Ever since it became clear that Dark Sky was living on borrowed time, I’ve become fond of CARROT Weather and its interface construction set approach, which lets you tweak all the possible display options to your preferences (see “ CARROT Weather Predicts Cloudy with a Chance of Snark,” 22 January 2018). Apple’s Weather app may have integrated Dark Sky’s capabilities, but I don’t love its interface, particularly with the individual metric cards, which are difficult to parse quickly. Welcome as these features are, I don’t see myself using them. The workaround is to scroll down to the display of a particular metric on the main screen and tap that to jump directly to that metric’s graph screen. I’m less interested in temperature than precipitation most of the time, so I’d have to switch to the precipitation forecast manually every time. My gripe with the daily graph screen is that it defaults to temperature rather than remembering what you had previously viewed. You can also tap a day at the top or swipe left and right to navigate to other days in the 10-day forecast. Switch by tapping the menu on the right side of the screen. When you tap the hourly forecast or a day in the 10-day forecast, Weather now displays a daily time-based graph of one of eight metrics: temperature, UV index, wind, precipitation, “feels like” temperature, humidity, visibility, and pressure. The other change is even more significant. Switch by tapping the forecast name at the bottom, just to the right of the pause button. The new next-hour forecast animation (below right) is far more detailed and likely to help you plan your outing. The obvious choice is Apple’s Weather app, which received several key new features in iOS 16.įor those like me who are interested in hyperlocal weather patterns to see if you’ll get wet on your run or ride, Weather has added to the existing 12-hour animated forecast map (below left). This news should come as a shock to no one-Apple has been quite clear that Dark Sky was on borrowed time-but it does mean that Dark Sky fans will need to find an alternative by the end of the year. Apple’s new WeatherKit API allows developers to integrate Apple Weather forecast data into their apps. The Dark Sky API and website will hold on a few more months, until 31 March 2023, possibly to allow all of Dark Sky’s contracts to sunset. Now Apple has announced that the Dark Sky iOS app will cease to be available and will no longer provide weather data as of 1 January 2023. It took a little longer than anticipated for Dark Sky’s core features to migrate to Apple’s bundled Weather app, but at least some of them did last year (see “ Weather in iOS 15 Gains Precipitation Notifications (But Do They Work Reliably?),” 17 November 2021). Apple removed Dark Sky’s Android and Wear OS apps shortly after on 1 August 2020. #1667: OS Rapid Security Responses, 1Password and 2FA, using Siri to request musicĭark Sky Fading iOS 16’s Weather BrightensĪ few years ago, Apple bought its way to better weather forecasts, as we covered in “ Apple Acquires Dark Sky Weather Service and App” (31 March 2020).#1668: Updated Rapid Security Responses, OS public betas, screen saver bug fixed, “Red Team Blues” book review.#1669: OS security updates, ambiguity of emoji, small business payments with Melio, Twitter now X.#1670: Arc Web browser hits 1.0 release, “Do You Use It?” polls about Apple features.#1671: Apple Q3 2023 earnings, new Beats headphones and earbuds, Stage Manager adoption rate, do you use Spotlight?.
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