Weather Complications not working watchOS 10 Update

Since upgrading to WatchOS 10, the weather complications do not work.


I have tried several different weather apps but none work.



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Apple Watch Series 7

Posted on Sep 22, 2023 7:52 AM

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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.

Posted on Sep 22, 2023 6:17 PM

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Oct 1, 2023 10:56 AM in response to alcheme

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

Oct 1, 2023 11:08 AM in response to ironex

Well that didn't last too long. After a few hours the weather complication disappeared again. But, something that has been working for almost a full day now, on the iPhone weather app I removed then added back all locations/cities. I also added my current location which matches "My Location" in the weather app. After less than an hour the weather complication worked again and hasn't quit since.

Like most other solutions here I don't know if this actually fixed the problem or is just a coincidence.

Oct 7, 2023 4:52 AM in response to alcheme

Worked differently for me. My Watch was already set to 24-hour time and toggling did not fix, but THEN…I went into Weather (on the Watch iPhone app) and changed Mirror My iPhone to Custom, waited a few seconds and setback to Mirror My iPhone and the watch immediately went from -- to displaying data correctly!


Thank you! I would not have tried if I hadn’t come across your post and everyone’s suggestions. 🥰


Weather Complications not working watchOS 10 Update

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