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Please Make the iPhone Weather Application Location Aware

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It also wouldn't hurt to change the icon as well. The calendar app's icon does this.

+1 for changing the icon based on the primary location. I want this feature much more than location-awareness. (Jailbroken iPhone has icon-changing weather app)

Is it (technically & politically) possible to make the App Icon change based on App State? I thought that was restricted / impossible a while back.

Not if you're the developer of the built-in weather app.

Since the app bundle is signed, and the icon is inside the app bundle... no, but Apple can cheat for their own apps: Calendar's icon always shows today's date. Clock and Weather could update continuously too. For third party apps, I'd like my stopwatch to keep updating it's icon in the background, and one of my apps could do with it too.

A more serious problem is not being able to update Default.png, so if your app loads the last view the user had, it's hard to make it seamless.

edit: I meant changing the icon based on the current weather at primary location, which should be the current location by default

Move somewhere where it's never 73 and sunny. That way you'll never be confused.

The "Weather Icon" app from Cydia accomplishes this. There's a similar WinterBoard extension for the clock ("LiveClock"). Both work wonderfully.

(Edit: it changes based on the weather and the time, not based on geolocation.)

I see these sentence-long domain names with static content from time to time. What motivates people to do this instead of a tweet or similar?

permanence, until the issue at hand is resolved?

I can't remember seeing a tweet linked as a HN story, but this sentence long domain names get a lot of publicity every now and again.

Successful strategies tend to get copied.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=205918

But generally, you are correct.

Definitely seems like a no-brainer that Apple forgot. Does this request means that the weather will get current location and update temp. when the app is opened? Or a dynamic update as you move along - I mean if this is the case, I'd love to have it while driving along and get weather updates for the route.

I expect it was omitted just like copy and paste were omitted so they could get it right. But the squeaky wheel gets the oil so they haven't done anything about it.

Thats my guess for what it is worth :)

I like that it showed me the weather in Fahrenheit, even though I'm in Australia. Location aware...ish.

I'm pretty sure it shows Fahrenheit everywhere by default.

Aren't there apps that can do this?

reproduces functionality of apple's products?

I've wanted this forever. I made http://geoipweather.com/ for my own use but GeoIP's (free) database is pretty bad, and damn near useless when using AT&T proxy servers via 3G.

Maybe adding one of the most vital parts about the weather, humidity, would also help.

How on earth are you supposed to know if 25 °C or 77 °F is going to be sweaty and uncomfortable, if you don't know what the humidity is?

Rejected: location-aware weather can be obtained by looking out the window.

What I "love" about the iPhone weather app is that it tells you the weather for Tuesday (yesterday) when today is Wednesday.

(I live in Tokyo but I guess this would be the same for Australia as well)

There are plenty of other problems with this app. It is 2:49 AM EDT on Wednesday as I type this yet the app is showing me the forecast high/low for Tuesday on top.

The My-Cast weather app shows weather based on your location by default. Full disclosure: I work on the backend systems for the app.

I'd love to see other applications be able to pull current weather from the location aware weather app.

that or this device (and other phones) should come with a thermometer. then you could do distributed (aka, "participatory") sensing. :)

http://urban.cens.ucla.edu/vision/

Unless you put your iPhone in a place where body heat can't warm it an an electronic thermometer is pretty useless. Most mountaineering watches (Suunto & Co) show the correct temp. only after 20 mins. or so. And that's without taking into account the heat the device itself produces, which may be non-negligible for the iPhone.

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