🚀 Getting Started 4
Install Forecast Bar, set your locations, and learn your way around.
👋 Welcome to Forecast Bar
What Forecast Bar is, where it runs, and how this guide is organized.
✨ Your First Launch
A walkthrough of the welcome flow on iPhone — location, notifications, subscription, and signing in.
📍 Locations
Add, organize, and switch between the places you care about using the side menu.
☁️ Sync Across Devices
Sign in with Apple to sync your locations and settings everywhere — and to enable notifications.
📱 iPhone & iPad 7
The main app — forecasts, radar, data points, and every setting explained.
🏠 The Main Screen
A tour of the home screen — conditions, data points, precipitation and radar, the hourly graph, the daily forecast, storm cards, Time Machine, and Compare Sources.
📊 Data Points & Details
The detail screen behind every data point — graphs, sunrise and sunset quality, moon phase, air quality, pollen, tides, stargazing, and the Area Forecast Discussion.
🌩 Radar
The full-screen animated radar — layers, timeline scrubbing, playback speed, warnings, lightning, map styles, and custom radar sources.
🎨 Appearance & Themes
Every visual option — themes, app icons, backgrounds, animated scenes, city background packs, icon sets, fonts, and precipitation colors.
⚙️ Settings & Data Layout
A tour of the Settings hub, every Data & Layout and Compare & Home option with defaults, the forecast source picker, and the About & More screen.
✨ Smart Weather Stories
Smart Weather Stories — personalized, AI-written forecast briefings on your main screen, with styles, models, calendar awareness, and a custom prompt.
🎙 Siri & Shortcuts
Ask Siri for your forecast, record custom voice phrases, build automations in the Shortcuts app, and play spoken forecasts in the app.
🔔 Alerts & Notifications 7
Severe weather, rain, lightning, aurora, tides, and every other alert you can turn on.
🔔 Alerts & Notifications Overview
What you need to receive Forecast Bar notifications, where the settings live, and how to view active alerts in the app.
⚠️ Severe Weather Alerts
Official U.S. and Canada severe weather alerts, Critical Alerts that break through Do Not Disturb, mute filters, and storm tracking that follows a storm toward you.
🌧 Rain & Snow Alerts
Get notified just before rain or snow starts and stops at your location, and track it live on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
🗞 Morning & Evening Reports
A daily forecast summary delivered as a notification — in the morning, the evening, or both, at times you choose.
🌘 Astronomy & Celestial Alerts
Notifications for lunar and solar eclipses, supermoons, solstices and equinoxes, and aurora viewing chances.
🌅 Sunrise & Sunset Quality
A 0–10 forecast of how colorful the next sunrise or sunset will be, with alerts for the beautiful ones.
🎛 Custom & Threshold Alerts
Build your own notifications for any weather threshold — plus earthquake, tide, and temperature comparison alerts.
🧩 Widgets & Live Activities 3
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and the rain Live Activity.
🧩 Home Screen Widgets
All eight Home Screen widgets, how to add and configure them, and every option each one offers.
🔒 Lock Screen Widgets
The six Lock Screen widgets, how to add them, and every configuration option.
🌧 Rain & Snow Live Activity
A minute-by-minute precipitation tracker that appears automatically on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island when rain or snow is close.
💻 Mac 7
Weather in your menu bar — display styles, multiple items, and Mac-only settings.
💻 Forecast Bar on the Mac
A quick tour of the Mac app — the menu bar item, the weather panel, dock mode, and where everything lives.
🌡 Menu Bar Display
Display styles, up to five configurable menu bar items, data points, sizes, colors, and icon sets.
🪟 The Weather Panel
Opening, resizing, and detaching the drop-down weather panel, plus its toolbar, footer, and location switcher.
⚓ Dock Mode
Run Forecast Bar as a regular windowed app with a Dock icon and a live temperature badge.
⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts
The four customizable shortcuts, plus every built-in key for windows, radar, forecasts, locations, and text size.
⚙️ Settings
A tour of the Mac Settings window — all seven tabs, with the General tab covered in full.
📦 Forecast Bar on Setapp
What's different when you get Forecast Bar through a Setapp subscription — everything unlocked, no in-app purchases.
⌚️ Apple Watch 3
The watch app and every complication for your watch face.
⌚️ The Watch App
A tour of Forecast Bar on Apple Watch — every section of the main screen, the detail screens, and how to customize it all from your iPhone.
🌧 Radar on the Watch
Animated radar on your wrist — play past and forecast frames, and zoom with the Digital Crown.
🕐 Complications
All 25 Forecast Bar watch face complications — where each one fits, what it shows, and how to configure the rich ones from your iPhone.
📺 Apple TV 3
Forecast Bar on the big screen.
⭐️ Plans & Subscriptions 3
What's free, what each tier unlocks, and how to manage your subscription.
🏅 Plans & Tiers
What Forecast Bar Gold and Silver include on every platform, and how the 7-day free trial works.
💳 Subscribe, Restore & Manage
How to subscribe on each platform, restore a purchase, redeem an offer code, and manage or cancel your subscription.
⏳ The 7-Day Free Trial
Every Forecast Bar subscription includes a 7-day free trial for new subscribers — how it works, how to cancel, and what happens when it ends.
🔧 Troubleshooting 1
Fixes for the most common questions and problems.
