Weather app not working on watch

I just had the same problem with my new watch and was able to fix it without all the resetting and unsyncing stuff. My fix was to go into the Apple weather app on my iPhone and delete then reload my default city, in this case Chicago. I noticed that in the iPhone weather app all three of the cities I had in there were "stuck" and not loading current data or had corrupted data (It thought Chicago, New York and Cupertino were all midnight and 82º) . I deleted them and when I re-added them they loaded with current data which also then synced back correctly to my watch. It was way easier than a full unsync/restart and it actually worked.

I called Apple Support to see why Weather and Stocks were not working on my watch. They had me unpair the watch, reboot both the watch and the phone and re-pair them again. I had to reconfigure the watch again, but now Weather and Stocks work perfectly.

I have found something else that may solve the issue. In Privacy > Location Services > Weather and it said “While Using the App”.., I changed it to “Always” and the Weather app updated on my Apple Watch very soon after!

I had this issue, but was able to find out the cause and fix it. I normally use the Weather Channel app instead of the Apple Weather app, maybe you do too.

On your iPhone, go into the Apple Weather app and make sure that you have a default city set up there. If you don't then add one, and that location will show up in the Apple Watch app and on the weather app on the Apple Watch. That's all I had to do to get mine working.

Christopher Jennings wrote:

I just had the same problem with my new watch and was able to fix it without all the resetting and unsyncing stuff. My fix was to go into the Apple weather app on my iPhone and delete then reload my default city, in this case Chicago. I noticed that in the iPhone weather app all three of the cities I had in there were "stuck" and not loading current data or had corrupted data (It thought Chicago, New York and Cupertino were all midnight and 82º) . I deleted them and when I re-added them they loaded with current data which also then synced back correctly to my watch. It was way easier than a full unsync/restart and it actually worked.

I think most such issues originate from the phone and doing what you did will usually correct them. Everybody's trying the un-pairing route which may or may not be successful but causes its own issues by losing Apple Pay data, any synced Music playlist, activity calibration, etc. If it's a native app that's causing a problem going to the app on the phone and trying a few things is far better tan completely wiping the watch every time there's a small glitch.

I Just spent an hour on the phone with apple. They had me re-pair my watch and also did a hard reset on my phone and still every time I went into the apple watch app and attempted to set my default city in the weather app the app would crash. Apple then wanted me to do a factory reset on my phone and restore to factory settings first (not my backup) to see if it was a software issue. I am very happy I found your post because I also was not using the apple weather app and was using the weather channel app. I did as you suggested and opened the apple weather app on my iPhone and set my default city and it worked. I am thankful I found your post and I did not have to go through backing up my phone and do a factory reset. Thanks again!

I noticed this problem last night. Rather than unpair/reset route, I tried "General > Reset > Reset Sync Data" and everything seems to work fine.

I was having trouble with the Weather app, too. Unpaired once and restored the watch from backup and it still didn't work. Then I unpaired again and this time set up the watch from scratch, not from backup, and it worked. Good luck.

I had this issue this morning with the weather app. I unpaired the watch from my phone and reset the watch back to factory settings and rebooted both the phone and the watch. I paired the phone and was able to select from restore from backup which did not require me to go back into the settings and reset them all to what I originally had set.

I had the same problem for two days. I just restarted my watch, and then my iPhone, This totally fixed the issue. No unpairing, no reset. The latter should always be last resort. But, the reason for the problems could of course vary from watch to watch.

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Several things. Do you have the temperature complication showing on your watch face? I do, and if I tap on that the weather glance is launched to my default location which is my current location determined by the gps of the phone.

If you do not have the temp showing do you have Weather set as a glance on the watch app on the phone? Also in the watch app under Weather (where you can set it as a glance) there is the setting for default city. Mine is set to Current Location. Now in the Weather app on the phone the first location should be the current location indicated by that arrow/pointer. In addition to that one I have 3 other cities listed but the current location is the first and default one. The watch just mirrors whatever you have set on your phone. You must have it correct there first.

If you have the current location set (indicated by that arrow) then just tapping on that and swiping upward gives you the forecast.

I 've found how to fix the issue ; I had to enable /disbale/enable the location services on the iPhone about the weather app

I know it says this issue is solved with that fix, but all I had to do was to turn off location services for the weather app on my phone. The watch is now displaying the weather correctly. Beats having to reset everything.

Brian DePardo wrote:

I know it says this issue is solved with that fix, but all I had to do was to turn off location services for the weather app on my phone. The watch is now displaying the weather correctly. Beats having to reset everything.

Great tip! For me restarting my phone has worked but your way is even easier. Too many people un-pairing the watch which is like using a sledgehammer to swat a fly.

I just had this issue today, an I reset and rebooted both the watch and iPhone 6 to only

a tem relief and the spinning wheel still comes back, I did the reset network settings and it was fixed

Immediately , i read som reviews on here but not all, so if I repeated someone elses answer, sorry,

I Hope this helps. :-)