It fails to refresh the temperature or shows no data. For some, the location displays only ‘Cupertino.’ Thankfully, we’ve listed 9 tested solutions to fix the weather widget on your iPhone home screen.
1. Ensure Location access
The primary step is to ensure the iPhone Weather app has access to your location. To check this:
2. Check internet connectivity
This goes without saying that to update weather information, your iPhone must have working internet connectivity. Let’s perform a quick check to ensure everything is alright on this front. Note: If you are using a VPN, consider disabling it.
3. Manually select the location in the Weather widget
I discovered this trick while browsing Apple’s official developer forum. Note: After one or two iOS 14 incremental updates are released, Apple will take care of this, and you can switch to ‘My Location’ again.
4. Delete the saved location
5. Turn on Background App Refresh
Background Refresh lets the app fetch new data in the background. Since you are facing difficulty with the Weather widget, let’s make sure things are correct here.
6. Uninstall and reinstall the Weather app
Though Weather is an in-built Apple app, you can uninstall and reinstall it to fix things. Here’s how.
7. Update to the latest iOS version
Apple regularly pushes iOS updates to fix such bugs and problems. And especially after a major iOS release (say iOS 15), you soon get the next version (say iOS 15.1). This (and subsequent updates) significantly polishes things based on user feedback. Thus, you must get the latest version when available. Note: If you are on iOS 15 beta, you may also switch to the public version of iOS 15.
8. Reset Location & Privacy data
If nothing seems to work, resetting location data might help. Let me guide you.
9. Reset All Settings
The method mentioned above didn’t bring much luck? Consider resetting all settings. After this, every setting that you have changed to your liking will be restored to default. A few things like VPN profiles will be deleted. But personal stuff, photos, music, apps, etc., will stay as it is. After this, connect to a Wi-Fi network or mobile data. Once basic things are set up, the weather app and the widget should function smoothly. Signing off That’s it, folks! These are the real solutions to get the misbehaving weather widget working again on iPhone. I believe one of the solutions worked successfully for you. If nothing worked, and there are no pending iOS updates, please wait for the upcoming one. Have something to say or add? Share in the comments section below. Here’re some more posts that are too exciting to miss!
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