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Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 by quickthrowman on Monday September 12, 2022 @06:23PM (#32817915)
It definitely does not have the same functionality, you can only see the current temp/precip prob %/humidity/dewpoint/wind speed/etc, you can’t see the forecasted stats I listed in the iOS weather app, you can only get hour by hour temperature.

I’m very disappointed that Dark Sky is going away. If Apple added in the ability to see forecasted hour by hour wind speed/humidity/dew point/etc, it’d be a decent replacement.

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Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 by Shank on Monday September 12, 2022 @06:38PM (#32818111)
> I’m very disappointed that Dark Sky is going away. If Apple added in the ability to see forecasted hour by hour wind speed/humidity/dew point/etc, it’d be a decent replacement.

In iOS 16 (and in macOS Ventura, which adds the Weather app), you can view hourly temperature, UV index, wind speed, precipitation, feels like, humidity, visibility, and pressure, on a graph. You can also tap and hold to view individual hourly data. You should see if the updated experience works for you!

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Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 by r00fus on Monday September 12, 2022 @07:15PM (#32818582)
What about the "time machine" feature in Dark Sky? I really like being able to look in the past/future arbitrarily.
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Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 by TrueGeek on Monday September 12, 2022 @09:29PM (#32819711)
I really hope this add this in to the default app. I use it constantly!
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Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 by Hel5inki on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:42PM (#32820138)
If Apple can give me an allergen outlook similar to Accuweather I’ll finally be able to swap. This update was quite nice, but the allergy watch has helped me proactively respond to seasonal allergies which is hard to pass up on. A more granular detail of air quality would be nice as well, but I don’t need it to switch
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Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 by nytesky on Monday September 12, 2022 @07:40PM (#32818831)
That is great, because hourly dew point is so important to knowing how comfortable it will be.

Now we just need a lightening tracker in iOS weather…

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Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 by quickthrowman on Monday September 12, 2022 @07:06PM (#32818491)
Oh, that’s great news! Glad to hear that Apple included that in the iOS 16 version, I haven’t upgraded yet. Thanks for the info!
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Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 by kslambert on Monday September 12, 2022 @07:18PM (#32818624)
100% to this. Apple weather has a lot of the functionality but it’s not close when it comes to the experience. For wet climates like the PNW this is a hard change.
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Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 by dcormier on Monday September 12, 2022 @06:36PM (#32818078)
In iOS 16 it’s greatly improved. You can now get the predicted hourly temperature, UV index, wind, rainfall, feels like temperature, humidity, visibility, and atmospheric pressure.
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Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 by pgoggijr on Monday September 12, 2022 @06:37PM (#32818106)
Most of the functionality is coming in iOS 16: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/06/08/ios-16-weather-app-upda...
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Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 by jnovek on Monday September 12, 2022 @06:58PM (#32818396)
I get migraines triggered by the weather and I can’t find another app with barometric pressure forecasts and history.
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Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 by TrueGeek on Monday September 12, 2022 @09:31PM (#32819728)
I wrote an app called Migraine Weather that was specifically for that. I ended up selling it and it’s now called WeatherX. I no longer have any connection to the app, but I do continue to use it myself.
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Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 by jnovek on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @08:06AM (#32823231)
Thanks for the heads-up, this looks good. I will try it out.
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Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31 by samcat116 on Monday September 12, 2022 @06:37PM (#32818095)
This has changed completely in iOS 16
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