Comment by ezfe
3 years ago
The second complaint mentioned in the article:
>Is there anything that has the precipitation graph similar to dark sky
The precipitation graph is in the Weather app, so it's unclear why this is being included as a complaint about the Weather app?
To find it, you need to know that tapping on the hourly weather view gives you the temperature graph. Then you need to click the thermostat icon and switch it to precipitation. Only then is the information displayed. Once it's onscreen, the precipitation graph in the Apple Weather app centers on the full day view (with the current time in the middle) rather than just the future, which is what most users care about.
That's not the same as putting it front-and-center. Yes, the information is there, but the interface design is garbage.
If rain is forecast in the next hour they put the minute by minute graph at the top front and center in the iOS weather app.
Not good enough. I'm going to be out for the whole day: do I need an umbrella? I want to know that immediately. It's such basic information that it needs to be always at hand.
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> To find it, you need to know that tapping on the hourly weather view gives you the temperature graph.
To find it, you need to know that the interface is interactive the same way as other interfaces like control center are - clicking a 'tile' pops/navigates to more details.
You don't have to tap on temperature - tapping on the precipitation forecast will drill down to precipitation estimates.
Just know that Apple Weather (like Dark Sky before it) uses multiple different models, so the forecasts 15 minutes, 2 hours, and 1 day out are likely to be reasoned about entirely differently.
And even then, it's often plain wrong. A couple of weeks ago it was raining in my area at noon (a flood watch was active!) but the precipitation screen showed 0 rain that day, in the past and the future.
It is not. If you think it’s the same you never used Dark Sky.