The Weather App Gets Smart In iOS 5
by Joe White
June 8, 2011
In iOS 5, the built-in Weather app is location aware.
We've just been told about a handy feature one developer discovered while playing around with the first beta version of Apple's upcoming software update. As you can see in the above screenshot, the first screen in the Weather app now displays weather determined by the users' location. In other screens, users can manually select locations.
In Notification Center, the weather widget there also displays weather determined by location. And if you swipe along to the right we are told, a week view of the weather is given (as opposed to weather reports from other locations, as in the app).
Obviously, this isn't a revolutionary feature - just a handy one.
Update
Thanks to a comment from one reader - Steve - who just informed us about another new feature of the Weather app. If you swipe down on the forecast, you get an hourly view:
We've also included a complete set of screenshots we received below.
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