Bought a new Apple Watch8. Weather complication was stuck on Cupertino, despite setting up default to be my hometown. Called Apple Care, 45 minutes on phone, no fix. What to do?
Apple Watch Series 8
So, Cupertino is set as the default location. The watch complications pull data from your phone's native "Weather" app. This is the blue icon with a white cloud and yellow sun to the upper right (NOT The Weather Channel nor any other weather app you have). To get your watch to show other locations on the complication on the face, you have to enable location services for the "Weather" app. Once you do that, cycle power on both your phone and your watch. If your watch shows dashes because it hasn't pulled data from the phone, go to the main screen on your watch, swipe up, and tap the top right 'ping your phone' icon. This forces the phone and watch to communicate. Voila, data populates on your watch for your current location.
So, Cupertino is set as the default location. The watch complications pull data from your phone's native "Weather" app. This is the blue icon with a white cloud and yellow sun to the upper right (NOT The Weather Channel nor any other weather app you have). To get your watch to show other locations on the complication on the face, you have to enable location services for the "Weather" app. Once you do that, cycle power on both your phone and your watch. If your watch shows dashes because it hasn't pulled data from the phone, go to the main screen on your watch, swipe up, and tap the top right 'ping your phone' icon. This forces the phone and watch to communicate. Voila, data populates on your watch for your current location.
Using the paired iPhone, open Settings, > Privacy & Security, > Location Services
Look for Apple Watch Faces and click on it.
Change it to"While Using the App"
Try that and let us know if it fixes it.
Of course you'd need Location Services enabled which is one of the reasons why I had you go into there to check out the watch face settings.
I wasn't the one needing help.
I'm glad to hear that you got it working 🙂
You might be the only person who needs to ping their phone in order to get their watch to communicate with its paired iPhone, but hey! If it works for you, problem solved 😉
Apple Watch Weather Complication Stuck on Cupertino
