Weather App for Apple Watch

Forecast Bar on Apple Watch, in short

What it is: A full weather app for Apple Watch: current conditions under a sky that matches the weather, a Week Ahead list, a tile for every reading, precipitation for the next hour or the next 6 hours, Sun & Moon and Wind screens, interactive charts, severe weather alerts and animated radar.
The sky: The main screen's background is drawn from the sun's real elevation for your location and the current conditions — stars at night, a sun or moon glow, haze that drifts when it is cloudy. It fades to black behind the cards below it.
Week Ahead: A vertical list of the days, each with its own temperature bar. The bars are scaled to the whole week, so a warm day is visibly longer and further right than a cold one.
Charts: The watch app charts twelve data points — temperature, feels like, chance of rain, wind, humidity, dew point, heat index, wind chill, UV index, cloud cover, pressure and visibility — for the next 24 hours and then day by day for about a week. Tap a data tile and the chart opens on that reading.
The hours: The hourly strip draws three ways: Plain, the aligned columns; Curve, which floats each hour's icon and temperature by how warm it is; and Chart, which draws the same hours as a single curve and opens the full charts when tapped. Plain is the default.
Rain in the next hour: Where Apple Weather has coverage and something is actually falling, the watch fetches Apple's minute-by-minute forecast itself, and the precipitation card has a 1 Hour / 6 Hours switch that remembers which one you last chose. Otherwise it shows the same six-hour, quarter-hour series it always has. Weather data by Apple Weather.
Arrange it: Every section on the main screen can be shown, hidden or moved, on the watch or from your iPhone. Three presets — Glance, Balanced and Everything — are one tap, and three header styles trade the sky for a tighter screen.
Subscription: The watch app is included with Forecast Bar Silver or Gold on iPhone — it is not a separate purchase. Radar on the watch is a Gold feature.
Requires: Apple Watch running watchOS 10 or later. The redesigned app, the new screens and Watch Layout require Forecast Bar 11.7 or later.

New in 11.7

A watch app that looks like the weather.

The main screen was rebuilt around one idea: before you have read a single number, the screen should already have told you something.

Forecast Bar's Apple Watch main screen under a clear blue sky with a bright sun glow, showing Kansas City, MO at 72 degrees and Sunny, a range bar from 66 to 72 degrees with a marker near the top, and a summary card reading Dry conditions for the next 6 hours

The main screen

A sky that matches the real weather.

The background is not a picture. It is built from the sun's real elevation for where you are and what the sky is actually doing — deep blue at midday, rose and amber as the sun drops, and a field of stars once it is properly dark, with a glow where the sun or the moon really is. Cloud cover greys and flattens it; a storm darkens it. It runs edge to edge behind the clock, then fades to black so every card below it sits on a dark screen.

Stars at night, and a sun or moon glow in the right place
Haze that drifts when it is cloudy
A range bar marking where the temperature is now between today's low and high
A colour-coded card above the conditions when an alert is active

Week Ahead

A week you can read in one look.

The days are a vertical list now, not a strip you push sideways. Each row carries the day, its icon, the chance of rain when there is one, and a temperature bar — and every bar is scaled to the same week, so you can see the cold snap coming without reading a single number. Today's row carries a marker showing where the temperature is right now. Tap any row for that day's screen.

Temperature bars aligned across the whole week
Chance of rain shown only when it is worth showing
Today's row marked with where you are in it
Five days or the whole list, your choice

The data tile grid on Apple Watch: Humidity at 79 percent with a blue ring gauge, Dew Point at 65 degrees labelled Sticky, Heat Index at 72 degrees over a 66 to 72 band, and Wind Chill at 72 degrees, with Wind and UV Index beginning below

Every reading, drawn

Data points became tiles.

The bottom of the main screen used to be a table of small numbers. It is a grid of tiles now, and each one is drawn the way its reading wants to be read: humidity as a ring that fills, wind as a compass needle, UV as the standard bands, pressure as a trend, dew point as a word you can act on. Seventeen tiles are available and you pick which ones appear, and in what order — and most of them tap through to that reading's chart.

A ring, compass, band or trend suited to each reading
Seventeen tiles to choose from, in the order you want
Tap a tile for its chart; Wind opens the Wind screen
Tiles or compact rows, whichever fits your wrist
Air Quality, Tides and Pollen need Gold, and are readings rather than links

The data tile grid on Apple Watch: Pollen reading Low over a five-colour band with the marker near the left and the word Tree beneath it, Air Quality at 11 labelled Good, UV Index at 0 labelled Low, and Humidity at 89 percent with a blue ring gauge

New tile

Pollen, on your wrist.

Add the Pollen tile and the watch asks for the pollen reading with the rest of the forecast: the level in a word, a five-band gauge showing where in the scale it falls, and the type actually driving it — tree, grass, weed or mold. It is a US reading from The Weather Company's station network, it is part of Gold, and the tile simply isn't there when there is nothing to report.

Low through Very High, with the band it sits in
The type driving it, not just a number
United States only, and part of Gold
Asked for only when the tile is on your grid

The hourly strip on Apple Watch in Curve style: 2AM, 3AM, 4AM and 5AM fixed along the top, each hour's cloud icon and temperature floating at a height set by that temperature so 65 degrees sits highest and 63 degrees lowest, with 15 percent under each

The hours, your way

Three ways to draw the same twelve hours.

The hourly strip has a Style setting. Plain is the aligned columns it has always drawn. Curve floats each hour's icon and temperature by how warm that hour is, so the shape of the day reads before any of the numbers do — the same idea as the iPhone's Timeline. Chart replaces the strip with a single curve across the same hours. It syncs with your iPhone like every other layout setting.

Plain, Curve or Chart — Plain is the default
Curve puts the warm hours high and the cold ones low
Chart draws the same window as one curve — tap it for the full charts
Set it on the watch or in Watch Layout on iPhone

The Sun and Moon screen on Apple Watch: a gold arc with a glowing sun puck just past its crest, 12 hours 11 minutes of daylight in the centre, 7:05 AM sunrise and 7:16 PM sunset at either end, and 5 hours 29 minutes until sunset below

New screens

The sun's whole path, and the moon's phase.

Sun & Moon draws the day as an arc with the sun riding it where it actually is, sunrise and sunset at its feet, the length of the day in the middle, and the moon's phase below — the same real-terminator disc the app draws everywhere else. Both are optional sections you can put wherever you like on the main screen.

Sunrise, sunset and the length of the day
First and last light, and the moon's phase
The sun's marker on the arc, morning or midnight
One moon disc, drawn the same way in every place

Wind

Everything about the wind, on one screen.

The Wind screen puts the compass and the readings side by side: where it is coming from on the ring, and beside it the speed, the Beaufort description, the direction in your own format and the gusts when there are any. The next twelve hours sit underneath as a sparkline with its low and its peak — no scrolling needed on a 46mm watch.

Compass and readings together, not stacked
Speed, description, direction and gusts in one glance
The next twelve hours, with its low and its peak
Cardinal, degrees or both — your direction format

A day detail screen on Apple Watch for Thursday, September 24, under a tinted daytime sky with a sun glow: a down arrow and 63 degrees beside a large 77 degrees with a sun-behind-cloud icon, a week-aligned temperature bar, and that day's own hourly strip starting at 12AM, 1AM, 2AM and 3AM

Every day, opened up

Tap a day, see its whole shape.

A day's screen opens under a sky tinted for that day's weather, with the date, its low and high, and the chance of rain. Below that: that day's own hourly strip, the narrative forecast, a chart of the day, what the day and the night each hold separately, and the sun and moon for that date. Sunrise and sunset follow the location's own time zone, so a saved city three zones away reads correctly. Swipe between days without going back.

Every day carries its own hourly strip, not just today
Day and Night summaries, separately
A chart of the day on every day's screen
Sunrise and sunset in the location's own time zone
Swipe between hours and days in place

Charts

Charts you scrub with the Digital Crown.

Open Charts and the forecast becomes a full-screen curve. Turn the Digital Crown and a dot rides it hour by hour — a click at every hour, the reading following along above. Keep turning past midnight and the chart rolls into tomorrow, and on through the week. Or drag a finger across it: the reading stays put when you lift, so your finger is never covering the number you wanted.

Twelve data points, heat index and wind chill among them
Buttons as icons or as names — Temp, Feels, Rain, Wind
The chance of rain drawn behind the temperature curve
Night shaded in, fading around sunrise and sunset
The same curves and colors as the charts on iPhone

Watch Layout on iPhone with the timeline dragged to 7:10 PM: the watch preview shows Kansas City at 69 degrees under a dusk-mauve sky, the hourly strip below it marking 7:16 PM sunset in rose, and Glance, Balanced and Everything preset cards showing the same dusk screen

Yours to arrange

Watch Layout, on your iPhone.

Open Watch Layout on the iPhone and the watch at the top is not a drawing of your watch screen — it is your watch screen, the same code the watch runs, with your weather in it. Reorder a section and it moves. Hide one and it goes. Drag the timeline and the day runs forward: the sky turns from blue to rose to black, the sunset cell slides along the hourly strip, the sun moves down its arc.

The real watch screen, not a mock-up of it
A timeline through the whole day, with a Now button
Preset cards that preview your own layout
46mm and 40mm, so you can check the small screen

Animated weather radar on Apple Watch centered on the wearer's location, with a play button and a time label

Gold

Animated radar, zoomed with the Crown.

Radar on the watch plays roughly the last hour of real observations and the next two hours of forecast, centered on you. Tap to pause; turn the Digital Crown to zoom through six named levels, from your street out to most of the country.

Past and forecast frames in one loop
Digital Crown zoom, Street to Country
Your position marked on the map
Included with Forecast Bar Gold

The same screen, all day

One app, however you want it.

Real captures from the watch app. The sky frames hold the forecast still and move the sun, so the temperature and conditions on them are the live reading.

The Apple Watch main screen at golden hour, the sky a rose and amber gradient with a warm sun disc, over Kansas City at 72 degrees and Sunny — **Golden hour** — The same screen as the sun drops — rose and amber, with the glow where the sun really is.

The Apple Watch main screen at night, a deep indigo sky scattered with stars and a moon glow, over Kansas City at 72 degrees and Clear — **After dark** — Stars come out once the sun is properly down, and the moon sits at its real position.

The Apple Watch main screen under the Glance preset: no sky, a tight header with a cloud icon, Kansas City, Cloudy and 72 degrees, a range bar, a summary, and the hourly strip showing 2pm through 5pm — **Compact header** — Prefer the numbers? Compact drops the sky entirely and the hours start on the first screen.

The Layout screen in the watch app's own settings, headed Layout, showing a scaled live preview of the main screen with Kansas City at 72 degrees and Cloudy, captioned Live and Kansas City — **A preview that tells the truth** — The watch's Layout screen previews your actual main screen — your order, your sections, your weather.

The hourly section on Apple Watch in Chart style: a card headed Next 12 Hours with a chevron, holding a red temperature curve falling from about 72 to 63 degrees over a thin blue precipitation area, with 3PM, 6PM, 9PM and 12AM along the bottom, and the Charts section below it headed Precip Chance — **The hours as a chart** — Chart style swaps the strip for one curve across the same window; tap it for the full charts. The Charts section below moves to another reading so the temperature isn't drawn twice.

The Apple Watch main screen under an overcast grey-blue sky with soft haze bands, showing Kansas City, MO at 64 degrees and Cloudy, a range bar reading down-arrow 62 degrees on the left and up-arrow 71 degrees on the right — **Cloud, and the range bar** — Cloud cover greys and flattens the sky. Under it, the day's low sits on the left and its high on the right, as it does on every bar in the app.

A day detail screen on Apple Watch for Friday, September 25: a down arrow and 64 degrees beside a large 71 degrees with a rain-cloud icon, 40 percent and 0.3 inches below them, a week-aligned temperature bar, and that day's own hourly strip starting at 12AM, 1AM, 2AM and 3AM — **Any day, hour by hour** — A future day now carries its own hourly strip, scoped to that day in the location's own time zone.

The watch app's Settings screen headed Settings, with a Watch App section holding Layout and Data Points, subtitled Sections, tiles, alerts, and a Complications section beginning below with Trio, Three big gauges — **Settings, in the right order** — The watch app's own settings open on the watch app — complications follow underneath.

The Wind screen on a 40mm Apple Watch SE: a small compass ring on the left with a green marker on the ring, 8 mph, Gentle Breeze and NNE beside it, and a NEXT 12 HOURS card with a green sparkline below — **Wind at 40mm** — The same screen on the small watch: the compass shrinks, the readings stay where they are.

The Start From preset list on Apple Watch: Glance described as Now and next, Balanced described as The usual and currently selected, and Everything described as Every section — **Start from a preset** — Glance, Balanced or Everything in one tap — then change anything and it becomes Custom.

The Sections list in the watch app's Layout settings, each row an eye toggle and a pair of up and down chevrons, showing Current, Precip and Custom — **Every section** — Show it, hide it, move it — on the watch itself, no phone required.

The same Apple Watch main screen on a 40mm Apple Watch SE, showing Kansas City at 72 degrees and Cloudy with the range bar and summary card all legible — **Small watches too** — Designed for 40mm as well as 46mm — nothing truncated, nothing shrunk to fit.

An honest note about the sky.

The sky is colour, light and slow-moving haze — it is not falling rain or snow. We built particles, looked at them on a watch, and took them out again: at that size a thin streak reads as a scratch on the screen rather than weather. Rain and snow are carried by the colour, the condition icon and the precipitation card instead.

It also knows when to stop moving. With Always On, Low Power Mode or Reduce Motion, the sky holds still. If you would rather it never moved, or never appeared at all, Layout → Header has Still Sky and Compact.

FAQ

Questions about Forecast Bar on Apple Watch

Does Forecast Bar have an Apple Watch app?

Yes. Forecast Bar includes a full Apple Watch app — current conditions under a sky that matches the weather, a Week Ahead list, data tiles, precipitation for the next 6 hours, Sun & Moon and Wind screens, interactive charts, severe weather alerts and animated radar — plus 27 watch face complications.

Does the watch app work without my iPhone nearby?

The watch app fetches its own forecast over the watch's own connection, so it doesn't need the iPhone app open. Your subscription, saved locations and settings sync across from your iPhone.

Will the watch show me an old forecast when I open it?

Only a recent one. If the last forecast is under 10 minutes old it appears at once and fresh weather replaces it a moment later; if it is older, you see the loading animation until fresh weather arrives. The same rule applies when a refresh fails: the forecast stays on screen only while it is under 10 minutes old.

Can I rearrange the watch app's main screen?

Yes, and more than before. Every section — current conditions, precipitation, your custom data points, the hours, charts, Week Ahead, Sun & Moon, Wind and the data tiles — can be shown, hidden or moved, on the watch under Settings → Layout or from your iPhone under Settings → Watch → Watch Layout. Three presets get you close in one tap. Changes sync both ways on their own. This requires Forecast Bar 11.7 or later.

What is Watch Layout on the iPhone?

It is the watch app's main screen, running on your phone, with your weather in it — the same views the watch draws, not a picture of them. Reorder or hide a section and the preview changes with it, and a timeline lets you run the day forward to see how the screen looks at dawn, at sunset or in the middle of the night before you commit to anything.

Does the animated sky drain the battery?

The sky is deliberately cheap to draw — a gradient, a glow and a few soft shapes, with no falling particles — and it stops moving entirely with Always On, Low Power Mode or Reduce Motion. We have not measured it on every watch Forecast Bar supports, so if you are on an older one and it feels warm or slow, Settings → Layout → Header has Still Sky and Compact, and we would genuinely like to hear about it.

How do the charts work on Apple Watch?

Open the Charts section in the watch app and turn the Digital Crown: a dot moves along the curve one hour per click, and the reading above the chart follows. Turning past the end of a chart rolls into the next day, for about a week. The full walkthrough is in the user guide.

Does the watch show minute-by-minute rain?

Where Apple Weather covers you and there is something actually falling, yes: the watch fetches Apple's minute-by-minute forecast itself, in one-minute steps, and the precipitation card has a 1 Hour / 6 Hours switch that remembers the one you last chose. Outside that coverage — or on a dry hour — it shows the six-hour, quarter-hour series it has always drawn. There is nothing to turn on and no extra tier. Weather data by Apple Weather.

Can I change how the hourly strip looks?

Yes. Settings → Layout & Data Points → Hourly → Style on the watch, or the same row in Watch Layout on your iPhone, offers Plain (the aligned columns, the default), Curve (each hour's icon and temperature floated by how warm it is, like the iPhone's Timeline) and Chart (the same hours as a single curve). The setting syncs between your devices.

Do I need a separate subscription for Apple Watch?

No. The watch app is included with Forecast Bar Silver or Gold on iPhone. Radar on the watch is part of Gold, as are the Air Quality, Tides and Pollen tiles.

How much does Forecast Bar cost?

Forecast Bar is free to download, and live weather requires a subscription. On iPhone and iPad, every subscription starts with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers, so you can try everything your plan includes before you're charged. Mac plans do not include a trial. In the US App Store, iPhone and iPad are $11.49 a year for Silver and $19.99 a year for Gold, and Mac is $9.99 a year for Plus or $19.99 a year for Pro. Prices vary by region, so the App Store shows what you will actually pay. Mac and iOS plans are separate; Apple TV is included with Forecast Bar Gold on iOS. See Compare Plans for what each tier includes.

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