How to use the weather app on iPhone and iPad

The Weather app for iPhone can show you a list of cities, along with local times and temperatures, which makes it incredibly easy to glance at a wide range of information. In addition to the weather for your current location, you can also add additional locations based on city name, postal or zip code, or airport code. You can arrange all the cities in exactly the order you want, and you can even remove ones you no longer want.

Here's how!

How to add locations to Weather for iPhone

The Weather app for iPhone will automatically keep track of the climate and temperature in your current location, if you allow it. However, you can also add any other locations you might want to keep track of. Whether you're traveling or simply have family, friends, or colleagues around the world, you easily keep all the information you want, all available at a glance.

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  1. Launch the Weather app from the Home screen of your iPhone.
  2. Tap the List button at the bottom right (or pinch to compress down to the list view).

  3. Tap the + button at the bottom right.

    Launch the Weather app, tap on the list button and tap on the plus button.

  4. Type in the name of the city, zip or postal code, or airport code.

  5. Tap on the desired city from the search results.

    Type in the name of a city and tap on it.

How to remove locations from Weather for iPhone

  1. Launch the Weather app from the Home screen of your iPhone.

  2. Tap the List button at the bottom right (or pinch to compress down to the list view).

    Launch the Weather app and tap on the list button.

  3. Swipe from right to left on top of the location you want to remove to reveal the Delete button

  4. Tap the Delete button

    Swipe on a location to reveal a delete button and then tap on delete.

How to rearrange locations in the Weather app for iPhone

  1. Launch the Weather app from the Home screen of your iPhone.
  2. Tap the List button at the bottom right (or pinch to compress down to the list view).

  3. Touch and hold the weather location you'd like to move up or down in the list.

    Launch the weather app, tap on the list button and tap and hold a weather location.

  4. Drag the weather location to the position you'd like it to be in

  5. Release your finger to reorder the weather location.

    Drag the weather location to a new position and drop it.

Repeat this process for each item you'd like to move up or down in the list.

How to change from Celsius to Fahrenheit in Weather for iPhone

  1. Launch the Weather app from the Home screen of your iPhone.

  2. Tap the List button at the bottom right (or pinch to compress down to the list view).

    Launch the Weather app and tap the list button.

  3. Tap the °C / °F button at the bottom left.

  4. Tap the °C / °F button at the bottom left again to toggle back.

    Tap the Celsius/Fahrenheit button to change the units and tap it again to change the units back.

In addition to checking weather information using the app, you can also ask Siri for the most important forecast and temperature information.

Any questions about Weather?

If you have any questions about the built-in Weather app for iPhone, drop them in the comments below!

iOS

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HomeKit

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