Apple’s Dark Sky iOS app will no longer be available beginning on December 31st, 2022 and, as of this date, already purchased versions of the app will no longer provide weather data. The Dark Sky API and website will continue to function until March 31st, 2023.
Dark Sky’s forecast technology is now enhanced and integrated into the all-new Apple Weather forecast, powering Apple’s updated Weather app. More info here.
Developers, Apple’s new WeatherKit API lets you incorporate Apple Weather forecast data into your app and is available for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and web.
WeatherKit brings valuable weather information to your apps and services through a wide range of data that can help people stay up to date, safe, and prepared. It’s easy to use WeatherKit in your apps for iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16, and watchOS 9 with a platform-specific Swift API, and on any other platform with a REST API.
More info here.
MacDailyNews Take: Dark Sky fans can rest easy: Apple’s Weather app is the new Dark Sky. Among many other features, Apple’s Weather app offers notifications for severe weather events such as tornados, hurricanes, and flash floods so you can stay safe and prepared and sends notifications when rain or snow is about to start or stop.
See also: Apple acquires Dark Sky weather app, kills Android version – March 31, 2020
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I’m cynical. Is this really the only thing Apple should do away with?
Shame, Dark Sky is far superior to Apple’s version. Shame on Apple
Dark Sky’s interface shows more information with less digging than Apple’s weather app. I wish Apple just made Dark Sky the official Apple app.
^^^ EXACTLY THIS ^^^
At a minimum I wish Apple would have a table feature to show data instead of relative charts — particularly useful, especially with precip.
Dark Sky also offered more types of data, whereas Apple consolidates to try and be helpful. I don’t just want a summary sentence, I want the actual data.
Apple’s Weather app seems like it was a creation in collaboration with the Windows world. It functions, but as SJ used to say of MS and applies here; “they have no taste.”
Another crappy decision from the morons at Apple. Dark Sky was far better than the Microsoft inspired crap app made by Apple. Once again, Apple buys something outstanding, and then with their feckless lack of taste, ruins it forever.
MDN once again proves how utter worthless their “take” is. A more pathetic Apple commentator is impossible to comprehend. MDN is nothing but an Apple knob slobber.
Recently the National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory for my area. Dark Sky displayed an advisory notice on its main page. The advisory was nowhere to be found in Apple’s Weather app.
I just checked my phone. Dark Sky reports a “Winter Storm Watch” with heavy snow and 50 Mph wind gusts – “possibly blizzard conditions” and “dangerously cold wind chills”. The Apple app doesn’t have the National Weather Service notice. I don’t watch TV or listen to the radio; Dark Sky gives me time to prepare. If the Apple weather app was the only weather app on my phone I wouldn’t have got gas for my snow blower and generator yet.
Beats Music was a better app/service 8 years ago than Apple Music is today. Apple excels at killing what works and reinventing the wheel as an octagon.
Apple is becoming an interventionist…their actions are more and more becoming heavy-handed and contrary to longstanding (design) credo. Above example per Beats is just one.
As a longtime Dark Sky user, I am now taking suggestions for a different weather app.
Apple Weather is uninspired, uninteresting and unintuitive.
Thanks again, Tim.
I’m trying Carrot Weather. At least the storm watch is at the top of the screen. I think it’s an improvement over the horrid Apple weather. Dark Sky was nearly perfect.
Thanks for the tip on Carrot. Will check it out.
Dark Sky has more data and faster and easier to navigate than Apple’s app. Apple ruined this one! They should have just replaced the name “Dark Sky” with “Apple Sky” and not changed any code.