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How they can be “integrated”, I don’t know, as Dark Sky and Apple weather give totally different forecasts for where I live, both usually inaccurate. If it’s the same data, it’s being processed differently - but the forecasts are so different, I don’t see how it can be.

Maybe they just mean in the US, and international customers will have to make do with an approximation?

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The app update will likely be included with iOS 16.

I doubt that. They've probably been working on international support. DarkSky's original API primarily used NOAA data, which would explain why it's not as accurate outside of the U.S. if it still uses that

This old blog post from one of the creators discusses it: https://jackadam.github.io/2011/how-dark-sky-works/

I don't believe the Weather app in iOS 15 /fully/ uses Dark Sky; just for some things. But that appears to change in iOS 16 with /all/ the data coming from WeatherKit (aka Dark Sky).

Edit: Here's the support page that details this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211777

It doesn't. I still get "weather channel" as source

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