The weather app is a novelty application

ive gone though this for longer than 7 years now and I’m absolutely sick of it to the point where I resent Apple now. The weather app is a complete joke, inaccurate it’s an extreme understatement. I’ve just held off going out for 4 hours since Apple claimed it was about to rain, pushing it back every hour I check. Finally it says in the last 30 mins it says it’s not actually going to rain, so I get ready and leave the house as the app claims it’s clear sky’s now and 0mm of precipitation in the next 24 hours. 5 mins outside It starts bucketing down in rain and I’m drenched. So I go to check the app “clear sky’s” it says. I’ve been put in this situation well over 100 times over the past 7 years and I’m sick of it. There’s no point in showing people fake weather forecasts for no reason, the app it legitimately pointless, just a place holder for the Home Screen. And I know Apple doesn’t even care about fixing the issue because we’re coming close to a decade of it being a problem. This app should be removed from coming as a default app with the iPhone and really should be moved to the entertainment category in the App Store as this Cleary is a novelty as it has no actual way of helping anyone predict the weather. Looking at the sky is a more accurate way of predicting the weather than this app.

Posted on Feb 23, 2024 5:20 AM

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Posted on Feb 23, 2024 5:53 AM

You realize of course that you are not communicating with Apple here. These are user supported communities where neither Apple, nor Apple product teams participate.


In the U.S. the national weather service provides a free weather solution that installs on macOS or iOS/iPadOS as a web application. In my case, the source of the weather is five miles across town to the NWS reporting station at the airport. Can't get any more accurate than that. I also subscribe to RadarScope for keeping an eye on approaching weather, though that is on my Apple TV and my iPhone.


You have options rather than be fixated on the negatives of the Apple Weather app.


For the National Weather Service solution, visit their site forecast.weather.gov, enter your zip code, and when your weather page appears, visit the Safari File menu and select Add to Dock. When you launch this web app from your Dock, you will have to refresh the browser (⌘R) to get the current reporting, but at least, it should be accurate.

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Feb 23, 2024 5:53 AM in response to GOTAMM06

You realize of course that you are not communicating with Apple here. These are user supported communities where neither Apple, nor Apple product teams participate.


In the U.S. the national weather service provides a free weather solution that installs on macOS or iOS/iPadOS as a web application. In my case, the source of the weather is five miles across town to the NWS reporting station at the airport. Can't get any more accurate than that. I also subscribe to RadarScope for keeping an eye on approaching weather, though that is on my Apple TV and my iPhone.


You have options rather than be fixated on the negatives of the Apple Weather app.


For the National Weather Service solution, visit their site forecast.weather.gov, enter your zip code, and when your weather page appears, visit the Safari File menu and select Add to Dock. When you launch this web app from your Dock, you will have to refresh the browser (⌘R) to get the current reporting, but at least, it should be accurate.

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