How High the Moon: 5 New Features and Changes Coming in the iOS 17 Weather App

Ever since it acquired Dark Sky three years ago, Apple has been on a mission to improve its built-in Weather app, with steady updates over the past few major iOS releases that are slowly eliminating the need for third-party apps for all but the most hardcore weather aficionados.

Apple Weather began growing up in iOS 14, which isn’t surprising since that release showed up only a few months after the engineers from Dark Sky became part of Apple’s team. That first release was a baby step, with Apple mostly adding weather alerts in iOS 14 for severe weather, next-hour precipitation forecasts, and more — all things that Dark Sky had excelled at.

The following year, iOS 15 came along and seriously upped the game with new full-screen weather maps to show temperature, precipitation, and air quality (where available), and even animated movement of rain over a one-hour and twelve-hour period. Along with those maps came a screen with a wealth of new information, with widget-like cards for UV index, sunrise/sunset, wind, rainfall, feels like, humidity, visibility, and pressure, including diagrams where appropriate, plus an air quality index.

Last year, iOS 16 added the ability to tap into those cards to get a 10-day forecast and much more detailed information on that aspect of the weather. For instance, selecting the temperature card would show a temperature graph throughout the day, including peak highs and lows, and the ability to see forecasts of what it will look like over the next ten days. Similar graphs were available for precipitation, UV index, sunset/sunrise, wind, and even the “feels like” temperature. Plus, you could easily switch between them from a button in the top-right corner.

Now, iOS 17 is taking that to the next level. Now, the weather for your current location appears as “My Location” at the top, with the actual location listed in a smaller font below, which makes it a bit clearer what you’re looking at if you have multiple locations configured. There are also two fun new weather modules and more detailed information for some of the current ones. Read on for 5 other exciting changes in the iOS 17 Weather app.