The weather app (weather.com) is what came preloaded by Apple. It makes no sense that the weather forecast is device dependent.
The Apple weather app in the iPad and iPhone both identify the exact same street. Looking at the location of both my devices shows the “blue dot” directly on top of my house on my street in my city. No location difference. I appreciate your replies, but something is wrong with the Apple weather app data and forecast not remaining consistent between my devices. Very frustrating.
The Apple weather app in the iPad and iPhone both identify the exact same street. Looking at the location of both my devices shows the “blue dot” directly on top of my house on my street in my city. No location difference. I appreciate your replies, but something is wrong with the Apple weather app data and forecast not remaining consistent between my devices. Very frustrating.
My mistake. What is on both my iPhone and iPad is the Apple weather app. Not weather.com. Currently for my location my iPad says it’s 91F with no rain forecasted for the next 24 hrs. My iPhone says it’s 89F with 60% chance of rain at 9 pm and 70% chance of rain at 10 pm.
InconsistentForecast wrote:
The weather app (weather.com) is what came preloaded by Apple.
That is incorrect.
Weather.com is operated by The Weather Channel. There is a separate Weather Channel app available for iPad and iPhone if you care to use it.
Apple’s Weather app uses other sources identified here.
Feature availability and data sources in the Weather app - Apple Support
If that happened to me (it does not - I get the same weather info from Apple’s Weather app consistently on iPhone and iPad), I would check the Maps app on both devices to see if both have my location in the same place. The iPad may well not have your location as precisely defined as your iPhone.
I’d make an educated guess that you have a WiFi Only model iPad…
Unlike your iPhone that has GNSS/GPS capabilities - WiFi Only models of iPad have no GPS capabilities with which iPad Location Services can derive precise location.
WiFi Only iPad models can only “infer” their location from a database lookup of neighbouring WiFi networks for which the geographic location is known, or the geographic location of your public IP address. For static applications in urban locations, where the location of IP public IP addresses and WiFi networks are known, while imprecise, an “inferred” location can be “relatively” accurate. However, in rural locations, or when using a Cellular/Satellite/VPN connection, location accuracy of an inferred location [if it works at all] may be very inaccurate.
As such, the Weather App on your iPad and iPhone may have a similar - albeit different - idea of location. Apple’s “hyper-local” weather forecasting models are very sensitive to location - and this may account for the differences that you see.
I am using the same weather app on my iPad and iPhone. Both identify the exact same city and street for my location”. However the app gives a different weather forecast on each device. Different temps, different chance of rainfall, etc. Why?
