Weather on Apple Watch defaults to Cupertino

"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

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.

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.

My watch is updated. My iPhone weather app has only Brussels belgium as a location. If I turn on location services on my phone then the watch shows weather where I am. I can add or delete locations on the phone with no effect on the watch. It is impossible to delete or add locations on the watch. If you try to add, you search the town. It finds it. When you select it the watch screen turns black and doesn’t add it. I have restarted and resynched the watch after making changes to the weather app on the phone. No effect. As soon as I turn off location services I am immediately back in Cupertino.

Last time lobster. I don’t want to know the weather where I am. I want to select the city on the planet where I want to see the weather. I am supposed to be able to configure this in the system without it defaulting me to Cupertino. As soon as I turn on location services it overrides my desired city and shows me the weather where I am. Which I am not interested in. As soon as I turn off locations services I get Cupertino.

Yes it does. It’s showing me Cupertino right now. When I shut services off it shows me Cupertino. I just want it to show my city of choice and let me delete cupertino..

it has showed my the weather in Brussels Belgium for the last 2 years regardless if I am there or not. Couple weeks ago it just stopped and it was Cupertino

I should say when I updated the watch to 9.3.1 it trashed my watch face and replaced it with metropolitan…. Even though my watch only had the one saved watch face. It was impossible to delete metropolitan cause supposedly it wasn’t there. After a couple hours of screwing around with it I must have pushed the right button cause I got my old watch face back

just in case the 2 are related

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.

Night

this is happening to me too. It must be related to the last update because I didn’t have this problem before then it’s very annoying. I go to look at the weather and it’s set for Cupertino and I live in Iowa Cupertino is not on my list of places.

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.

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.

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.

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?

-P

Really Apple, this is one of the major functions of the watch. It’s been a bug for months and you haven’t fixed it yet? Are we to believe your resource-poor company simply doesn’t have the bandwidth to fix it? Boo. If you’re going to charge a premium for a wearable, freaking support it like you care about your customers.