Back in September, Google stopped offering its Weather app for new Wear OS 6 devices. Google Weather has now stopped working on the original Pixel Watch and other devices due to a bug.
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Over the years, the Google Weather Android “app” has seen infrequent updates, and the company looks to now be getting rid of it entirely for a Google Search experience that has just been redesigned.
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Google DeepMind and Google Research today announced WeatherNext 2 as its “most advanced and efficient forecasting model.” Notably, it’s helping power forecasts in Google’s consumer apps, including Pixel Weather.
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After releasing with Wear OS 3, the Google Weather app is now going away with Wear OS 6, though there are some caveats.
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Google released a “Weather” app for all watches alongside Wear OS 3 in 2022. With the Pixel Watch 4, Google is expanding Pixel Weather beyond Android phones and tablets to Wear OS.
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For Pixel owners, today is a big day for Material 3 Expressive redesigns with wide rollouts for Weather, Studio, My Pixel, Buds, and VIPs, while Calculator is also seeing full availability.
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Google is rolling out an update to Pixel Weather on older phones that finally brings homescreen widgets into the app.
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Google released a small update to the Pixel Weather app this week that just tweaks the map view for a more fullscreen experience on phones.
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The Pixel Weather’s pollen tracker card is now seeing wider availability in the US. This rollout started over the past few days.
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After rolling out to five countries in recent months, Google is bringing the Pixel Weather’s pollen tracker to the US.
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Google has fixed an annoying location discrepancy between Pixel Weather, widgets, and At a Glance.
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The Google Search app on Android is sending out a new style of Weather forecast notifications.
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After introducing a search and view capability earlier this week, the Pixel Weather app has lost its 6-hour radar map as of Friday.
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In addition to a new version earlier this month, a recent server-side update changes Pixel Weather search so it no longer adds/saves cities by default.
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In its latest update, Google has added two small tweaks to Pixel Weather including better showing the date, as well as making it easier to save a location.
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Google is rolling out a new update to the Pixel Weather app which makes it considerably easier to change the units of measurement throughout the app. Here’s what’s new.
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As announced with the October 2024 Feature Drop, Pixel Weather now has a Pollen count card, as well as Immersive weather vibrations.
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Pixel Weather has now widely rolled out to older devices, and this week’s Made by Google Podcast talks about the app’s design and why Froggy isn’t featured.
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As announced with the October 2024 (Feature) Drop two weeks ago, Pixel Weather is now available for the Pixel 6 and newer, including the Tablet.
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With the Pixel 9 series, Google released three new Pixel apps: Screenshots, Studio, and Weather. They join a family of other applications exclusive to Pixel: Camera, Recorder, Thermometer, and Tips. It’s also worth noting the Pixel Buds and Watch companion apps, while Personal Safety has since expanded to other devices. Another honorable mention is the Magnifier app exclusive to Pixel but not pre-installed.
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With the Pixel 9 series, Google finally offers a standalone Weather app. All-in-all, it’s pretty good, and I hope there’s more on the way.
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Pixel Weather is one thing existing users are particularly waiting for. So far, Google has only confirmed that the new weather app is coming to the Pixel Tablet.
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The Google Weather redesign introduced last year with the Pixel Tablet and Fold is already quite nice. Google’s first-party devices, starting with the Pixel 9 series, are now getting a native Pixel Weather app.
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Following the leak earlier this week, the native Pixel Weather app is available for manual sideload.
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