Weather widget not working on ios 11

In iOS 10 the weather widget did not need the location services active to update...

Even with location services ‘always on’ for weather app, the widget doesn’t update at the same time of the app, so most of the times the temperatures of the app and the widget do not match...

obviously something is wrong... it’s like there are two different apps...

Hi Folks,

Been at this since 11.0:

Reset all settings

Uninstall / reinstall app

Wipe phone clean

Tried everything I could think of

No permanent fix: updates did work for a short time, after each fix, but non-updating (usually tempature, sometimes location) returned.

The anything unusual I noticed in all these processes, when resetting the settings and uninstalling and reinstalling installing the app, was with the Apple Watch, which no longer would show the weather. The watch app on the phone woushow the weather app as installed, but the watch showed it not installed. Watch and phone had to be re-paired.

Well, that "so-called fix" lasted all of 1/2 a day 😠 so decided to try a Restore, again will inform on how things go this time but from what others have fed back will not hold my breath.

Just to keep adding to others observations, I noticed the weather widget still "blinked" as though it was updating and the various hours/temp did change except the main headline temp and the "now" hour, those two remained "stuck". Also, spoke too soon regarding the iPad which also started showing this issue (partially anyhow), but after an hour or so it does resolve itself and show correct temps (ie. mirrors those on my iMac that is) so not quite as bad - what drew my attention to iPad weather not fully work was the lack of temp displayed top right in the News app sometimes, again this did resolve itself after a while.

The iPad behaviour started me thinking this is reminiscent of Apple server problems, but if others have not experienced the weather app freezing that would rule that idea out unless it's location based, so at the moment can only assume it's a bug - has anyone reported issue through https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/ yet?

Just can’t seem to solve this from my end. Most recently I reset all settings along with installing and reinstalling the app. This produced about 12 hours of working widget and then today as the day warmed to 64* the widget remained stuck on the 27* from the early morning. Very odd.

The only thing I have not tried is a wipe-clean and restore as new phone rather than from a backup. It just seems like too much work for this size problem, which Apple should fix on its own, I reckon.

Just to confirm no improvement with Restore (as expected) so suppose it's all down to Apple! The weather info partially updates but as stated previously the headline temp and "temp now" get stuck, they only update sometime later usually following several attempts opening Notification Centre, which defeats the object regarding faster access - easier and quicker to just open the App.

Thanks for your help; hope it helps. For me this early solution, along with, successively, resetting all settings / uninstall and reinstall / wipe clean the entire phone, and so on, has produced a fix lasting no more than about 12 hours. It’s an Apple problem, it seems, that I’m hoping is solved with 11.2, but I’m not sanguine about that, given Apple’s response to the problem beginning with 11.0.

Has anyone else noticed that the Weather Widget appears to be working better over the last week, it's still not perfect but the success rate of the widget updating when opened seems to be increasing, also the speed it does it appears to be linked to the time of day!

I've noticed late evening when opened it updates immediately now, likewise for early morning, during the day it can still be "sluggish" but if left open it updates after a minute - could all this point to servers being behind the issue and the reason why it's been so variable in nature (ie. geography linked, some not even reporting any issue), that would also explain why no fix has been released yet via updates because it basically has to be resolved at Apple's end.

Just a thought.

Now waiting to see if latest update to 11.2 resolves issue, decided to apply update via iTunes rather than on the device itself, done iPad mini first and widget working (but would expect that after reboot anyhow, fingers crossed it continues working).

Well, did install 11.2 while on the road: native weather widget worked only for a few hours; and neither Dark Sky nor The Weather Channel widgets opened with any temperature showing. Will try a wipe-clean and set-up as new when home and report back.

jsisti wrote:

This is beyond ridiculous...

Same here, been nearly three days now since the update and behaviour is as reported previously, Widget will update but takes anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes, just never know which it will be! - and it's the same for both devices.

I've given up now, and unless anyone else discovers some crazy fix will just ignore the Weather Widget until Apple decides to issue a fix.

I updated to 11.2.1 last evening and so far my weather widget has been updating each time I’ve checked today. On and off (AT&T LTE) my home network. I also am at a loss for what to do. I am going to pay closer attention to the times of day this happens.

Decided to try something different, loaded an App called "Sky Live" which among other things reports Stargazing Conditions (ie. weather related info) and has a widget that shows the same - surprise, surprise, this also sometimes fails to update it's info as per Weather Widget, the App again no issue, it updates each time it's opened.

Had the last update problem this morning at 08.00Hrs, no amount of messing could get the two widgets to update, went out and returned about 13.00Hrs and they both updated immediately! - so, different Apps which I assume get there info from different sources, the only common factors, they both access Location Services and operate from in the Notification Centre - who has any further thoughts?

Have had Dark Sky and TWC also update sporadically, as with the native app.

For each of these three apps, it sometimes seems as though two different weather apps are running: the widget weather and the full-app weather.

I thought it might have had something to do with Location Services, but since the Calendar “Up Next” also showing similar “slow” updates the only common factor I see is the Widget Center itself, maybe it just gets stuck in calling for the info.

Hi SiHancox, I share your thought.

It seems a Location Service issue, in the environment of widget/notification center.

I experimented some problems with Destination and Calendar too. When I save a meeting, or something like this, with its location, sometimes I do not receive notification when to leave for that meeting/destination.

Worst situation: I saved a meeting on my phone in the calendar shared with my wife (same iPhone 8+, same iOS) with destination. The two phones were side by side at home, my wife's one gave notification, mine not!!! Entering in my phone widgets, the Destination widget did not indicate destination of that meeting any more!!!

Very confusing and annoying!