Weather Channel app not rotating on new iPad Pro Gen 6

Same here. I used to go to NOAA’s radar site but they messed around with it too. I loved being able to check the weather not study it.

Anyway, if you want to make them do anything about send all these ideas and suggestions to their support team:

feedback@weather.com

Put Weather Channel App in the Re: field

Send suggestions to: feedback@weather.com

I was checking out the Weather Channel app. this morning on my daughters hand me down (my former Gen 4 11in) as I have every morning for years in non-landscape mode or whatever it is called. I just got a new 12.9 iPad Pro so my daughter can use my 11 at school to take finals. I rarely watched it in landscape mode ever on a series of different year model iPads over the last 15 years . I am surprised the new 12.9 isn’t rotating the app., especially since the new iPad is just a big twin of her 11. They are both 2TB systems running on M2’s with iOS 17.4.1. I basically downloaded the most recent backup to the new one so they should work the same way I would think 🤔

This is the 11 showing a regular view of the Weather Channel. I am running a mirror copy of it on my 12.9. They are both “loaded” newest version models. I can’t figure why it won’t rotate on the one I just got.

I tried it LP, ad thank you , and I see where it would be useful for multitasking but remember I have had another iPad running on exactly the same data and apps (I literally downloaded my most recent backup from the 11 to the 12.9 for the initial setup. I thought it should run pretty much seamlessly but alas…it’s not an issue because I obviously can easily rotate the iPad. It just seems strange that they’ve slowly been reprogramming a lot of apps for rotation enabled purposes.Also, yes I am subscribed to the Wx website.

I understand and I’m sorry to hear of your disability. This all came about because I had surgery and it went bad leaving me bedridden for the next few months, at least. My wife and kids went together on a new 12.9 m2 iPad. (I knew better than to point out that the new 14” gen 7 m4 came out 24 hours later and why didn’t they wait or why didn’t Apple tell them about the new release?) Anyway, when I set it up I noticed it wasn’t rotating. I have it mounted in a fantastic floor weighted Levo iPad stand and it rotates but I don’t think it was meant to rotate several times a day. So that’s what started this…me being stuck in bed with a brand new iPad Pro growling at the weather channel. They did at least increase the font size and the width of the right side strip.

Yep, it used to be easy to glance at the old app and get a good idea of what the weather would be like for that day and maybe a click to see the week. Heck, if you look at my last picture you can see the radar button right there. That’s what I want out of my weather experience. I want weather and news on top and I can click on radar. It’s summer in Texas. I don’t live on the coast and I don’t need to see 2/3 of a non rotating screen covered in radar images. I like watching weather forecasts but not that much. The least they could do is make it true split screen and let us choose our layout.