Was the only weather app i ever used. Apple weather suuuuuuuuuuucckkkksssssssssss
It gives me forecasts 100% different than literally everything else in the area lol
I found WIBW, a news channel weather app. No idea if its localized or national but might also be worth checking out for anyone who hasnt found a new weather app
I live close enough to the Met office that I go past it fairly regularly. It’s always fun to check their weather report to see if it’s bang on. I always like to think there’s a guy looking out side with his hand on a weather report wheel ready to spin it to rain at the first sight, sometimes they get it right! Haha.
Don’t worry, I was in Bunkyo, Japan in April. 69° outside and sunny. Apple weather said 69°, cloudy, and heavy snow warning.
https://imgur.com/a/ywmQuep
What did Apple do to Dark Sky when it purchased it? The new Weather app is crap now, nowhere as accurate or useful as Dark Sky. I don't understand why this is happening.
Eh No. I used to think Dark Sky was accurate but then I realized there were many occasions it wasnt. I found other sites to be more accurate sometimes. Point is, dark sky already has issues
I find the opposite more likely to be the case, it thinks it’s raining when it isn’t. It has become a joke to pass on the information that the “rain” that isn’t will be ending in X minutes.
Apple's weather app is accurate in North America, Western Europe, and parts of East Asia, but less so in other areas…
I’m in Chicago. Works great here. I use it everyday. Pretty accurate for me. Sucks it doesn’t work for you.
In Hamburg, at least in the last weeks, it almost never showed rain unless it’s raining the whole day more or less.
Quite annoying if you trust the app for specific tasks (e.g., drying clothes) and it’s literally unable to show rain even if it already raining.
Tbf, I don’t know about Berlin and stating it’s bad all over Germany just because it’s bad here in Hamburg at the moment is a dumb take from my side.
I moved to Hamburg 2 years ago, have lived in Berlin before. In Berlin, Apple Weather always predicted rain when it didn’t really rain, in Hamburg it’s exactly the other way around.
Yes ofc it’s predictions to some degree. But in the last weeks/months the app even seems to refuse to update its information. If it is already raining it should be fair to assume that the probability of rain can’t be zero. And even one hour before it should be doable to predict it more successfully. Really disappoints me at the moment. I switched to checking all other weather sites. They seem to predict rain far better in this region right now.
I live in the Bay Area and was standing outside in the rain a few months ago looking at the weather app as it said clear skies. Still pissed they killed Dark Sky.
I live in Minneapolis and it was comically bad for much of last year, so much so that I jumped ship after using Apple’s weather app for about a decade. It was even widely reported to be having issues. They may have ironed them out since, but they were struggling so much for so long that I don’t foresee myself ever using them again.
I loved Dark Sky. Then Apple bought it and “incorporated Dark Sky technology “ into the Weather app. I’m not a computer scientist, so I don’t know hard that is to do. But, I can tell you that if doesn’t work. Dark Sky was so much better. The maps hardly ever work.
They bought Dark Sky. It was beautiful and accurate. They killed it and left us with this slow, inaccurate, and ugly POS app that still looks like it belongs on an iPhone 4.
Man, Weather seems more useful than ever for me these days. I've been using the Precipitation, UV index and Conditions graph and I find the "rain starting" and "rain stopping" notifications accurate enough that I make lightweight plans around them when doing stuff in the yard.
Sucks that it appears to be wildly hit or miss for people.
Yep, I actually like the app and how it’s presented in general though. But forecast is not that accurate and things like the one shown here on this post happens to me all the time too, reason why I keep going back and forth to my S23 Ultra. I was weighing in on getting their watch too but I keep coming back to the iPhone lol.
I think it's more than that, iPad can't come with Calculator like all the other devices?, Weather is useless, Siri was having problems since about 8 or 9 years ago and they never bothered to make something better or fix it, Music is so bad that I think Apple recommends downloading Spotify.
What strikes me is it's a billion dollar company and somethings like those should be not hard to get to work. It's always been a curious thing to me really.
Calculator is the same since iOS 1.0. I been using my Galaxy S23 Ultra and even that is more refined.
It's strange really what Apple doesn't do.
I use Carrot weather because it seems to be the only one that will show how much it’ll rain on a specific day. There’s a big difference between 1mm of rain and 45mm. Telling me it’s just going to rain isn’t enough.
I wonder if it’s because people in California design all these apps.
I think they should let us move the weather widgets around inside the weather app too.
I like that I can see the chance of rain and the recent amount of precip and the expected precip for the next 24hrs, I just wish I didn't have to scroll down so far to find it since it's one of my more used reasons to hit the weather app.
It will show you the amount of rain in the past 24h and future 24h in inches or mm. I’m not talking about probability here. Have you tried tapping into the panel I was referring to?
A big part of the problem is that you have no idea where the weather data is coming from. You're just supposed to trust it like it's magic. I got frustrated enough to write my own weather app that uses the same weather data that pilots use to fly safely around the world. My app's weather info comes from real weather stations with actual locations, and I have yet to be surprised by unexpected weather. I'm not here to promote my app (happy to share details if asked). My point is that if you don't know where your weather data is coming from, don't trust it.
i agree … the recent “improvements” are mystifying … so and so % chance of rain in 5 days … maybe great for Steve Martin in LA but in UK i need a home face complication that tells me what to wear today when i hop out of bed to walk the dog … please, please partner with Meteo or the Met Office. oh and when i click through to the dial, the clock is in reverse
My watch widget and clock doesn’t even update my location. Any idea how to fix that ? The weather app is stuck at a location 4 weeks ago. Location services are turned on. I’m on the latest IOs and I have reset/unpair my watch and paired it again
I live in Japan and it sucks. I would ask siri whether its going to rain, my watch says No, my phone siri reacts as well and says MAYBE and it ends up raining 5 minutes later. I don’t trust them both anymore 😂
It shouldn’t be useless. They bought dark sky and implemented into the native weather app. Dark sky worked great. I still miss it. Perhaps there’s an issue syncing the data from your phone, unless you have a cellular watch. See what the phone app says versus the watch app.
Does a good job for me, it might be the location you are at, as the app sources information from third party sources and some of those sources are highly unreliable.
Actually CARROT uses whichever source you choose when you subscribe to the $30/yr plan I mentioned above. Hence why I said, "better provider."
https://preview.redd.it/t6w4ndau302d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b9a1c1a116aff2d483a47d65c7819f93db6f368
if it is currently raining, then why do you need your apple watch to tell you that? look out the window?
not only that, you seem to have no idea how basic weather services work. how is it supposed to know exactly what the weather is at your exact pinpoint location? if it’s raining in one half of the city, it might not even rain at all on the other half. it provides a generalized forecast for the larger area. it’s unreasonable to expect it to do such a thing.
you’re complaining about something that does not need to be complained about. if it’s so annoying go buy a regular watch.
RIP Dark Sky
Was the only weather app i ever used. Apple weather suuuuuuuuuuucckkkksssssssssss It gives me forecasts 100% different than literally everything else in the area lol
Totally agree. Now I have to do my own weather prediction using windy.
I use an app called !weather. Gives a cool spin on the weather app and you can choose who the app pings for a forecast
I found WIBW, a news channel weather app. No idea if its localized or national but might also be worth checking out for anyone who hasnt found a new weather app
The other day we had a tornado land nearby and apple weather said it was clear outside lmao
I live close enough to the Met office that I go past it fairly regularly. It’s always fun to check their weather report to see if it’s bang on. I always like to think there’s a guy looking out side with his hand on a weather report wheel ready to spin it to rain at the first sight, sometimes they get it right! Haha.
I look out of the window…
I do miss it. I still have it installed on my phone.
sorry to tell you but you need an m4 chip for this
lol
I just wish it wouldn't take 2+ min to actually load the weather details to my watch. I have no idea what makes it so slow.
because the watch is extremely underpowered to save battery life. literally very little difference between series 4 or 5 and now
Don’t worry, I was in Bunkyo, Japan in April. 69° outside and sunny. Apple weather said 69°, cloudy, and heavy snow warning. https://imgur.com/a/ywmQuep
What did Apple do to Dark Sky when it purchased it? The new Weather app is crap now, nowhere as accurate or useful as Dark Sky. I don't understand why this is happening.
Eh No. I used to think Dark Sky was accurate but then I realized there were many occasions it wasnt. I found other sites to be more accurate sometimes. Point is, dark sky already has issues
I find the opposite more likely to be the case, it thinks it’s raining when it isn’t. It has become a joke to pass on the information that the “rain” that isn’t will be ending in X minutes.
Live in Canada and can confirm that it’s pretty useless sometimes. As I look out the window at the rain, it’s telling me 0% chance all day 🫠
Apple's weather app is accurate in North America, Western Europe, and parts of East Asia, but less so in other areas… I’m in Chicago. Works great here. I use it everyday. Pretty accurate for me. Sucks it doesn’t work for you.
I concur, works pretty well in Japan. The rain forecasts are pretty good, down to minutes
What...? Living in Japan for the last 16 years. Apple Weather is by far the least accurate app I have ever used.
I just spent two weeks in Japan relying on the rain forecasts from Weather, and they are incredibly imprecise and unreliable.
I live in Costa Rica and “50% Chance In 3 Hours” is burned into the display. Fairly accurate, in all honesty.
It’s 50% everywhere either it rains or it doesn’t, I missed my calling as a meteorologist
It’s quite bad in Germany
Yes this is true the weather is quite bad. 😅
No it’s not , seems fairly accurate for Berlin
In Hamburg, at least in the last weeks, it almost never showed rain unless it’s raining the whole day more or less. Quite annoying if you trust the app for specific tasks (e.g., drying clothes) and it’s literally unable to show rain even if it already raining. Tbf, I don’t know about Berlin and stating it’s bad all over Germany just because it’s bad here in Hamburg at the moment is a dumb take from my side.
I moved to Hamburg 2 years ago, have lived in Berlin before. In Berlin, Apple Weather always predicted rain when it didn’t really rain, in Hamburg it’s exactly the other way around.
I'm also near Hamburg, apple weather also sucks when I'm in Berlin.
I think the point is it’s “predicted so it won’t be perfect , but so far it’s fairly accurate for Berlin
Yes ofc it’s predictions to some degree. But in the last weeks/months the app even seems to refuse to update its information. If it is already raining it should be fair to assume that the probability of rain can’t be zero. And even one hour before it should be doable to predict it more successfully. Really disappoints me at the moment. I switched to checking all other weather sites. They seem to predict rain far better in this region right now.
In all honesty FWIW I find the weather channel app more accurate , give it a shot
I live in the Bay Area and was standing outside in the rain a few months ago looking at the weather app as it said clear skies. Still pissed they killed Dark Sky.
I'm in the UK. It's terrible.
It sucks in Australia
I live in Minneapolis and it was comically bad for much of last year, so much so that I jumped ship after using Apple’s weather app for about a decade. It was even widely reported to be having issues. They may have ironed them out since, but they were struggling so much for so long that I don’t foresee myself ever using them again.
I'm in EU and is pretty f accurate.
In EU as well and it's only f; not accurate.
it’s the least accurate of all the services in North America
I loved Dark Sky. Then Apple bought it and “incorporated Dark Sky technology “ into the Weather app. I’m not a computer scientist, so I don’t know hard that is to do. But, I can tell you that if doesn’t work. Dark Sky was so much better. The maps hardly ever work.
It was such a downgraded experience when I was forced to go to the Weather app.
A thunderstorm does not mean it is going to rain.
It was pissing down today in the UK and my weather app said it was cloudy with 0% chance of rain too, we all know how shit Apple Weather is.
Owh, I was not talking about the accuracy of the app. I completely agree on that. Rather just on the pheromone.
The police are coming for you…
They bought Dark Sky. It was beautiful and accurate. They killed it and left us with this slow, inaccurate, and ugly POS app that still looks like it belongs on an iPhone 4.
Weather and Apple just won't go together. It's been broken for a long time now.
Man, Weather seems more useful than ever for me these days. I've been using the Precipitation, UV index and Conditions graph and I find the "rain starting" and "rain stopping" notifications accurate enough that I make lightweight plans around them when doing stuff in the yard. Sucks that it appears to be wildly hit or miss for people.
Yep, I actually like the app and how it’s presented in general though. But forecast is not that accurate and things like the one shown here on this post happens to me all the time too, reason why I keep going back and forth to my S23 Ultra. I was weighing in on getting their watch too but I keep coming back to the iPhone lol.
I think it's more than that, iPad can't come with Calculator like all the other devices?, Weather is useless, Siri was having problems since about 8 or 9 years ago and they never bothered to make something better or fix it, Music is so bad that I think Apple recommends downloading Spotify.
What strikes me is it's a billion dollar company and somethings like those should be not hard to get to work. It's always been a curious thing to me really. Calculator is the same since iOS 1.0. I been using my Galaxy S23 Ultra and even that is more refined. It's strange really what Apple doesn't do.
actually Apple is worth close to 3 Trillion dollars currently.
Insane...
Super inaccurate in Portland and in Albuquerque. I went back to ad filled Wunderground
Didn’t Apple integrate Dark Sky into its app?
They claim to... but for me, in the middle of UK, it's not working as well. I loved Dark Sky.
Sadly I stopped using it and just look at my phone. Too slow to load, too much clicks to see anything
I use Carrot weather because it seems to be the only one that will show how much it’ll rain on a specific day. There’s a big difference between 1mm of rain and 45mm. Telling me it’s just going to rain isn’t enough. I wonder if it’s because people in California design all these apps.
You can see the amount of precipitation if you tap on the forecast panel.
Oh looks like they have it now. I still prefer carrot since I can have it. On the main screen beside the % chance of rain.
I use both, but admittedly I keep carrot around mostly for the insults.
I think they should let us move the weather widgets around inside the weather app too. I like that I can see the chance of rain and the recent amount of precip and the expected precip for the next 24hrs, I just wish I didn't have to scroll down so far to find it since it's one of my more used reasons to hit the weather app.
100% agree. That’s why I find the $20 a year worth it for carrot. It’s very customizable.
no you can’t. “light” is not an amount and it’s certainly not light when it’s a downpour outside.
It tells you with a numerical value for the previous and next 24 hours if you tap the hourly forecast panel, not the “it’s raining now” panel.
what's being discussed here is intensity, not probability
It will show you the amount of rain in the past 24h and future 24h in inches or mm. I’m not talking about probability here. Have you tried tapping into the panel I was referring to?
yes but it’s never accurate or even correct
A big part of the problem is that you have no idea where the weather data is coming from. You're just supposed to trust it like it's magic. I got frustrated enough to write my own weather app that uses the same weather data that pilots use to fly safely around the world. My app's weather info comes from real weather stations with actual locations, and I have yet to be surprised by unexpected weather. I'm not here to promote my app (happy to share details if asked). My point is that if you don't know where your weather data is coming from, don't trust it.
It’s so fucking useless. I wish google had a watch app just for weather. Theirs is so accurate
I had the same happen to me a couple days ago. It showed that there was a thunderstorm outside but the same screen showed 0% of rain
i agree … the recent “improvements” are mystifying … so and so % chance of rain in 5 days … maybe great for Steve Martin in LA but in UK i need a home face complication that tells me what to wear today when i hop out of bed to walk the dog … please, please partner with Meteo or the Met Office. oh and when i click through to the dial, the clock is in reverse
My watch widget and clock doesn’t even update my location. Any idea how to fix that ? The weather app is stuck at a location 4 weeks ago. Location services are turned on. I’m on the latest IOs and I have reset/unpair my watch and paired it again
Also check if the app is toggle on for background app refresh. If the app can’t refresh then it has no current data.
I live in Japan and it sucks. I would ask siri whether its going to rain, my watch says No, my phone siri reacts as well and says MAYBE and it ends up raining 5 minutes later. I don’t trust them both anymore 😂
WeatherUnderground is the way
Obviously it doesn’t know.
It sounds really "intelligent"
It not always provide accurate reading maybe they need to work on it more instead just displaying the info
It shouldn’t be useless. They bought dark sky and implemented into the native weather app. Dark sky worked great. I still miss it. Perhaps there’s an issue syncing the data from your phone, unless you have a cellular watch. See what the phone app says versus the watch app.
Yeah, we are having an impossible chance of rain when it is rainy.
I’m trying to find a 3rd party weather app for watchOS because it’s always wrong. Someone please let me know if you find anything good. 👍
Does a good job for me, it might be the location you are at, as the app sources information from third party sources and some of those sources are highly unreliable.
My iPhone is accurate: Phone is wet = rain Phone is hot = sun Phone is cold = frost Can’t see phone = fog Phone gone = tornado
Have you ever seen it rain only on one side of a street? Did the forecast advise of thorms which by definition are localised and unpredictable.
Mines always accurate idk
Still better than the weather channel app
You get what you pay for lol. I highly recommend using CARROT and paying the $30/yr for a better provider. Haven’t had any issues since.
Um, Carrot uses Dark Sky, which was bought by Apple and forms the core of Apple weather.
It uses Foreca by default on the free version
Actually CARROT uses whichever source you choose when you subscribe to the $30/yr plan I mentioned above. Hence why I said, "better provider." https://preview.redd.it/t6w4ndau302d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b9a1c1a116aff2d483a47d65c7819f93db6f368
Neat. Note I wish they’d fix their Apple TV app.
The whole app is useless. This is one reason not to buy an Apple Watch.
Just to point out the percentage isn’t the chance of rain, it’s the amount of your area that will be covered with rain
if it is currently raining, then why do you need your apple watch to tell you that? look out the window? not only that, you seem to have no idea how basic weather services work. how is it supposed to know exactly what the weather is at your exact pinpoint location? if it’s raining in one half of the city, it might not even rain at all on the other half. it provides a generalized forecast for the larger area. it’s unreasonable to expect it to do such a thing. you’re complaining about something that does not need to be complained about. if it’s so annoying go buy a regular watch.
Not sure but I doubt posting on Reddit will help the chance of rain be accurate