The sky, the way it looks outside
The weather card on your circle shows the sky where you are right now: sun, clouds, rain, storms or a clear night, with the temperature, today’s high and low, and when rain is likely in the next few hours. When you open the app, the rain falls and the lightning flashes for a few seconds, then it settles — no endless animation running in the background.
Every plan, hour by hour
Plans with a date show the forecast for that day from 9 AM to 7 PM, at the place where the day starts, with the chance of rain for each hour. For trips of several days, each day gets its own forecast. The forecast shows up about six days before the date.
Severe weather alerts for the family
When the National Weather Service issues a warning that covers someone in your circle — a tornado, a severe thunderstorm, a flash flood, a hurricane or tropical storm, extreme heat or cold, a winter storm and a few others — the adults in the circle get a notification: “Severe Thunderstorm Warning · Emma is in the area until 5:45 PM.” The warning also shows on the Circles screen, above what everyone is doing right now.
Each adult gets one notification per warning, not one per person, and smaller advisories don’t buzz anyone’s phone.
The same privacy rules as the map
A warning only mentions people you can already see on the map. Someone in private mode doesn’t trigger it, and kids only see the people they’re allowed to see. Read about adults and kids and privacy controls.
Official data, at home and abroad
In the United States, the forecast and the warnings come from the National Weather Service (weather.gov). Everywhere else, they come from Apple Weather, and the app shows its name and legal notice where the data is Apple’s. Outside the U.S., only serious warnings that fit our list (storms, floods, hurricanes, extreme heat or cold) reach the family. Temperatures show in °F, or in °C if you use kilometers.
