PSA: the Dark Sky’s iOS app will cease working imminently

As for what alternate options iPhone customers have obtainable (the Android app was axed in 2020), maybe the obvious is Apple’s personal built-in Weather app. The firm even has a support document titled “How Dark Sky users can use the Apple Weather app,” which talks about how options from the previous have been added to the later.

Though the Dark Sky app will “no longer provide weather data” in response to a blog post from co-founder Adam Grossman, the service nonetheless has a tiny little bit of life left in it. Developers will nonetheless have the ability to get climate information from its API till March thirty first, 2023, regardless of Apple’s earlier announcement that it could be shut down alongside the app. (The firm’s de-facto substitute is called WeatherKit, and even Android builders can integrate data from it if they need.) Likewise, the app’s web site may also be round for 3 extra months.