Stormy servers -- Apple Weather suffered an intermittent outage

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in iOS edited June 5

Apple's Weather app wentdown for a number of users, an issue that prevented iPhone or iPad owners from being able to see the latest weather for their location.

Tablet screen displaying weather information: 77F, thunderstorm, hourly forecast, rain predicted for the next hour, and a 10-day forecast. Background shows rain and a lightning bolt.
Weather app in iPadOS



The Weather app offers users detailed reports and forecasts for their local area, as well as for locations around the world. On Wednesday, the app became erratic and failed to display any weather results at all for some users.

Some users attempting to load the weather was greeted by a blue background, showing the name of the location and a blank temperature. The widget in iOS and iPadOS also displayed "Weather Unavailable" when it couldn't connect.

The issue was intermittent in nature, as it didn't happened every time a user attempted to access weather forecasts. Sometimes it worked fine after repeated attempts, as AppleInsider's editorial team found while testing the problem.

It is unclear how many users were affected by the issue, but there were a sizable number of posts on X, formerly Twitter, on the topic.

Cupertino weather screen showing dashes for temperature, battery status icons at 97%, 75%, and 100%, and home control buttons for lights, thermostat, fan, lamp, and other devices.
Weather app outages in iOS and iPadOS



Apple's System Status and Developer System Status pages showed an outage began around 2:10 p.m. EST. As of 5:45 p.m. EST the outage page showed everything was operating normally.

Some users may still see problems caused by the outage, but the issue appears to be resolved.

Update June 5 5:45 p.m. EST: Apple Weather outage appears to be over and Apple's system status page reflects that.



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Comments

  • Reply 1 of 9
    DAalsethDAalseth Posts: 2,938member
    I noticed about half an hour ago all of my Apple systems, phone, pad, watch, mac Weather apps were not returning any data. 
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 2 of 9
    londorlondor Posts: 263member
    Same here, mine says "Last updated: 03/06/2024, 21:55". So it seems it's been down for a couple days now.

    Edit: Restarting devices has fixed the issue.
    edited June 5 watto_cobra
  • Reply 3 of 9
    chrisryanchrisryan Posts: 1member
    For Vancouver, BC, the accuracy has not deteriorated much given the outage.  :D Seriously, Apple's weather is often hilariously wrong for this city. It can be pouring rain and I'll receive a notification that "Light rain will begin in 10 minutes."
    dewmewatto_cobra
  • Reply 4 of 9
    DAalsethDAalseth Posts: 2,938member
    It’s back up now.
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 5 of 9
    dewmedewme Posts: 5,633member
    I have a couple of fallback options, like "Alexa, what is the weather forecast?" 

    If all else fails, I look out the window. 
    muthuk_vanalingam
  • Reply 6 of 9
    jamesrebjamesreb Posts: 9member
    Not like it’s accurate. Temp may be but it’ll say it’s sunny out and we’re (Los Angeles) are clearly under a May Gray/June Gloom/marine layer. I use other apps like AccuWeather or ABC7. 
    grandact73
  • Reply 7 of 9
    jas99jas99 Posts: 161member
    I find the weather app to be quite accurate and reliable for multiple locations. 
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 8 of 9
    magman1979magman1979 Posts: 1,299member
    Amazing how little "journalism" and fact checking actually gets put into these articles...

    This wasn't an outage related to Apple, this was at their data partner, Weather Channel, which suffered a full outage yesterday.

    For once I'd like to see a so-called tech journalist outfit actually DO some investigating before writing garbage...
  • Reply 9 of 9
    jellyapplejellyapple Posts: 116member
    Right! No GPS for 2 hours when I start driving. 
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