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?
Apple Watch
This is a quick check to see whether the setting is not set to something else than what you believe it should be.
Again, you've answered your own question. DON'T TURN OFF LOCATION SERVICES.
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Yes this has just started happening to me. The weather complication on my watch face keeps going back to Cupertino even though it's not on my phone.
It keeps adding Cupertino to the list of weather cities on my watch even after I delete it on the watch.
This is clearly a new bug that just cropped up - please fix it!
I think you've answered your own question and why, when you only reply to the first post, without taking the time to read through the thread, you won't know the solution. For one thing, with location services off, your watch doesn't know where you are. So make sure location services for weather are always on.
Read this thread and you'll find the answer to this.
I've been bothered by this repeatedly over the last month.
I did a chat session with Apple Support to try to get a handle on what is going on. They're going to call me back on Monday to discuss it further.
When you are collecting information on this issue, its best to do so taking precise notes on actions you take and accurate observations.
Situation: Watch shows my correct list of locations for weather. Powering off and powering back on causes the watch to show Cupertino and New York.
Iphone Settings:
iPhone Location services on
Weather Settings on iPhone:
Location Access off for Weather app
Siri and Search all on;
Fahrenheit checked and spelt correctly (who knew there was an h in there.)
Privacy Reset Identifier off
iPhone Weather shows a list of cities that you chose. :
Framingham, Ma
Boston, Ma
Rio Grande PR
Brattleboro, Vt
Watch Appearance and behavior
Watch shows temperature on the chosen watch face
Tap on Watch Temperature shows hourly weather for Framingham, Ma
Actions 1:
Power off the Phone,
Power off the watch with the side button (not the crown, the button). 12.Power on the watch with the side button.
Watch face says Loading Weather Data, Temperature shows "--"
Power on the iPhone
Wait
Result1:
Watch Face continues to show "Loading Weather Data after two minutes.
Actions 2: Click the -- in the temperature indicator on the watch face.
Result 2: Watch shows Cupertino weather.
Actions 3: Touch the < icon at the top.
Result 3: Watch shows Cupertino and New York in a list.
Action 4: Delete Cupertino by swiping left and touching X.
Result 4: Watch shows cities from your list except the default.
Action 5: Delete Cupertino by swiping left and touching the red X
Result 5 - iNCONSISTENT : Watch shows some of the iphone cities that show on your watch, but not all four. Starting over from Actions at #9, Sometimes there are two cities , sometimes three, never the default city
Action 6: Add the default city on the watch
Result: 6 - iNCONSISTENT :If you started with 2 of 4 cities, you now see 3 of the four that are shown on the iPhone. if you started with 3 of 4 cities shown all four now show in the watch. The default city is last in the list.
Actions7:
Move the default city to the top of the list on the watch
Add the missing city
Result 7: Missing city now appears in the list on the watch
Actions 8: Change back to the watch face showing the temperature and continue observations, especially when the watch is out of bluetooth range of the iPhone
Additional tests run with similar results:
Additional tests to do:
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 reconfiguring your weather choices, its that after doing that, 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.
After fixing this yesterday, I read temperature on my watch clock face at 44 degrees. Its warmer than that here, Currently 52. That's not the local temperature, it's Cupertino -- again... So overnight. 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 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.
Still doesn’t work
when I power off sand restart it defaults to Cupertino.
I’ve taken it the Genius Bar they reset the watch and said it’s connecting to phone but still same. I had to reset my phone but still same issue
it was working fine till Christmas
chad199 wrote:
Yes this has just started happening to me. The weather complication on my watch face keeps going back to Cupertino even though it's not on my phone.
It keeps adding Cupertino to the list of weather cities on my watch even after I delete it on the watch.
This is clearly a new bug that just cropped up - please fix it!
You are not writing anyone from Apple on this user to user only forum. Asking for this to be fixed here, gets you nothing. No one here can fix this if it is indeed a bug. But if it was a bug, it would be affecting everyone and it's NOT. Cupertino is not defaulting to my Apple Watch Ultra with WatchOS 9.3.
Use the Support Button at the top or bottom of this page to contact Apple. Or, if in the US call Apple at: 800-MY-APPLE
Apple watch doesn't do that. Use your iPhone to see weather in locations you're not currently in. And with Location Services turned off, as you've learned, you don't get any city which you want, whether it be Cupertino or not.
If you don't like this, let Apple know by providing feedback via this link --> Feedback - Watch - Apple
Is your watch update to WatchOS 9.3.1? Does your iPhone also show Cupertino in the weather app? If yes, delete it there. You watch gets its weather data from your iPhone.
I am having the same issue and even though on my iPhone, I select the default city as my town. It continues to remain at Cupertino on the watch even though my iPhone is correct, I have restarted it to no effect.
"It worked but wish I did not have to allow this app to always track my location"
We're talking about Apple here. Your privacy is of the utmost importance to them. They can't even read most of the data unless it's something that you have opted in to share with them and then most of those things is just used for software improvements and aren't identifiable to you.
On the other hand, anything and everything google is exactly opposite. They clearly state that they can read anything: gmail, drive, and docs (to name a few).
Apples suggestion does not work. No matter how many times I “add” my hometown on my watch in the weather app it will not accept it and the weather shows up at Cupertino.
unless I turn on location services— then it shows where I am.
as soon as locations services goes off I’m back in Cupertino.
i don’t want the weather where I am. I want it in a town other than Cupertino
It does not work. I should be able to specify a city and leave location services off. Futhermore on the watch it does not allow me to delete both Cupertino and New York City. It does not sync with my phone where I only have Philadelphia and Brussels Belgium listed.
I had this annoying problem on my watch as well. I tried a lot of recommended fixes and none of them work and then suddenly everything was OK. I had tried so many things I couldn’t tell you what worked but I think there’s also been an update maybe that would help? I don’t know if it’s automatic or if you have to search for it.
Weather on Apple Watch defaults to Cupertino
