CUPERTINO, California, April 28, 2026, 10:32 PDT
- Apple Weather users reported blank screens, slow loading and missing forecast data on Tuesday.
- Apple’s public System Status page still showed services operating normally.
- Third-party outage trackers showed user complaints rising, but the cause was not confirmed.
Apple’s Weather app was hit by reports of intermittent outages and slow loading on Tuesday, leaving some iPhone users unable to pull up current conditions or forecasts while Apple’s public status page still showed normal service.
The issue matters because Apple Weather is the default weather app for iPhone users, not a niche add-on. A failure in the app can disrupt quick checks for rain, heat, travel conditions and severe-weather information, especially when users rely on the widget or lock-screen data without opening another service. Apple says the app offers current and forecasted weather, 10-day forecasts, severe-weather information in many countries and next-hour precipitation in some markets.
It also puts a fresh spotlight on a messy part of consumer software: outages are often visible to users before a company acknowledges them. 9to5Mac reported that Apple Weather was slow or unavailable for many users, with some seeing nearly empty screens and data that loaded only after a delay.
Apple’s System Status page said all services were operating normally, even as complaints continued to surface through user-reporting services. That leaves the outage in a gray zone for now: real enough for affected users, but not yet reflected in Apple’s own service dashboard.
StatusGator, which monitors Apple Weather and other online services, listed a “possible Apple Weather outage” and said it had detected an issue not yet officially acknowledged by Apple. It said there had been 884 user-submitted reports of Apple Weather outages in the previous 24 hours, with “service down” and “app not loading” among the top reported problems. StatusGator
The cause was not clear. 9to5Mac said Downdetector data showed reports involving The Weather Channel, which may play a role in some Apple Weather data, though Apple’s own support material says most 10-day forecast data is provided by Apple Weather unless otherwise specified.
Apple’s weather system is not a single pipe. Its WeatherKit data-source page lists major meteorological agencies and services, including NOAA’s National Weather Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Deutscher Wetterdienst, the Met Office, ECMWF, the Japan Meteorological Agency and Météo-France. WeatherKit is Apple’s weather-data service for apps and developers.
That mix makes outages hard to read from the outside. A blank Weather screen can stem from Apple’s app, Apple’s servers, a data partner, a network problem or some local device issue. For users, the distinction does not matter much. The forecast either loads or it does not.
The competitive angle is simple: when Apple’s default app stalls, users can switch to specialist weather apps already in the iPhone ecosystem. The Weather Channel’s App Store page lists its app for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and other Apple platforms, and also shows weather rivals such as AccuWeather and WeatherBug among related apps.
But the scale and duration of the problem remain uncertain. User-reporting sites can miss some outages and overstate others, and Apple had not posted an incident on its status page at the time of writing. The issue could fade quickly, remain limited to some regions or devices, or point to a broader data-service problem.
Apple Weather has had service problems before, including a 2023 disruption in which Apple later said issues had been resolved after users were unable to see weather data. Tuesday’s reports are a reminder that even small default apps can become visible failure points when they sit on hundreds of millions of phones.
