Weather Complications not working watchOS 10 Update

Quick update (of my situation):

Summary - this may be to do with 12 vs. 24 hour clock settings.

Detail: All my Apple devices are set to Australia for the region, which defaults to 12hr clock. I change all devices to display/use 24hr clock. Watch was the same, and assumed it was set that way. Noticed just now that Weather widget in dock (scroll crown up function) was showing 12hr clock. Can't change this on the watch, but in the Watch app on the iPhone I went into 'Clock' settings and noticed 24hr clock was toggled off (no idea why). Turned 24hr back on and all the weather complications updated immediately and the widgets showed 24hr clock again. So that seems to have fixed it for me.

My observations and a hack until Apple is not fixing this issue with and future update:

• Please set on the preferences of the Apple Watch App on the iPhone "Current Location".
• Go to the Apple Watch and close the Weather App by double pressing the crone and swiping from right to left every application which is open. With this you shut down the app in the cache.
• Turn your Apple Watch completely off by pressing the power button right side, pressing the "shutdown-icon upper right and swiping from left to shut down the watch.
• Wait some seconds to be sure that the Watch shut down completely and then turn it on again.
• After Reboot of the Watch go to the preferences app on the watch (not iPhone) and see under the weather section what location is set as the default city...in my case it is "current location" then. This stays as long as you don't open the weather app on your Watch! When you open the Weather App on your watch (e.g. by pressing a complication), then in the preferences of the weather app on your watch the default city "current location" disappears and will be set to your the first fixed city you have on your list...and then the trouble starts with no updates on the complications etc.

Weather complications NOT working in WatchOS may be face dependent. In the Infograph face the complication worked fine, but in Modular Ultra face kept failing despite trying: delete and reload, restarting phone and watch, changing to 24 hour clock, toggling 24 hour clock, latest versions iOS 17.0.2 watchOS 10.0.1, resetting weather app on watch via iPhone to default city = current location.

The only effective hack for me is setting weather app default city on watch via iPhone to specific city, not to current location! Seems to hold.

Going back to default city = "current location" results in the complication not working again! As seen below:

And once again, changing weather default city location back to a specific city (not current location) appears to fix the complication:

fdelillo wrote:

Press down on the watch face until it’s ready to change watch faces. Don’t change the face. Press the Digital Crown to accept the current watch face. The complications will all reload automatically.

Thanks, this worked for me. iPP15 and AW7 wOS10.

I had to reset location and privacy to get the weather complications to work again.

If the Apple Watch Weather complication isn't working - Apple Support

Press down on the watch face until it’s ready to change watch faces. Don’t change the face. Press the Digital Crown to accept the current watch face. The complications will all reload automatically.

I used to restart both my watch and my phone until I discovered this little trick and it seems to work every time.

For those who also have this issue, this has been occurring for years. Note that, from what I've noticed, when the watch is turned on after battery drained or turned off manually, the complication will take a while to load your data. If it has been hours, and you've opened the weather app and it works but still isn't showing on the complication, I tried the following recently.

Watch OS 10 / iOS 17

• Turned 24hr on then back to 12 again
• Reset location and privacy data on the phone
• Re signed into Apple ID
• The watch was recently re paired to the phone as well as completely reset
• I've disallowed then allowed again the location services to "use while using the app"

For some of these instructions, the settings in Apple are a bit scattered all over the place, so make sure you look around. Some options are on the watch, some are on the watch app, while some (such as weather privacy data) are on the normal settings app on your phone.

The watch for years has been having an issue with weather complications, and it seems like Apple has never really fixed it entirely for people.

One of these solutions above worked for my recent issue with this, I don't know which one. After doing all of this, turning off and on the watch, and waiting, it eventually showed up. Sometimes you just have to wait for the complication to work.

Hope this helps, because all the information online for how to fix this is a bit scattered and inconsistent

Realistically, the true fix for now looks to be resetting Location and Privacy on your paired iPhone as detailed in this support article from Apple - If the Apple Watch Weather complication isn't working - Apple Support

I found a solution! If you pull up Control Center (click on the long ‘pill’ button below the rotating crown dial), you can turn on WiFi. When you do, launch the Weather app. Because you activated the WiFi, the Apple Watch is triggered to detect location when you open the Weather app again. It has worked for me every time (you can turn off WiFi after your current location is detected).

Can confirm the new "bug" (watchOS 10.3) with weather not working has to do with Wi-Fi on the phone/watch.

Turning off Wi-Fi on the phone and forcing phone/watch to use cellular allows the weather complication to load properly. Noticed the issue was only happening at home and not when out running errands or at work where I'd be on cellular.

This is a new/distinct bug compared to the older issue that was occuring in the Fall. Really frustrating Apple can't get this right considering how important this feature is.

After trying solutions on this thread, this finally worked for me for Watch 8/WiFi only:

• Upgraded to watchOS 10.3.1
• Reset location privacy on iPhone (General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset Location & Privacy) and granted Weather location access to “Always”
• Set my current location on the iPhone Weather app
• Complication still not working, then I turned off WiFi on iPhone and waited a few minutes
• Weather and Sunrise complications came back on — changed Location Access to my preferred “While Using App or Widgets”
• Waited 5 minutes and then turned WiFi back on my phone
• Complications still working next day

I noticed if changed Location Access from Always to another setting while still on WiFi, the Weather complication would blank out, but the Sunrise comp would stay on. The offline sequence above worked.

Hope this helps!

I fixed mine by going to Phone Settings -> Weather -> Location and selected Always. The widgets started working immediately (Apple watch ultra2 with modular ultra face)

Have you tried the full "privacy and location" reset on your iPhone?

That seemed to work for me. Details (from Apple, officially) are here --> If the Apple Watch Weather complication isn't working - Apple Support

I had a similar issue, that the weather app does not load when the iphone is connected through wifi (however using cellular allows the weather to load). I also noticed that this was not just a weather issue, since checking watch OS update on the iphone shows the same issue (no connection under wifi).

I reached out to apple support and an agent intructed me to:

(1) unpair the watch with phone and then pair again.

(2) reset the network setting on iphone (setting->general->transfer or reset iphone->reset->reset network setting)

The issue remained after (1) but is solved after (1)&(2). So if you are experiencing the same issue maybe you can try (2). If that doesn't work try the combination of (1) and (2).

The clock switching between 24 and 12 hour time is a weird hack, but it worked for me too. I switched it back and forth a few times, then a few minutes later, the complication started displaying the data. Hopefully, Apple will fix this bug soon.