Is today going to be a T–shirt kind of day? Your Apple Watch can tell you
WATCHOS 10 IS a brilliant upgrade for the Apple Watch, and one of our favorite updates is the massively overhauled Weather app; instead of a few little tweaks, Apple has completely redesigned it to deliver much more information in a much clearer way.
Whether you’re planning a trip into town, wondering when to walk the dog or want to know what the weather’s doing at home when you’re away on vacation, the Weather app is a wonderful thing —it can tell you not just whether it’ll rain, but what the UV levels and air quality are likely to be too.
As we’ll discover, Weather works really well as a standalone app —and it also integrates very well with watchOS 10’s widgets and many watch faces including our favorite multi–tasker, the Infograph face. Using complications —the little widgets that you can add to many of your watch faces —you can ensure that up–to– date weather information is always right there on your wrist.
HOW TO Be weather–wise on Apple Watch
The fastest way to access the Weather app is to swipe up from the bottom of your Watch. This brings up the widgets which, if you haven’t customized them, will show the Weather widget on the first page. Tap on the widget.
There’s a lot of info here but it’s displayed in a clear and effective way. The screen here is the Conditions screen and, as you can see, the clouds indicate rain or no rain throughout the day; the ring around the outside is the clock.
If you tap on the center of your Apple Watch, the weather app will move on to the next view — so here, instead of our cloud–based look at the rain, we can see the percentage chance of rainfall in the coming hours.
Tap again and you’ll be taken through more predictions, such as the temperature forecast. In the center you’ll see the current temperature, the predicted high and the predicted low; at the bottom is the Feels Like temperature.
If you’d rather not tap through screens, tap the top–right corner to bring up the list of available forecast data — conditions, temperature, precipitation, and so on. Scroll to the one you want to look at and tap on it to see the forecast.
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