Weather on Apple TV – Forecast Bar

The biggest screen in your home

A weather station, not just an app.

Most weather checks are a glance. On Apple TV, Forecast Bar makes the glance happen on the Home Screen — and makes the deep look spectacular.

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Top Shelf forecasts

Put Forecast Bar in your top app row and the Home Screen itself shows live forecasts for up to three locations. Setup is one click from the dedicated Top Shelf tab.

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Radar on the biggest screen

Full-screen animated radar with future frames and lightning strikes. Play it right from the main screen, or use pan mode to move around the map with the remote.

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Storm Cells and Storm Tracker

Every tracked storm is drawn on the radar with its probability of turning severe, from NOAA/CIMSS ProbSevere guidance updated every two minutes. When one is closing on your location, a card leads with the verdict — on track for you, or expected to miss — and counts down to arrival.

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Stargazing and Time Machine

Stargazing Conditions shows tonight's best window with darkness, Moon and an hourly quality chart, alongside a browser of upcoming showers and eclipses. Time Machine opens any supported date, past or future, with a date chooser built for a remote rather than a touchscreen.

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Compare cities

Up to five saved cities sit alongside your forecast with their local time, conditions and temperature — the trip you are taking and the place you left, on one screen.

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14-day forecast

Two weeks of forecast, with today's hourly timeline expanded and one glance away the moment the app opens.

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Severe weather alerts

Official alerts for your locations, presented with a compact card and a zoomable alert map so you can see exactly what area is affected.

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Your locations, already there

Locations added on iPhone, iPad, or Mac appear on Apple TV automatically. Nothing to re-enter with the remote.

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Make it yours

Choose visual backgrounds, scenes, and icon sets from picture pickers, and preview Summary vs. Compact and Timeline vs. Chart styles before you pick.

On the screen itself

What it looks like from the couch.

Captured on Apple TV 4K. Every panel is built for the remote — big type, a focus ring you can see from across the room, and nothing that needs a touchscreen.

Forecast Bar's main screen on Apple TV: Cupertino at 66°F with feels-like, high and low, a grid of data point tiles, and today's hourly temperature chart beside the daily forecast

The whole forecast, one glance away.

Current conditions, a grid of data points, today's hourly chart and the days ahead share one screen. Move the focus with the remote to expand any of them.

Hourly timeline or chart for any day
Data point tiles you choose in Settings
Radar, Settings and Top Shelf one click up

Forecast Bar on Apple TV with the Compare card above the daily forecast, listing Cupertino, Austin, New York, London and Tokyo with each city's local time, conditions icon and temperature

Five cities, their local time, on the same screen.

The Compare card keeps the places you care about beside your own forecast. Each row shows the city's local time, its current conditions and temperature, so the trip you are taking and the family you left are both one glance away.

Up to five saved cities
Local time for every city in a different zone
Sits above or below the daily forecast, your choice

Forecast Bar's full-screen radar on Apple TV zoomed on Kansas City during a severe thunderstorm evening, with two storm cells drawn over their hail cores near Atchison and Kansas City, each badged with its probability of turning severe: 66% and 60%

Every storm on the radar, with its odds of turning severe.

Storm Cells draws each tracked storm on the full-screen radar with its probability of producing large hail, damaging wind or a tornado within the hour, from NOAA/CIMSS ProbSevere guidance that updates every two minutes. The number sits right on the storm, so you can see which cell matters from across the room.

Probability badge on every tracked cell
Updates every two minutes with the radar loop
Toggle the layer from the radar's remote controls

The left column of Forecast Bar's main screen on Apple TV for Kansas City, KS: 91°F with heavy thunderstorms, three data tiles, and a red Storm Tracker card reading Likely Severe Storm 9 mi Away, a 51-minute countdown to arrival around 5:34 PM, an On track for you badge, hail to 1.5 inches, and a rising 70% chance of large hail, damaging winds or a tornado within the hour

When one is coming your way, the card says so.

A storm closing on your location gets its own card above the hourly forecast. It leads with the verdict — on track for you, or expected to miss — then the severity, the hazards to expect and a live countdown to arrival, all in type sized for the couch.

On track or expected to miss, decided by the storm's actual path
Possible, Likely Severe or Dangerous, with hail size and wind odds
Counts down to arrival and disappears once the storm has passed

The Apple TV Home Screen with Forecast Bar in the top row, its Top Shelf showing live forecast cards for Cupertino and Austin with current temperature, feels-like, high, low and the next five hours

Forecasts before you even open the app.

Put Forecast Bar in the top row of your Home Screen and Top Shelf shows live cards for up to three locations, each with the next few hours, without opening anything.

Up to three locations on the Home Screen
Current temperature, feels-like, high and low
Refreshes on its own through the day

Included with Forecast Bar Gold on iOS — no separate purchase.

If you subscribe to Forecast Bar Gold on your iPhone or iPad, the Apple TV app is already part of your plan. Open the App Store on your Apple TV, search for Forecast Bar, and sign in with the same Apple Account.

Not a subscriber yet? Forecast Bar is free to download, live weather requires a subscription, and on iPhone and iPad every subscription starts with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers.

FAQ

Questions about Forecast Bar on Apple TV

How do I get Forecast Bar on Apple TV?

Open the App Store on your Apple TV and search for Forecast Bar. The Apple TV app is included with Forecast Bar Gold on iOS — there is no separate Apple TV purchase. Sign in with the same Apple Account you use on your iPhone and your subscription carries over.

What is Top Shelf weather on Apple TV?

The Top Shelf is the large area above the app row on the Apple TV Home Screen. When Forecast Bar sits in your top app row, it fills the Top Shelf with live forecasts for up to three locations — so you see the weather before you even open the app. Setup takes one click from Forecast Bar's Top Shelf tab.

Does Forecast Bar show radar on Apple TV?

Yes. Forecast Bar plays animated radar with future frames and lightning strikes full screen on your TV. A mini radar can also live right on the main forecast screen, and a pan mode lets you move around the map with the Siri Remote.

Do I have to add my locations again on Apple TV?

No. Locations you save on iPhone, iPad, or Mac appear on Apple TV automatically.

Can Apple TV track individual storms?

Yes. Storm Cells draws every tracked storm on the radar with its probability of turning severe, using NOAA/CIMSS ProbSevere guidance updated every two minutes. A storm heading for your location gets its own card that says whether it is on track for you or expected to miss, how severe it is likely to be, and how long until it arrives.

Does Apple's own Weather app run on Apple TV?

Apple does not ship a Weather app for Apple TV. Forecast Bar is a full native tvOS weather app with a 14-day forecast, animated radar with storm cell tracking, severe weather alerts with a zoomable alert map, Stargazing Conditions, Time Machine for past and future dates, city comparison, and Top Shelf forecasts.

Put the forecast on your TV.

Get Forecast Bar on iPhone or iPad, then open the App Store on your Apple TV and search for Forecast Bar. Gold subscribers are already covered.

Download foriPhone & iPad

Free to download; live weather requires a subscription. On iPhone and iPad, every subscription includes a 7-day free trial for new subscribers; Mac plans do not. Mac and iOS plans are separate; Apple TV is included with Forecast Bar Gold on iOS.

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