Forecast Bar updates often. Here is everything that has shipped, newest first — told properly, with the App Store bullets one tap away for anyone who just wants the list.
No releases changed anything on that platform yet.
11.3.1iOSMacTV
City Packs
Photographic backgrounds of real cities that follow your live weather and time of day — on the main screen, and in widgets.
Forecast Bar has always had a background behind the forecast. This release makes it somewhere real.
City PacksiOSMacTV
City Packs are photographs of real cities that follow your weather. Not a static wallpaper — the scene tracks your live conditions and the time of day, so the city behind your forecast is overcast when you are, and dark when you are.
They arrive on their own. Open the app in a city we have a pack for, or switch to one, and the scene is simply there, crossfading in. When the pack doesn't apply, it steps aside. The background picker now leads with them, and Remove All clears every download at once.
Packs run about 7 MB per city and download over Wi-Fi by default, with a cellular option in Settings and Low Data Mode always respected. They show up in widgets too, framed so skylines, monuments and landmarks survive the crop.
Don't see your city? Request a City tells us where to go next.
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A City Pack scene tracking the live weather and time of day.
Smart Weather StoriesiOSMacTV
Summaries generate noticeably faster in every style, and the Thoughtful style got what it was always supposed to be — richer, longer, more considered write-ups rather than a slower version of the short one.
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The Thoughtful style, now longer and more considered.
WidgetsiOSMac
The Current Weather widget lets you choose what appears under each hour — UV Index, humidity, wind, whatever you actually look at.
And new widgets load in cleanly now. The "Weather unavailable" flash on first add is gone, replaced by a loading placeholder, and a failed first fetch retries itself instead of sitting there.
Plus 15 smaller changes — fixes, tidy-ups and one-line wins that didn't need a paragraph. See every line →
Everything in this release
City PacksiOSMacTV
New City Packs — photo backgrounds of real cities that follow your live weather and time of day. A scene appears automatically for the city you're viewing and steps aside when it isn't on screen.
Scenes appear the moment you open the app or switch cities, and crossfade smoothly between changes.
The background picker now leads with City Packs, and Remove All clears every download in one tap.iOS
Don't see your city? Request a City lets you tell us where you'd like a pack next.iOSMac
City scenes appear in widgets too, framed to keep skylines, monuments, and landmarks in shot.iOSMac
Packs are around 7 MB per city and download over Wi-Fi by default. A cellular option lives in Settings, and Low Data Mode is always respected.iOS
The background picker now leads with City Packs, and Remove All clears every download in one click.Mac
Automatic downloads run over unmetered connections only, so Ethernet and Wi-Fi both work.Mac
The background picker now leads with City Packs, and Remove All clears every download in one step.TV
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A City Pack scene tracking the live weather and time of day.
Smart Weather StoriesiOSMacTV
Summaries generate noticeably faster in every style, and the Thoughtful style now produces richer, more detailed write-ups.
📷Screenshot coming soon
The Thoughtful style, now longer and more considered.
WidgetsiOSMac
Current Weather: choose which data point appears under each hour — UV Index, humidity, wind, and more.iOSMac
New widgets load in cleanly — a loading placeholder replaces the "Weather unavailable" flash, and a failed first fetch retries on its own.iOSMac
Also in this releaseiOSMacTV
Read the new Forecast Bar User Guide right from Settings.iOS
Sunrise and sunset alerts open directly to the quality details page.iOSMac
Area Forecast Discussion now follows your app theme instead of the system appearance.iOSMac
Sunset quality scores read cirrus-veiled skies more accurately.
Home stays in your locations list whenever you're away from it, even nearby.
iPad: Settings now has a Back button — no more picking a city just to leave.iOS
VoiceOver announces the locations button by name.iOS
Weather refreshes again sooner after an update doesn't complete.iOS
Menu bar fills in on its own if the first update after login doesn't finish.Mac
Read the new Forecast Bar User Guide right from About & More.Mac
Adding a critical alert or a monitored location no longer switches to dark while the app is set to light.Mac
Panel footer shows the time of the last successful update.Mac
Scan a QR code in Settings to open the new Forecast Bar User Guide on your phone.TV
Top Shelf forecast cards keep a consistent size with correct labels.TV
Top Shelf forecasts require Forecast Bar Gold.TV
11.3iOSMac
Sunset scores, and a new radar engine
Sunrise & Sunset Quality scores the sky before it happens, and a rebuilt radar plays back faster and sharper on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Two big pieces in this one, and they pull in opposite directions: one is about looking up, the other is about looking down at a map.
Sunrise & Sunset Quality answers the question you actually have at 7pm: is tonight worth walking outside for? It scores the coming sunset on colour potential, twilight timing, sky clarity and cloud layers, and it shows you the reasoning rather than just a number. Recent results stick around afterwards, so you can tell it whether it got the call right — and upload a photo if it did.
Under that, the scoring itself got better at reading satellite cloud thickness, aerosols and storm activity, and stopped being fooled by thin cirrus veils.
Next-Generation Radar, in betaiOSMac
The radar was rebuilt. Playback is faster, the imagery is higher resolution, and the animation is genuinely fluid rather than stepping frame to frame.
The part you feel most is that it stays responsive while it runs — pan, zoom, scrub the timeline or switch layers mid-loop and it keeps up. On the Mac it loops continuously, and it releases the machine the moment you close the window instead of quietly burning cycles in the background.
It ships as a beta because it is new, not because it is unfinished.
The rebuilt radar: higher resolution, and responsive while it plays.
Next-Generation Radar Beta brings fast, high-resolution, continuously looping playback to the Mac.Mac
Radar stays responsive while you pan, zoom, or recenter with a mouse or trackpad.Mac
Radar stops using system resources as soon as you close its window.Mac
New menu bar items start with clearly distinct weather values.Mac
11.2.1Mac
Mac follow-ups
A same-week Mac patch: a clearer header on the daily graph, an optional quit confirmation, and the radar loop starting on its own when you open it.
A small Mac release the day after 11.2, carrying the Mac half of that update plus a redesigned header for hour details on the daily graph.
The one worth knowing about: an optional quit confirmation, for anyone who has closed a menu bar app by accident and then wondered for a week why the weather stopped appearing.
Hour details on the daily graph appear in a redesigned, easier-to-read header
Optional quit confirmation guards against accidental exits
Menu bar temperature stays up to date automatically, without a click
The in-app radar loop plays automatically when opened
Your location appears as a dot on the in-app radar
Hourly comparison marks where each new day begins
Moon phase forecasts include every cycle without skipped dates
Radar timeline progress glides smoothly between frames
11.2iOSMacTV
New widgets, and an Apple TV rebuild
Half & Half and Hourly Curve join the widget lineup, the Smart widget fits everything on one page, and the Apple TV app gets rebuilt around live radar and the Top Shelf.
A release with two centres of gravity: the iPhone Home Screen, and the television in the other room.
Two new widgets. Half & Half and Hourly Curve join the Home Screen lineup, and the Smart widget stopped making you page through your own data — every data point now fits on one page, with icons, and the bottom row can carry a temperature curve. Air quality, tides and pollen became Smart widget data points at the same time.
Home and Lock Screen widgets also reach further ahead than they used to, and load faster getting there.
📷Screenshot coming soon
Half & Half and Hourly Curve, new in this release.
Apple TV, rebuiltTV
The Apple TV app got the bigger share of this release.
Top Shelf — the weather that sits above your Home Screen when Forecast Bar is in the top row — got its own tab and a one-click setup, with onboarding that actually explains what it is. Radar moved onto the main screen: press play without leaving Weather, and pan around the map with the remote.
Style settings now preview themselves, so you can see Summary against Compact and Timeline against Chart before choosing. Backgrounds, scenes and icon sets moved to picture pickers. Today's forecast starts expanded. Severe weather alerts got more compact and gained a zoomable map. And locations you add on your iPhone, iPad or Mac now simply appear on the TV.
Top Shelf on the Home Screen — the thing the setup tab sets up.
Half & Half and Hourly Curve join the home-screen widget lineupiOS
Smart widget shows every data point on one page with iconsiOS
Smart widget's bottom row can display a temperature curveiOS
Air quality, tides, and pollen join the Smart widget's data pointsiOS
Home and lock-screen widgets show more upcoming hoursiOS
Widgets load faster and more reliablyiOS
Moon phase forecasts include every cycle without skipped datesiOSMac
Radar timeline progress glides smoothly between framesiOSMac
Precipitation timing displays correctly with the 24-hour clockiOS
Optional quit confirmation guards against accidental exitsMac
Menu bar temperature stays up to date automatically, without a clickMac
The in-app radar loop plays automatically when openedMac
Your location appears as a dot on the in-app radarMac
Hourly comparison marks where each new day beginsMac
Top Shelf gets its own tab: set up Home Screen weather in one clickTV
Live radar right on the main screen — press play without leaving WeatherTV
Radar pan mode: move around the map with the remoteTV
Set Minutely, 15 Minute, or Radar as your default precipitation viewTV
Style settings now preview themselves — see Summary vs Compact and Timeline vs Chart before you pickTV
Choose visual backgrounds, scenes, and icon sets from picture pickersTV
Today's forecast starts expanded so the hourly timeline is one glance awayTV
Severe-weather alerts are more compact, with a zoomable alert mapTV
Locations added on iPhone, iPad, or Mac now appear on Apple TV automaticallyTV
Redesigned Account & Sync and Subscription screensTV
New onboarding introduces the Top Shelf with a one-tap setupTV
Fixed a crash while scrolling the expanded hourly timeline during background refreshesTV
Fixed the Top Shelf occasionally going blankTV
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Half & Half and Hourly Curve, new in this release.
11.1.3iOSMac
The temperature comes to the Dock
Dock Mode shows the current temperature on the icon, the menu bar keeps itself current without a click, and radar opens fast.
If you run Forecast Bar in Dock Mode, the icon now carries the current temperature. That was the one thing Dock Mode couldn't do that the menu bar could.
The menu bar itself got the more important fix: it keeps its temperature current on its own, without needing you to click it first. Radar opens faster too, and reloads recent imagery instantly instead of re-fetching a loop you were just looking at.
Widgets stay up to date through network hiccups and no longer get stuck loading
Radar opens faster and reloads recent imagery instantlyiOS
Menu bar icon reliability improvements after wake and display changesMac
Dock icon shows the current temperature in Dock ModeMac
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Dock Mode puts the temperature on the icon.
11.1.2Mac
Menu bar position, and honest widgets
A small Mac release: the menu bar icon stays where you put it after sleep, and widgets stop showing sample weather while they load.
Two fixes worth calling out. The menu bar icon now keeps the position you dragged it to, even after your Mac wakes up — it used to quietly reshuffle.
And widgets no longer flash placeholder or sample weather while they load. A widget showing plausible but invented numbers is worse than a widget showing nothing, because you have no way to tell.
Menu bar icon keeps the position you set, even after your Mac wakes from sleep
Widgets no longer briefly show placeholder or sample weather while loading
Stale widget data is handled more gracefully so your widgets stay accurate
11.1.1iOSMac
A proper first run on the Mac
The Mac app finally introduces itself: a real setup window, a notification checklist, and a spotlight pointing at the menu bar so you can find it afterwards.
A menu bar app has a specific problem: once it launches, it is a tiny icon in a row of tiny icons, and a fair number of people never found it again.
So the Mac app now opens a real setup window on first run — pick your places, walk a checklist of the notifications worth turning on, take a short tour. And when you finish, a spotlight points straight at Forecast Bar in your menu bar, because knowing the app installed correctly is not the same as knowing where it went.
Radar picked up keyboard shortcuts and proper zoom controls in the same release, and a stack of smaller Mac annoyances went with it: the quit prompt on wake, the Weather Alerts toggle that wouldn't stay on, the menu bar sitting blank at login while the network came up.
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The Mac app now introduces itself instead of vanishing into the menu bar.
Radar adds a toggle to show or hide the weather overlay
Radar shows a next-hours strip with data matched to the active layer
Chart hour axes follow your system's 24-hour clock
Pollen detail shows the official index, per-type grain counts, and tree species
Each saved location in the side menu shows its current local time
Home widgets show accurate hourly data and recover from refresh failuresiOS
Alert details display correctly in Dark Mode
Current location name updates promptly after you travel
Weather loads reliably at launch even when location lookup is slow or fails
iPad: adding a location works reliablyiOS
Minutely precipitation honors your default precipitation view
Alert details show local times and clearer active/ended status
All-new first-run setup in its own window: places picker, notification checklist, and feature tourMac
After setup, a spotlight points to Forecast Bar in your menu barMac
Radar responds to keyboard shortcutsMac
Map adds zoom controls and double-click gesturesMac
Daily section can be hidden, and the panel resizes to fitMac
Weather Alerts toggle stays on after you enable itMac
Location Compare stays enabled after launchMac
Share button renders with the correct colorsMac
No unexpected quit prompt when your Mac wakes from sleepMac
Menu bar shows weather promptly at login, even when the network comes up lateMac
Non-US locations honor your Default Layer choice in radarMac
Timeline temperature curve fits the popover, with sunrise/sunset markers alignedMac
📷Screenshot coming soon
The Mac app now introduces itself instead of vanishing into the menu bar.
11.1Mac
Location Compare and tide alerts
Two cities side by side in one window, and a tide chart that finally tells you when the water is coming.
Some updates are a long list of small things. This one is two features people had been asking for, and then a long list of small things.
NEW — Location CompareMac
Two cities, one window. Pin any two of your saved places side by side and flip between current, hourly and daily without losing either of them. Tap a city header to swap that side for anywhere else on your list.
It sounds like a small thing until you are the person who checks home and the place they are flying to every single morning.
NEW — Tide AlertsMac
The tide chart now stretches across future days with a redesigned details layout — and more usefully, it can tap you on the shoulder. Set a threshold and Forecast Bar tells you when a high or low tide is approaching it.
Predictions come from NOAA and are computed on your device, so the chart is there whether or not you have a signal.
Tide predictions run on-device from NOAA data — no network round trip.
Plus 4 smaller changes — fixes, tidy-ups and one-line wins that didn't need a paragraph. See every line →
Everything in this release
NEW — Location CompareMac
Pin any two saved cities side-by-side and flip between current, hourly, and daily views in one window. Tap a city header to swap that side for anywhere on your list.
NEW — Tide AlertsMac
Get notified the moment a high or low tide approaches your threshold. The tide chart now stretches across future days with a redesigned details layout to match.
Tide predictions run on-device from NOAA data — no network round trip.
Fixes and polishMac
Menu bar icon tint renders correctly
Compare city picker shows state alongside city for clearer selection
Data point popover wraps without truncation
Custom notifications stay off when you turn them off
Get the latest versionFree 24-hour unlock of the on-device app, then optional subscription with a 7-day free trial. Mac and iOS plans are separate; Apple TV is included with Forecast Bar Gold on iOS.
