Weather on Apple Watch defaults to Cupertino

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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Posted on Jan 12, 2023 6:12 AM

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Posted on Jan 12, 2023 6:43 AM

  1. On your iPhone, open the Watch app
  2. Scroll all the way down to Weather and tap on it
  3. Tap on Default City and choose Current Location or select a specific city you'd like to get info about


This is a quick check to see whether the setting is not set to something else than what you believe it should be.

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Feb 19, 2023 4:01 PM in response to lobsterghost1

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.

Feb 19, 2023 5:05 PM in response to lobsterghost1

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.

Feb 19, 2023 5:18 PM in response to lobsterghost1

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



Apr 2, 2023 7:40 AM in response to Mbarti

Mbarti wrote:

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.

Really? We don't have customers. We aren't Apple and you aren't writing anyone from Apple. And Apple won't see your comment here. This is a user to user only forum. Maybe read the full thread, where people have posted solutions to your concern and try them.


If you do want to complain to Apple, feel free to use this link --> Feedback - Watch - Apple


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