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You can use the weather widget on the lock screen, and as long as you have lock screen content when locked enabled, you can see the current area's weather just
by jshier 23d ago
You can use the weather widget on the lock screen, and as long as you have lock screen content when locked enabled, you can see the current area's weather just fine. Or do you want the whole app experience?
- throwaway27448 23d agoI'm a little too lazy to experiment, but it wouldn't surprise me if that widget didn't function normally until the phone is unlocked.
- jen20 23d agoI just tried it. It works fine.
- throwaway27448 23d agoThe software can read from the phone without unlocking it?
- jshier 22d agoAfter the first unlock after a reboot yes, except for those items with very high security (usually just keychain items) that require an unlock for every access. Lock screen items can be locked every time you lock the phone, or set to allow access while locked (after first unlock). Unfortunately this is an all or nothing setting, unless the widget specifically uses the redaction views to hide content. Oddly, I find the weather widget refreshes much more often than the app. I'll tap on the widget, which is up to date, which launches the weather app, which could be from yesterday, and have to wait while it refreshes. Apparently the app doesn't implement any background refresh at all, which is really weird.
- throwaway27448 22d agoSo—the widget doesn't function normally until the phone is unlocked? I don't want to flex but that seems worth acknowledging from every perspective
- jshier 22d agoUntil the first unlock after a reboot, no, like I said. Given how rarely iOS devices are rebooted it's not an issue.
- throwaway894345 23d agoThe lock screen widgets don't tell you much more than what you can get from looking outside. It's not very helpful to know that it's currently overcast and raining, but it would be a lot more helpful if I could know when the rain is supposed to stop or what the week's forecast is and so on.