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When Apple bought Dark Sky, one of the best iPhone weather apps on the planet, back in 2020 many users of the beloved application were left wondering how Apple would incorporate all of its features into the stock Weather app.
One of those features was Dark Sky’s incredible ability to tell you that it was about to rain just before the first drizzle hit your forehead. Last year Apple added Next-Hour Precipitation to the Weather app but it’s off by default, so many users have been missing out.
Here’s how to enable Next-Hour Precipitation in the Weather app on your iPhone so you never get stuck in the rain again.
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I live in beautiful rainy Scotland and hadn’t received a rain notification from the Weather app in over a year. I had presumed the setting was turned on by default and that it couldn’t keep up with Scotland’s intermittent rain starting and stopping every two minutes. Either that or the feature itself was just useless across the globe. Turns out you might think it’s on but it could be disabled. Here’s how to turn it on:
- Open Weather
- Tap the menu button in the bottom right corner
- Tap the three dots in the top right corner
- Select Notifications
- Toggle on Next-Hour Precipitation for Current Location
Underneath these settings, you can also enable Next-Hour Precipitation for any of your saved locations. Additionally, there’s a Severe Weather warning alert option that will make sure to notify you if a storm is brewing.
I loved Dark Sky and had thought Apple had just messed up one of the app’s best features. Instead, it turns out that you need to make sure it’s enabled correctly to get the benefit of knowing when rain is coming, even when you’ve yet to feel a drop of water. For somewhere like Scotland this feature is a life-saver considering you can leave the house in sunglasses and a t-shirt in the summer heat only to be hit with torrential rain before you get to the end of your street.
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John-Anthony Disotto
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John-Anthony Disotto is the How To Editor of iMore, ensuring you can get the most from your Apple products and helping fix things when your technology isn’t behaving itself.Living in Scotland, where he worked for Apple as a technician focused on iOS and iPhone repairs at the Genius Bar, John-Anthony has used the Apple ecosystem for over a decade and prides himself in his ability to complete his Apple Watch activity rings.John-Anthony has previously worked in editorial for collectable TCG websites and graduated from The University of Strathclyde where he won the Scottish Student Journalism Award for Website of the Year as Editor-in-Chief of his university paper. He is also an avid film geek, having previously written film reviews and received the Edinburgh International Film Festival Student Critics award in 2019.John-Anthony also loves to tinker with other non-Apple technology and enjoys playing around with game emulation and Linux on his Steam Deck.
In his spare time, John-Anthony can be found watching any sport under the sun from football to darts, taking the term “Lego house” far too literally as he runs out of space to display any more plastic bricks, or chilling on the couch with his French Bulldog, Kermit.
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FFR Great feature that was brought into iOS from the dark sky acquisition.
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Just_Me_D FFR said:
Great feature that was brought into iOS from the dark sky acquisition.Since the acquisition, the radar map hasn’t consistently displayed properly. It’s much better, but still not issue-free as it was prior to the acquisition - at least not for me.
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FFR Just_Me_D said:
Since the acquisition, the radar map hasn’t consistently displayed properly. It’s much better, but still not issue-free as it was prior to the acquisition - at least not for me.Maybe it will get sorted in iOS 19.
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Annie_M I love this feature!
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Ledsteplin Location must be set on "always", and that's a battery eater.
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Wotchered I bought Dark Sky particularly to tell me which task to apply myself to next, because of rave reviews, It was a flop. The thing told me it was raining when it wasn't, told me it wasn't going to when I could actually see it coming. I should think that Apple has it turned off because it's unreliable.
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