Weather Hi-Def Radar Forecast 12+

Keeps jumping back to my location

Update: I was just reminded of my rating via email because the app developer reached out and wants more information to resolve the issue. I would like to report that this has not happened for a while now and I am happy to give this app a 5 star rating. Thanks for this awesome app!

Original post: I’ve been using this app for a few years now, it’s been nothing short of great. In the last few months, when I open the app and it shows my location, but if I try to move out of my area or zoom out to see where a storm is, it will jump back to my location. The only fix I found was to delete the app and reinstall. I did this one and will try again. This issue is NOT happening on my fiancé’s phone. I’m not sure why it’s happening to me. I will try the same method before and hope that it works again. If there was another radar that was better or equal, I would uninstall it and be done, but this app is superior to all, and I just want it to work correctly. Please advise if there’s something you know of that could be causing this for me when it’s not for others. I want to give this app the 5 stars it deserves.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your detailed feedback and for being a loyal user of our app. We want to know more about the issue you're experiencing with the locations. To help us investigate this further, please reach out to us by navigating to Settings > Contact Us in the app. We're committed to resolving this for you and ensuring the app works as expected.

From bad to worse

Like many, I have had this app for years and still miss the slider. This has been a frustration for years. I have settled that it is gone. Over the last couple years, I have also looked for a replacement app and found none that compared to this app for resolution of radar and speed of loading. I also use RadarScope Pro alongside this app, but it is a more complex app and loads slower. I have liked the speed and resolution of this app.

Until recently, I have been fine running a year old version of the app, concerned that I would not like the updates and I was content with the app as it was. But today, it just hung and hung and would not load any radar imagery. I figured it may be my old version causing a problem, even though it loaded yesterday just fine. So I updated it... wow, what a piece of junk app this has become. It is near exact to storm radar from the weather channel app but you have to pay for future radar also instead of it being included free. The resolution is so bad, so bad, so bad. You should probably change the name of the app away from Hi-Def. I will not continue to use this product anymore. I have rode out the disappointments for years, with it remaining a better option than many, but this latest version is a fatal wound.

Expensive Nagware but better

Update: They have quickly addressed my main concerns. Location icons are smaller. I’ve opened the app several times without being asked to purchase. Thank you!
Original: The radar is great. As of April 2024, recent design change releases are not improvements. I have a lot of saved locations and the icons have become so big that I can’t see the radar map when zoomed out. The now constant nagging for in-app purchases, pretty much every time I open the app, is super frustrating. The growing clutter of unwanted links and feature upgrade buttons on most every menu is getting in the way of checking the weather. Please shrink the location icons or make them disappear when zoomed out and quiet the solicitations. And the new non-weather “discover” tab is just annoying. The developer has gone from one-time purchase to subscription making this purchased app an exercise in frustration without further subscribing at a steep ~$50/year which I have to assume would eliminate the now prominent nagging and make it wonderful. $50/year from even just 20,000 iPhone subscribers would be fantastic if you can get it ($1M/year).

Developer Response ,

Hi there, Thanks for providing your feedback. We'll be sure to share it with the rest of the team. As for the pins being too large for the map, we have released an update that will resolve that. Please update to the newest version of the app. Thanks!