Ios Weather App Privacy
Not only that it s the only app on the list without a free option.
Ios weather app privacy. Apps that can show your location on the screen including maps show your current approximate location using a blue marker. Dark sky is a weather app so good that apple bought the company just to keep it exclusive to ios starting august 1 2020. First of all the android app is going away altogether.
Apps that sell your location are not honest about it. Giving a weather app permission to access your gps information seems reasonable. If you can t bear reading them few can research them.
Accuweather and its app for ios recently received a public flogging for their mobile app s privacy practices. Since then changes have been made so while there is still no apple weather app on an ipad there is the facility to get the weather information in the notification center. Not all weather or local news apps are bad for your privacy but to find the trustworthy ones you ll have to read the fine print.
However each person has a different idea of what makes a great weather app. Accuweather ios app privacy issues. There are hundreds of weather apps in the app store.
With your permission location services allows apps and websites including maps camera weather and other apps to use information from cellular 1 wi fi 2 global positioning system gps 3 networks and bluetooth 4 to determine your approximate location 5. With ios 14 you can create a weather widget on your home screen or in today view giving you quick access to the conditions for your location. To change the location that appears in the weather widget touch and hold the widget tap edit widget then tap location and select another location.
This is a 3 year old thread. If opened directly on the iphone it should open the app store app automatically and open directly to the weather app entry for download. That s the link to the weather app in the app store.