Weather - The Weather Channel App Reviews

VERSION
14.0.2
SCORE
4.7
TOTAL RATINGS
3,709,782
PRICE
Free

Weather - The Weather Channel App Description & Overview

What is weather - the weather channel app? The Weather Channel is the World's Most Accurate Forecaster**. In addition to our daily forecasts, hourly details and 24-Hour Future Radar, you also can personalize your weather preferences from skin health to air quality index forecast and more.

Our live Doppler radar maps, storm watch, and hurricane tracker can warn you ahead of time of severe storms, heavy rain, heat waves, or an incoming flood. Track air quality and wildfires in your area. Severe weather is increasing across the nation - our severe weather alerts have you covered.

Plan up to 15 days in advance with forecasts from the World’s Most Accurate Weather Forecaster, so you can plan ahead with confidence**. Manage personal weather alerts, so you receive notifications that are important to you.

Download The Weather Channel to get you through storm season, hurricane season & extreme weather warnings.

The Weather Channel Features:

Today’s Weather Forecast:

- New personalized weather tracking for wherever you are including, uv index, pollen count, humidity & more
- 15-minute forecast for rain intensity up to 7 hours in the future & radar on your homescreen
- Check weather forecasts up to two weeks in advance!
- Prepare for severe storms & hurricane season
- New Air Quality Index forecast

Widget & Homescreen Features:
- Our smart widget offers more weather in detail at a glance and one-tap access to the forecast
- Check your local radar, get severe weather alerts in your area, and check the forecast for the next three hours on your homescreen

Additional Features:
- Detailed information on sunset times and allergy & flu forecasts
- Keep informed with the latest weather news
- Stay prepared during extreme weather events, hurricanes, and earthquakes with live breaking news alerts
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Upgrade to The Weather Channel Premium for our most comprehensive, dynamic, and precise weather experience available. Exclusive access to:
- Ad-free weather
- 15-minute forecast details
- Advanced 72-Hour Future Radar
- and more!

You can cancel The Weather Channel subscription anytime through your iTunes account settings, or it will automatically renew. This must be done 24 hours before the end of any subscription period to avoid being charged another fee. Subscription payments will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of your purchase and upon commencement of each renewal term. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Privacy & Feedback
•Our Privacy Policy can be viewed here: https://weather.com/en-US/twc/privacy-policy
•Our Terms of Use can be viewed here: http://www.weather.com/common/home/legal.html
•If you have any questions or suggestions about our weather service, please do not hesitate to get in touch at iphonesupport@weather.com

**The Weather Channel is the World's Most Accurate Forecaster. ForecastWatch, Global and Regional Weather Forecast Accuracy Overview, 2017-2022, https://forecastwatch.com/AccuracyOverview2017-2022, commissioned by IBM.

*The World's Leading Weather Provider: According to Comscore, The Weather Company, parent of The Weather Channel, is the largest provider of weather forecasts worldwide based on total monthly unique visitors in 2020. Comscore Media Metrix®, Worldwide Rollup Media Trend, News/Information – Weather category incl. [P] Weather Company, The and [M] Weather Channel, The, Jan-Dec. 2020 avg.

The Weather Channel app had an average of over 35 million combined smartphone monthly active users worldwide from March through October 2021 according to internal analytics. Over 2M total 5-star ratings out of over 3.0 million total reviews since January 2018 according to Apple’s App Store Connect.

The Weather Channel® is a registered trademark of TWC Product and Technology, LLC, an IBM Company.

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App Name Weather - The Weather Channel
Category Weather
Published
Updated 13 January 2024, Saturday
File Size 170.93 MB

Weather - The Weather Channel Comments & Reviews 2024

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Art in Jupiter. The weather channel app has changed my life in many ways. When I used to rely on TV weather forecasts that predicted 70% chance of rain, I would not plan any outdoor activities that day. The weather data on TV was for a broad area like a county. The weather channel allows me to enter my specific town and often see that I have only 15-20% chance. Using your hourly feature, I might see that there is almost no bad weather until a front comes through at 3PM. I can then have a wonderful outdoor day until that time. One of my favorite features when we are in stormy tropical storm conditions, with strong winds and heavy rains, I use the radar feature to look for clear periods to take my dog out. I am really impressed by the accuracy of your app - a game changer for optimizing my outdoor activities. In the morning, I look at your app to decide how I should dress for the day. And I look days ahead to plan outings with friends and families. If I could rate The Weather Channel app more than 5 stars, I would. Thank you!! Art in Jupiter, Florida.

Ridiculousness: a sign of the times. Today again I see that the Weather Channel app information disagrees with itself. At 10:15am, the app tells with its image (a cloud with raindrops beneath) that it is currently raining; while the depiction on the opening screen for local weather tells that it is snowing. Of course rain changes to snow and snow to rain, but these people who make these decisions about the app do not seem to realize that ‘changeable precipitation’ and ‘wintry mix’ have a meaning in English. Many times, I have seen current predictions of rain when the skies are clear. And the near-term forecasts are often inaccurate. The stark changes of near-term (the next four hours) forecasts should not be so erratic if the meteorologists are using truly sophisticated and rapidly updated computer models with sophisticated algorithms. What is really amazing is that the user is frequently solicited to purchase a longer forecast, where two days becomes four or five. Why would people want a five day forecast when the very-nigh term forecast of just 48 hours is so unreliable? The answer must be that craziness is becoming more and more commonplace. (In early February 2021, the United States government includes a person who is gaining succes de scandale notoriety, and all is stultified.)

Does not deserve one star for this update. GIVE US BACK THE OLD APP!!! This is no concise weather report. And: Bad background; bad graphics; bad set up. Too many ads, too many screen options. The best weather information is plain and simple (as this app used to be): current conditions, forecast, radar, and then the other options like future forecasts, air quality, etc. The Weather Channel has been my go-to for weather forecasts since it was on TV—with no commercials. (Who can remember back that far?!) My version of Direct TV does not offer The Weather Channel so I have been relying on my iPhone app; not any more. Either give me the option of having the old app back or do a major fix to the current mess. If not I will be deleting this app. There are plenty of weather apps out there so why go with something so inferior. ALSO VERY IMPORTANT TO ME (and others) IS BAROMETER INFO. IT CAN HAVE A MAJOR AFFECT ON HEALTH. Please add the barometer and don’t forget direction as well as numbers. I still have the old app on my tablet; using it when I am home. I just don’t get why Weather apps want to go too fancy. It is not what people want when they want weather. Save the fancy and extras for those wiling to pay for it, then you will not have to mess up a good, basic weather app. Hope you get the message from me and many others.

I liked the old App better!. Ever since the update my weather channel app is super glitchy. When I go to watch videos I have to watch an ad before every single one(the same ad over and over), this was not true for the old app. Also, if I click on the video and the ad plays but I scroll down to make it picture in picture and still browse the other videos... if I’m not at the video I initially wanted to watch when the ad ends and the screen goes black, when I try to click on it to bring up full screen it doesn’t work. Then, I have to click on a different video and then go back and am forced to watch the ad again. Also, if I am watching a video and the video ends and I’m in full screen, it immediately starts playing an ad(the same one I watched before the video) and the icon to minimize full screen is completely missing. I have to exit my app and go all the way back in just to watch a new video. I used to be an avid Weather Channel user but not anymore... I hardly even used it for the weather I just liked the nature/science related videos, and I can’t even do that anymore.

Constant reminders to go premium when I already have and no accessibility support for Apple Watch.. I think this app would be great if it worked for everybody on every device, but they seem to have left out those of us who use voiceover, who need to know what the weather is too. It’s not all about the sighted people! I’m trying to figure out why those of us who use voiceover should have to pay full price for premium when everything doesn’t work for us? Also, I’m getting really tired of the constant reminders to go premium, when I already have. I have to go and tell it that I want to go premium first, for it to tell me that I already am, before the stupid thing will go away until the next senseless time it pops up. Until these things are fixed, we shouldn’t be charged to use the app. There’s not a whole lot of premium quality to go in premium when you have a visual impairment and most of the stuff doesn’t work with voiceover, something that’s built into the iOS, and there’s no excuse for it to not work with it. Also, I’m trying to figure out why, if this app is included, even if it’s a dumbed down version of it, with iOS, does it have completely different forecasts? The temperatures don’t always match either.

It’s a good app but theirs one thing.... The app is amazing and I check it about five times a day to always know if the weather is gonna be good or bad for the day. Also during the coronavirus time it tells you how many cases are in your county. The radar is also very good. But the one bad thing is when you are looking at the hourly forecast and it’s says it going to rain in the afternoon you want to know when it’s going to rain exactly right? Well they did make that a feature where you can look at the weather for the next 15 minutes and I thought that would be pretty cool to have. But they made it where you can only get it in a thing called premium. It 30 bucks a year. And in my mind that is a lot of money and all I want to see is the weather. Also if there gonna charge that much money minds well just make it so once you spend the money you get it for life. If they would make it one payment for life or cheaper than 30 bucks a year (a lot cheaper) then they would get a 5 star review from me. But besides that I think it’s a great app. Please make cheaper

Change Is Not Always Good.... I have used The Weather Channel app since I got my first iPhone 4, over any other weather app, and I’m now deleting it from my phone. I have given the new interface a long trial and the “fixes” have not improved this awful design. The adds overtake the screen, the graph is useless and I can no longer find real weather information that I can use. Three out of ten slides on the “Weather Snapshot” are related to my area with little information. The other seven are ads, international stories or ads disguised as stories. AND... this is not a unique look. It looks just like a FB Story, which was not an improvement on FB either. In order to get a TRUE weather Snapshot, I have to scroll through 6 other slides, the first which is usually a sensationalized video, and the second which is a tiny radar map. The aspects which most affect me are not seen until the 3rd, 4th and 5th slide, which often stick when scrolling through and lead to an unintentional advertisement opening. All of the information used to be right at my fingertips with a simple scroll for allergies, air quality and other details pertinent to me. Goodbye, Weather Channel!

Weather variety multiple locations. I have had this app for awhile and use it to not only get local weather but weather for various locations for my son's work travel as surprisingly conditions vary greatly within a 50 mile area which one needs to know if commuting. I get road conditions and various alerts ( rain, snow, lighting, etc) per area. All helpful. Last year because of the reports I got, I saved my son an unnecessary trip because of the weather report. I enjoy the various videos also. I am editing review because of the problems I have been having with the app which appears to be all over where this app is used. I contacted support and only got a service standard reply which is basically sent by a computer. I am highly disappointed that I can’t get the app to work anymore because it was very helpful when it worked. I am not sure if the malfunction is due to the updates on IOS which also requires apps to also update. Whatever the reason, there should be a way to correct problem with app especially when it effects all means of use on phones, tablets and computers.

Malware ads ads ads ads. I have loved this app for so long. It was my go to for everything. I know there are only six algorithms nationally that are used to feed into databases to see what might happen in the weather. I wasn’t even miserable whenever the app was wrong. What did make me miserable was, Temu was suddenly added to the advertising lineup. it’s a noted malware app, owned by another government in another country that steals your data, tracks everything you’re doing, and burns your battery. If I opened the Weather Channel app and tried to look at the hourly, somehow, Temu opened . If I tried to switch it to the daily, somehow the app opens again. After that, I started having apps randomly open—first, with Temu opening on the Weather app, then with other apps randomly opening. After that I was done. I cleared my cache and history, all cookies from my phone, and deleted the app and rebooted my phone. No more problems. Goodbye, weather channel app. Apparently AccuWeather is more accurate, but I’ve got a decent Weather app for free on my iPhone. Bashing those of us who complain about the free version is useless, as if you read the reviews the paid version seems to be completely wonky for other reasons.

Used to be 5 stars. As life continues in this Land of the Free Market, we see more and more “monthly subscriptions” as alternatives to pesky ads and better performance. BUT THIS APP HAS GOT TO BE THE BEST EXAMPLE OF THE WORST APP TO DO IT TO. I mean seriously?!? I’ve had this app for YEARS. It was the best performing, most accurate, and user friendly weather app out there. It exceeded all these built in apps and that annoyingly wrong weather-bug thingy (that was a joke for the ones that’ll miss it) when it came to reliability. THEN ONE DAY, corporate decided they wanted a piece of the “subscription” pie and turned this app into the biggest pain in the neck I have ever experienced. It is now so consumed by ads, spammy, and laggy. It spams it’s own app with its own advertising also (had to say that one separate since they control that). It now only shows certain things with “premium” (might as well write it off as ‘only useable as premium’) and has literally made the free version of the app just bad enough to make you buy the “good” version. Is that what it’s come to? Are we now ruining our once good-quality product, so that we can turn around and offer the original good-quality version again for a hefty price? I mean, seriously. Just give me an option to one-time buy it and I’ll think about it, but I’m the mean time I’m over this.

Subscription too expensive to remove ads. I’ve had this app for years. It’s always had a considerable number of ads and miscellaneous things to scroll past to get to the information I need. Now there are so many ads playing at once it frequently crashes on my 1 year old iPhone as I’m scrolling to get down to allergies, air conditions, etc. And there are new pop-ups when changing screens. I realize that this is the free version and a subscription is available. I know that companies need to pay employees and make a profit. There are other apps I pay for. Your subscription is too expensive, especially for what I need. Maybe you could have a lower level sub for people who just need to remove ads and don’t care about 15 minute forecasts (even your “current conditions” are not terribly accurate in my area - it will say 20% chance of rain and currently “partly cloudy” when it’s pouring - and the forecast is even less accurate on an hourly basis but I do use it for the general trends, air quality, etc). I don’t know how long I will continue using this app. If I can find another that works and either has less onerous advertising or a more reasonable subscription I will switch.

It takes so long to load. My mother puts a downtime on my phone so I’m not up till 3am on it. I can press one more minute in the early morning if I want to check the weather. However, this app takes so long to load, sometimes the whole minute is spent loading. Because of this, I have to go to a different weather app that isn’t as good or detailed as this one. There’s also another slight issue with the closed captioning on the videos. Sometimes the text doesn’t line up with the audio, and when there is already text as part of the video h the cc will still appear and take up a lot of room on the screen. Another suggestion with the videos, a search bar. If there is a particular thing that you really want to learn about, you don’t want to spend 3 minutes looking for the right video. A search bar would make this a whole lot easier. This app is amazing, and I really do recommend- those were just a few things that I think would make me give a 5-star rating. Thank you for your time! Have a great day. ❤️

Advertising. The advertisement need to stop. The app would be rated a 5 Star if it weren’t for the ads taking over the app. It used to be just parts of the app where a little ad would be on the screen usually at the bottom of the page or in the middle, as well a video ad before a video which also seems to be getting longer in ad time and you can’t skip past it either! It’s now seeming like at least a 1 minute ad before you see the video your looking to watch. Then if you want to watch another video it’s another 1 minute ad before the video and so on and so on. My main issue is now during use of the app a ad pops up during use and is very annoying and sometimes not quick or easy to stop. It’s usually a ad for a game app or some ad for some business. Either way it’s very annoying. I understand you need to make money but this seems to be overly excessive and to be honest nobody is using the weather channel app to see promotions for anything besides the weather! We’re not here to hear about some new game or some new companies new business idea we’re hear for one thing and one thing only and that’s to SEE WHAT THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS!!!

What a joke. Seriously download the free version and try it out. It’s possibly the worst app I’ve ever downloaded. Too many add, also seems like they overloaded it, or tried to make it do more so that not it’s virtually none usable. Seriously how hard is it the have current, hourly, daily all in an easy to read. Don’t even get me started on the ads. The app has so much nonsense that you do more work trying to find what it is the apps is suppose to be for. You are out of your mind if you think you’ve convinced me to pay to download the premium. The way that works is show how good the app is, so much so it makes me think “if it’s this good I can’t imagine how much better the premium is”. I guess your idea is let’s drive them crazy with the free version, and they will want to pay for the premium. Premium may be what I’m looking for, but I’ll never know because you’ve put out such a terrible product I don’t feel the need to get suckered into giving you money. It’s like a car manufacturer trying to get you to buy the top of the line model by letting you try out the base model after it’s been used as a rental car for years, and behind on getting serviced. Seriously wonder how you are allowed to keep your jobs. Oh yeah that right, your model is buy up all the other good apps like dark sky to eliminate the competitor instead of trying to create a better app. You could cut so much out of the app and get back to basics and have way more people downloading, but you won’t.

How to boil a frog. I remember when I could just open this app and check the weather. Little by little we get more and more ads and less and less information. It used to be you could click on the hourly report and see an hourly report. Then they started bugging you to upgrade to premium so that you could see every 15 minutes Report. Well that doesn’t help if you’re 15 minute Report is nowhere close to accurate. On top of that they started putting an ad at the hourly report. At first you could just close the ad right away. Then it took a second or two. Well it was only a matter of time before they would put an ad it takes 10 seconds before you can close it. And there it is. That’s how you boil a frog. You start with a nice cool pot of water and wait till the frog gets real comfortable and then you turn on just a little heat and then a little more and keep going and the frog never even notices it’s been boiled. I’ve seen this before. You’re going to advertise yourselves right out of our iPhones. It’s not going to be very long before people are sick of watching your stupid ads for stuff that they don’t want and didn’t ask for.

Bad Update. This used to be my favorite 5 star weather app. I love to track weather and preparing for my day each day by using the TWC app but that all changed with this new update. First of all I do not wear sunscreen and base my outfits on the uv index and that has now been removed. Next the app used to be easy to navigate and get all the relevant weather information for the day as well as some great videos that I would watch in the morning as I wake up, but now the app is confusing with too much going on. I understand in today’s world to stay relevant you need to make change but this change was not for the better, to confusing now and hard to find information. I feel bad for all the sponsors that would pay for spots in the videos because based on the way the videos are set up I bet less people will watch them, I know I no longer will. I hope that TWC can fix this app and make it more user friendly again with an easy to find uv index. I am not deleting the app yet but until it is changed I will no longer use the app and will start downloading new weather apps in hopes of finding a suitable daily replacement. I hope this does not fall on deaf ears, the TWC app was the best but not anymore. Thank you and have a great day.

Less useful since update 2018. I used this app multiple times per day in the past but since the 2018 update, I have hardly used it at all. The data is accurate. It is hard to find the info you need. They now have boxes on the screen with different info. The screen is so chopped up you can’t see enough of any one thing to figure out what it is. The previous version was better when current details were on the first screen and you could scroll down to whatever section you need. There was enough info on the screen to understand and you had the option to tap an arrow to get more detailed info if you wish. Now I see 2 or 3 words, then a box with an ad, then 4 or 5 words and then another ad. Nothing is obvious that you can tap to get more details. I hate tapping all over the screen to figure out what gives more details since the first screen is useless and there is nothing to indicate how to get details. Please revise back similar to the previous functionality which was efficient and obvious how to operate the app! I haven’t ever written a review before when an app changed, but this one is so bad it deserves a comment. The only reason that it gets 2 stars is because the data is accurate if you are ever able to get to it.

Good overall but needs improvement. I use to enjoy the app and most importantly the interactive map. I really like it because not only can you read the weather, but you can also visualize it and I think that brings a new way of informing someone when looking at the weather. I think this is important because it could possibly help someone better understand what they are looking at and it also serves for educational purposes and that goes a long way when helping someone understand the intended message that trying to be sent. You never want any miscommunications. Anyway, I like the app overall but with the recent update, the layers of the interactive map now cover the whole screen and I find that kind of confusing and bothersome. For example, the temperature layer now covers the entire map instead of just the land masses. I’m my opinion, I think it was better before when it only covered the land masses and that applies for all the other layers like UV index etc. So if you can change it back to that, that would be great. Thank you for your time and keep up with the great work. Go weather channel.

New Interface Never Loads. I have relied on the weather channel apps for weather since I got my first iPhone 3g. I pay the subscription fee to not deal with commercials. Which by the way was initially a lifetime buy and changed to yearly. Since this new interface update 90% of the time the app won’t load past the blue flash screen and spinning circle. I have an iPhone X and my iOS is up to date. I have sent several notifications into their help center and after months the issue is still not fixed. Thank god I never deleted the old weather maxx app off my phone. It still loads EVERY time I open it. But it ticks me off that I am paying for a basically useless subscription. Also the Watch app was buggy to start with and now hasn’t worked or loaded the weather in months. I resorted to Carrot weather for my watch. Frustrated as a long time customer they can’t squash this bug and that they released this change without really having it ready or thinking of their audience.

New Update Nonsense. I don’t know why the weather channel felt the need to completely overhaul the layout and design of their app. The previous version, which I had used daily for the last handful of years, was by all accounts a perfect weather app. Generally speaking, the main reason to change the layout of an app is to make it more efficient for the user. Unfortunately, the final product of this new design has done the exact opposite. The “upgraded” version of this app is an absolute pain to navigate and offers almost no benefits for the user. The most striking change made to the app is undoubtedly the bright white background. It’s baffling that people still think the bright white screen is an upgrade. Several of my other most used apps over the years have gone with the white background and I have had to delete several of them as a result. Unfortunately, I will likely do the same for the weather channel app if they don’t change or at least offer an alternative to the white background. It is blinding to my precious eyes!

Weather Alerts. I would have given you five stars if the videos always come with captions whenever the host speaks that we can switch on CC. It frustrates me and my husband when all the weather videos come without captions. No way is that we can increase the volume to listen. We’re completely Deaf that we rely on Sign Language therefore we need captions on whenever the host talks/speaks. Please simply switch on Captions. So we can see what the news is about. It would save Deaf people’s lives when we need to look out how safe or not is about the weather news. No captions is like to shut up the Deaf people. That is really serious. Please do pay attention to the needs of the captions. If you are worried about the size of the captions, we can adjust ourselves with the sizes of the font which is like the hearing people increase or decrease the volume of the sounds… please recognize the needs of Deaf people; not only Deaf people, the senior citizens happen to experience the hearing losses. We will value the Weather Channel if you do make all of earthlings happy by including the captions. Much appreciated for this opportunity.

4 emails sent to Support and no response. Purchased one month premium of TWC And my subscription was removed by them. I have tried to restore my subscription a dozen times, trying everything to get it re-stored. Emailed TWC four times now no response. Possible issue with when we delete our personal data. Seemed occurred after I tried it. I am able to restore the subscription on 2 iPad mini II’s (even after deleting personal data - ios 12 on old ipads) but not on my iPhone. It’s obvious that TWC is mainly interested in throwing a lot of advertisement and making people pay monthly subscriptions for premium weather service. They believe this is the future for all of us on how we will get their so called premium Weather service on an app. Too many ads and too many pop-ups wanting you to purchase the premium service which of course I already have. TWC really blew it. How do you make it up to all these angry customers having so many issues. It should not be rated at 4.6?? I begin to question Apple’s rating system which is probably no better than Amazons. Good luck to everyone trying to find your premium weather apps. Maybe this review will get TWC to respond to my request for help. Anyone else having the same issues?

Paying for premium but…. Edit: I am dropping this review to one star. I went over on data last month and had to pay an additional fee. The weather channel app was a major part of that overage. So I did a test and reset my statistics. In three days the weather channel app used 1.4 GB of data without me ever opening it while on cellular. That’s just to manage the background activity of rain notification or lightning notification for my location. This is unacceptable. I am paying for a premium pro subscription. The information is top notch. The accuracy is top notch. The app is subpar. It is incredibly slow to load as it loads all data for all panels upon launch. It also has to refresh all data for all panels. Any time you go away from the app and come back even if you just go look at an email and come back it’s a full 10 seconds to reload data. Premium pro to remove ads and add some extended data is expensive. but it is largely worth it. Except for problems with the app like very long load times, and is buggy. I am unable to set up alerts and notifications because any attempt to do so with the current version of the app and a current version of iOS results in an immediate crash of the app. Very disappointing for such a seasoned piece of software

Great, except for the ads.... I love the app, but the ads are everywhere! They've been getting worse (more abundant and bothersome) lately. It's gotten to the point that I very rarely watch the videos anymore, because the ads are so frequent. Honestly, if it weren't the best weather app that I know of, i'd probably just delete it. That being said, it IS the best weather app that I know of! I've not tried very many, but this one has beaten the apple weather app in accuracy by a long-shot (I used both in the summer of 2020, and Weather Channel was far mor accurate in its predictions). I haven't even bothered opening the Apple weather app but a few times in a year or more! Weather Channel is my go-to! But seriously, the ads? Ever since they introduced the pop-up ads which cover my entire screen, I've not wanted to use the app nearly as much. I just had an ad take me to the app store 2-3 times in under a minute, and I was just trying to scroll past it (I guess I accidentally touched it?). All I wanted was the hourly forecast, not Solitaire... If you guys (the app-maker folks) could remove the pop-up ads, that would be great! I don't have any plans whatsoever for paying for the premium version. Keep up the good meteorology!

Very disappointed. Some features of this new improved app are helpful but basic information being available at a glance was abandoned in favor of flashy modern graphics. I miss a quick daily view with not only temperatures, but also wind speeds and wind direction along with precipitation percentages without having to scroll though a long day to day listing. Also the quality of the radar product is much to be desired with very fuzzy low resolution images that does not clearly display the storm features as well as the old pro version. Also the combination of a past and future radar product is unnecessary and in fact it is confusing, especially since the future images are very low resolution and blotchy. I would love to disable the future function entirely. Whats more (since the weather channel manages accuweather) the old accuweather format was replaced with the new weather channel format. Additionally I was hoping that by purchasing the subscription product of the weather channel that there may be new useful information. Sadly all the subscription buys is the elimination of in product ads. I am certainly looking for a replacement weather product for both the weather channel and accuweather that provides the information that I rely on quickly and at a glance.

Thank you. Thank you for keeping us up to date on the weather. I found it a problem when we had a hurricane and lost all power and internet. I don’t love the ads but when you don’t have internet and power you are slowly watching it skip and skip and you can’t actually get to the weather until it’s completely over you. In those situations it is very frustrating. I don’t however want to pay for premium to get more accurate and up to date weather. I would rather get it anyways. Most professions give their 100%. I wish you had a solution for when people’s lives matter in such a horrible situation to have it more assessable. When I have internet I completely understand the need to pay for your broadcast with ads but maybe in the area that has devastation we can skip them. 5 sec of ads takes 5 minutes. When your roof is off and you need to know when it’s going to rain the last thing you want to hear is an ad. Now that I have said all that, I appreciate so much the people who go out to tell us what is happening. I watch all night during Laura. I couldn’t watch during delta. I was just too exhausted from the damage. But keeping us up to date is such a wonderful provision and we thank you.

Should be able to exit an add without knowing 2 languages. So every other time i check the weather there’s an add about social security in spanish which, (a) social security should only be for American citizens and to become a citizen of this country it is a requirement to be able to read and write english so why have an add only spanish speaking people understand, and (b) also why does this app allow it to be able to cover all content and no exit button and even the google ads page doesn’t properly fit the screen to see all options. the content of the actual app is okay but the constant advertising and the fact the adds aren’t made for an easy exit but instead are malicious and try to redirect you to an unsecured website possibly to phish data from your phone. This spam type behavior continues I’ll lower my rating and delete the app. Ads aren't a big deal, EXCEPT when they are trying to steal data or are illegally downloading content and clickbait style ads that redirect you when you’re trying to just close the ad. it should have a very obvious and large enough button to close said ad or dont cover the content of the app.

Very reliable for weather & news. This app is very good with its weather predictions and also updates me if something changes, for example, if it wasn’t meant to rain but it could now, it will let me know. It also says “rain will begin around *time*” which is helpful, and also funny if it’s already been raining for a few minutes before I get the notification. That doesn’t make me angry or anything because obviously nobody can always be 100% accurate with weather, so it gives a nice laugh. I also love that it tells me when there are weather advisory’s in my area and will put in to detail which certain counties are effected, for how long, and who the warning was issued by. My apple weather didnt do half of the things this app does, which is why I prefer this much more than my apple weather. I love the fact that they show news for what’s going on too. It’s helpful. Also when it’ll tell you that lightning struck close to you, and will even show you on the map where it struck. Not only is it helpful, but it’s also pretty cool. Nice app.

Ads Became Too Much. I used to solely rely on this app for my weather, but when they introduced a premium version of the app, they started including ads to promote the premium version. At first, I decided it was no big deal, surely after a few months of promoting the new premium version, they would roll back the intrusive ads. This was not the case. Every time I open the app, an ad for the premium version pops up. I close the ad and click on the radar... and another ad for the premium version pops up. It’s constant and annoying. If I haven’t upgraded to the premium version yet after having the basic version for so long, I’m obviously not interested. I dread needing to look up the weather. It seems the developers are purposefully trying to make the basic version unappealing so that I have to buy the premium. I started looking into other apps, but the company that provides next best weather app has some ethical issues, so I put off downloading it. I’ve finally hit the breaking point though. I will not buy the premium version, especially after the developers have made the basic version irritating to use, so I just downloaded the other company’s app and I will be deleting this app after I post this review. You’re going to lose more customers than you’ll gain premium version customers if you keep this up. No one wants to pay extra just to look up the weather.

very glitchy app. while it’s informative and sometimes accurate, the app itself is a pain to use. it constantly crashes on open and needs restarted. it’s super slow. they constantly ask me to PAY FOR PREMIUM which is ludicrous. why would i pay for a weather forecast? it’s like you’ve designed the app to operate poorly to get people to pay for the premium. no thanks. they also share data and are one of the worst as far as surveillance of what you do online. the ads and videos that are interweaved throughout the forecast are also very problematic and cause freezes/slowdowns in the app. would be nice to just have my forecast in a cleaner interface that’s smoother to use and isn’t so glitchy. i’ve resorted to downloading other apps that are smoother in design and operation. UPDATE: developer asked that i update the app and then update my review. while the crashes have been reduced, the ads are still causing the app performance to be low. also, the update removed a feature that was useful, the “best time to be outside” feature under hourly forecast. I used this a lot to make sure i wasn’t walking my dog at the hottest time of day. it’s also still asking me to PAY for premium every time i open the app.

Former FAN of The Weather Channel APP. This APP has been my go to ever since apps were a thing. You can name every mother weather app out there and I would tell you without a doubt that TWC app nailed our weather without a doubt, even when our local forecast could not get it correct. I have been noticing for the last 6 months now that there have been ads for “Premium”. With hopes this would go away, as if today, my wonderful app has now gone to a glorious ad king pin and it’s ridiculous. This is a national TV station that has its own app. When I want weather reports. I still tune in to TWC on TV, but this app requirement to either pay .99 or $3.99 to be ad free is utterly ridiculous. It has been going strong for years for me without this payment. I will now find something else, because this is ridiculous. It’s just the weather, I’m not paying for that. Especially from a large corporation owned by the Blackstone Group and NBC Universal. Very disappointing 😒

Can’t properly forecast within the hour.. It is amazing how often the forecast switches hour to hour within the day. I looked at the app this morning and planned to go outside before it said it would rain at 2 PM. Then, a couple of hours later, it said that there would be a brief period of morning rain and then clear up within the hour. I waited for the rain to clear up, looked at the forecast again and it was different than it was the hour before. Why would anybody pay for premium when they can’t even get a proper forecast for the next couple of hours, let alone an extended forecast days into the future. It seems like whenever I look at the ten-day forecast it changes hour to hour for the upcoming week. I would definitely not use this app to plan anything outdoors. Supposedly, they have these weather experts and computer models that should be able to accurately predict the weather, but more often than not, they get it wrong. I guess that I am going to have to rely on my local news weather app in the future because it doesn’t seem like The Weather Channel has any local minds working on my forecast. I understand that my region is a difficult area to get the weather correctly, but this company’s primarily focus is on weather. If I could give this app a rating of zero stars I would. Frickin’ clown time.

I trust TWC’s weather reports, but can’t trust this app.. This is the most horribly designed and highly problematic weather app of all time. Where to begin is the hardest part, I would say the most frustrating thing is that it will crash anytime I slide it to the background and try to pull it up again. I have to shut down the app every single time and reload it for it to work. It also will randomly push an ad through in a very glitchy way and then when you close out the ad the app crashes. It has so many ads with large click margins that navigating the app without clicking on an add as well is near impossible. Which creates a situation that only adds to the frustration of the above issue. I have an up to date phone, the software is fully updated along with the app, and I have high speed wifi connection. The problem isn’t on my end. Maybe they make the ‘free’ app this way to encourage you to upgrade it, but all it has encouraged me to do is delete the app and trust a different source for weather. If it wasn’t so glitchy I would easily pay for the upgraded services. You would think a company such as TWC would invest in upgrading this precariously balanced piece of garbage. The app is broken, you need to start over and redo it or you are going to lose more people just like you did me today after dealing with it crashing 3 times in 30 seconds.

Zero stars. I never write reviews. I had to for this one. I’ve had this app as long as I remember. 2010 maybe??? And I’ve always loved it. Accurate and easy to use. Fantastic really. Gave me what I needed and nothing more. Now there’s all this junk. Pure, useless, clickbait junk. Pop up ads everywhere! I like knowing where to touch the screen with a little muscle memory so I can get through my task of getting the weather and getting on with my life. But now this app has sold out SO hard I feel like I’m using a 1998 pc with no virus protection! And it’s not even poorly done! It’s strategic and timed perfectly so the screen moves at the perfect time so my finger correctly hits the ad and not the option I wanted. Effectively navigating me away from the app to a completely irrelevant ad that’s been tailored to me by the cookies I’ve agreed to use this app, that I’m not even going to look at because I’m now frustrated and trying to get back to my weather app. What over-paid executive approved this ridiculously bad interface? And why? So I can do a sinkhole video I won’t believe? The same sinkhole video that came out 8 months ago on 30 other apps that EVERYONE uses? Way to waste A TON OF MONEY ON NOTHING weather channel! All you did was make me use the weather app that came with my phone I that never really liked. Perfect case of if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Just bring back Joe Cantore. That’s all you had to do.

Degradation of Experience. I’ve been a loyal user for many years, always preferring the experience and information quality of this app over any others I have tried. Sadly this is no longer true. I completely understand the need for ads and have no issues with the banners or video ads. However, you have started using forced play ads that pop up when simply navigating through different areas of the app. This is a huge disruption to the experience of trying to access important info quickly. You’ve also made it impossible to clear some of the video ads that show during page navigation. A user (myself included) is NOT willing to spend any amount of time watching an ad video when navigating the app, example switching from the Radar to the Home page, unlike when a user is already willing to invest time in watching a weather video when a few seconds ad shows at the beginning. That is an expected and typical experience for videos. You’ve gone too far with ads and your competitor apps have gotten better over time. User experience has clearly taken a backseat to revenue now with The Weather Channel, so I’m sadly deleting your app. Feels like a longtime partnership has ended. It’s a shame.

I would give it 5 stars except it doesn’t know where I am. I recently moved about 10 miles to a smaller town and it keeps telling me I’m somewhere else. I have tried to look up this location and as far as I can tell it doesn’t exist. I also know it’s not the right location because the information changes when I type in my town. So although it used to be my go to app for weather, it has gotten really annoying having to change my location manually every time I open the app at home. As a side note, I downloaded this app when I lived in an even smaller town (pop. barely 100) and had no trouble with that one. So I have no idea why it’s a problem now. Update: It’s been another month and I’ve emailed the developer numerous times with no results. I still love the app as it gives great information but getting incorrect information because it thinks I’m somewhere else has lead me to all but stop using it. I also stopped suggesting it to friends and family. I have downloaded two other apps and am trying them instead. I really wish they would have fixed the location issue. I will probably end up deleting it.

Broken Functionality. I've used the free, ad supported version of the app for years now, and wanted to try the full version. I was initially happy, but that faded pretty quickly. The first things I noticed were no family sharing the Watch complication is broken. It never populates, and even shows as an empty selection in the preview. Honestly, this was probably the deal breaker for me, especially after finding a long history of this this being a reported issue either with no response or "we're working on it". On MacOS things seem fine until a notification badge appears for no reason (no warnings, communication, messages, etc.) and can only be cleared by restarting the app. This is a regular thing. My last major complaint may be on me, but I'd already given up and didn't research - it should be obvious. On the radar, there's an option for showing "Commute" or "Trip". There are some excellent trip planning radar apps out there I've used and was glad to see this! Except there is no change in the radar display, duration, or option to enter the trip destination. So, useless. I'm glad for the trial period so I could see it's not worth it. For just a bit more per year I'll keep Carrot and share with my family.

Catastrophe. Hate the update and redesign. What a mess . . . The vast majority of the most recent reviews give this update one star, because you have to give at least one to write a review. I love weather and used to use this app many times a day. I updated this app over a week ago and still hate it. I have also installed several other new weather apps, to test and compare which I like best. Every other app I have installed, I like so much better. I’ve also read the Developer comments/responses, none of which are helpful. Most are condescending and assume that we are really trying to use this app in its new version. It makes me question who their testing group was. Actual users of the app? The Developers want a specific list of what is wrong. It would be best to start with the original format and list the major changes that were made to “improve” functionality and design and start there. Then they could add in the other detail information that was previously provided that is now missing. I believe they need to find a new group of users to test their product to give them honest feedback, as opposed to what they want to hear based on the roadmap for their design. By the way, even with thousands of reviews the rating of this app is dropping quickly . . .

Way too much. The new app is a very, very negative change. The old navigation was fine and did not need an overhaul because this is just a weather app. There’s WAY TOO MUCH extra stuff involved with this app, and I really don’t understand why these guys try so hard to make it entertaining. It’s literally just the weather, I’m not looking to be entertained and I doubt anyone else opens up the weather channel app like “oh boy it’s time to have a good time”. We just want to see a forecast and a radar and that’s it. The air pollution number also seems completely inaccurate because it’s different every time I open my app. Not to mention the recent discovery of a weather channel weatherman pretending to be pushed around by winds that just weren’t there. To the point where he’s babbling about the storm being in the middle of an intense surge or something like that, meanwhile a couple of pedestrians walk behind him wearing shorts and hoodies, not affected by the wind at all. Plus, he’s visibly fighting the wind in the opposite direction that it’s blowing. You can see plants blowing in the opposite direction of where he’s pushing. That being said, I feel like all the weather on here anymore is exaggerated because they think it’s entertaining to people. It’s really just a nuisance and the reason I’m getting a new weather app.

Could be great app if it worked. When it works I like the app. I like the changes and if it loads it is a useful tool. For me the videos and weather updates are very good. Not sure what the problem is, but for some reason and this seems to happen frequently — the app doesn’t load (spinning disk) or it just crashes and restarts and then back to spinning disk. So if it loads (might work for days and then not work for days) it is a good app. I have noticed the app works best in places with high speed internet. In a place outside or in a place that lacks high speed internet or great cell service, the app just won’t open quickly (maybe 5-10 mins to open). I have an iPhone X with the newest software and the newest version of the app, so I don’t think it is the phone. Anyway, if the stability can be improved and it can open quickly than it would be a great app. Update: I downloaded the new version and it worked ok for a week (I.e. seemed like an improvement) and then crash city and or the spinning wheel of Watson after that. Now it is useless again. Weather is such an important thing to know and I have no idea why the concept of an app that works is so hard. I stick by what I wrote above - when the app works, it is great, but for some reason it doesn’t work most of the time. Like others, I now use other apps that work all of the time.

Let’s go back in Time. I own a manufacturing business in the South. Since we work in a mostly open warehouse the weather is very important there was a time when y’all had sections of importance. Videos: At one time the primary videos offered were segments of weather throughout the country. i . e. Northeast, southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and Northwest. Now it’s a melange of Weather top story, then somewhat insignificant stories with background music and subtitles of stories not necessarily pertinent to U.S weather on a daily basis. It seems you have to forage through the pooo to get what your looking for. There was also monthly data that showed averages for one’s area and where we are compared to the average on a rolling average. That’s completely gone. Nowadays it’s the basic local facts and sensationalism. I’m afraid that you don’t know how to get it back. Lastly, I find it interesting that your posting a 4.6 average when the Lions share of comments are negative. Himmmm Math channel? Update; I had to correct my score. I originally gave it 2 Stars. Once it showed up it was 4 stars. Very interesting, maybe it answers my score question. So now I gave it a 1. If you see any more than 1 star? It wasn’t me.

If you LOVE watching ADS, this app is for YOU!!. I have used this app for my weather outlook for about ten years, and the quality over the last several years has just plummeted. Compared to the apps my friends used to use for daily and hourly weather predictions, i felt this was always the closest to actual. I have used the Weather Channel App to time my gardening, mowing, outings, and lawn applications for roughly the last decade, and now I can barely trust its accuracy beyond the two hour outlook. 70% chances of rain within the next four hours…poof, gone. Looking at the radar, i could even see that myself! On top of the worsening weather predictions, now to switch from the home screen to another screen - hourly or daily outlook, for example - i have to watch an ad for a piece of trash game that probably collects more data from my phone than it is of any entertainment value. Unfortunately, that’s not entirely surprising since for decades their website has been hocking clickbait ads for less than reputable financial and health/wellbeing sites (the website was my go-to source many years before smart phones). Of course, you can get rid of all those ads, now…because there is a pay option!! Problem solved, right??!! Finally, The Weather Channel decides we need to name winter storms now?? Give me a break! Sensationalism at its best! Whatever it takes to keep that ad revenue coming. Deleting this app, and never returning.

Money grab developers strike again. Back a few years ago in the early days of the App Store, probably 8-10 years ago in fact, I purchased the ad free version of this app called Weather Channel Max. Good app, no ads and it worked well. Then about 2-3 years ago the app updated and said that this app will no longer be supported and that would be the final update. It stated the other version(the one with ads) would be the only version supported. I continued to use the app I paid for until it kept crashing after iOS updates and was pretty much forced to use the app with ads. Now I see you can go premium on this app and remove ads. That really ticks me off considering I had previously paid for the ad free version, only to have them snub it. I, at first, just thought they were only getting rid of max so they would force those who paid a one time fee for the ad free version back on the app that has ads. Not only was that true, but now, in hopes that people would forget(which I didn’t) they now offer a monthly subscription service to get rid of ads. This is a sad attempt at getting even more money from me. I will now be deleting the app and using another app instead. I’ve already given enough money to you all only to be asked for more. I’m really disappointed how greedy developers are becoming and all over an app that gives you mediocre weather reports.

Ads have made this app go downhill. I’ve had the free version of this app for years and it’s always done it’s job well. Over the past year they’ve allowed more and more ads to take up the space where I’d like my weather info to be. It seems almost like a ploy to get me to pay for premium. I would not recommend this app to anyone who wants an easy to read screen. I’m writing this review now because, even though I can tell the ads are run by google - I saw an extremely offensive ad this morning clearly geared towards very right leaning republicans, that I strongly objected to. There’s no need to target anyone on this ap with ads selling clothing that talks about the Vice Presidents race in a derogatory manner. I would have thought someone from the weather channel would at least be looking at the types of ads running on their app. This made me lose a ton of respect for the developers of this app, and as I was already frustrated by the size and high volume of ads, im considering using something else entirely for my weather updates. I really hope someone reads this review and takes a look at the content of the ada google is running on their platform. It reflects back on them.

Trash. I used to tolerate this app… until I was locked in an advertisement video with no means of exiting (or even pausing) the video. The app takes away all options and make you sit through the advertisement, even if the following video was autoplayed and you have no interest in watching it (generally not the point of commercials) I totally get that apps make money primarily through ad revenue and I dont begrudge them that privilege for going to the trouble of making/updating the app… but seriously, hijacking the user’s phone just to ensure they watch an ad from start to finish is morally questionable at best; it would be like television commercials locking your remote control so youre unable to change the channel. Ads are intended to seek out potential customers and increase brand awareness and when used right can be a good thing. What The Weather Channel (and countless others as well) has done is to reformat ads from the highly functional customer-seeking, brand-expanding tool they were into an annoying, unwanted waste of time that makes users feel frustrated and trapped (TOTALLY what you want someone to feel when youre trying to sell them your product) and surely diminishes the value of the ads being run for the companies sponsoring and paying for them.

We want Weather and not Water; been reliable till the IBM. When the Weather Company owned The Weather Channel the weather was much more reliable. This channel focused on weather and not water. It had people who cared not for money, but for the safety of people. They had people down on the scene of a wildfire or a hurricane or a tornado! Now the IBM is saying they care for people but do they really? The IBM splits its business for agriculture, water, and other things; it does not only focus on weather like the former weather channel does. Yes, it is important that people around the world get water, hence The Water Channel, but this is not a charity app it is a weather app. The name chance shows everyone that this is no longer a reliable app. The premium option backs me up. The most reliable sorce you can get it only 48 hours out. Anything behind that is something unreliable; something you are fake selling people to get there money. The wind could shift and change everything. 48 hours is the furthest most reliable source there is. Also why is it not giving me accurate alerts for rain, lightning, pollen, or anything? Oh look it started raining... where is my alert. And hmmmm the radar says that it’s not..... like I said we want Weather and not Water.

The Weather Channel App Review. If you love ads that cover the entire screen when checking the weather, this app is perfect for you. If you love 30-second ads before literally any and all videos, this app is going to be amazing for you. BUT WAIT, you can pay for The Weather Channel Premium to get rid of the constant and never-ending ads blocking the entire screen! You may ask, “why would I pay money when i can get less ads literally anywhere else, like Accuweather?” Great question because this app gives Premium users extra content! You may never watch/use this extra content! You might as well buy a professional weather app for the money! But, hey, at least you don’t have ads anymore!!! If you can’t afford Premium, well good luck seeing the actual weather! Although this is the “Weather” Channel, the only experience you will get is the “ad” channel. Want a preview of what type of ads you will see? Turn on the Weather Channel on TV. See all those terribly made ads for people over 65? BOOM. Those! You will have literally so many of those they will crash your phone as they fight for dominance over your phone screen. Don’t get me wrong, I have loved The Weather Channel for years, but this is the worst thing they have ever done, and their time for redemption is running out.

Easy to use but terrible location services. I want to really love the app. It’s my favorite app, best looking, best layout, overall easy to use and has all the information that is important to me presented well. Despite there being A TON of ads, both in between sections and in the forecast/ weather videos, which is going to happen in any app that has premium upgrade options, it’s location service is terrible. I added the widget to my Home Screen to see at all times and it CONSTANTLY 100% of the time gives me the weather for a random town 100 miles north in another state. Even when I open the actual app, the first place that comes up is that town and THEN it refreshes to my location. I love the app and am a weather nerd and because I constantly check it and care I sacrifice my battery by allowing the widget to constantly update in the background. Why drain my battery to keep my weather constantly up to date if it’s the wrong location every time?? It’s the only app that does this and constantly is the same *wrong* location every time. Weather Channel, I love you, but this major flaw is cause for a break up.

If you’re a fan of conspiracy videos and anything BUT the weather. This app, the meteorologists involved, and the channel have all gone steadily downhill in both the accuracy and presentation of their work. Want to know if it’s going to rain? Well, that’s fine, open the app, click on hourly, click the list, select the particular hour, and you’ve finally gotten yourself to a page that has a 2% chance of being correct about the weather at any given time. Rain predictions are always wildly off, temperatures are inaccurate, the future radar’s accuracy is nothing short of a joke, the app is overwhelmed by clickbait videos and hidden ads, and the “weather alerts” are both excessive and incorrect. Weather channel, you are NOT a nonprofit, you have one job (as Loki said “just the one!”) that you are PAID to do, and to be honest you don’t do it well at all. It is currently drizzling in my area, one minute ago the app claimed no rain, now the app says I have severe hail and thunderstorms in my area....nope, not at all correct. All these shortcomings, and still, now, you have the nerve to create a subscription service out of your features? Lost faith, going elsewhere, please find time in your lives to do your one job with at least the minimum standards of care or accuracy.

Thanks Weather Channel. When I was planning to go up north I wondered what the weather was going to be a few years ago. It said the weather that day is sunny and no showers. I decided that I was going to go up there since I was hoping for a day at the lake. By the time I got there it was cloudy and thunder and lightning in the distance. I was very disappointed since I was hoping for fishing and a swim. Now when the summer was around I decided I should get a different Weather Channel. I saw this one and thought maybe this would be a good channel. I made the correct decision. It said partly cloudy no showers. I went up north this summer for the lake and it was a great day swimming was great. Also another time this summer when I wasn’t up north at my house I heard the alarm on my since where I live you never hear the sirens go off. I heard sirens since I opened my window to hear if they were going off. As known I looked on the Weather Channel. Tornado Warning. I hurried down to my basement went into the bedroom with no windows and stayed there until morning. Thanks weather channel😊

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Pretty good. I’ve been using the free version of the app and it has been quite right! 👍 I love seeing the humidity percentage, and all of the other things like UV index and mosquito index! This never turns of when i have no internet! This is very reliable and i hope you can get this!

Temp icon on app. Love the app bout the main thing I dislike & would love to see you develop would be a temperature icon on the front of the app so we could have a quick glance & not have to open the app constantly to save time?? I still open the app multiple times a day but it would be so much easier if you put that icon on the front of app icon??? PLEASE Thanks

Clean and very minimalistic. Hi. It’s a tad clunky, whilst dragging the weather results down is frustrating sticky. Love your app. iPad Pro.

IBM?? No weather forecasts in app: just fluff videos and weird empty policy statements.. For an IBM business the Weather Channel app for Apple TV has surprisingly dropped the ball. The app download page says that “The only thing more powerful than the weather is your ability to forecast it. This free Apple TV app keeps you informed every step of the way”. As if that wasn’t already sufficiently misleading and incorrect, it provides no weather forecasting at all. Just an occasional videos on generic topics such as filling bathtubs and hurricanes. The settings pages helpfully provide URLs to IBM’s policy statements on the web. But unfortunately to read them you have to type these into your own browser on another platform because IBM it seems hasn’t figured out how hyperlinks work yet. Presumably someone got paid for delivering an app and no exec at the firm actually quality checked it.

Can't download. What's the point after all this time of using this app, bringing out a new app I can't download on my device. Have always used this app but it appears to come to an end on May 24 th. Bye bye weather channel. This won't get information for my areas had to delete, nothing wrong with the old app.

Great App. One of the better Apps. However love to see Widget Customisation And Live Activity for weather conditions and rain precipitation. Only use this App now.

Old program easier to see. Love your app always but although the info available is good it is so hard to see with small thin letters on a white background. Still a great and accurate app though. Love it.

More than just the weather. After reading the privacy policy of the app, and based on other lab tests results, the weather channel collects so info about users (location, contacts and personal contact info and a lot more) then sell it to third party organizations. On top of that they try to sell you stuff in the process. Where does the greed and the violation of peoples lives and privacy stop?!

Australia!!. Why are my alerts in settings keeps turning OFF!! It’s a bug and needs to be fixed now please

If you live in Australia there are better apps. If you live in Australia do not buy the premium service. Before the subscription ran out we had huge thunderstorms on Saturday the app said there was no notifications of a storm. Also the weather data is not local which means it only takes from Brisbane not the local weather. If you download the BoM app app you’ll will see this. Spoke to Support and they had no idea what I was talking about. The only thing that works is the lightning alertNo other alerts even with this turned on. It’s at simply does not work properly in Australia.

Rip off. I was using the free version of this app and whilst using it, noticed that there was an option for no ads, it was only about a dollar so I paid for it. Curious to see how it looked without add (because there are painfully so many), I was disappointed to see no change and that a premium version of the ap is a ridiculous ongoing annual fee. What did I pay for? Well that I don’t know because I can’t see the same option now. Maybe I was taken to another page????? I don’t know, all I know is that I selected the weather channel.

New and improved?. Your updated version is less user friendly and takes forever to load upon opening. Used to be my preferred weather app, but now it’s tedious.

The weather channel. A reliable source of weather predictions. However, it still doesn’t know where my current location is

Forecasting and Radar are not correct. The app reported the weather today as being windy with a 10% chance of rain. I checked the radar and it didn’t show any rain over my area, so I decided to do some washing. An hour after putting it on the line, it started raining. It is still raining now. I’ve deleted the app and will never use it again as I have no faith now in the reliability of the forecasting.

Ruined. This used to be great to see long range forecasts and really clear data. I hate the new update, so difficult to see clearly now. I’m trying to find a new app to use now. Just awful

Not user friendly. I hate the latest update! It used to be so easy to see a snapshot of the day/week and now the layout is so different. I've deleted the app and trying to find a new weather app.

Crashes constantly and uses location data info without your consent. Terrible app. Will not launch without having to hard reboot my iPad. Do not like that they sell your location data info without disclosing that as reported by gizmodo.

Amazing!!!. This is the best app!!! Everyone should get it!!! Thanks!!! This is luxurious!!! I recommend this app. This is the best weather app!!! I have not seen any weather app as good as this!!! 👍👍👍😁😁😁 Thanks for creating this app!!!

weather to be or knot to be. i especially love the blue writing on a blue sky background, for the " rain expected" field. Perhaps just set all ASCII text fields to identical blue ASCII backgrounds. App is usable but would work better in plain old white text on black bacground

New version hides maps view. The new version hides the map and radar view very well. Can’t find it easily. The new tab Video is actually useless to me. Can we get the map back to where it was?

Littered with ads! 😕. A few adds for a free app, ok… but too much and constantly trying to get you buying the expensive subscription… nope.

Great app!. Have used this app for years. Always reliable and informative. Keep up the good work!

My Daily Oracle. I have found this app to be accurate and very useful wherever I am in the world.

Brilliant upcoming rain visibility AND free!. As a gardener in Melbourne knowing weather is essential especially rain fall. This app is the best I’ve used for seeing upcoming rain via: • rainfall by the hour • levels of rainfall Simple to use Simple to understand Lots of great information Plus it’s all FREE. Really well done app. Would give it 6-stars if I could

Great app. Love this app always my first weather check

Displays updates in Fahrenheit. Way too expensive for just weather. Also even though Celsius is selected and displays correctly. It sends updates in Fahrenheit.

Terrible app. This app constantly freezes if it’s left open and then you return to it. this issue has been reported to the app owners many times over the last six months. Still have the issue persists. I won’t be using this again. I have deleted it.

The best weather app available, but.... This is by far the best weather app available on IOS. I have recently tested them all. My most significant annoyance is the fact that you can’t rearrange the home screen and the videos section is right there. I wish if anything, it was right down the bottom. I’m really just here for the weather. It would be great if we could arrange the sections as the user in order of our preference for significance. None the less, this is hands down the best weather app available. Thank you!

Essential Information.... The Weather Channel is always reliable & most useful for planning daily activities.

App will not open. My iPhone app will not open I have to delete it and download the app every time I wish to open the app to view the weather It’s becoming very annoying Can you please fix ASAP

No good for Aus. Weather forecast for Brisbane is always miles out, compared with other, local apps. Still seeing °F in places despite being set to metric. Tried this app on and off over the years, initially in Europe and now Aus, and I won’t waste any more time on it. New Storm app is also utter garbage compared to the original Weather Underground app. Typical of a large company acquiring a company or service that worked well. Totally ruined.

Too many ads. Had to scroll down to see the rest of info

Loading …. While the features and information are great, the app takes too long to load in comparison to other apps, and regularly crashes while loading.

Great update. Just downloaded. I love the new format. Also the information for the seasons. Please can you add information in for bike riders and not just cyclists? I live in Brisbane Queensland and always found this on a par with the locally made apps for reliability and accuracy.

Can’t swipe to go back to previous page. Only bad thing is you have to literally press the back button instead of swiping like every other app

This is great because.......... it gives so much information and it is really easy to use Keep up the great work!

What happened?. No longer works after last 2 ‘upgrades’ just sitting there on a lovely blue screen trying to work out where it is. Prior to upgrades it worked fine, now deleting the app sadly

V10 is horrible. Don’t update! The v10 of this app is horrible. The daily and weekly forecasts are hard to read. The blue background has changed to white with a thin blue line to distinguish highs and lows. Why they ruin a previously great app with an update like this is beyond me. If I could give it no stars, I would.

Great Weather App. Very good app that is visually easy to read. Gives a great hourly forecast.

Ruined by update. I loved this app for its user friendliness and ability to see at a glance, the day, hourly temps and the days ahead and all against a BLACK background. Now each page is mostly bright white with adds that take up most of the screen. Sooooo disappointed. How do I go back???

Not working. App not working on Apple TV 4th gen 4K Does not allow for input of any data or location... only come up with videos and then unable to click to view.

System failure. I use the metric system since I have been taught it as a child. On the widget it doesn’t change from Fahrenheit to Celsius. Can’t find how to change or fix in the settings.

Wind direction is now a fail. I’ve used the app for years. The removal of wind direction and replacement with just an arrow is a fail. Why? I understood what nne and wsw meant, I could use that information, but an arrow? You’ve dumbed it down to unusable

Not worth the money!. I paid what I thought was this app for as long, as I have my apple ID turns out to be 12 months Subscription and the app crashes all the time not happy.....These companies designing and taking money off people for these’s apps need to have more detail when asking for money....it’s almost a crime!! If I could give zero for this app I would! O!

Old version. If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it! I loved the old version, the new version is confusing and with that comes the time to move on and find a weather app that is like the old setup! Just because you can make things fancy, doesn’t mean you should!

Paying for nothing. This App gives you no more than the free BOM App and customer service is completely lacking. Queries I had were never answered. I subscribed for a year and I’m definitely not renewing.

Humidity. It is really important to show humidity on all reports and forecasts. 35deg in usually dry Perth feels completely different from 35deg in usually humid Syd!

So far, so good 😊. I’ve tried so many different weather apps over the years, but am finding this one to be the most reliable so far. When I was living in Australia, the BOM app was by far the most accurate, but living in rural Cambodia now, nothing else comes remotely close to the actual weather conditions experienced on the ground. The live satellite feed was accurate to within a few minutes before it rained, and the wind direction, ambient temperature and hourly forecast updates more reliable than any of the other apps I have used. Having been a surfer and photographer for most of my life I am fascinated with the weather and have a pretty good knowledge of how it all works, so it’s nice to find an accurate weather app that’s reliable in real time, giving you confidence in its future modeling so I can plan activities based around those forecasts. I’ve uninstalled all the other apps and running solo with this one for now, and am very happy with it so far. 😎. Good job! 👍

Waste of time. App never works.. Great app when it actually works. Never seems to load on my phone. Absolutely useless at this point. Will be deleting it and just googling the weather from now on.

Battery hog with very average forecasts. Using this app in the UK was brilliant - I would get an alert 5 mins prior to rain! Very handy. Sadly that kind of functionality doesn’t exist on this app in Australia. Plus I found this app was a major drain on my battery after the upgrade to iOS 13, taking up to 40% of the background load. Once deleted my battery lasted well into the night, whereas with this app I needed to recharge around 4pm. I don’t miss it at all.

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Data sucker. Installed this app a d it used 1.8 gig of cell fata the first day . Make sure you turn off cell data tonyhis crappy app .

Love This APP. I have found this APP to be the most accurate weather info. Works in Canada also.

Wrong forecast. Raining. App showing not a rain. I paying 40$ an year. I would like say to you: F... your app and your service

Location name still wrong. I’ve forgotten how many times over the last 2 years I’ve submitted a report about this. Port Moody, British Columbia is displaying as “British Columbia, British Columbia” The latest update was one week ago that said, “ We are constantly working to improve our App” No you’re not.

Invasive on privacy - deleting. Requesting to use my phone’s location and pressure sensors data is a bit too demanding for my taste. In particular considering they state they will share your private information at their own discretion - apparently without consulting us. If you reject the request, they shut off the app. Now the app is useless and just taking up space on my phone - so logically I will delete it.

Bad business. IBM should not get in bed with Justin Trudeau and stop trying to take things from legal owners I will no longer use this app

Great. I've always used the new STORM app and ever since that big update, it's been less than mediocre. That thing looked pretty but not well designed and the bugs and lag. Didn't even have a daily forecast write-up. So I found this one today and so far, what a difference! So much better. This app, so far, doesn't lag, it doesn't crash, it loads quick, easy to setup. I do wish I could select a location in the map and get that weather like STORM, that would be nice.

Terrible!. I chose few locations on my phone and one of them shows now -2C for Hamilton,Ontario but when I look at the current location for Hamilton it shows -17C (feb 21,2020) Same location, 15 degrees difference : not a trustworthy app !!

$&@). Too much publicity I hate it

Interface confusing, missing pressure graph. I agree with most recent reviews - new interface is confusing. The pressure graph is missing for some weird reason (pressure is shown as value, but missing the graph from “details”). Add to that the altogether missing customization options and you get something below the average as far as the weather apps are concerned. Ah, and that seems to be the same team that took the best weather app that was - Storm by WU and made it into the useless thing it is now - Storm Radar. You can see the same design with the same flaws...

Double listing. I have a city listed twice... Toronto. How do I delete a city if listed twice on my list?

Greedy app. Enough with the prompts to pay for info free on every other Weather app! Too many adverts - should be making enough money from all the repeated ads and videos and spam showing up when I check my weather - now you want payment to show wind speed and direction! Give me a break.

Good app but . . .. There is a glitch! On the daily app window the current day always show temperature as 0 degrees Celsius

Good app but!. Would really love to see the humidity be available to see in the app then this app would be perfect

AMAZING!!!!. THIS APP IS FREAKING AMAZING I MEAN IT HAS EVERYTHING AND IT VERY WELL DESIGNED THIS IS AWESOME IT EVEN TELLS YOU WHEN IT ISA GOOD TIME TO GO RUNNING!!!!! I recommend it a lot

Excellent, *BUT*...... Used to be my go to weather app as it was very accurate. If it said it would rain at 8:02, it would start raining at 8:02! However, if you follow the news, TWC Product and Technologies LLC (owned by IBM) are being sued for duping people into allowing location data for weather forecasting, but are also using that data to sell to others. I know you’ll say that’s nothing new today, but my iPhone 7 Plus’ battery has been lasting longer since deleting the app.

😟. Honestly loved this app ever since I started using it. It’s simple and straight forward. I only really update the app hoping that y’all would upgrade the radar cuz its running slow sometimes. The latest update is REALLY BAD. please revert back to the last update, or atleast have an option to do so 😩

Update. I hate the update so I won’t be using it anymore!! Bring back the old version!

Trustworthy. I use this App around the world and have found it to be the most reliable of all. It is by far the most accurate and trustworthy. It updates frequently and I enjoy the extra features like the allergy report etc. The only challenge I ever have with it is with the radar. It works well but the coverage doesn’t extend to many places outside of Europe and North America. Still the hourly forecast is often very precise.

Adds are awful. I’ve never left a review before, but the ads have now made this app pointless. Every time I scroll it catches an ad and it opens the App Store, which I have to close and then reopen this app and wait while it reloads and then go back to the screen I was on. I’ve had this app for years, but deleting it now.

Ok but. Great weather data, ads and glitches make the app unusable.

Nadi,western Fiji. Xhnx

Annoying. Your ads are getting annoying. Seeing them is one thing but forcing clicks while we scroll down to see forecasts are NOT cool. Very close to deleting

Greedy Developer. I use to go the premium subscriptions when the price is 5.99 a year. And this year, it is 7$a month. What a greedy developer. Already deleted.

Long Long Spring and cold. I play slow pitch in the Ottawa area because of this your app is valuable due to rain coming and our season depends on you guess it weather to get through the season

Always glitchy. Always glitchy and so many ads that pop up when I’m trying to scroll. Headache.

Rip off - don't download. I downloaded this app because they claim to have an in app purchase to remove ads for $5.49/year. But the only in app purchase offered in the app is premium for $13.49/year that removes ads and gives you some extended forecast info. I purchased the premium membership but the ads are still showing. I tried restore purchase - the app claims there is nothing to restore. I tried deleting the app, then restore purchase - app still claims there's nothing to restore. I confirmed through iTunes that I do indeed have the in app purchase in my list of subscriptions, good until Aug 11, 2020. And then, there in the subscription list is also shown the option to simply remove ads for $5.49. The Weather Channel is doing the old bait and switch - they tell you in the app description that you can remove ads for $5.49 as an in app purchase, but don't allow you to actually purchase that option from their app.

Wrong like a ball. I was watching the weather this whole week. When my other two apps predicted lots of snow, this app predicted up to 2 cm of snow today as of 8:40 am. What do you know. It’s now 20-30 cm.

Garbage. Whoever is responsible for this weather, predictions are a bunch of useless pricks straight garbage

Review. It keeps getting better!

Worst Weather App Ever. a)This app has the time wrong (Saskatchewan does not change to DST, so the time is an hour off, with no way to adjust it. b) The radar view shows I am in an area of clear, cloudless skies. A look out my window shows the sky is completely overcast.

Detailed and accurate. I have 3 weather apps on my phone. This is the only one I use now as I find it is most detailed and most accurate. Easy to navigate and add or delete cities.

Anti Canadian app. Your “Change Tomorrow” alert should be Celsius degrees not in US Fahrenheit degrees

Wrong city. After trying to load my city, then being added to another area then trying to load my city over and over again, switching my pins, I said the hell with it, even after sending in my email to the company that also came back blank! I like everything about the app but I need to be able to load my city/area!

Not Going To Use Anymore. New updates continually ask to go premium every time I open the app for what features I get for free from other apps or sources? Ridiculous. Deleting.

What the heck?. Had this on my iPad Pro for ages, all was good. Now that won’t open. Apparently I must use the new version, which is the same as on my iPhone. It sucks. Biggly. For too many reasons. Both deleted, will find something better.

GOODBYE weather app.. So this is the 3rd update & it keeps getting worse. I wish the App developer would READ the reviews. People are not happy with your updates. Revert to the older version - the one before you started hitting people with your graphs upon opening the app. People don’t have time for graphs. They want a quick numeric reference to plan their day from. I am now deleting this from my phone. Thanks for not listening. You just freed up space in my phone. My previous review : If I could rate this a ZERO, I would. But the review has it defaulted on 1 star. There is an old saying that rings true- “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it”. Please read the recent reviews - your users are NOT happy with the past 2 upgrades. Please revert back to the old app that doesn’t hit the user with a graph !!! Please bring back the old version. No one has the time to examine your graphs - if you must have them then put it at the end of all the other screens. People want a quick and reliable weather app. Quick means I can get what I need at first glance. What does the average person need ? Hourly, daily, 36 hrs & 14 days at a glance in numeric format. NOT a graph ! A barometer for migraine sufferers would be awesome but I’m not holding my breath. This used to be my favourite of all weather apps Now sadly it is one of the most frustrating ones out there. If I don’t see another update in the next week then I bid this app a final farewell.

Representation of info as cf to other apps. Not sure why, but this app’s information does NOT AGREE with comparable apps. Why is this? Do we not have one National weather observation and reporting system? Dec 7/18 Whatever motivated the recent changes - I want to register my dissatisfaction with their presentations and functions. Visually it’s not intuitive. It seems to be designed by young bored minds who need to change something for the sake of changing it. It appears to have been changed to favour technical minds - with little thought to informative visuals, etc. Functionally, there is a frustrating malfunction: When I search for information outside of my default settings, then suspend that information in order to verify something else, on another app, then return to this app, it simply SHUTS DOWN the information ALREADY FOUND, and REVERTS to the DEFAULT LOCAL SETTING!! What a useless piece of work!! A WASTE OF TIME AND EFFORT!! I’m about to DELETE THIS APP, it’s so FRUSTRATING!! Who thought this was a good idea? That person ought to be retrained, or failing that, fired!!

Outstanding weather app!. As a retired weather professional, I am fussy about the tools I use to govern my activities around the weather. This is one of the best apps I’ve used for predicting and assessing the weather every day. It offers a comprehensive suite of features that provide clear, useful information and products for forecasting and associated information. I have subscribed to the Premium version of the app, and it is a great value for money, considering the features it provides. I am very pleased with this app. PK

Practically useless app. Open the app, within 30 seconds it launches an ad, usually AppleTV in the browser window, as if I clicked on the ad but I didn’t. Often the ad isn’t even on screen. And when you go back to the app it’s frozen. Force close, open app back up, same thing happens again. Same issue for several months of updates and they never fix it.

Pretty good. I love how there’s sooo much, very useful, information. But the app takes really long to load.

Ads are not necessary. Drives me crazy to have ads that are always in the way.

Uninstalled. Totally Unreliable data.. Literally POURING right now, socked in with rain clouds across multiple neighbourhoods (all I can see), and has been all day. “No rain,” in my municipality, it said. Too bad their data fails so hard, ‘cause the dash features were nice, and had practical little guides.

No feel like info in widget. The application is good but widget info is very limited.

Pressure. How about indicating whether the air pressure is rising or falling?

It’s good by laggy. Not sure if my phone is showing it’s age but scrolling is very laggy. Apart from that it’s the best weather app.

Baffled at the high ratings. Trying to find a location such as Bellingham yields several possibilities add there's no way of knowing which state is shown. All the app does is indicate United States. Useless and poorly developed. Uninstalled

Used to be good. I’ve used this App for a long time, however it has become buggy - won’t load and crashes often. Not recommended.

Weather. Fantastic weather app. The most accurate 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

Keeps freezing. Keeps freezing. I’ve also decided that a forecast that changes 4 times a day is useless. Also they can’t get it right HALF the time but want to predict to such a certain degree it’s comical. 38% chance of rain, really????? Then it changes to 47, then 25, then 32. I’m done with this guessing weather app

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Don’t like the latest update at all. I have been using the Weather. Channel app to check the weather for my family every day for years, basically since I owned a smart phone, and I have loved it. However, I just purchased a new phone and unfortunately the latest version of the app downloaded on my phone during the iCloud transfer. I don’t like it at all. It is no longer easy to read. The text is tiny and in a gray color rather than basic black. I can no longer view the info without searching for my reading glasses which I don’t have readily available in the car or when I’m out and about or right before I’m walking out the door. The new design is terrible. Way too busy, hard to see and more navigation is needed. You have to look for the feels like temp down below and it’s so tiny you need glasses to see it. That is such an important piece of info and should be displayed where it is easy to see. So unfortunate that it changed. I wish there was a way to go back to the old version as I never would have updated this app. It was great the way it was. So disappointed. :(

Holy Smokes. I LITERALLY revolve my life around this app. I’ve missed out on serious milestone events. Funerals, countless birthdays, anniversaries, school sport events all missed and planned around. Ripped my children from school. Lost a couple of jobs by going over given PTO all in avoidance of any questionable weather. Some may say that it’s a bit extreme to be this DEPENDANT on an app. Let alone a weather app. Due to its subject to always change. Some may say I religiously follow whatever this app tells me. I’ve canceled my wedding 6 times because of faulty weather. My soon to be wife is now an ex amongst 7 other before her. But thank God I got channel 12 weather app. Family and friends have tried to have interventions with me but due to weather changes I’ve missed all of them so I’d like to think it was destined to not happen. I don’t have a problem they do. And it’s all thanks to channel 12 weather app. I recommend EVERYONE to download this app.

Good enough. The UI is good enough, but I find myself going to the default iPhone app or WeatherBug more often. There’s just too much on the main screen of this app. It’s very busy and difficult to find the essentials at a glance. Additionally, this app is useless for travel. You can definitely look up different locations from your home location. But, if you leave the app, not close, just leave and come back two seconds later, it resets you and you’re taken back to your home location. So, when planning/packing for a trip, you’re constantly taken away from the last location you were viewing and you have to go search it again, over and over. So, I just stopped using this app all together for travel. It’s literally useless without completely resetting your default location to the place to which you’re traveling. It should, at least, hold your last viewed location for an hour or two, maybe 24 hours. The forecast is usually accurate. So, that’s good. But I’m not reviewing the meteorologists. I’m reviewing the app.

New update and coverage of Florence. New update is weirdly busy and hard to read and this is coming from a weather junkie. I had a hard time figuring out what those squiggly lines were for and yep supposed to be for day night-why? And you have to scroll through so much crap just to get to radar. Don’t know why it’s so counterintuitive. Also the videos and news stories are awful in that they update and recycle old stories and claim them as new. On a side note Florence’s coverage has left something to be desired thought it was just me being cynical esp after the silliness of someone getting caught faking wind and botched job of explaining it. But it’s been really weirdly non informative at times. I always watch hurricane coverage and this one esp with fam in area and well yep had to go to internet and other channels to find out what was going on in other places in nc. Really it was interesting the first little while but really hype focused on one area and not even to give info more like watch this reporter be really not smart and walk on beach during high tide with it at his feet. And other silly thing like that and that’s the take away instead of weather. Maybe too much showmanship and not enough weather news.

This app is brutal. Had the TWC app for years. It used to be fine. Now I have to open it 3 times for it to even display anything, or to simply stay open. It crashes without fail, every time initially I open it. I open it back it, 5 times out of 10 it crashes again. When it finally stays open, it takes about 30 ish seconds for it to update the display from the time I opened it, hours prior. The 30 seconds is neither here nor there. However, my phone runs like crud for a few hours after I close the app. I thought it was because my phone is a few generations old at this point, but that wasn’t the reason. Once I deleted the app, I noticed quite an improvement in the overall operation and input response time when using my phone. Could be pure coincidence, and I’m unsure of how much one app can affect, or how it can affect the operating system as a whole. But it sure seems like that app was dragging my phone down with it. Hope the developers see this and fix some bugs. I prefer the accurate information I always get from TWC. The app is just super annoying now.

It was great, then terrible, then good, then terrible.... The original WC app back in the day was pretty solid. I paid the $4 for the ad free version. That version of the app was, hands down, the best weather app that has ever existed in the App Store. Then WC decided to go to a subscription model (because, money). Heck no. The new app has improved since the overhaul as far as look goes, but here’s the kicker; there’s no consistency with what displays. It’s scroll, scroll, scroll to find what I want. I want 4 things. Daily weather, 10-day forecast, maps, and occasionally hour by hour weather. THAT. IS. IT. And I would pay $ for an app that did just that. (I have, and they’re all nowhere near as good as the aforementioned WC paid app.) Please, WC, give me the option to set up the order of the major sections of the app. Let me buy your ad-free app without forcing me to pay for a subscription. With the look of your current app, do that, and you will have made the best weather app that exists. Come on, developers; convince your corporate bosses that this is what people want and that it will benefit the WC brand in the long run, even if they don’t make a few extra bucks a year from a ridiculous subscription service.

Why deal with an annoying app?. This used to be my go-to weather app.I honestly don’t know why I’ve stuck with it that long as the notifications through the day are maddening. If you want to be alerted that the heavens are about to open up on your house then you also better get ready for notifications like this, all day long: “Teen swept away in rough water during family vacation”. On my weather app I don’t need useless news that doesn’t affect me and I surely don’t want to see notifications of it all day long. Now, the recent, timed ads that you can’t close when I simply want to see when it’s going to rain have pushed me over the edge. Until things change I would recommend anyone thinking about this app to simply read the most recent reviews. Then download Wunderground for an easy and much less annoying access to weather info. These days there is no need to suffer through an annoying app experience.

Prepare for ads and obnoxious Premium pushes for mediocre weather forecasting.. This used to be my go-to for weather. Over the last 6 months however, it’s become more and more annoying to use. The ads that integrate themselves into just your home screen are bad enough, but the Premium push is too much. There is no way - NO. WAY. - To predict weather accurately to 10 days. The sensor and satellite technology currently available, as well as predictive algorithms currently in-use, only allow for 5 days maximum, and even then you’re pushing it. Heaven forbid you live in an area that actually experiences rapidly changing inclement weather. The fact that this false claim has turned into a $10/yr service is absurd and disgusting, and suckers people that don’t know anything about what is associated with meteorologists doing their jobs into paying for “upgraded features” that are simply a lie and a guess at absolute best. And now you have to upgrade to premium to see 48 hour future snowfall? Please. Pick another app for your weather if you actually need valid information. I’m deleting this snake oil-esque refuse from my phone.

Full of bugs, very bad UX. Well if there’s one thing you can count on with this app, it’s that it’s consistently buggy. I have had the same issue with this app since I first downloaded it years ago. If you open it, it will work fine, but you can’t toggle between apps, because if you try to return to the WC app, it will simply be frozen on the home page and won’t work again until you close down the app and restart it. Multitasking seems like a basic function that the developers would have built into the app. It also crashes randomly if you try to click around for more than 5 minutes in the app. And the ad layout is the most intrusive design I’ve ever seen. It’s impossible to get to your own weather information because you have to scroll through junk and click bait videos and articles before you get to the actual content you’re looking for. Of course the data of the weather channel is best in class, but the app is horrendous! If you’re gonna have all that ad revenue, maybe put it toward fixing the app?

Forced to Upgrade to Awful New App. Was forced to upgrade to this app as I was told the Original App would NO longer be available after a certain date. This new app is terrible to use & I wish they never changed it! I left the old version on my iPad & still use it as the new one is Horrible, especially the radar screen. The other radar screen was easy to use. The only plus about the new radar screen is it runs much longer to see the storms moving in over a greater length of time. Why change the app when there was nothing wrong with the old version except the incoming storms didn’t show for more than a few hours & ran really fast through incoming weather, and that new feature works correctly when it feels like it! You should have just added that new feature to the radar screen & left the rest of it alone! After the last update I have lost the radar time stamp that would let me know when it would start raining & for how long. Landscapers rely on this info. I no longer have info on the moon phases. What the heck have you done to this app. It USED to be great! I have to use another weather app now & will be deleting this one!

USED TO BE MY FAVORITE WEATHER APP. This has been my go to app for a few years now, but now I am deleting it. It ads have gotten ridiculously out of hand. I want to be able to check the weather quick, but now there are CONSTANT ads, the screen jumps so they can get you to open ads you have no interest in…the last week or so it has been opening my music app almost every single time I access the weather app. For years there were no “in your face” ads, then they moved the weather down below ads so then you had to start scrolling to get to it, then they started with the quick pop up ads, and now it now only jumps the screen to get you to click on ads, but now has the LOUD obnoxious 30sec game ads that you cant close until finished…just like the cheesy game ads! I DO NOT APPRECIATE BEING FORCED INTO PAYING UNREASONABLE MONTHLY FEES JUST TO GET A QUICK GLIMPSE AT THE WEATHER! Tactics like that just drive me to other weather apps…and I would even consider paying for the premium features on another app that doesn’t play these these kinds of games! Try Accuweather people! It’s more accurate and the ads are sparse and unobtrusive. Or ANY OTHER weather app for that matter!

App update is disappointing to say the least!. The new weather app update is disappointing. The font/graphics are hard to see because they are so light and fine. The graph is not necessary and makes looking at the weather confusing and too much stimuli all at once. Who need that graph any way? The background is now white instead of blue again making the graphics hard to see. I like looking at the hour by hour top to bottom like before and now it’s L-R. The 2 weathers for each day is too confusing at a glance. If I want details I like clicking and reading about that but at a glance it’s way too much information. I have so much more to say about it but I don’t have hours to write a review. I have been using it now for 3 weeks or so and have tried to get used to it but I just can’t. I don’t like it at all. It has been brought up by almost everyone I talk to who used the old one and no one likes the new update. Please please go back or improve this new design. I loved this app before now and used it all the time! Now I dread looking at the weather and get annoyed trying to navigate the new app. 😢😤😠😡☀️❄️☔️🌪🌥🌦🌨

Soooo many inconsistencies..... For example: Currently, there’s a warning rolling across the top of opening page. It states that there’s a winter storm warning from midnight through tomorrow at 1pm for 3-5” of snow with up to 6” in some areas. When scrolling down and looking at the detailed daily report for tonight and then tomorrow, it states a less than 1” tonight, and tomorrow 1-3” snow possible. Hence, huge discrepancies and inconsistencies, often. Very annoying. I don’t care how pretty the app is, just make it as reliable as possible. This is carelessness. Also, on a side note.... The videos (of which I have chosen not to even read the titles of anymore and get sucked in to watching) are so hyper-sensationalized and almost always over-dramatic, are a waste of time watching. Unfortunately, this is the app I’ve been most familiar with, so have stuck with for years. I guess it’s better than not knowing what to possibly, maybe, sort of expect without it. Finally, why, when there are almost all 1-3-star ratings, is the app showing its a 4.6-star app??????

Version 14.0 RUINED the app. I have been a loyal TWC subscriber for at least 20 years now. Yes, I pay for the Premium Pro subscription fee when I could get the weather for free. I don’t mind paying for TWC. It’s my way of showing support for the company. However, I am seriously rethinking the yearly fee with the new 14.0 update. I loved TWC’s app. This new version is freaking awful! It looks chaotic and the easy navigation is gone. Of course, at this point they are having “login issues” so I can’t log in to see if I can change things in the settings to make it better. I pray that I can. TWC should pray I can or they will lose a very loyal customer AND my money because I will not pay for this hideous redesign. What were you thinking? You took a great app that had a beautiful simplicity and ease of use and replaced it with something that looks like a hot mess I don’t want to look at, much less use. For those of us who pay a monthly/yearly fee give us an option to change it back to the clean simple design. Actually, you should give everyone that choice whether they pay for the use of the app or not, but money seems to talk and motivate more.

Changed lately. I used to rely on this for extremely accurate forecasts and have sent all my family and friends here. However, as of late, I have noticed a trend in its accuracy sadly. Several times we’ve been alerted to severe weather and nothing. We have sunny skies. Today we are supposed to rain all day but if you check the radar they provide, it’s nowhere near us. I used to be able to tell people to the minute when it was going to rain based on their radar. We live near a reporting tower at an airport so that’s not the issue. Is it because I didn’t purchase the premium subscription? If so, not cool! I’ve had this app since it came out and an avid watcher of The Weather Channel. I choose to see annoying ads because I already pay for The Weather Channel so why should I have to pay for yet another subscription to get accurate alerts when I’m at the grocery store? Ugh… anyway..it’s sad..I guess protecting us isn’t as important as we thought it was. I’ll look for another.

Great weather app!. Does a nice accurate job. It had everything until about 2 weeks ago when suddenly, the temperature badge stopped being displayed on my iPhone’s home screen. The temperature badge allowed me to glance at my iPhone and see what the current temperature was without even opening The Weather app. Additionally, I’ve noticed that my name disappears everyday under the settings menu within the app. I add my name and save it and the next day, it’s gone. I checked ALL my settings within the app, I’m running the latest iOS version, and I’ve checked my notifications setting on my iPhone. I have emailed the app support, but still nothing. I received an automated reply telling me that their support people have received my email about these issues and that “they’ll get right on it”. That was about 5 days ago. Problems still exist and NO one has contacted me. This app is losing stars everyday.

Unreliable and Misleading. Unreliable: Today when using this app I saw it would rain around two with the chance of Tstorms. At noon, I checked it again and saw rain would start around 5 with a lower chance of Tstorms. It’s almost 5 now and the app says it won’t rain until 9 pm. This happens everyday rain is expected and I’ve learned not to trust this worthless app anymore. It always seems to overestimate precipitation times and amounts so people will think “what a nice surprise! I expected rain all day!” All it makes me think is “I hate this app”. Misleading: The other thing that makes me want to delete this is, when rain is expected, the daily view will show an entire day as rainy. So many times I have looked at that through the week and thought my working day outside (everyday) would be a wash-out only to find that rain is possible after 6 pm or something and just be cloudy or clear until then. There has to be a morning and afternoon forecast option for this exact reason - I don’t want to be surprised like this by a science that should be more precise. Guess that’s what you get for a free app based on a TV station. Please address these issues.

Widget glitching. Since I have searched and searched and can't find a way to contact the weather channel, here's a review with my issues. Since the latest update my widget in the Notification Center hasn't been updating properly. It will continue to have a "current temperature" from sometime earlier in the day. Even if I click on it and open the app, the current temp will not change. Also, on the note of the widget, why in the world when you click on the current temperature does it take you to the "daily" view? Why doesn't it just take you to the home page of the current location's weather conditions? There is a button in the widget for radar, daily, and hourly - tapping on the current temp should take you to the main screen for your location. Love this app but it's frustrating to have something not working properly and have no way to contact the company about it. The feedback section is just questions and answers, but nowhere to actually submit feedback or submit your own question or issue.

Horrible app now. I’ve used this app for years it was always reliable BUT anymore it’s just not accurate at all and now that they started the premium version I HAS BEEN A NIGHTMARE……the ads are nonstop and you can NOT just scroll over an ad if you just touch your phone to scroll it takes you to the ad which opens up several different windows so you can’t just hit the back button to go back to the app you have to close out of them then reopen the app and start all over again which also mean you have another ad you have to wait to close. So everything take twice as long. I use to watch the videos some were funny and cute and some interesting however now it’s all doom and gloom and EVERYTHING IS DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE. Hurricanes in Florida….climate change, wildfires in California….climate change, snow in Michigan climate change. They are just beating the drum so I don’t even watch the videos anymore. They are pushing the premium version so bad that they are pushing me to just delete the app and pay for a different app bc I’m not going to pay for the weather just bc they are making this app so hospitable. I’m fed up

Each update gets worse but content is accurate. This app has been extremely glitchy and gets worse with each update. This app used to be so reliable and easy to navigate. It was straightforward and was fast and reliable. Now it crashes every time I open it the first try and it freezes all the time and I have to close it out and restart it. Family members are also experiencing the same glitches and crashes. The radar also used to be really great staying on a loop of past images with the option to see the future radar. Now it forces you into past AND future radar all in one loop so I’m finding I’m having to manually keep rewinding it back to the beginning to see the real movement of storms. I personally don’t like future radars (not just on this app), I find it is rarely accurate, at least for the part of the country I live in (northeast corner of Rhode Island). The layout of the app changes constantly and I’m finding I have to relearn the whole app every few months. This wouldn’t be bad but the changes never make any sense to me and make the app more difficult and more time consuming each time they switch things around. The content and forecasts are always spot on and wonderful. I’ve never had too much trouble with the accuracy of the weather channel itself. The developers of the app, however, are not on par with the brains behind the weather content. Content is 5/5 stars, the app itself is a 1/5 stars. Can’t use the app if I can’t get it to open and not freeze.

Something I would consider essential needed especially if you work outside and travel. I use thiz app multiple timez a day it helpz with work, travel, outside activity, beach dayz, staying up to date during hurricane season cause I’m in Florida or somewhere in the south usually, Gardening, and doing Landscaping would recommend thiz app to anybody I know or run in to. Pluz I’m really into weather stormz and trying to really figure out how to get better understanding weather and how to really know what certain typez of stormz depending on season and area are starting to do I could guarantee a 48-72 hour future track of the storm updating a day ahead daily thiz would be for mainly hurricanez and tornadoez or very severe weather in summer and cold temperature droping especially in the south, snow az well az blizzardz in the winter Mother Nature and the earth are on a constant change daily so it’z good to keep up with it most people don’t even have a clue.

Why Ads?. This app, to my knowledge, is very accurate, well-updated, and informative. I am a big fan of the future radar and the future forecasts in general that let me plan for the day(s) ahead. However, there is one huge drawback that has recently made me drop this app almost entirely: the ads. I do not understand why there are so many ads, why they are placed in the middle of important information, and most of all, why I should have to pay to remove them. All I want to to know if it’s going to be hot or cold tomorrow but instead I get to learn that there’s a carpet cleaner near me. I don’t understand. It’s impossible to watch the videos anymore because the ads are nearly as long as the videos are, and they’re so loud and jarring that I’m turned off before I can even get to the information. If you don’t care about ads, great! This is the app for you. But if you’re like me, you’re better off sticking with the built-in iPhone app. It may not be as thorough, but at least you can access all the information without any pop-ups.

Great app. I like this app because it is easy to use and highly accurate, I would highly suggest it to any of my friends who believe their weather app give inaccurate information and or they don’t like the functionality of the app they are presently using. I don’t have any REAL complaints other than sometimes I have to completely close and reopen the app for it to update on the temperature at the moment, it’s not necessarily giving incorrect information, I mean it kind of is but all I have to do is close it and reopen it. So if you could possibly fix it so it updates like maybe every few minutes so that I hopefully won’t have to constantly have to close and reopen the app every time I use it I would highly appreciate it. <3 but other than that the app is amazing and I would NO DOUBTS request it to my friends, in fact I found out about this app through my mom. But anyhow that’s all for now, please do consider my suggestion ❤️❤️❤️

The new design -meh, needs more work. I agree with many others that the older version was too ad heavy but I had learned how to navigate just fine. NOW the new design opens with the radar taking up 3/4 of the page and all the weather data/ info that I really need to see is pretty small in a column on the right that has to be scrolled both up and down and side to side. Not user friendly for a quick check of the conditions. I only need the radar when it’s raining so the actual data is more important most of the time. Suggestion: swap the data column window with the radar window and make the data more prominent and easier for older eyes. Maybe give the radar screen the ability to be maximized or minimized. Since we read left to right in the US, the current configuration seems backwards. I still think TWC forecasting is closure to accurate for my area than a couple other weather apps I’ve use, so there’s that. Keep trying guys, you’re almost there!

Removed features. I used to be a huge fan of this app and it was always my go to weather app. I have used this app for years across many platforms and always enjoyed it. I recently purchased the premium version of the app and have been enjoying it for about 7 months. I just recently noticed that there was a new “Premium Pro” version of the app and was very excited to see the new features that were added. Instead, I was very disappointed. I quickly realized that the radar layout that I PAID for in my premium membership had been removed and added to this new “Premium Pro” membership. This is something that is not acceptable to me. I was ok with possibly upgrading my membership and spending more money with them to get more features until I realized what they had done. I’m ok with adding a higher/more expensive tier membership if you are going to ADD more features. Instead, they just REMOVED a feature that I have already paid a year in advance for and are now expecting more money for me to upgrade my membership and get that same feature back. This is a dirty and underhanded tactic to squeeze more money out of their customers and I’m done with The Weather Channel.

Weather Channel? No! Ad Channel…. For years, I trusted and loved the Weather Channel for its details and accuracy, which is of the utmost importance in the front range, but the ad situation is really bad. Around 2020, the limited amount of ads started to increase bit by bit and they slowly put features behind a VERY expensive paywall. This was fine for 2 more years until the pace in which the ads were increasing sped up fast, but this time, the features on the free version were so basic and unreliable, that it was not worth it. Picture this: You want to go swimming and you need to look at the weather in case of rain. You turn on the Weather Channel to take a quick look and the screen shows a advertisement that you cant get off of. Once you get off, you are asked to go premium and when you finally get to hourly, the hourly is interrupted by a used car ad. What should have been a 2 minute browse turned into a 7 minute expedition in the rainforest. It got so bad, that I deleted the Weather Channel and started using something else. Never use this app that’s one giant middle finger to anyone who wants to see the weather!

Well it would be ok if it worked. I hated that my favorite weather application with all sorts of features, smartly updated often, and simply works very well had to stop using the data from the weather channel as an option since the weather channel decided to no longer sell it to other application makers. So I thought I would see what the official weather channel application is up to these days. The main application is a bit boring in how it presents data but it seems to work. The watch application which I care the most about has three very basic screens that make it a struggle to quickly see any weather data and the complications appear to not work at all. I created a new face to test and placed both a large and a small on there. The large shows the “The Weather” and two dashed lines. The small shows an umbrella and bother else. Ok, so I guess it just doesn’t work at all. At least before you got some of my money via the Carrot weather application’s developers but now you get nothing as you have not convinced me to instead pay for you application that doesn’t even seem to work. After all these years I thought maybe you would eventually get you act together but I see otherwise.

Stupid and also very inaccurate.. First reason I call it stupid is because they name the snowstorms. I don’t know who came up with that stupid idea but the weather channel but it’s the most stupidest idea I’ve ever heard of naming a snowstorm give me a break. Also the next you know they’re going to name tsunami‘s earthquakes and every time we get a thunderstorm they’re going to name it. Plus their forecasts are always in accurate for where I live. I depend on the weather I can’t expect them to tell me what it’s going to be like in my area. I find that the cable weather is way off also and I don’t trust him. I also use storm in weather underground including the weather channel itself and they are the most stupidest apps to have. They are also very inaccurate and I don’t trust him. I have decided to delete their apps on my phone. I like to rock storms and when I found out from this app including the others if they do have if you can’t track a storm. This app is garbage for anyone who loves the weather. Anything the weather Channel has offer is all garbage. They don’t track storms do you know Kim good forecast in for anyone that Sirius about protecting the weather don’t use this crap.

New Interface Never Loads. I have relied on the weather channel apps for weather since I got my first iPhone 3g. I pay the subscription fee to not deal with commercials. Which by the way was initially a lifetime buy and changed to yearly. Since this new interface update 90% of the time the app won’t load past the blue flash screen and spinning circle. I have an iPhone X and my iOS is up to date. I have sent several notifications into their help center and after months the issue is still not fixed. Thank god I never deleted the old weather maxx app off my phone. It still loads EVERY time I open it. But it ticks me off that I am paying for a basically useless subscription. Also the Watch app was buggy to start with and now hasn’t worked or loaded the weather in months. I resorted to Carrot weather for my watch. Frustrated as a long time customer they can’t squash this bug and that they released this change without really having it ready or thinking of their audience.

Just okay for weather. This app is just okay at its job, you can see the weather forecast and some of the radar options. Is it better than your phones built in weather app? Maybe only slightly if you prefer the brand name and extra features that come with a monthly subscription. The downsides of this app however are the spammy ads that lag the app to the point of being burdensome, the ads redirecting you to the App Store/safari/etc unannounced and without clicking, and over the years more and more features that used to be free being locked behind a paywall with a monthly subscription. I used to like this weather app to supplement the old lackluster apple weather built into my phone, but I think I’m finally done. I cannot see the weather without being forced into some pop up ad or redirected to another app for ads, I cannot use the radar features without subscribing, and the standard apple weather has surpassed this sinking ship of what used to be a nice weather app. Save yourself the time and headache and use other sources for your weather.

App freezes. I’ve been using this app nearly a decade as it is crucial to my business. I would have given the app a 5 star rating a few months ago, but not now. Recently, if you exit the app and come back to it, the app is frozen. You have to force quit the app to get it to reset, or open and close it 4-5 times. Did the same thing with the last couple versions of iOS 15 and still does it with the latest version of iOS 16. They’ve also recently placed ads in annoying places like making you view an ad before you can see the hourly forecast. It wasn’t like that until recently. Then as you scroll through the hourly forecast, it’s real easy to accidentally click an ad and be taken out of the app to the advertiser’s website. Then of course when you try to get back into the Weather Channel app, it’s frozen. So you force quit the app, go back to the hourly forecast , sit through another ad, and have to very carefully scroll through the hourly forecast so you don’t touch a link and have to go through the whole process again.

Essential. I’m a pilot so my life revolves around the weather. I don’t just look at the weather, I live IN the Weather. The professional meteorologists at the Weather Chanel give you the best you can get from the same raw sources available to me as a pilot. I check the Weather Chanel app more than any other app on my phone. They do an outstanding job explaining important concepts which give you the How And Why things work with the weather. I am a flight instructor and one of the first things I ask my new students is if they have the Weather Chanel app so they can track radar and see current weather unfold. I also assign for them to watch Weather Underground as much as possible. I learn something new from them every night. I admire every one of your on air meteorologists and kudos to the crew behind the scenes. There is someone behind the camera in the hurricane to thank. You give your all and have given your lives too. Thank you for all you do from a huge fan.

Great overall, but a bit broken. I’ve been using this app for many years and I’ve always loved it. The new UI is actually quite nice to use as well. However, I’ve encountered a number of issues lately and I haven’t gotten any assistance with fixing them. Firstly, for at least two years I’ve been unable to add or change any severe weather/rain/lightning/etc alerts for favorite locations, which is a major inconvenience for me. I’ve reached out to the support team but I’ve never gotten a response. Secondly, my current location has been stuck on a certain city for a few weeks and won’t change, even when I was 300+ miles from that location making checking a local forecast rather difficult. There’s an option to report location inaccuracies in the app, but all it does is attempt to send an email to an invalid email address which accomplishes nothing. It’s a shame since I really wish I was able to fully utilize all of the features the app offers, especially since I pay for the premium version.

Horrible “Improvements”= Form over substance. Or “Don’t risk a facelift when you’re already pretty good looking!” I am a frequent traveler for work and pleasure and take two or more out of state trips a month. I also come from a family of Weather Channel junkies who love flying, nature, and various other pursuits that take us outside and out yonder. As such, I regularly use your app several times a week. You had a successful product and I enjoyed using it even when the forecast was way off. While I can understand trying to make the app faster, I can not understand why you would completely change a format that was previously easy to read, with it’s bold colors and strong lettering, to a color palate that is light, with barely visible lettering. Please remember most of us are looking at your app on our phones and we are often on the go... The fine grey print, light purple, and glaring white screen is almost unreadable. It borders on the ridiculous. Sadly, I will be looking for another weather app to replace yours. I will miss watching your videos (even though you play the same commercial over and over and over...), but the main purpose of your app is now lost. RIP

Love it! But a few things could be updated. I absolutely love this weather app. I love how in the new update it tells you when it’s going to rain which makes it easier so I don’t have to guess anymore. I live in Florida so it’s a big help, especially in the summer since it rains almost every day. I really also enjoy watching the videos because it’s kind of like a learning experience for me. One flaw about this app is that when I’m viewing the future radar it doesn’t show what the actual storms look like and it also shows them moving in one direction when they’re actually moving in a different one. The other flaw is that again with the radar when in viewing in current time it doesn’t show me what direction the storms are moving in,( like north, northeast, west etc.) Overall I do love this app but I do feel that some of its features could be updated.

Not as good as it used to be. I've had this app forever. And years ago it used to be great and up to date. But the past year or so, it's been horrible. It freezes a lot. It crashes constantly and doesn't give you accurate weather reports. I'm constantly double checking other weather sources because I can't rely on this app alone. It's unfortunate because it used to be my go-to weather app. But it's just not what it used to be. Update: March 2020: I can’t believe this app turned into a money grabbing scheme. First, they change the app, make you download it again and for those of us who originally bought it the first time have to buy it again. Second, it’s $30 for a year or you can pay the minimum amount per month!!!! Are you kidding me?!?! So I have to spend money yearly on this app?! It’s not a one time purchase?!?! Ok, I could maybe get on board with a one time purchase of $5 and MAYBE understand a one time purchase of $30 but $30 a year for a freaking app on my phone?!?! Then to top it off these guys think it’s ok to block you from seeing important weather information from hour to hour and that’s only for premium users!!!! Greedy. These developers are greedy.

Big Issue. I am currently have problems with the new app that I can’t turn on notifications to receive significant weather advisories, daily rain/snow events, and pollen notifications. In the old app all those notifications where on. But when the new app downloaded they turned off and now I can’t turn them one. I once I’ve selected the notifications I want and press done, a screen comes up saying select a location. I look under locations, it’s blank, nothing shows up. I go back to the home screen. My current location is showing. I try again turning back on the notifications, I still am not being allowed to to select a location or is that part of the app syncing to my location like the home screen did. In my settings I have my current location turned to always on, still nothing. I used to rely on these notifications because I live in tornado alley so I guess it’s a good thing I also have a weather radio too. The Weather Channel app is now useless to me. I guess I rely on my weather radio now to keep my family safe!

Slow to load. Popup ads. Wrong cities.. This used to be a really good app. Then all the obnoxious pop-up ads took over. It is SO slow to open. Even if you just closed it & opened it right back up within a few seconds to minutes. I can see all the up-to-date weather info perfectly on the widget, but then to click on it to open the app takes forever to load. I don’t understand & I don’t like it. And what is FAR more annoying than anything else is it also likes to give me weather updates I never asked for, for cities I’ve driven past or through or stopped in for a few minutes to under 2 hours. I have tried reaching out to the developers MANY times since this started in the last 2-3 years to try to get their help or give feedback so they will correct at least the random city weather update issues, but no one has ever once responded. I got rid of the app for a couple months out of pure irritation & then redownloaded it again over the weekend because it does have some of the best features available out there. But I’m going to get rid of it again because it’s too obnoxious.

Usability gone down via click through ads. Overall I am a fan of The Weather Channel and app, but the usability has gone down and is about to lose me as a user. Outside of pushing a premium subscription (sorry, but not purchasing another subscription especially for weather) now the usability has been jeopardized via click through ads. As of recent, every time I scroll through the app it involuntarily directs me to a third advertisement website. Seems to me like a cheap tactic to skew click through rates on ads and increase the app’s advertisement revenue (perhaps something to look at during the next fiscal audit?) It has become frustrating to a point where I no longer like to use the app, and now watching videos and ads (which I did not previously mind since I do not subscribe to premium) is simply something I am no longer willing to endure. In the meantime, I will be looking for other options to obtain weather information while this company figures out what it even is. Cutting corners ain’t cute.

TERRIBLE UPDATE!!!. I tried to contact customer support before leaving this review. There is no way to do that so here it is. I have had this app on mi iPad and iPhone for years. It used to work beautifully. I even paid to have ads removed. Later on I discovered location issues within the widgets on both devices. Then my precise location was deleted in the search. Aside from those things all was well. Now we have been given a fancy new update. It looks beautiful if you can get the app to open?! Unfortunately, I don’t have all day. Most of the time I end up staring at a spinning circle on both devices until the end of time. If it weren’t for the widgets I wouldn’t know what the current weather is. I haven’t received one notification on either device?! Thank goodness for my local news app that sends me notifications as well as gives me my weather! As it stands I have no desire to pay again for ad removal in October. I’m finding this app time consuming and loathsome. If all the bugs aren’t worked out soon I’ll see no reason to keep it. It’s virtually unusable and if they don’t care I don’t care. PRESS & HOLD, TAP THE X, DELETE AND FIND SOMETHING THAT WORKS!

Way too many Ads and app is slow/glitchy. The amount of Ads that they piled into this app over the past few years is ridiculous. This used to be such a great app to use for weather and now every time I go to use it and do something as simple as change the location, an ad pops up on my screen that takes a while to X out before I’m able to look at the forecast. Not to mention all the ads scattered about throughout the hourly and other sections. On top of that, any time you leave the app to open something else, even for just a second, when you come back to this weather app it is frozen and either takes several seconds to let you begin using it or it just crashes and you have to reload this app all over again. And yes I checked the setting in my phone to keep app running in background. I blame the insane amount of ads that cause the freezing and crashing because they are probably trying to reload the ads every time I go back into the app from background. Deleting this app after being a loyal user for over a decade and switching over to another weather app with less intrusive ads and won’t crash all the time!

Severe decline in performance. This WAS the best weather app for years! The most recent update has me looking for other apps for the first time in a long time. I’ve literally used this app since I started using iPhones over 10 years ago. The most recent change has created a freeze/crash issue when reopening the app once it is running, and it often times will crash a second time when you try to restart the app altogether. I’ve written in to let them know about the issue and they told me it’s for a limited amount of users, but I have yet to talk with someone not having this issue. They also throw a full screen add in your face every chance they get now, which was never the case in the past. I rely on a decent weather forecast to keep my landscape contracting business running smooth so this app just isn’t working for me any longer. The radar feature has also been ruined, you can no longer select to play only through the “past radar” which is the only accurate display. The future radar is never accurate and I consider it useless, but now it automatically plays. They really screwed up a good thing with the most recent change.

WORST UPDATE EVER!. Please bring back the previous version! I’m not great with technology, but I was able to quickly move about the old version and find everything I wanted. After months of trying to use this new version I still cannot find the almanac and historical data, the Marine forecast, and many other things I wanted to check on. I have tried through your FAQs but I cannot find the “more” or “almanac” buttons on my screen ANYWHERE to access the additional info. In the previous version this info was all on one screen! It was so easy to flip among the different locations to see what the current weather was where family members live. Now I have to do 2 or 3 movements to achieve the same thing. I have found NOTHING to be better in this new version. You are too worried about adding things like tracking instances of colds and flu that will be so inaccurate as to be worthless. REALLY, how many people will notify you, how many are self-diagnosed! 90% of people I know claimed to have the flu last winter, but only two (out of about 50) were diagnosed by a doctor. I am using an iPad and the current iOS.

Not very accurate. I live in Stark Florida and the weather channel app doesn’t work very good here in the middle of the state. Very inaccurate. The radar stinks! I’m not gonna pay for a premium if they can’t get their standard app up to par. I don’t have to have bells and whistles. I just want a good radar that’s accurate not 10 minutes behind everything else. The hour by hour changes hour by hour and is behind the actual weather, I mean like you look at the album hour and it says sunshine for the next two hours and it’s dumping rain on top your house. I am looking for a new Weather app. I need an accurate weather app. This one is not accurate. I depend on a weather app to help me when I’m driving my RV around the state. I have to find something that can prove to be a good resource for needed weather info. I think the saddest thing is that I’ve had this app on my phone for years. And just this past year it has just not worked well. I just put the update on my app-and will see if that works any better but I’m still looking for another app.

I love this app!. I love this app and use it often. Prior to using this, I had tried out several different weather apps including the one that came with my device, but I was never very happy with them until I came to this one. It might not be 100% correct all of the time, but it seems much more reliable than some of those other ones. My only issues are: 1. (And this is not a major one) is that I would like to be able to see the moon phases. If I’m on vacation or visiting anywhere close to the coast, it gives high/low tide times and moon phases, but if I’m not near the coast, I don’t know that information. The high/low tide info isn’t really important to me where I live, but I wish there was a place where I could see the moon phases without having to be near the water. 2. (This IS a major one) Since the last update almost a month ago, I have been unable to access the app via my phone. I can open it through my tablet but I don’t always have that with me when I’m on the go. If I try to open the app on my phone, it stays frozen on the opening title screen. All month, I have been unable to open the app. I have already tried deleting it and reinstalling the app, but to the same results. Reading some of the more recent reviews, there are enough people commenting, so I know that some people who are able to access it. Why then am I unable?

Not accurate, missing features. First and foremost, all the bells and whistles in the world don’t make up for the fact that the weather forecasts aren’t usually close. Except, perhaps, for the temp, weather isn’t in ballpark until one hour before, which isn’t really much of a forecast. Not sure you can blame global warming for all of this. Second, if you going to add features, please focus less on videos and cryptic layers on the maps. (The older version of the app was match easier to figure out. Please go back to that version.). Instead, please add humidity percentage and barometric pressure to the hourly page. With regards to barometric readings, it would be useful to add and up/down arrow to indicate rising or falling pressure, which is far more useful than pressure values alone. Finally, the app provides a feedback “link”, but this link only takes you to an FAQ page, with no way to actually provide app feedback. Prior design of app was more useful and accurate. Just goes to show that you shouldn’t update an app simp,y because you can...

Really?. Upon opening this app you’ll wait a good 20 seconds to get past the blue startup screen. From there it’ll load your last location before pulling your gps location, so you wait for it to load and it shows you an irrelevant earlier location. Then it pulls your gps location, it reloads, and shows you your current location weather. About 45 seconds after loading the app on a brand new device you will be able to access the weather. From there you better hope you don't pull downwards too far or you’ll refresh and start over! So after you’ve wasted a minute now you're provided with a pretty comprehensive review of the weather, with an interactive radar that is pretty nice and accurate compared to other apps (why I give 2 stars instead of 1). But wait, theres more! NOW THEY WANT YOU TO PAY FOR AN ADD FREE/FASTER/MORE ACCURATE VERSION?!?!?! Thats the solution to a buggy app huh? No wonder the app never works because it’s constantly generating the best location specific ad!!! Don’t waste your time with this garbage weather app that has become a cash grab for TWC. Currently looking for better weather apps.

Not a fan of the change. I understand that without change, things become stale. But unfortunately, not a fan of your new layout. I’m interested in seeing my current weather stats without swiping around and if I wanted to see graphs and charts I would get weather from a stock market app. I enjoyed a quick glance at weather for future days. If I wanted more detail on each day. I enjoyed option to go to that section myself. Finally, your background gave a more personal feel to the old app. Especially when traveling to different areas of county and checking weather. Now it’s almost plain, a generic version of the previous. The connection is somehow lost. How do you stand out from other weather apps now. Please don’t say it’s because you have graphs and charts. Because any elementary student knows it’s warmer in daytime and cooler at night. Your line graph dropping isn’t revolutionary or ground breaking. Sorry.

Never had a weather channel clickbait me so much. This app does have good qualities, they give you warnings for rain and snow and you can watch clouds on the radar. However I feel it keeps giving me snow notifications just so that I’ll click on the app and sit through their ads. It hasn’t snowed once and yet I’ve gotten so many notifications about ‘Snow in your forecast’ that I’m just tired of this app. It even gave me one in the summertime. Like?? Why??? They’re just annoying at this point. The radar also takes minutes to load as they are too busy loading their ads, and they continue to shove ‘premium’ down your throat despite already making you sit through ads constantly. I don’t ever write reviews for things but I wanted to for this one in particular. you can get your real forecast out of it eventually, or just get another app. Honestly I would give it a higher rating if it didn’t constantly go “SNOW IN YOUR FORECAST” but hey I doubt you’ll change this so two stars it is.

I liked the old App better!. Ever since the update my weather channel app is super glitchy. When I go to watch videos I have to watch an ad before every single one(the same ad over and over), this was not true for the old app. Also, if I click on the video and the ad plays but I scroll down to make it picture in picture and still browse the other videos... if I’m not at the video I initially wanted to watch when the ad ends and the screen goes black, when I try to click on it to bring up full screen it doesn’t work. Then, I have to click on a different video and then go back and am forced to watch the ad again. Also, if I am watching a video and the video ends and I’m in full screen, it immediately starts playing an ad(the same one I watched before the video) and the icon to minimize full screen is completely missing. I have to exit my app and go all the way back in just to watch a new video. I used to be an avid Weather Channel user but not anymore... I hardly even used it for the weather I just liked the nature/science related videos, and I can’t even do that anymore.

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Adult Rating 4+ years and older
Current Version 14.0.2
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The application Weather - The Weather Channel was published in the category Weather on 09 November 2008, Sunday and was developed by The Weather Channel Interactive [Developer ID: 295646464]. This program file size is 170.93 MB. This app has been rated by 3,709,782 users and has a rating of 4.7 out of 5. Weather - The Weather Channel - Weather app posted on 13 January 2024, Saturday current version is 14.0.2 and works well on iOS 16.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.weather.TWC. Languages supported by the app:

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