Setting My Location as Default City for Watch Face Complications: WatchOS 10

Hi All,


Wonder if any of you have ran into the following issue. My weather complications go "offline" a little more often after upgrading to watch OS 10.


When going into the settings on the watch I found out that I cannot set "My Location" as a default city within the weather settings on the watch itself. I can however set it on the watch app on my iPhone.


Location services are set to always for both devices. I've re-paired my watch and restored from a backup and re-paired again and set it up as new, but run into the same issue.


Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this?



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Posted on Sep 23, 2023 01:24 PM

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Posted on Sep 23, 2023 11:36 PM

My observations and a hack until Apple is not fixing this issue with and future update:


  • Please set on the preferences of the Apple Watch App on the iPhone "Current Location".
  • Go to the Apple Watch and close the Weather App by double pressing the crone and swiping from right to left every application which is open. With this you shut down the app in the cache.
  • Turn your Apple Watch completely off by pressing the power button right side, pressing the "shutdown-icon upper right and swiping from left to shut down the watch.
  • Wait some seconds to be sure that the Watch shut down completely and then turn it on again.
  • After Reboot of the Watch go to the preferences app on the watch (not iPhone) and see under the weather section what location is set as the default city...in my case it is "current location" then. This stays as long as you don't open the weather app on your Watch! When you open the Weather App on your watch (e.g. by pressing a complication), then in the preferences of the weather app on your watch the default city "current location" disappears and will be set to your the first fixed city you have on your list...and then the trouble starts with no updates on the complications etc.
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Sep 23, 2023 11:36 PM in response to macmojo

My observations and a hack until Apple is not fixing this issue with and future update:


  • Please set on the preferences of the Apple Watch App on the iPhone "Current Location".
  • Go to the Apple Watch and close the Weather App by double pressing the crone and swiping from right to left every application which is open. With this you shut down the app in the cache.
  • Turn your Apple Watch completely off by pressing the power button right side, pressing the "shutdown-icon upper right and swiping from left to shut down the watch.
  • Wait some seconds to be sure that the Watch shut down completely and then turn it on again.
  • After Reboot of the Watch go to the preferences app on the watch (not iPhone) and see under the weather section what location is set as the default city...in my case it is "current location" then. This stays as long as you don't open the weather app on your Watch! When you open the Weather App on your watch (e.g. by pressing a complication), then in the preferences of the weather app on your watch the default city "current location" disappears and will be set to your the first fixed city you have on your list...and then the trouble starts with no updates on the complications etc.

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