Ever because it acquired Darkish Sky three years in the past, Apple has been on a mission to enhance its built-in Climate app, with regular updates over the previous few main iOS releases which are slowly eliminating the necessity for third-party apps for all however essentially the most hardcore climate aficionados.
Apple Climate started rising up in iOS 14, which isn’t stunning since that launch confirmed up just a few months after the engineers from Darkish Sky grew to become a part of Apple’s group. That first launch was a child step, with Apple principally including climate alerts in iOS 14 for extreme climate, next-hour precipitation forecasts, and extra — all issues that Darkish Sky had excelled at.
The next yr, iOS 15 got here alongside and severely upped the sport with new full-screen climate maps to indicate temperature, precipitation, and air high quality (the place accessible), and even animated motion of rain over a one-hour and twelve-hour interval. Together with these maps got here a display with a wealth of latest info, with widget-like playing cards for UV index, dawn/sundown, wind, rainfall, appears like, humidity, visibility, and stress, together with diagrams the place acceptable, plus an air high quality index.
Final yr, iOS 16 added the power to faucet into these playing cards to get a 10-day forecast and far more detailed info on that side of the climate. As an example, choosing the temperature card would present a temperature graph all through the day, together with peak highs and lows, and the power to see forecasts of what it’ll seem like over the subsequent ten days. Comparable graphs had been accessible for precipitation, UV index, sundown/dawn, wind, and even the “appears like” temperature. Plus, you could possibly simply change between them from a button within the top-right nook.
Now, iOS 17 is taking that to the subsequent stage. Now, the climate on your present location seems as “My Location” on the prime, with the precise location listed in a smaller font beneath, which makes it a bit clearer what you’re taking a look at you probably have a number of areas configured. There are additionally two enjoyable new climate modules and extra detailed info for among the present ones. Learn on for five different thrilling modifications within the iOS 17 Climate app.