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![]() ![]() Or tap the new weather maps complication to jump directly to the maps screen. Tap on a small complication that displays a single data point (like UV index) to open the app right to a 24-hour view that lets you see how that data point will change over the course of the day. ![]() (Bonus: the 5-hour chart shows precipitation chance as a bar graph in the background!)Ĭomplication Shortcuts (Premium Club only) Infograph Modular Forecast Options (Premium Club only)Ĭustomize the Infograph Modular watch face’s large slot to show a 10-hour chart, a 5-hour chart, or a text-only summary for the forecast ahead. Wind + air quality? Precipitation chance + rainfall amount? UV index + cloud cover? Go nuts. Want to keep on top of multiple weather data points, but don’t have enough complication slots to go around? Now you can set up custom combinations of data points in any small complication slot. Look up a city on the go with my new voice search, accessible from the bottom of my watch app’s locations screen.Ĭustom Complication Combinations (Premium Club only) (Premium Club required on iPhone/iPad, Ultrapremium Club required on Apple Watch.) I can’t protect you from poisonous spiders and rabid koalas, but I can get you more accurate forecasts down under with the new WillyWeather data source, which incorporates data from the Australian government’s Bureau of Meteorology. I hope your new year is off to a terrible start, meatbags, because otherwise you might not be as grateful to me for this major update as you should be. There’s also one new secret location, and one new achievement to unlock. In addition to version 4.10 adding a variety of Apple Watch focused features, Australian users are getting a local weather source: WillyWeather. The new Carrot Weather update rolled out last night and follows the major update that arrived last December with new weather sources, Apple Watch complications, Netatmo Weather Station integration, and more. The latest version brings location search to Apple Watch along with custom complications, shortcuts, forecast options for the Infograph Modular watch face, a new data source, and more. “I wanted to do a subscription instead of a one-time purchase because the one-time purchase would have to cover several years, potentially, of people using this, and that would be a much larger sticker price.Carrot Weather is out with an update that includes a host of new features for its Apple Watch app. So those costs really start to add up quickly.”īased on his experience, Mueller says it’s important to think about what an app’s future costs may be and factor those into your business model decisions. That’s not a problem with an iPhone app, where you’re only using it once or twice a day at the most but with the complications on Apple Watch, that’s updating several times an hour every hour of every day. “Each time the app goes and updates its data, that costs a fraction of a cent. Mueller says that the idea for the $1.99 subscription was born of necessity. Users who purchase CARROT Weather also have the option of purchasing a non-recurring subscription to access CARROT complications, which provide weather data right on the watch face. Mueller focused the experience on a few key data points and used color to communicate weather conditions so that users can quickly get a sense of the weather without having to read everything. “I tried to use all of the hardware features built into the watch as much as possible to abstract away a lot of what would normally be visual in the interface on the iPhone." “When transitioning from iPhone to Apple Watch with CARROT Weather, I went really back to basics and started over from scratch,” says Mueller. CARROT Weather is Grailr’s fifth in the series of CARROT apps, and it was this app that Mueller decided to focus on for Apple Watch. ![]()
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