Apple is making significant improvements to the Meteo app built into iOS 16, expanding the available data. You can now tap any weather module for additional useful information that was not previously available in iOS 15.
If you tap the main or 10-day hourly forecast, for example, a more detailed forecast appears that allows you to see the daily temperature in a graphical view, making it easier to view the temperature range and weather conditions by the hour. .
Most modules provide additional information every hour. With the UV index, users can see UV estimates throughout the day and get a view of when UV exposure will be highest.
There are similar hourly graphs for wind, precipitation, humidity, visibility and pressure. The sunset / sunrise module provides information on the first light, sunset, last light, and full daylight, along with monthly averages of sunrise and sunset. When rain is forecast, there is a 10-minute rain graph.
Apple offers the same maps of precipitation, temperature and air quality without any added features, but there have been some slight design updates to refine the look.
The updated weather app also offers severe weather alerts, although it is limited to some regions. Apple says not all weather features will be available in all countries.
To provide more information through weather modules, Apple is leveraging data from Dark Sky, the weather app it bought in 2020. Dark Sky on June 6 updated its blog post to clarify that forecasting technology Dark Sky is enhanced and integrated into the Weather forecast, feeding the new Weather app.
Dark Sky technology is also behind WeatherKit, a new developer API. WeatherKit is designed to allow users to incorporate weather forecast data into their applications. According to Apple, WeatherKit allows apps to provide current weather conditions and 10-day weather forecasts for temperature, precipitation, wind, UV index and more, along with minute-by-minute precipitation for the next hour and severe weather alerts in selected regions. .
As we pointed out earlier this week, Apple with iPadOS 16 brings the Weather app to the iPad for the first time. It’s the same as the weather app iOS 16, but more information is available on one screen thanks to the larger screen.
There’s also a weather app dedicated to macOS Ventura, identical to the weather apps for iOS and iPadOS, which offers parity features on Apple’s line of devices.