[shagie]

If you are using the current version of iOS, the new weather app rocks in terms of functionality (IMHO better than the previous version of Dark Sky).

If you are on an old version of iOS and mourn the loss of DarkSky app, I personally like MyRadar - it has some very nice features and I used in tandem with DarkSky in the past.

If you are after writing an iOS app, you already have an Apple developer account allowing for 500k calls/month.

If you are after writing an iOS app and want to use DarkSky rather than WeatherKit, Pirate Weather should also be a drop in replacement.

[macintux]

The new iOS Weather app certainly has lots of functionality, lots of data, but I mourn the clean, streamlined Dark Sky interface.

Plus the temperature map, unlike the radar map, no longer allows you to change to a future date/time to see how the temperature changes are going to progress across a larger region, which I always found interesting.

Very unfortunate.

[antihero]

Also the live map just looks weird and interpolated now.

[cjrp]

I've switched to Carrot and paid to enable "layouts"; they have a very Dark Sky-esque one.

[shagie]

Having just downloaded and poked at it, it looks very nice and familiar for those who want a Dark Sky type interface. The "oh, that's a feature I'd like" comes at a bit of "that's behind an IAP", but I suspect I'll be adding it to my weather section.

Thank you for introducing me to it.

[sbate1987]

I like Carrot also - it has a lot of options to play with if you subscribe for it - They run sales esp year end sales if you can wait 11 months. You can also change the weather sources or api like Foreca and DarkSky and apple weather as well so maybe this Pirate one will be in there as well. I did not like the free version - I LOVED dark sky it was point of contention with the wife as accuweather was more accurate for planning. Peace.

[fsociety999]

> the new weather app rocks in terms of functionality (IMHO better than the previous version of Dark Sky)

While I agree that functionally it offers a lot, the interface is around 1000 times worse than the Dark Sky app. For example, to see the “feels like” temperature over the next few hours in Dark Sky, it used to show up immediately on load for the current time, and with a single tap to see it over the next 24 hours. On the new Apple Weather app, you have to first tap on the current day, then tap on the drop down on the upper right, then tap on “Feels Like”, then tap on the graph itself and drag to the desired time.

It is absolutely incredible to me that something so simple went from taking one step to taking five steps. I don’t know how any user interface designer can justify it.

[Terretta]

UX note: 1 step = 200 units of worse

[rootusrootus]

iOS Weather is pretty nice. But I can't quite love it, because it frequently tells my wife and I different values for current temperature, all while proclaiming to be giving data for the same small city. I can manually program the city in and get it to do the same thing. Hard to trust it.

Also, it's almost always wrong with rain predictions. But so was Dark Sky, so that's fair.

[dv_dt]

Yup it’s pretty bad - I kept comparing it to the nws mobile site and the iOS weather app was frequently wrong vs the nws and real outcomes

[CharlesW]

> If you are using the current version of iOS, the new weather app rocks in terms of functionality (IMHO better than the previous version of Dark Sky).

Tip for anyone coming from Dark Sky: Open Weather, scroll to the bottom, tap "Manage Notifications", and turn on "Next-Hour Precipitation" and "Severe Weather". For me at least, these weren't turned on by default.

[jorvi]

I mean, it doesn’t even have precipitation notifications or a proper precipitation graph. Not exactly better.

[shagie]

Notifications - at the bottom of the screen "Manage Notifications". Enable "Next-Hour Precipitation". It is off by default since it leaks data back to Apple. https://imgur.com/CwlFnym

The precipitation graph you get when you expand the perception tile. You can then scroll through the days. Here's a screen shot from my phone for a couple days from now when I'm due to get some snow. https://imgur.com/FnWdQ4b

[jorvi]

I don’t have that graph.

Probably yet another feature locked to the US. At this point it is ridiculous that iPhones outside the US don’t come with a 5% ‘reduced service’ discount.