Weather widget not working on ios 11

Hi all, so I won’t blast Apple again? But what stage does these forum questions get escalated to Apple, all I can see is 15 pages of the same issue, who is actually holding Apple to accountability here?

In my view, there is no excuse for Apple's failure to monitor its support communities. It is cheap, it is arrogant and it is costly. I had two keyboards and the motherboard replaced on my iMac for an issue I eventually solved myself by burrowing into the support community and learning the problem, bizarrely, was rectified by adding an extender cable between the keyboard and the Mac. Apple's "geniuses" and AppleCare folks were unaware of the solution that was on their own message board.

Since 11.2 the app has never failed to update for me. I've been doing some traveling recently and it was always up to date, I never even gave it a second thought until I remembered it hadn't been working of late.

That’s simply not good enough, it should be working if something doesn’t work so much why don’t people complain about it, Apple users seem to be always putting up with issues , they need to be fixed by Apple,

Ok great, that’s the actual bug report, thank you. Btw weather should show current city/ area only once like below, may need Reset all details or che k location set to always, prob tell I am new to IPhone , with android app appart from average crash it every ph had widget always worked

I have found my iPhone 7+ to have these same issues since I purchased it in summer 2017. I had a dead pixel and replaced the phone with Apple 2 months ago and same issue with this new iPhone I got through apples Express replacement program. Very frustrating!

Thanks, but sadly most of us here have tried that months ago. The attempted fixes have included, at least on my new iPhone 8, completely wipe clean and set up as new; resetting all settings; deleting and re-installing the weather app, and virtually everything else we can think of. Nothing lasts. Over the phone an Apple tech rep told me “the engineers are working on it.”

I still have the issue (see previous posts) but haven’t had it completely stop (yet anyhow), in fact at the moment it’s updating faster than ever, the strange thing is it still appears to be ”time” related (for me), at certain times of the day it’s a lot slower, and these times are consistent. It’s not my Home Network because it behaves the same when away and using off Mobile Data so what’s going on is beyond me.

Was worth a punt, I'm glad mine's only "half" misbehaving - it does make you think though why some have the full-on freeze while others just get the odd glitch, is it location, device or content linked?

Same old story here: despite all efforts, including wipe clean and setup as new, widget works for several hours and then refuses to update. As I’ve noted previously, occasionally Dark Sky also doesn’t update until you open the app, after which it works fine.

That’s a great idea and great app too,

also people will be interested to know since I’ve been using this apps widget and Apples one together, since had it amazingly the Apple app is now updating too!

Any ideas based on this new info?

Smoz2017 wrote:

My guess is that is refreshing the iPhone,

Might be, tried this morning but wouldn't update - gave up and went out to do a few jobs. Just returned and on opening the Widget Center it bloody well updated in a couple of seconds, as I said before, go figure.

If it never worked would understand and just give up and use an alternative, it's this hit and miss that's so puzzling, not sure if it's a caching issue (ie once it updates that's it for several hours), but that shouldn't prevent new data overriding the current if available, bad design if it does.

My God, I bought an SE at the end of August 2017, and have only updated to 10.3.3. This is my FIRST Apple product, and my LAST. Am having same issue with the incorrect temperature on the lock screen. And i've read the horror stories about the 11 versions being so flawed....letter I comes out as a ? mark. Good grief apple. 😟

That's interesting. The only Apple widget that I use is Weather and, once it passes its first few hours, it then never, ever updates. (I have tried, by the way, following your News widget process, but that doesn't help the Weather widget, which remains lost at sea.)

I really shouldn’t be saying this just in case it’s tempting fate, but never yet had the Weather Widget permanently lock up on either device (fingers and everything else crossed), and again this lack of consistency makes it very difficult to guess what’s going on.

Just updated iOS to 11.2.5 and although it’s not mentioned in the notes will see if it helps, again fingers crossed.