The iPhone Weather application allows you to quickly view the local weather and a five-day forecast. It shows the forecasted high and low temperature, and a weather icon, such as sunny, or partly cloudy.
You can have several locations in the weather app. Just press and flip to the right or left to move between locations. The dots at the bottom of the screen show how many locations you have, and the white dot shows your position in the locations list.
If you click on the i button at the bottom right, you can see the cities you are following, and click on the button to the left of each to delete them. You can also press and drag the right side of each item to move it up and down in the list. The bottom of the screen allows you to switch your preference between Fahrenheit and Celsius.
You can also click on the + button at the top of the screen to look up another location and add it to the list.
Weather data is provided by Yahoo!.
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I have lost my iPhone weather app that came with my iPhone! Can I reinstall it? Which weather app might it be?
Cyndy: How did it get lost? You shouldn’t be able to get rid of the pre-installed apps, these are different than the 3rd-party ones and aren’t in the App Store at all. You shouldn’t be able to delete these on a non-jailbroken iPhone. Your options may be to restore the iPhone (backup, restore, through iTunes) or to simply forget about it and find another Weather app in the store to replace it. Or, bookmark a good weather site through Safari and use that.
I wish I could lose the default iPhone weather app.
My wife and I both have the same I phone and the same weather app. We both have the City of Two Harbors, MN and have noticed that we are getting different data. When it is updated hers will show a temp of 50 degrees and mine will a different number. Do you have any suggestions?
Are you using the built-in Weather app? Or some 3rd-party one? If a 3rd-party app, then contact the developer and see what they say. The built-in app gets weather from Yahoo, I think. Perhaps it doesn’t update that often and you are getting different updates at different times.
I can’t figure out how to get rid of the 2 default cities in the weather program and get the cities that I want into it. I deleted the CA city and put in my city but it wound up on the 2nd set if aps, not on the weather one, where I’d like to know the outside temp and the CA city was back on the front page.
So it shows you have 2 Weather apps? That’s very odd. Try syncing with your computer to see if it clears it up.
Touch the i at the bottom right of the screen. Touch the – button to the left of the cities and the “delete” icon show. Press done at top right when done adding or deleting cities.
Can you tell me where to find what the very cryptic icons mean for the forecast weather ? This is for the standard iPhone weather app.
I don’t know of any list. Never thought they were very cryptic — seem pretty straight-forward to me.
So if they are so obvious to you, tell us the secret! Esp for the various snow icons. It is important to know the difference between flurries, light snow, and heavy snow!
The weather comes right from Yahoo, so what you could do is to visit the Yahoo weather page for the same exact location and then read the words under them to see what they mean.
Ii just got my first iPhone. The weather app gets some screwy data. My brother lives in Winter Springs, FL, and when I add it, trhe iPhone weather app says the weather there this week is sub-freezing, with overnight lows in the single numbers!! My GF’s mother is in Phoenix, and it says it’s cold there, too.
Bangor, ME and most (but not all) of my local sites seem to report more accurately.
Is this a known problem with the iPhone weather app? I can’t imagine Yahoo or The Weather Channel having such major errors on their sites (although I admit I have not checked…)
Allen TX 75013 is showing the wrong temperature for the area. When I look at the surrounding cities (Plano, Mckinney and Dallas) they show the correct temp. I use your app for work and would appreciate if you guys could check this out. Great App BTW! Thanks
I think you misunderstand. This is a Web post about how to use the default Weather app on the iPhone. WE do not make this app, it is made by Apple. It actually pulls data from Yahoo Weather, so the error is most likely with Yahoo.
Good for local weather.
Maybe too late for first question but I lost my weather icon too and was able to get it back by going to settings, general, reset, reset home screen layout
My weather app is also gone!
My weather app also disappeared and thanks to Al and has reset home screen layout I got it back. Thanks Al!
Thanks Al. My weather app also vanished, but your tip soon sorted the problem.
Hello When you 1st buy an iPod or iPhone what city weather is in the iPhone/iPod? Can anyone tell me the city it comes with?
I want it. I will use it BUT it bothers me quite a lot that the geeks do not know that it is spelled “Tangier” not “TangierS”
The weather app provided on the iPhone is the most worthless and inaccurate app. It is almost 30 degrees off on a regular basis. All my friends’ phones have the same problem. It’s not just the forecasting of highs and lows. The current temperature is grossly inaccurate – all the time.
The data just comes from Yahoo Weather. Are you sure you have it set to the correct city? The Yahoo database has many cities with the same name. I didn’t even know there was a Denver, Pennsylvania, for example.
Can anyone tell me why some of the weather listings backround color is blue with a sun, while others are purple with a moon or something. I don’t think it depends on if it’s day or night because I have both Duluth, MN and Minneapolis, MN and one is purple while the other is blue.
Alternating lines are a different shade to make it easier to read. Is that what you mean? Are you sure it is a moon?
Thanks Al! Got my weather app back too. Also, for those who have a like a 50 degree error in temp… Check that you have it set on Fahrenheit and not Celsius. Click on the i at the bottom of the screen to check it. It’s 70 degrees where I am, but when it’s set on Celsius it says 21 degrees.
The app designers have a strange understanding of logic. If you update without connectivity, you’re left with zero data.
Wouldn’t the LOGICAL thing be to validate connectivity and only discard previous data if it can be overwritten with CURRENT data