Apple is launching a completely redesigned Weather app in iOS 15. In addition to a revised and corrected interface, the application integrates new functions and offers much more complete forecasts.
By buying the Dark Sky weather app a little over a year ago, Apple probably already had the idea of using some of its best features to integrate them into the iOS Weather app. With iOS 15, the native iPhone weather app gets a major update, arguably the most important since iOS has been around.
In addition to the arrival of a new interface, the Weather application is enriched. The traditional bulletin gains in precision, but especially embeds new data, much more complete and detailed than before, enough to make you a future Alain Gillot-Pétré.
New, more readable interface and more comprehensive weather reports
Under iOS 15, Apple is modernizing the display of information from its Weather application by separating them into separate blocks with rounded corners and transparency effects.
The organization of information remains more or less the same. At the top of the page, we thus find the main information (name of the city, current, maximum and minimum temperature, sky conditions), any weather alerts, the day’s forecasts hour by hour as well as a forecast bulletin on ten days. As on previous versions of iOS, the background displayed at the top of the forecast is dynamic. It changes according to the time of day and adapts to weather conditions in real time.
Below, several new blocks are added. Two of them occupy the entire width of the screen and allow to know at a glance the air quality as well (with the possibility of displaying detailed information) and to access a temperature map. It is also possible to display a more detailed temperature map, on which we find the temperature at time T of your current position where the temperature scale is represented by different colors.
By pressing a dedicated button on the right of the screen, it is possible to choose between the different cards available. The first is an animated map of the forecast for precipitation to come in the next twelve hours. By default, the application is centered on the configured city, but it is possible to view information for the entire planisphere by zooming out on the map.
In the same way, this map can be used to visualize the air quality over the whole territory, and here again, beyond the borders. Note that it is possible to access these three maps at any time from the main page of the application, by activating the icon representing a world map, at the bottom left of the screen.
For the rest, the iOS 15 Weather application groups the UV index, the time of sunrise and sunset, the direction and speed of the wind, the rainfall in recent years into smaller blocks. 24 hours, the perceived temperature, the humidity rate (and the dew point), the visibility distance as well as the atmospheric pressure.
Dedicated weather notifications
The other great novelty of the iOS Weather application is its ability to send you notifications in the event of a weather event, even a minor one.
To activate them, you must first access the screen listing the cities configured in the application, by pressing the dedicated button at the bottom right of the application. Then just press the options button represented by three small dots, at the top right of the list of cities, then select Notifications to activate them.
Notifications from the Weather application, however, require constant access to your location to be able to alert you in the event of a problem.
Unfortunately, some notifications will not be available in our latitudes. This is the case, for example, for notifications of the arrival of a rainy episode in the next hour, the alerts of which are currently only available in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.