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✨ Top Shelf Weather

Gold feature

At-a-glance weather on the Apple TV Home Screen, without opening the app.

The Top Shelf is the wide strip above the app icons on the Apple TV Home Screen. Put Forecast Bar in the top row of the Home Screen and highlight it, and the strip fills with your weather — no need to open the app at all.

What the Top Shelf shows

The Apple TV Home Screen with the Forecast Bar Top Shelf showing two live weather cards for Cupertino and Austin above the app row.
The Top Shelf on the real Home Screen - two locations, current conditions, and the hours ahead, before you even open the app.

The shelf presents a large card for each of your chosen locations (up to two), under the heading "Your Locations". Each card shows:

  • The location name and current condition icon
  • The big current temperature, with a labelled secondary temperature — "Feels 70°" (or "Actual 72°" if you use feels-like as your primary temperature)
  • Today's high and low
  • The current conditions summary line
  • The next five hours — time, icon, and temperature for each

Under each card, a caption line shows the data points you've picked, joined together — for example: High: 78° · Low: 61° · Precip: 20% · Wind: 12-18 mph from the SW.

Selecting a card opens Forecast Bar with that location already showing.

Note: The Top Shelf is part of Forecast Bar Gold. If the subscription lapses, the shelf stops showing weather until you resubscribe or restore.

Setting it up

Open the Top Shelf tab in the app (it's also the first tile in Settings, and offered during first-run setup). The screen shows a live preview card on the left — rendered from your current conditions — and the options on the right.

The Top Shelf settings screen with a live preview card, the locations list limited to two, and the caption data point grid.
Top Shelf setup — a live preview of your shelf, your two locations, and the caption data points.

Locations

Choose which locations appear, as checkmark chips: Current Location plus every saved location.

  • Up to 2 locations can be selected, and at least one must stay selected.
  • Out of the box, the shelf shows Current Location plus your first saved location.
  • Add a Location… opens the city search if the place you want isn't saved yet.

Caption Data Points

Choose what appears in the caption under each card, from nine options:

Data pointDefault
High
Low
Precip
Sunrise
Sunset
Wind
Visibility
UV
Humidity

At least one must remain selected. The caption is purely additive — the card image always shows conditions, temperature, high, low, and the next five hours regardless of what you pick here.

A few caption niceties: Wind reads "Wind: Calm" when there's no wind, Visibility shows "10+" at maximum (imperial units), and Humidity adds a Dry / Nice / Muggy descriptor.

Tip: If Forecast Bar isn't in the top row of your Home Screen yet, press and hold its icon, choose Move, and drag it into the top row — then highlight it to see the shelf.

Forecast Bar app icon
Get Forecast Bar Free to download; live weather requires a subscription, and every subscription includes a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Mac and iOS plans are separate; Apple TV is included with Forecast Bar Gold on iOS.