Weather widget not working on ios 11

Hi,


I have an iphone 7 plus. Since ios 11, the weather widget doesnt update at all. The weather app is not working fine either, I changed the location settings to only when you open the app, I tried also 'always on' but then that little arrow icon appears all the time in the top bar, so I refused.


With the location switch on 'when use the app' the widget should update if I open the app, but It doesnt. Sometimes the app itself doesnt update location or weather conditions.


Am I the only one?!?!

iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 11, null

Posted on Sep 21, 2017 3:17 AM

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Posted on Nov 25, 2017 1:11 AM

Hello to all who are having problems with the Weather App not working or having it not automatically load your weather conditions, when you launch the Weather App. An error is displayed telling you that the data cannot be “ Loaded.”


I‘ve seen this problem on iPhone and iPad devices and is very easy to fix.


Enter.... <Settings>…<Privacy>…<Location Services>

Enable.... “Location Services” to ON !!!


...then...


Enter.... <Weather> (scroll down the screen)

Enable.... “Allow Location Access” to ALWAYS !!!


...then...


Exit out of settings and goto your main desktop.

REBOOT your iPhone or iPad... totally shutting it down (hold the side or top power button on your device for 6+ seconds... then slide the icon button to “Power Off”).


...NOTE... You MUST power down your device in order for this to work.


Power up your device (press the top or side power button). Give your device a full minute to fully boot and establish a Cell or Wifi lock, enabling the Locations protocol to sync to your location.


Hope this helps. Good luck.



Rabbit from Winnipeg

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Nov 4, 2017 5:43 AM in response to germaocruz

I tried the latest solution suggested in this thread, deleting and re-installing the Weather app with location services always on. Still doesn't update on my iPhone 8 Plus. I have filed a report about this with Apple (twice) at apple.com/feedback . It is disappointing that Apple does not find a way to acknowledge it is aware of a bug like this. Apple should monitor discussions such as this and should also send acknowledgements of product feedback notifications. This seems like a decision not to invest enough in customer service

Nov 14, 2017 11:40 PM in response to drjwr

What is really strange is the fact that it works just fine on my wife's iPhone 6s.

Her iPhone is also updated with latest iOS 11.1.1 and the widget always worked for her with no issue.

So where is the problem then? Why would it work on some phones while not on others. I would not like to reset my phone totaly to factory settings to see if it works on a clean one as it is a lot of wasted time but I am just curious if that would change anything. Anyone of you maybe checked that?

Nov 23, 2017 8:24 AM in response to BrunoVibe

BrunoVibe wrote:


I did report. With screenshots and everything.

Lets hope others do same so issue gets elevated, if Apple are aware they usually respond by replying that the Bug Report is a duplicate of another, or they can request additional info if it's new to them - hopefully they won't ignore! I'll feed back how the Restore (done for other reasons as well) goes but drjrw reports that was tried already so don't hold much hope.

Dec 1, 2017 6:32 AM in response to SiHancox

After every attempted fix, from the simple to the more complex, such as wiping the phone clean, the weather widget always misbehaves the same way for me: it works for a while — 3 or 4 hours — and then stops updating at all. It’s odd not only that none of us can fix this, but that the bug is slighdifferent from phone to phone.

Dec 1, 2017 7:17 AM in response to drjwr

Strange, mines now been working fine all day, go figure - have noticed that the Weather Widget on the Mac's Today/Notifications always appears upto date and does it instantly (ie. always same as that on the Web using Safari when going to the Weather Channel site), the Weather App on iOS although nearly as good sometimes has the odd "hour" out by 1 degree, but always seems to update within a very short time to mirror that on the Mac.


The Widget on the other hand has been anyones guess when it decides to show the correct figures, but last few days as I've said have been quite good (previous to that had to turn the bloody thing off for a while because it was driving me mad), when it does lag behind it only seems to be the temp for "Now" thats effected, but that updates within the following few minutes.


Although non of the above helps, it's just strange how variable this issue appears to be.

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