Apple Weather App Fails to Update Properly Over AT&T's Mobile Data Network?

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Posted January 14, 2013 at 7:43pm by iClarified

Apple's Weather app is failing to update properly over AT&T's mobile data network, according to numerous user reports. This issue reportedly prevents current weather conditions from being shown and prevents the addition of new cities for tracking. However, when on Wi-Fi, the app works as expected.

Oliver, an iClarified user, explains the issue, "With cellular data ONLY the IOS 6 the weather app will not update. The local weather section will update randomly. Other cities will NOT update and when trying to add a new city the app won't find any matching cities. I tried that on family members iPhones and co-workers iPhones (4, 4S and 5) all on ATT. iPhones on other carriers did not have any problems."

Users on other forums are experiencing the same problem...

Posting on an Apple's Discussion Boards thread (2) about the issue, K9Lover said, "Just purchased new iPhone 5 today...it is running ios 6.0.2 (the recent software update that was issued only for iPhone 5 users and iPad minis)... Same exact problem exists on the NEW iPhone 5. Native iPhone weather app will not update over the 4G LTE network. It will only update (or let you ADD a city) over WiFi."

Another thread on MacRumors has users reporting the same difficulties and we've also verified the issue with our own devices.

Apple Customer Support is said to have confirmed the problem and passed it to their engineering team for investigation.

Post in the comments and let us know if you've noticed any of the same symptoms.

Apple Weather App Fails to Update Properly Over AT&T's Mobile Data Network?

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Heidi Rust - March 16, 2013 at 12:14pm

Weather for Johannesburg, Krugersdorp, Roodekrans in Gauteng in South Africa do not update like it is supposed to. The to picture do not change and the temp stays the say day in and out

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Jeff - January 25, 2013 at 4:48am

Mine finally started working reliably a week ago, nobody from att said anything, cause you know, they never have problems with their network... Lol

Jerry - January 25, 2013 at 3:24am

Finally got the 4s to add cities on 4g on ios 6.0.1 and the 4 is getting weather updates on ios 5.1.1

Steve - January 24, 2013 at 3:12am

Same problem Telus Canada

Tombly - January 18, 2013 at 11:01am

Same problem on the Vodafone network in the UK. Fine over wireless, updates only occasionally over 3G.

Agilis - January 17, 2013 at 5:20pm

Update: As of this afternoon, the weather app problems I've been dealing with, which I thought were fixed, are back. This issue seems to be intermittent at best.

DarkKent - January 17, 2013 at 4:23pm

same problem here. ugh

Jerry - January 16, 2013 at 9:29pm

Called apple care today for another problem, while they were on the phone asked about this weather app problem. They put me on hold for 10 minutes came back with could 't find any one complaining about this! Told me to restore and update my software! BIG FN HELP THEY WERE!! Also why can't i post this from my phone again will have to send from my imac! FN TECHNOLOGY !!

Jeff Griffith - January 16, 2013 at 9:19pm

Well, still doesn't work for me. AT&T iPhone 4S 6.0.1 Oh and this weather app is pretty damn accurate in my experience, getting another app is NOT a fix, a fix would be someone at AT&T taking this crap seriously and actually fixing whatever is blocking this app, yes they can and DO block certain things on the web, kinda like FaceTime.

Agilis - January 16, 2013 at 7:21pm

Update: As of this morning, the weather app problems I've been dealing with for the past few days seem to no longer exist. Upgrading the OS will not fix the issue.

Whaaat? - January 16, 2013 at 5:11pm

Update: I've been having this problem up until now. I just updated my iphone 5 to iOS 6.0.2 (over LTE) And the weather problems no longer exist. I can add new cities, and all cities load regularly.

David - January 16, 2013 at 8:18am

Yahoo weather on the iPhone is very convenient to use, but this is as far as it goes ,,, The connectivity issue is only one minor problem this app has, its main weakness is in its accuracy. U should use other weather app not only because the app don’t updates, but because other leading apps are, in average, more accurate. My personal recommendation would b to use Nooly Micro Weather; it’s a super accurate weather app that predicts the minute rain starts! This super localized app, predicts the exact time light rain turns to thunderstorm for every 0.4 square miles. It’s amazing to see how the app predicts that light snow will fall in ur backyard in 25 minutes, and 30 minutes latter you look out the window to see that it is actually snowing as the Nooly app said it will.

Frank - January 16, 2013 at 6:29am

Weird that it only seems to be affecting AT&T customers...

Agilis - January 16, 2013 at 4:22am

IPhone 5 and this is in no way a rumor - Not at all. Seems there are ATT customers, a lot actually including me, cannot add any new locations, or have their existing locations updated. The only thing that seems to work is the weather for the current area I've been GPS located at. My phone has been restarted (Center Lock) and still will not return any results or update the weather.

Agilis - January 16, 2013 at 4:21am

IPhone 5 and this is in no way a rumor - Not at all. Seems there are AT

jerry anderson - January 15, 2013 at 11:48pm

noticed this on the wife's 4s updating from 5.01 to 6.01 can't add cities on hers! my 4 on 5.1.1 update failures on weather only! this was about 3 weeks ago and still pissing me off! also pissed that i couldn't add this comment on my iphone it wouldn't submit!!!!

Petr - January 15, 2013 at 1:02pm

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html leave them a feedback. more feedbacks, faster solution.

Johnny - January 15, 2013 at 5:07am

On 5.1.1 and it won't update for certain cities for me

Noman - January 15, 2013 at 2:51am

My experience with an iPhone5 on iOS 6.1 beta 4 is not quite so clear cut. It works fine on WiFi; on ATT LTE it is not at all consistent. It almost always works with larger cities. On smaller cities and towns, it works sometimes not others with no apparent pattern. Likewise, for the local weather, it works sometimes and not others. Not uncommonly, it works on local weather, but not on the same town that it considers local, and vice versa. The only consistent behavior is that I can never add a location on LTE. Very strange.

Matt - January 15, 2013 at 1:57am

So it's only on att's network and does not apply to Verizon's LTE and Sprint's 3g. Another boffo job att, boffo job!