Weather widget not working on ios 11

24 hours after a complete wipe clean and restore as a new phone, the weather widget has failed to update.

When I called Apple Support about a very different 11.2 bug — the forced restart now no longer works — I asked about the weather widget. The tech looked in the computer and told me, “the engineers are working on it.”

The cynic in me says, “and the check is in the mail,” but we will see.

Smoz2017 wrote:

what stage does these forum questions get escalated to Apple

It can be at any time the issue is considered unresolvable by the user, with respect to the Weather Widget that has now been proven I would say - you can submit this "escalation" in either of two ways, Feedback or Bug Reports.

Product Feedback - Apple

https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/

With Bug Reporting you will be required to login with your Apple ID if memory serves me correctly following registration.

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.

Same for me, iPhone 8 Plus 256GB, IOS 11.0.1. Just started happening today, the only way to refresh weather widget is restarting the phone.

If you uninstall it and then install it again, you won’t find it in widgets anymore. So, it’s probably not supported at the moment. Try to use different app.

It’s appeared in widgets again after a while. But it seems to be fixed. So try reinstall it 😊

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

plz send feedback with this bug

after resetting the location & Privacy Is your widget working properly ??

which phone are you using ?

I am having the same problem on my 8+

I've got my location services set to always and the widget just doesn't update. If I tap on it and it brings up the main weather screen that's accurate but the temp on the widget doesn't change unless I reboot.

Well... looking closely at widget issue I really think this is "in widget" presentation problem rather thane data update issue. Whenever I switch the screen to weather widget I see location is on (on top of the screen) and looks like widget is loading the data. Even when location is off and weather app is not showing any information, widget is still showing old data. In this regards, I think there might be some graphical glitch in widget that holds on old info rather than showing updated info/data.

did that also to no result, it works for a little then returns to same old behavior, stuck and won't update.

Updated to 12.1 still the same beahavior so I used the feedback app to report the problem to Apple.

Agreed. Through 11.1 my widget screen on an 8 Plus had numerous bugs. The Weather widget issue persists. Assessment? Apple is so busy with iOS 11 bugs — my daughter’s 6 still runs very poorly — and iOS 11.2 that the Weather widget problem can't get attention.

As a now frequent occurrence, neither the app from The Weather Channel nor the app from Dark Sky properly update temperature — in various improper ways, which makes me wonder exactly where the problem lies.

Sent from iPhone 7 Plus