Every feature, every setting, every option — across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Search it, or browse by platform.
Install Forecast Bar, set your locations, and learn your way around.
What Forecast Bar is, where it runs, and how this guide is organized.
A walkthrough of the welcome flow on iPhone — location, notifications, subscription, and signing in.
Add, organize, and switch between the places you care about using the side menu.
Sign in with Apple to sync your locations and settings everywhere — and to enable notifications.
The main app — forecasts, radar, data points, and every setting explained.
A tour of the home screen — current conditions, data point tiles, precipitation and radar tabs, the hourly graph, the daily forecast, and the toolbar.
The detail screen behind every data point — graphs, sunrise and sunset quality, moon phase, air quality, pollen, tides, and the Area Forecast Discussion.
The full-screen animated radar — layers, timeline scrubbing, playback speed, warnings, lightning, map styles, and custom radar sources.
Every visual option — themes, app icons, backgrounds, animated scenes, city background packs, icon sets, fonts, and precipitation colors.
A tour of the Settings hub, every Data & Layout option with defaults, and the About & More screen.
Smart Weather Stories — personalized, AI-written forecast briefings on your main screen, with styles, models, calendar awareness, and a custom prompt.
Ask Siri for your forecast, record custom voice phrases, build automations in the Shortcuts app, and play spoken forecasts in the app.
Severe weather, rain, lightning, aurora, tides, and every other alert you can turn on.
What you need to receive Forecast Bar notifications, where the settings live, and how to view active alerts in the app.
Official severe weather alerts for the U.S. and Canada, with monitored locations, Critical Alerts that break through Do Not Disturb, and mute filters.
Get notified just before rain or snow starts and stops at your location, and track it live on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
A daily forecast summary delivered as a notification — in the morning, the evening, or both, at times you choose.
Notifications for lunar and solar eclipses, supermoons, solstices and equinoxes, and aurora viewing chances.
A 0–10 forecast of how colorful the next sunrise or sunset will be, with alerts for the beautiful ones.
Build your own notifications for any weather threshold — plus earthquake, tide, and temperature comparison alerts.
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and the rain Live Activity.
All eight Home Screen widgets, how to add and configure them, and every option each one offers.
The six Lock Screen widgets, how to add them, and every configuration option.
A minute-by-minute precipitation tracker that appears automatically on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island when rain or snow is close.
Weather in your menu bar — display styles, multiple items, and Mac-only settings.
A quick tour of the Mac app — the menu bar item, the weather panel, dock mode, and where everything lives.
Display styles, up to five configurable menu bar items, data points, sizes, colors, and icon sets.
Opening, resizing, and detaching the drop-down weather panel, plus its toolbar, footer, and location switcher.
Run Forecast Bar as a regular windowed app with a Dock icon and a live temperature badge.
The four customizable shortcuts, plus every built-in key for windows, radar, forecasts, locations, and text size.
A tour of the Mac Settings window — all seven tabs, with the General tab covered in full.
What's different when you get Forecast Bar through a Setapp subscription — everything unlocked, no in-app purchases.
The watch app and every complication for your watch face.
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.
Animated radar on your wrist — play past and forecast frames, and zoom with the Digital Crown.
All 25 Forecast Bar watch face complications — where each one fits, what it shows, and how to configure the rich ones from your iPhone.
Forecast Bar on the big screen.
What's free, what each tier unlocks, and how to manage your subscription.
What Forecast Bar Gold and Silver include on every platform, and how the free 24-hour unlock works.
How to subscribe on each platform, restore a purchase, redeem an offer code, and manage or cancel your subscription.
New users get 24 hours with everything unlocked, and new subscribers get a free trial week on top.
Fixes for the most common questions and problems.