{"id":67776,"date":"2014-06-04T10:49:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T08:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=67776"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:39:22","slug":"ios-8-dumps-yahoo-for-weather-data-from-the-weather-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ios-8-dumps-yahoo-for-weather-data-from-the-weather-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 8 dumps Yahoo! for weather data from The Weather Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s native iOS <strong>Weather<\/strong> app has always got its data from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/yahoo!\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yahoo!<\/a>, but that&#8217;s changing in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS 8<\/a>. The upcoming version of iOS will take its weather directly from <strong>The Weather Channel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This won&#8217;t mean any change in the quality of the weather data you get in iOS 8, as Yahoo! also gets its weather data from The Weather Channel, so Apple is simply cutting out the middleman. Perhaps ironically, the <a href=\"http:\/\/yahoo-weather.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yahoo! Weather<\/a> app was a winner of Apple&#8217;s Design Awards. Apple&#8217;s own Weather app is still arguably less attractive than that app, and iOS 8&#8217;s version still looks basic in comparison.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-67781\" title=\"iOS 8 weather app\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/06\/iOS-8-weather-app-568x501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/06\/iOS-8-weather-app-568x501.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/06\/iOS-8-weather-app-256x225.jpg 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/06\/iOS-8-weather-app.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Apple has changed its sources for data. It famously dumped <a href=\"http:\/\/google-maps.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Maps<\/a> in 2012, instead launching its own Maps which took data from Dutch company TomTom, and became infamous for its errors. Apple has also ditched Google in favor of Bing for its default search in OS X Yosemite. It&#8217;s not clear why Apple has got rid of Yahoo!, but its moves against Google look increasingly personal.<\/p>\n<p>Image Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2014\/06\/03\/ios-8-new-weather-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MacRumors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everything you need to know about iOS 8<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/messages-for-ios-8-supports-voice-and-video\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iMessages for iOS 8 supports voice and video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/apple-skewers-android-for-fragmentation\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple skewers Android for fragmentation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s native iOS Weather app has always got its data from Yahoo!, but that&#8217;s changing in iOS 8. The upcoming version of iOS will take its weather directly from The Weather Channel. This won&#8217;t mean any change in the quality of the weather data you get in iOS 8, as Yahoo! also gets its weather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ios-8-dumps-yahoo-for-weather-data-from-the-weather-channel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iOS 8 dumps Yahoo! for weather data from The Weather Channel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2862],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-67776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionthe-weather-channel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330650,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67776\/revisions\/330650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67776"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=67776"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=67776"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=67776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}