Version 2! We finally get to release lots of new features that have been worked on in the background. - Surface pressure isobars and fronts. - The much requested observed rain radar (two hours of observed data, data varies by location) - Unique iPhone Duo layouts, designed for the multiple display arrangements. - Apple Watch app. - Updated landscape orientation layout. - Reorganised the data providers in the Settings, with provider attribution links and an online availability check.

- More efficient: further improvements reducing the already small CPU usage even more. - Fixed some minor tide drawing problems - New app icon, clearer in dark mode

Earthquakes! If there has been an earthquake within 3 hours and within 100km of more than magnitude 4 at the selected location a small icon will provide details beneath the radial. Also some improvements to location searches for islands.

iOS 27 readiness and other minor adjustments/fixes.

- Refinements of the widgets layout. - A new "feels-like" temperature in Settings that will swap the display of daily min/max for the appparent temperature. - Fix of the min/max temperature displayed to be calculated per day starting at 12am.

Widgets! Plus small indicators on the tide band showing high and low tides.

Tide marks now show which turn is which — high water is drawn as a larger dot than low water. Clearer wording in the Maramataka sources note.

Wiremu Tāwhai's Living by the Moon is now credited as the calendar's primary source, at the top of the sources list. Tonight's entry no longer repeats its guidance, and the sources are larger and easier to read.

Search for places in te reo Māori With Te Reo Māori switched on, you can now add a location by its Māori name, for example type Ōtautahi, Tāhuna or Te Whanganui-a-Tara instead of Christchurch, Queenstown or Wellington. Macrons are optional, and you can search by any part of the name. Choose true or magnetic north Navigation now lets you pick which north the compass answers to. True north matches charts, grid references and GPS; magnetic matches a hand-held or deck compass, around 20–25 degrees apart in Aotearoa. The bearing under the dial is marked T or M so you always know which one you're reading.

Improved te reo Māori location search.

Added the air pressure trend. Some minor visual enhancements. Tidied up some info text. Initial preparation for changes coming in iOS 27.

- Windy conditions now show the sky irrespective of the wind (Clear / Partly Cloudy / Cloudy) as the dial's spokes already show the wind itself. Previously we used the weather API precedence, but we now override that.

- Navigation: more accurate altitude and speed while you're moving, with smarter battery use at rest - Minor visual adjustments

Visual updates: - Added small blue dots on the tide line marking each high and low tide (12h/24h faces only) - With te reo Māori on, the dial hand has tides "Tai pari" (high) / "Tai timu" (low), and these take priority over dawn/dusk - Several other minor updates Weather Story: - Now includes high and low tide times when Tides is enabled and the location is coastal. - Fixed some text for a couple of post-Tangaroa nights. Performance: - Tide recalculation during scrubbing is now more efficient - Forecast loads are now more efficient - Weather-warning fetches now share one country feed across same-country locations, with concurrent requests coalesced onto a single call. - Navigation's GPS now uses an explicit power policy instead of the battery-heavier defaults.

Maramataka (Māori lunar calendar - Aotearoa/NZ locations only): - New lunar-noon marker on the dial - the Moon's upper culmination (the Solunar "major" bite period), drawn in its current moon phase, powered by a new fully-offline lunar astronomy engine based on truncated Meeus lunar theory (no I hadn't heard of that either until researching how to do it). Hidden on the rare day with no transit. - New "Interest" setting (Off / Trapping / Fishing / Hunting, when Maramataka is enabled) that tailors each night's guidance to what you're doing. Setting it to 'Off' shows the traditional reading (night character, fishing, planting). This is pretty much a full rewrite of the Maramataka guidance. - Per-night outlook for hunting and fishing + "Solunar bite times" now appear inside the selected night's row in the info panel (where it already auto-scrolls). Bite times list the majors (lunar noon/midnight) and minors (moonrise/set) within the dawn-to-dawn night. Guidance is shown when contributing factors such as temp/wind/rain/moon/season align for the activity. Thanks to Cam Speedy for the idea to include the Solunar theory that many use for hunting and fishing. - Expanded source-cited trapping research and new hunting guidance (Solunar tradition + lunar-noon field observations, clearly hedged). Weather story (on-device summary): - Fixed rain wording that could describe a rainy morning as "dry." Rain facts now read the true chronological forecast at the same sensitivity the rain graphic uses, and are anchored start-to-end (e.g. "rain falling now, continuing until about 13:00 tomorrow afternoon"); reads "showers" for intermittent spells. - Wind and gust peaks are now time-anchored, ending invented phrasing like "gusts to 16 by the afternoon" when the dial shows 30. - Refreshes with the forecast; the summary now updates every time weather data refreshes, instead of roughly once a day, so a pull-to-refresh no longer leaves stale text. Accuracy: - Fixed sunrise/sunset and the day/night band landing up to an hour early in some time zones. Solar times now use each location's real, geocoded time zone and true sunrise/sunset instead of the previous civil dusk/dawn, so the band edges match published times.

- Minor visual adjustments to 7day night/day band - Polar latitude sunrise/sunset rendering updated; for part of the year glyphs are skipped, they previously stacked on each other at midnight. - Background snow animation fixed for light mode

- Minor updates to te reo Māori weather conditions. - Reopen on last-viewed location - Cap total locations at 20.

- Worldwide alerts that some agencies publish in several languages no longer show up as duplicate copies, you'll see each warning once, in your language where available. - Alerts now show the affected area. Each weather warning lists its region, so warnings for different areas are easy to tell apart. - The animated backdrop now matches the forecast. Snow vs rain in the background always agrees with the conditions shown on the dial.

Offline & reliability - Forecasts saved on-device - works with no signal. So now when you're sailing, anchor behind that headland you'll still be able to use cached data. - A failed refresh keeps your last forecast ("Offline · saved …" + tap-to-retry) instead of blanking. - Fixed an airplane-mode hang (offline errors no longer retried). - Recent data reused (10-min window); pull-to-refresh always fetches live. Worldwide weather warnings (new) - Non-US locations now get official warnings via the IFRC Alert Hub (US still uses Apple Weather). - Alerts auto-expire (drop off the 7-day view once lapsed); per-alert source + link shown. - Settings → Data Provider shows a passive "Worldwide Alerts" reachability status. Info page gains Get in touch, Review, and App Store links. Updated a few more weather conditions in te reo Māori.

Refining Apple Intelligence "Weather Story" a little more and added email contact on Info page.

Weather alerts (Apple Weather). Official severe-weather warnings now appear below the dial; tap it for information of a warning's severity, summary, source and a link to full details. Tide database expanded ~3×. From 5,372 to ~17,781 offline tide stations — the NOAA/TICON gauges are now supplemented with FES2022 model points at coastal towns that have no nearby gauge, so far more coastlines get a tide curve. Maramataka (Māori lunar calendar) now has its own toggle and no longer requires Te Reo Māori - both live in a new "Aotearoa / NZ" Settings section. The info panel gained grouped, evidence-weighted academic sources (NZ studies, international literature, practitioner notes), a work-in-progress note, and a clearer highlight on tonight's night. Weather Story refinements. The on-device, private Apple Intelligence summary is now more conversational and proportionate (no drama over a light breeze) and reads its numbers correctly (humidity, highs and lows by time of day). Dial & interaction polish. Switching 12h/24h/7d now keeps your selected moment instead of snapping back to now. The selected day's date moved into the centre badge (bigger, clearer), plus Apple-standard navigation buttons, a fixed UV-glyph position while scrubbing, smoother wind spokes, and a viewable visual guide in "How it works."