Going into your app drawer to find the “Weather” app is a lot handier than searching weather within Google or hoping you were able to add that one random pop-up asking if you want a shortcut to it on your home screen. Accessing weather would be simpler or at least more obvious. With the launch of a Google Weather app, that should all fire up.Ī standalone Google Weather app is something we’d love to see. The new Clock update apparently has a lot of weather info on the backend (temperature, high and low temps, weather conditions, etc.) that simply needs that point of reference alive to power it.

Spotted within code of the newest update to Google Clock, a reference to “.weather” was made that sure looks it’s talking about an app. We do believe that Google is working on a redesign of this within Google Search, but they may also be working on a standalone weather app for everyone. On an Android phone, you get a weather UI that looks like it’s 7 years old and that’s probably because it is. That may soon change.īefore we get into what’s happening, let me just say that the weather in Google Search isn’t a bad experience, but it’s pretty dated as far as UI goes. Google, on the other hand, has always just pushed you into the Google app for a weather experience. OnePlus has a weather app, Samsung lets you access it via widget, and Apple recently released a fancy new version of their own. Most phone makers include their own app or a shortcut to see a built-in weather app through a widget. Checking the weather on your Android phone is a simple task.

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