HOW TO Check on the weather
1 Use the widget
You can have the Weather widget as a Home Screen or Lock Screen widget. You might prefer the latter on your iPhone, so that the Weather widget is large and easily checked. On the bigger iPad, it suits being on the Home Screen.
2 See the summary
Tap the widget or open the app and you’ll be taken to this summary screen, which gives you an instant forecast for the next hour and an hourly forecast for the next four hours. You may also see the Stay Dry option shown here.
3 See the future
If you swipe up inside the app, you’ll see the 10-day forecast shown here. This manages to pack a lot of information into its small space: the likely chance of rain and the maximum and minimum expected temperatures.
4 Check the quality
Swipe a little further and you’ll see more detailed information: air quality and pollution, sunrise and sunset, wind speed and direction, humidity and ‘feels like’ – ie, what the temperature feels like taking wind into account.
5 Check the pressure
Swipe once more and you’ll now see the atmospheric pressure and the visibility, which tells you how far into the distance you should be able to see. There are also some options here to change how the app works.
6 Discover more data
Some sections in the Weather app can be expanded to tell you more. For example, if you tap on Air Quality > See More, it’ll tell you not just the rating but whether it’s safe for you to go out and what might be affecting your local area.
7 Get a bird’s eye view
In iOS 15, tap Temperature > See More, then tap the stack icon (top right) followed by Precipitation to see an animated 12-hour forecast. Tap the stack again to switch to the app’s Temperature or Air Quality views instead.
8 Get weather alerts
If you haven’t already set it up, tapping on the Stay Dry section at the top of the screen can turn on weather alerts. These can then tell you whether or not it’s a good idea to go for a walk or whether you should bring the washing in.
9 See it on screen
Weather alerts work just like any other notifications, so you can adjust what they do from within the Notifications sections in Settings. Here we’ve set the Weather app to alert us with banners on our iPhone Lock Screen.
10 Watch the weather
You can have the same weather alerts on your Apple Watch too. But if you haven’t done so already, you might want to enable Focus so that you don’t get weather warnings when you’re sleeping or in a meeting.
11 Adjust the alerts
In Settings > Notifications, you can adjust how your alerts should appear and how long they should appear for. If you tap Weather Notification Settings, you can enable notifications for specific locations only.
12 Change the settings
To change the settings, such as the units used for temperature, tap on the icon at the very bottom right of the Weather app and then on the ‘…’ icon at the top right. This also enables you to add locations with Edit List.