![]() But formerly, before Apple acquired dark sky (RIP), the stock weather depended on third parties for the weather. Apple is good on this front by billing the costs of the service into the hardware. Most free weather apps sell user data to serve ads. Since Apple took over, it has an outages every few days/weeks now. Hyperlocal weather data is not free to obtain and apps are not free to write. take over of the Dark Sky didn’t go that well after all. Sure, the core features and data are now baked into Apple’s native Weather app, but it can’t show you a visualization of the cold blast most of the US is about to endure. Here’s a prime example why it’s so sad that Apple is killing off Dark Sky app. There have been so many instances like this and I’m really sad to see Dark Sky go down at the end of the year. Right now I have heavy snow (Dark Sky agrees) the Apple app says it’s drizzling. 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. A five-day and seven-day forecast is fairly accurate, but they are less reliable beyond that range. By ten days, forecasts are only accurate approximately 50 of the time. My gripe with the daily graph screen is that it defaults to temperature rather than remembering what you had previously viewed. The NOAA says that, on average, a five-day forecast is correct about 90 of the time, while a seven-day forecast can accurately predict the weather 80 of the time. I am led to understand Apple’s native weather app is improved in iOS 16 (I haven’t updated yet), but based on reviews, the Dark Sky UI I’ve grown to love isn’t even remotely approximated in Apple Weather app. And nope, it doesn’t have the one feature I use Dark Sky for – the one feature no other weather app has: the ability to see what the weather was yesterday. I upgraded to iOS 16 about a year before I normally would just to check this. So far I am finding Apple’s weather service to be less accurate than The Weather Channel.įolks here said the new Weather app has the same info. The Dark Sky API and website will continue to function until March 31st, 2023. As previously announced, the Dark Sky iOS app will no longer be available beginning on December 31st, 2022 and, as of this date, already purchased versions of the app will no longer provide weather data.
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