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Weather location does not update

The complication on my watch face for weather and the default weather app on the watch do not update the location. When I open weather on my phone, it shows my current location (Dewitt) but my watch is stuck on where I was when I put it on this morning. (Sullivan).


When I open my Accuweather glance, it updates its location without fail.


I am running iOS 9 and watchOS 2


My location services on the phone for weather are set to "Always"

Apple Watch, watchOS 2

Posted on Sep 22, 2015 8:46 AM

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Posted on Aug 30, 2017 12:18 AM

I had the same issue, and discovered that location services were disabled for the Weather app on my iPhone. (I usually use WeatherPro on my phone.) I set that to "Always", and then went into the Apple Watch app, Weather, and set the default city to "Current Location", as gofalcons suggested. That seems to have worked for me!

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Aug 30, 2017 12:18 AM in response to gofalcons

I had the same issue, and discovered that location services were disabled for the Weather app on my iPhone. (I usually use WeatherPro on my phone.) I set that to "Always", and then went into the Apple Watch app, Weather, and set the default city to "Current Location", as gofalcons suggested. That seems to have worked for me!

Sep 28, 2015 3:15 AM in response to sbono13

I do also have the same issue after updating the watch to watchOS 2.0. The weather location doesn't update.

I've tried restarting,resetting,un pairing and re pairing the watch, I've checked the privacy settings for the watch faces but still the location doesn't update.

The only way I can temporarily make it update is by restarting the watch.

Any other suggestions?

I'm using an iPhone 6 with iOS 9.0.1

Sep 28, 2015 5:12 AM in response to windmill_81

Same config here (iPhone 6/9.0.1 with Watch2.0). All I can say is that it seems to be improving without me changing anything. As I was driving around the Bay Area today, i occasionally caught my Watch updating its location (the weather complication would display a "--" instead of the previous city's current temperature). It seems to help to be using the Watch for other things that require location, like checking in with Foursquare/Swarm or getting navigation through maps. When it does get stuck on a city, I've been able to force a refresh by rearranging cities in the weather app on the iPhone (faster than restarting the watch). But I haven't needed to do that in days.

Weather location does not update

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