watch weather app. After I did that, all the locations I have on my iPhone weather app just magically showed up as options on my watch.
I like this way better so it’s not always relying on my physical location.
I think I have solved this. I basically am pushing every button and seeing what works. I turned on the “reset identifier” flag at the bottom of the page when you go settings> weather> scroll to the bottom.
as soon as I did it seems to trigger a re-sync and now it’s working as expected.
I’m not sure if that triggers it — but it seemed to to me. New York and Cupertino were then gone from the watch and the phone seemed to sync with the watch.
I Now have location services off and Brussels Belgium weather back on the watch even though I am not currently in Belgium
essentially the watch is doing what it is supposed to and exactly what lobster said it won’t do.
i can now swipe left on the watch and delete locations like the picture from the rude NJ guy above —-and also add locations with the watch.
if I want to change the location displayed —-I have to do that on the watch app on the phone. You have to go watch> weather> default city. Then you can change the city to whatever location you want on the planet instead of seeing weather at your location
i don’t know if that helps someone but try that little privacy trigger maybe it will help you too.
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There's a potential fix if you just have one location in your iPhone's weather app:
In the weather app, make sure you have the location set as the default location.
Go to settings -> Weather -> Privacy -> Reset Identifier
turn the indicator on.
Reboot your phone and your watch
Your phone will likely show your single default location followed by Cupertino and New York.
If you have more than one, (I have 4 locations, with the top one default) You will see your default location and only cupertino and New York.
I'm in the process of upgrading to 16.4 from 16.3.1. After I do that I'm going to upgrade the watch to the latest too. Then I'm going to reboot the phone and the watch. Care to guess what will happen?
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Did you re-install the weather app on your phone?
Did you upgrade to the latest IOS on the phone and latest watchOS on the watch?
This issue was reported fixed. See comment by callahanp1 dated 28-Mar-2023.
If you do the steps and it still comes back, let us know.
On your Apple Watch. Click on the displayed city to see the full list of cities and swipe left to delete Cupertino. That will work also.
Cupertino is in California and it's where Apple is headquartered.
There were new updates sent out for the phones and watches yesterday, maybe these updates will fix this issue for everybody.
First update your phones to 16.3.1
Then update your watches to 9.3.1
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Yeah, setting it to Always was overkill. The later solution to just remove Cupertino from your cities on Apple Watch and making sure location is on at least when the app is in use in widgets, etc or whatever that setting is all should do the trick.
Tap the weather complication on your Apple Watch. A list of cities should appear. If you see any city, including Cupertino, you don't want on your watch, swipe from right to left on the city name and remove it.
Not 100% true, it gets it from the weather Apple settings in the Watch App
Read through this thread and try the things that I mentioned in it. You might need to click on "see all replies".
Weather app on Apple Watch 8 - Apple Community
After you're through it, come back to your thread (right here) and let us know if none of that got it working.
I posted a bunch of different settings to check and how to find those settings.
For "this doesn't work for me" to be clear, you'll need to explicitly say what "this" is. There are a lot of things in this lengthy thread that "this" could refer to.
The problem is not so much that it defaults to Cupertino and NYC, and is fixable by deleting Cupertino and reconfiguring your weather choices adding any that are missing. The problem is that after re-configuring, apparently successfully, your choices disappear and Cupertino and NYC are back again. This is clearly a bug in the watch OS weather gadget or in Watch OS itself.
New Behavior noticed today:
After fixing this yesterday, the watch showed Framingham as the default, with Rio Grande, Boston and Brattleboro as choices if needed. This morning I read temperature on my watch clock face at 44 degrees. Its warmer than that here, Currently 52. It's Cupertino -- again... The Watch ran out of juice this morning, and I charged it this am. Maybe that's when it changed. I didn't check before bed last night. Wish I had. Turns out Cupertino made it into my list, and was treated as the default . That's new behavior. Previously the whole list was replaced by Cupertino/NYC
Clear documentation of when and under what circumstances the bug re-appears is needed.
I'll be discussing this in a promised phone call from Apple Support on Monday. Stay tuned to this thread.
Weather on Apple Watch defaults to Cupertino
