Weather widget not working on ios 11

I have the exact same issue. Interestingly, I’ve found that whenever I send a text message, of any kind, the widget automatically updates. Otherwise it remains accurate and frozen as of the time of the last text message.

This is not the case here (iOS 11.0/iPhone SE); if my weather app is set to "while using" it will refresh for the last known location when the weather app gets opened; however, the widget's displayed temperature on the home screen does not update. This behaviour also is unchanged when setting it to "always" use location -- the app's UX itself updates, but the homescreen display does not update (the time of day actually does seem to update: it shows the appropriate icon for time of day; however, the temperature does not update).

Can't understand why when I go to the Widget sometimes it's fine, updates almost immediately, and at others it just appears to freeze, doesn't even want to update the times let alone the temps. When one of those unresponsive periods occur I now open the News App and wait for the temp to update at top right, then when I go back to the Widget it's not long before it also decides to update - coincidence!

I also have another App Widget that occasionally does the same, plus have also noticed the "Up Next" for Calendar doesn't always show what I would expect, then the following day it does - all very strange.

I'm getting close to turning all the Widgets off until a solution is forthcoming, but truth be told, they are quite useful.

She has same iPhone, 8 Plus, bought together in the same apple store.

Actually, apple apps affected are

Weather (widget only)

Calendar (app and widget, becouse when I enter an address for a meeting, the app show me the map but sometimes it later disappears and doing so I do not receive any more notifications “when to leave for”)

Maps (app, often I need to touch the arrow to localize my position, should be automatic opening th app)

Now, third party app, Autoscout24, when using localization.

What these app/widget problems have in common? Localization!

It's possible opening Maps might be "kick-starting" the Weather Widget, I've tried similar but with News - they both call weather info when starting so could be having the same influence on the Widget to get things going again.

I say "could" because for a while now I've just been using the Widget Center until Weather decides to update, which it does either immediately or after a short time, I might have to scroll up and down a few times or just leave it open at Weather, but it always updates in a minute or two.

Now that's still not "fast" and it's certainly not how I would expect it to work, but it does update and without any help from other Apps, so the point is I can't be sure opening another App first is actually making any difference because it can still take a few minutes to update, the same as if I'd just left it to "do it's thing by itself" so to speak.

I'll give your idea a go and if it forces the Widget to update immediately when I'm having one of those "delayed" moments, will report back.

I've kept testing the "Maps" suggestion through the evening but still makes no difference for me, I'm convinced the best solution (again for me) is when the Widget doesn't update immediately is just to leave the Widget Center open till it does, which takes between 1 to 2 minutes.

Not sure why mine is behaving this way when others (like yours) just freezes up totally, I'll just hold my breath and hope a future update "to fix" doesn't actually make it worse!

Set location service for weather app to always, and reboot phone. This fixed it for me.

If the Weather app is set to "While Using" it will refresh for the last known location.

To have it instantly update for your current location, it has to be set to Always.

IOS 11.03 is out now. Wonder if this fixes it.

I stop fighting with iOS weather widget.

I use Today Weather.

Always updated....

Same problem on an SE with 11.0.1. Weather app works fine all the time, but widget will only update when I force it to by enabling Location Services (which I generally have turned off). If I don't do that, it'll have the same weather information for days.

My issue isn't location; the location is fine. The problem I'm having is that the widget doesn't update. It's still giving me weather info from Monday. When I tap on the widget, it opens the Weather app, which displays the current weather.

This doesn't change if I activate location services. The only ways I've been able to force it to update are restarting the phone or changing the language settings. Either method is a tedious way to update the widget. It would be great if it worked as it should.

Yes, iPad still the same although iPhone ok at moment, from how the iPad has "reverted" back within a few hours following 11.2.5 I would expect the phone to do same - I'm going to turn Widgets off that give issue and leave only the ones that don't active for the time being - that's basically Maps, Google Maps, Podcasts and News for me, what a waste of a function!

This reminds me of the early days of "Handoff" which for me was so bad I ended up turning it off across all my devices till Apple released a fix (that they kept saying wasn't required pointing finger at home network) - the only problem, the fix came out just prior to them releasing the new OS 😕

jonathann78 wrote:

It’s the App! Localization service doesn’t work properly with it... Note that, as I’ve said before, my wife’s one works perfectly (same settings)!

Not sure what can be concluded from that, if your wife's phone is different to yours (ie. older) then it could simply be the developer hasn't updated for the new device yet (or if they have it isn't quite right and may need a revision).

The Weather App (Apple supplied) issue is a little different from how I see it, the App itself updates fine and haven't heard of any issues on other devices yet with respect to that side of things, the Widget element on the other hand doesn't always function, but whether that is down to the App or the OS I'm uncertain, but which ever it is they are both linked with Apple so down to one source to resolve hopefully.

Not sure either if there are any devices that don't have the Widget issue because few a us post that "all is ok with me", plus being intermittent it may go unnoticed, but would be interesting to know if any devices running latest OS have avoided the problem.

Yeah; those of us who have posted here for months and tried virtually everything have come to believe -- here I am (maybe unfairly) summarizing -- that the problem is oddly systemic, maybe with geolocation problems, affecting not just the native weather widget, and that it is likely to just be "fixed" without mention in one of the larger iOS updates. Here's hoping for 11.3.