why did my weather app default to wind map

I did some research on this recently. From what I found you can change it on your iPhone or iPad. Start the weather app, press on the radar, press the stack icon (upper right corner, lower icon) and you’ll get the option to make the change and press “done”. I’ve noticed it doesn’t instantly take and become the default. My default didn’t change until I checked the next morning. Sadly, Apple’s iOS has continually gotten more buggy over time ever since Craig F. took the helm of the software division. There are so many issues/bugs and lack of “attention to detail” that seem to worsen yearly. It’s a bummer they can’t get it together. 

It changes based on the weather conditions. If it is raining or near to rain, it does a rain map. If it is very hot or cold, it defaults to a temptruare map. If it is windy, it changes to a wind map. If the air quality is bad, it changes to an air quality map. But you can temporary change it by clicking on it, and pressing the stack, and pressing a map you want to see.

You unfortunately can’t disable this auto change feature

how I noticed

I used the weather app for a while, then I found this out .

Looks like that map is dynamic and will default to whatever is more likely. If you set up a city which currently has or expecting precipitation- you get the rain map. If no rain is forecast you see wind. Kinda makes sense.

@Nik Hill ("Looks like that Map is dynamic and will default to whatever is more likely. If you set up a city which currently has or expecting precipitation, you get the rain map...) is right IMO

I want to give an update. The radar element is still not working correctly. I was able to default one of the cities to show precipitation. However, upon checking it today, it defaulted back to Wind. Apple continues to disappoint. "Attention to Detail". Get it together......

Can someone from Apple fix this bloody issue? It is very annoying and no it does not stick on iPhone either. Someone seriously needs to get fired there. Getting sloppy Apple, Not the standards we are used to.

Hey Nick_82, it appears to me that the map changes randomly. I've experienced one of my locations changing  from wind and precipitation. You would think there would be an option to choose. The app was much better when Apple first purchased that original company that built it. 

I agree with you, sloppy is a good way to say it too. There are so many other issues with this iOS. Very frustrating.

Good insight Nik. It does make sense, but just give me (everyone) the option to have a default setting. For me, I don't care about wind speeds. Less clicks of the mouse to see what you want the better.

I gave up on this app before even beginning to use it. I’m in Australia and the government meteorological app (BoM) is excellent. I noticed when comparing it to Apple’s Weather app, there were major discrepancies. Having looked again today, nothing’s changed. Ironically, Apple claims to source their data from BoM!? If that’s the case, why is everything wrong. I also can’t get precipitation to stick as the default. I think Apple wants to be everything to everyone but it ain’t working. Things just seem to get worse.

Exactly. I live in an area that gets no rain and I’d rather see the heat map. I used to be able to scroll through the maps and see each one, but now it’s precipitation only. Pretty worthless!

Apple seems to be putting out only what it wants and making people put up with it, hey, isn’t that communism???😯(or propaganda at the very least.)

This software is getting worse than Microsoft. Every app is bloated with features, and reconfiguring them in settings takes 15 minutes to find them, if you can.

I would rather have a simpler phone that’s easy to configure

OMG, Apple, please fix this. You shouldn't be deciding which radar map may be most important to which community. Individual users should be able to choose what they want the map to default to, and once selected, the setting should be saved and it should stick. I worked in software quality assurance for 25 years and would have lost my job over something like this. It is completely unacceptable.

No it doesn’t make any sense. I live in an area that gets severe storms regularly and the precipitation map shows me exactly where the storm is. I should be able to choose what layer the map stays on instead of Apple telling me what they think I should be looking at. This used to work just fine, now like half of everything else (like the touchscreen on my Apple Watch since WatchOS 11 not working properly) it’s completely broken. Apple needs to up their game.

I’d like to make a correction to the prior statement. It won’t hold on the Mac, but seems to be holding on the iPhone. Sorry for the confusion. 

Miraculously for a couple of days now it’s back to normal and shows precipitation. There wasn’t even an update 😳😳😳