Hey guys! Ever since the update this morning, my Windy Widget is stuck on "Prague". No matter what I do, I cannot get it to change.

I have locations set just as shown in your screenshots for other topics here on the forum. I tried signing out, signing back in, deleting the app, re-installing, then re-logging in, and no matter what I do, the widget always sets itself to Prague.

This was not an issue until the update today (this morning) which is strange to me.

iPhone 11 Pro, iOS 14.6 (Beta 1). I think this is happening on iOS 14.5 too based on the forum. I wanted to throw my hat into the ring here and see if we can figure out why this is happening.

I am a developer as well so I understand a bit more than an average user might, so if you need me to do any testing, let me know.

Thanks,

@korina @Kalum Instead of starting a new post, I’m just going to mention I was literally thinking of both of those ideas over the past few days and how nice they’d be if there was a way. Hoping they get added soon!

@petra-pik Thanks Petra! Hopefully it can get fixed soon. Apple's default Weather Widget just isn't cutting it :)

@korina It is here, and it is fixed! Thank you!!

@SimonUrbanek The Tempest Weather application allows you to name your location, and then select it as the location for a widget, so it's not technically unfeasible. Mine is named "Home". Perhaps Windy is programmed in a way that makes it more difficult, but that's not an end-user's problem.

There is technically a way to choose from a favorite within an app, but it appears this is not the case for Windy anymore which is fine, I didn't develop the app. Definitely something you should consider though. Not everyone wants their location/city on public display on their iPhone home-screen. Many people have public lives that involve presentations/YouTube/Streaming where this could dox them and their families.

Allowing a tag/label for a location would fix this and it's definitely not technically unfeasible. There could even be a separate toggle within the Widget to allow users to choose from Saved Favorites within the Windy App rather than an exact spot on a map. OR just allow them to rename it once they choose a spot on the map, visually, on the widget. Source: Other apps do it.

I appreciate you looking into it.

@Ondřej-Šutera Strange, maybe it was a glitch, but mine used to show a Favorite location label rather than a street address.

I agree with you, let's give the best solution to offer all possibilities by adding Favorites to the list. So people can type in a street address, or a Favorite name. That way they have ALL possibilities to choose their location.

@Ondřej-Šutera Right, why? It used to be a feature so it could show a custom label, like "Home" or "Work" rather than doxxing their location. If you re-implemented the Favorites feature, we could have better privacy especially when screen-mirroring and during public-facing videos like YouTube.

It does not make any sense to show the full street address of a location from the picker, it should either be able to be hidden, or choose from Favorites with the Favorites label shown rather than full street address. Seems like an enormous oversight, perhaps the developers of this app do not use Widgets on iOS?

Is there a way on iOS to add a widget to the home screen, and have the location set to a "Favorite" and show the label of the Favorite? I do not want my actual city location showing on the widget for privacy/security/safety reasons. But everything I try, it ends up showing the city name on the widget. And when I try to set a "Custom Location" for the widget in the widget settings, none of the favorites show up there. This seems so basic, every other app has a Favorites list but I can't get it to show here.

For example, I can open Windy, drag my finger to a location, set it as a Favorite. Name it "Home", and then close Windy, add a widget to my homescreen that pulls location data for Home. This would be the ideal use-case. But there's no such feature that I am seeing.

This appears to not work, and I swear this used to work a couple years ago. I think it broke, and I decided to delete Windy, cancel premium, and move on, but it looks like this is still not fixed.

I've tried just about everything, deleting, reinstalling, etc. Still no dice.

If anyone has direct steps on how to do this that would be great, otherwise back to the trash this app goes, pull an Apple refund for Premium, and move on to another app. As much as I want to love it, this is super important for me (and I'm sure other people). I thought for SURE they just paywalled this feature or something but nope... even premium doesn't appear to have it. (This should be a free feature BTW).

AND yes, even with "Startup Location" being set to Home, it still pulls via IP address. (Location services are off, but having them on makes no difference to this issue).

@Korina I figured, let's go ahead and get that on some sort of request list. Somewhere else I need to submit that? It's pretty basic but would make a big difference. Let me know.
Thanks,

Hey @Korina Could you move this somewhere else? I saw you moved it to Apple Watch. This is not for the Apple Watch, this is for iPhone.

Is there any way we can make it so that the location saved in the Windy App is the name that shows on the lock screen widget on iOS 16?

For example, I have a location named "Home". I'd rather "Home" be displayed on the Lockscreen rather than the location city name for privacy reasons.

@korina @Kalum Instead of starting a new post, I’m just going to mention I was literally thinking of both of those ideas over the past few days and how nice they’d be if there was a way. Hoping they get added soon!

@korina It is here, and it is fixed! Thank you!!

@korina Fantastic! Thanks so much for the update on this!