# More Language Support * Joining Spanish (Latin America) is Spanish (United States) and Spanish. * Joining English (United States) is English (United Kingdom) and English (Australia). # Bug Fix * The symbol for wind could be colored incorrectly in widgets in some scenarios.

# Today Improvements There are chart improvements for when the day tracked is the current day. * Charts will now show the current measurement without you having to look it up. Remember that you can use a long press gesture on any chart to see more details about an hour. # New Language Please Don't Rain now supports Italian! # Widget Improvements * Widgets have been changed to prefer symbols instead of words when possible. Not only does this help when supporting languages that might be more verbose, but it also allows the statistics themselves to be larger sometimes because there is more room. * The Countdown widget wasn't very useful once the tracked day became today. Instead of just displaying "now" or "today" it will show the current temperatures if space is available. This does not apply to the circular lock screen widget (because of space reasons). * Some large widgets will show the current condition if there is room. * When a small widget is focusing on today's temperatures it will now better adjust to scenarios where the temperature values are taking up more space (such as when the unit is included). * Inline lock screen widgets will show the current temperature when space is available if the high and low temperatures were already being shown. ## Widget Accessibility There were many accessibility improvements made to widgets. * More things are intelligently grouped together. * The basic widget had way too many individual items with VoiceOver because of how it was structured. Visually it will look exactly the same, but the underlying code was rewritten to operate better with VoiceOver. * The ‘Next Hour’ and ‘Next and Last’ widgets did not do a good time of indicating when a date was in the future. It was only done in the hints, which would be confusing if the user had VoiceOver hints turned off. * The VoiceOver text for the ‘Next and Last’ widget much more clearly indicates what state the widget is in (showing the next precipitation or last precipitation). # Bug Fixes Currently the weather service can reporting that there is some precipitation for the day when there actually isn’t, which produced some confusing output. Many changes were made to address this.

# Today Improvements There are chart improvements for when the day tracked is the current day. * Charts will now show the current measurement without you having to look it up. Remember that you can use a long press gesture on any chart to see more details about an hour. # New Language Please Don't Rain now supports Italian! # Widget Improvements * Widgets have been changed to prefer symbols instead of words when possible. Not only does this help when supporting languages that might be more verbose, but it also allows the statistics themselves to be larger sometimes because there is more room. * Some large widgets will show the current condition if there is room. ## Widget Accessibility There were many accessibility improvements made to widgets. * More things are intelligently grouped together. * The basic widget had way too many individual items with VoiceOver because of how it was structured. Visually it will look exactly the same, but the underlying code was rewritten to operate better with VoiceOver. * The ‘Next Hour’ and ‘Next and Last’ widgets did not do a good time of indicating when a date was in the future. It was only done in the hints, which would be confusing if the user had VoiceOver hints turned off. * The VoiceOver text for the ‘Next and Last’ widget much more clearly indicates what state the widget is in (showing the next precipitation or last precipitation). # Bug Fixes Currently the weather service can reporting that there is some precipitation for the day when there actually isn’t, which produced some confusing output. Many changes were made to address this.

# Manage Your Creations Made some improvements to the section where you can manage weather images you’ve created (requires Apple Intelligence). * All of the weather categories are now in collapsable groups that are closed by default. This will make finding the category you want much easier when you have a lot of creations. * Your creations are now shown newest first, which also should make things easier to find when you have a lot of creations. # Misc More UI updates to look nice with Liquid Glass.

# Weather Images I've made the decision to only ship Please Don't Rain with weather images that people have drawn for me and a tiny number of images from Image Playground. Doing so let me drastically reduce the size of the app. In fact, it’s almost half the size with over 50MB saved. You can still create an unlimited amount of weather images in the app with Image Playground. Thank you for your understanding! # New Theme The newest theme drawn by my sister is Fishbowl. # App Icons Several new alternate app icons are now available. # Bug Fixes * With iOS 26 if you tried to share the “Nearby Days” section the column headers would not appear in the shared image.

It’s time for the big fall update for the new version of iOS! # Liquid Glass support Support for Liquid Glass for iOS 26 users along with many UI Improvements. # New charts Two new charts to help keep an eye on your special day. * Humidity * Pressure # New languages Support for new languages! * Swedish * Chinese (Simplified) * Korean * Japanese * French * Spanish (Latin America) # Endless Mode I wrote Please Don't Rain to keep track of an upcoming day that was important to you, but several people have expressed to me that they enjoy using it for tracking the current day. Instead of having to pick the current day every day there’s now an option called Endless Mode that is under Settings, General. When it is turned on the current day will be tracked when the previously specified day expires. * Version 5.14 adds Customer Center to Settings.

It’s time for the big fall update for the new version of iOS! # Liquid Glass support Support for Liquid Glass for iOS 26 users along with many UI Improvements. # New charts Two new charts to help keep an eye on your special day. * Humidity * Pressure # New languages Support for new languages! * Swedish * Chinese (Simplified) * Korean * Japanese * French * Spanish (Latin America) # Endless Mode I wrote Please Don't Rain to keep track of an upcoming day that was important to you, but several people have expressed to me that they enjoy using it for tracking the current day. Instead of having to pick the current day every day there’s now an option called Endless Mode that is under Settings, General. When it is turned on the current day will be tracked when the previously specified day expires.

# Bug Fixes This release focuses on improving charts when there is an extremely small amount of rain forecast for the day. For example, 0.0006” of rain for a particular hour. * The chart axis labels for amount of rain could all be zero, which was very confusing. More significant digits are allowed now to prevent this from happening. * The amount of rain for each individual hour in the RuleMark that appears when you perform a long press gesture on a chart could be confusing for the same reason.

Remember when I said that I wouldn’t be doing more releases until the fall? Never mind! # Accessibility * Smart Invert – Colors for weather images shouldn’t have been inverted when Smart Invert was turned on. * The VoiceOver interaction with the favorites button was a little confusing. Thanks to Hamish for pointing this out. * Shortened some VoiceOver labels used for dealing with saved favorites. Thanks to Hamish for the suggestion. * Improved the contrast of chart labels when in dark mode. This required some manual changes to how they display time zone and unit of measurement information. This change should be transparent but please let me know if you see any strange behavior. * Improvements to some interfaces for when Increase Contrast is turned on at the system level. # Bug Fixes * Example widgets were using wording that was too long in German, which made the text very small. * When used in landscape mode the iPhone’s Dynamic Island could obscure part of the UI to enter a date / place. * If a third party font was in use the standard font would be used instead when entering a nickname for a favorite location.

This is the last big release for several months. I’ll be spending the summer adding all the new goodies announced at WWDC for the next release of iOS. # Main Forecast Sharing Improvements * You now have the ability to exclude extra forecast details when sharing. If the more data / less data button is currently hiding extra forecast details then they will not be included when sharing. * Bug fix: Not all forecast details were included when sharing. * Bug fix: If a nickname was in use it wasn’t shown when sharing. # New Font * Open Sans Font – I saw Open Sans included on a list of dyslexia-friendly fonts so I added support for it. # Accessibility * VoiceOver was only speaking the average high temperature for each month from the monthly temperature chart. It now also speaks the average low temperature. # Bug Fixes * Locations with intense cold can sometimes not have any UV Index data to report. When that happens a message is displayed explaining this. This message wasn’t shown when you were viewing another day from the Nearby Days section with a tap gesture. * The unit of length wasn’t being displayed on the precipitation chart widget. * The unit of length on the monthly precipitation charts wasn’t displayed properly. * The legend wasn’t shown on the monthly temperature chart. * The previous fix to properly align the Y axis label marks to charts wasn’t made to the monthly temperature chart. # Maintenance * Switched the rainfall and snowfall amount data source to a newer internal source. This change should be unnoticeable. * Reduced the app size a little. * Did a lot of spring cleaning to get ready for the next version of iOS that will be announced soon. This shouldn’t affect any functionality but please let me know if you see anything strange.

# Accessibility Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! The precipitation charts didn’t have a way to distinguish between categories other than with colors. That’s no longer the case. * There is a new section in Settings, Accessibility that makes bar charts have a way to differentiate without color. * This setting is off by default. * When enabled a different shape for each precipitation category will appear above each bar in the precipitation charts. # Bug Fixes * The line mark that indicates the current hour on a chart for the current day wouldn’t appear if the tracked location’s time zone didn’t use whole hour increments for their offset from UTC.

# Bug Fixes * If accessibility text sizes were in use then long wind descriptions in the wind chart popover could get cut off. * Some buttons missed out on the styling changes from last release.

# UI Improvements * Several buttons got some styling to make them look nicer. * More changes to make the UI adjust better when iPad Slide Over mode is in use. # Bug Fixes * Don’t launch a sheet from the Nearby Days section if the day that was tapped was the currently tracked day. Its details are already being shown. * The popover for the monthly temperature chart could have some words that were cut off when accessibility fonts were in use. * Some of the popovers for monthly charts weren’t using accessibility fonts. * The UV Chart description would always say “today” even when today wasn’t the tracked day.

# Accessibility Font Support I’m so excited to announce that Please Don't Rain now supports three different accessibility fonts! The supported fonts are OpenDyslexic, Lexend, and Atkinson Hyperlegible. * OpenDyslexic (by Abbie Gonzalez) is a typeface designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia. * Lexend (by Bonnie Shaver-Troup, EdD) is intended to reduce visual stress as well as "improve retention and comprehension". * Atkinson Hyperlegible (by Braille Institute) is "designed to improve legibility and readability for individuals with low vision". Any of these can be enabled under Settings, Accessibility and their license info can be found under Settings, Licenses. Huge thanks to Klemens Strasser for inspiring and helping me with this effort. # Misc * Significant improvements to how the app adjusts its content when used on an iPad in Slide Over mode. * Added a wind type description to the popover in the Wind chart. Perform a long press gesture on any chart to view a popover. * Added more data to the Data Table of several charts. * Added a “Content Unavailable” View for places such as Antarctica that can have days where there are no UVIndex values above zero. * The weather service sometimes returns tiny amounts of hourly precipitation for days that are marked as not having any precipitation. These are now filtered out of the “Hourly Forecast” section.

# Two Year Birthday It’s been two years since the launch of Please Don't Rain. Thank you for supporting the app! # Visibility Chart Dealing with heavy fog recently made me realize that a visibility chart was much needed. * The existing UV Index chart, wind chart, and new visibility chart have been combined into a single section that displays one of those charts. * The picker labeled “Pick A Chart” lets you choose which one to display. # Artwork In Shared Forecast Details * When you share the main forecast details the appropriate artwork for the particular weather type is also include in the shared image. * If you’d rather not include artwork there is a setting under “Widgets/Sharing” to disable this new behavior. * Thanks to Tyler Hillsman for this idea. # Misc * Lots of internal changes to how units of measurement are handled BUT you shouldn’t notice a difference. Please let me know of any unexpected behavior. * Added buttons to quickly change between imperial and metric units in Settings. There’s also a chaos (random) button for those of you that live a life with no rules. * More improvements to the Nearby Days section to try and adjust to show as much data as possible on days with precipitation. # Bug fixes * When sharing the main forecast details the data in the image could be misaligned on some days with precipitation. * Addressed a scenario where widgets could sometimes get stuck in demo mode after a subscription was renewed.

# High and Low Temperature Times Apple Weather now returns the times for when the high and low temperatures will happen. * The times will appear in the main forecast section. Note: The high for today could be listed as midnight TOMORROW. Therefore the day will be indicated if the time is 12AM since that could refer to the beginning of the day or the very end. * The app doesn't have to calculate them for charts any more, which should speed things up a little. * The point marks that indicate high and low temperatures on the temperature chart aren't limited to the top of the hour any more. # Accessibility * There was a VoiceOver bug introduced fairly recently. If accessibility text sizes were in use then VoiceOver wouldn’t read the most important forecast statistics, such as high and low temperatures. * If accessibility text sizes were in use then the weather image would actually be smaller than when smaller text was in use. A bigger image that will be easier to see is now used. # Chart Improvements * Addressed an axis alignment issue that could occur in some of the charts. * Made the chart axis labels better adjust to scenarios where there is limited space, such as an iPad in Slide Over. # Misc * Made some internal optimizations that make the app much more efficient at launch and when changing days.

# Nearby Days Improvements The Nearby Days section got a lot of attention this release! * If the app was running in a situation with a smaller amount of space, an iPad in Slide Over mode for example, then only the percent chance of precipitation was shown. The logic for displaying the Nearby Days section has been improved. There are many scenarios now where an amount of precipitation will also be shown. * Added a share button to this section. # Misc * Added link to the app’s Bluesky account. * Added an Easter Egg for an upcoming pizza themed Swift conference in the Windy City. Can you find it? # Bug Fixes * If the day to track was too far in the future for a forecast the image displayed was always an AI generated image, even if Settings indicated those weren’t allowed.

# New Theme The latest theme drawn by my sister is Butterflies. # UI Improvements * Changed the weather symbols shown in the popover when you long press on an entry in the temperature or precipitation charts. They’re now in color. * Improved how some weather symbols look in light mode. # Super Serious Mode Improvements * Made the large weather symbol displayed look visually the same as weather symbols in other sections. * Improvements to how the user interface is displayed in full screen mode on iPad.

# Image Creation (requires Apple Intelligence) It’s one of the biggest additions to Please Don't Rain yet. You can now create your own weather images! After you’ve installed the Image Playground app (where available) Please Don't Rain will gain the ability to create images. * Go to Settings, Change Weather Images to find the link to create an image. * You can enter an optional concept and after you press the “Create Image” button you can add more concepts and/or select a photo from your photo library (via the plus button). * Before you finalize an image you can enter an optional description for VoiceOver to read. * After an image is finalized under “Manage Your Creations” you can edit an image’s weather condition and/or VoiceOver description. # New Random Options Did you end up making too many weather images and now you can’t decide which ones to choose? Now you don’t have to! Under Settings, Weather Image Details, Random Images there are new options if “Random” is turned on. * Hours Between Updates - Lets you control how often random images change. * Only Use Images You’ve Made – Forces random to only pick from weather images you created. ## Version 5.1 * Bug Fix: If Dark Mode was in use when creating an image then the weather symbols on the Picker used for selecting a weather condition would always be blue. Now they have the appropriate color(s). * On days where there is no precipitation the section that has the precipitation chart shows the weather symbol that represents the day's weather along with a message instead of a chart. The symbol is now in color instead of being gray.

# Image Creation (requires Apple Intelligence) It’s one of the biggest additions to Please Don't Rain yet. You can now create your own weather images! After you’ve installed the Image Playground app (where available) Please Don't Rain will gain the ability to create images. * Go to Settings, Change Weather Images to find the link to create an image. * You can enter an optional concept and after you press the “Create Image” button you can add more concepts and/or select a photo from your photo library (via the plus button). * Before you finalize an image you can enter an optional description for VoiceOver to read. * After an image is finalized under “Manage Your Creations” you can edit an image’s weather condition and/or VoiceOver description. # New Random Options Did you end up making too many weather images and now you can’t decide which ones to choose? Now you don’t have to! Under Settings, Weather Image Details, Random Images there are new options if “Random” is turned on. * Hours Between Updates - Lets you control how often random images change. * Only Use Images You’ve Made – Forces random to only pick from weather images you created.

# Accessibility * In the Nearby Days section VoiceOver wouldn’t specify if the precipitation percentage for a day was for rain or snow. * Updated the audio graph support for the temperature chart to clarify that the data is either referring to actual temperature or feels like temperature. * Added audio graph support to the wind chart. # Bug Fixes * Addressed an uncommon issue where some hours on the precipitation chart could have precipitation that wasn’t labeled. * The snowfall amounts in the Hourly Forecast could show incorrect values. * On days with snow and rain the rain color sometimes wouldn’t be used in the Nearby Days section.

# UV Chart Improvements The chart for the UV Index gets some much needed improvements. * While the chart showed five categories (low, moderate, high, very high, extreme) there were only three colors used (low, medium, high). Now there are colors for every category. * Every category's color is configurable. * A chart legend is now available to show the ranges and colors for each category. # Misc * The number of days shown in the Nearby Days section was increased for new users. # Bug Fixes * The legend in the wind chart would always be shown in English.

# Chart Sharing The days of taking screenshots of the charts in order to share them are over! Thanks to a suggestion from valued user Tyler Hillsman there is now a share button associated with each chart. As with the existing sharing of the basic forecast, the default is to share an image and text, but under Settings, Widgets/Sharing, “Sharing Method” this can be changed to “Image Only” or “Text Only”. # Accessibility * Adjusted the axis labels in charts to show more when large accessibility text sizes are used on an iPad since there is more screen space. * The vertical axis labels on the UV chart were too cramped when large accessibility text sizes were in use. # New Wind Statistic High Wind Speed is now reported in the forecast details. # New Theme Spooky Skulls is the newest theme drawn by my sister. # Bug Fixes * If you were actively tracking the weather for a day and updated the nickname for the location the change wouldn’t immediately take effect. * Adjusted the iPad layout of the main forecast section to prevent text from wrapping in some scenarios.

# Image Control You’re in control of what types of images the app will show. * Under Settings, “Weather Image Details”, there’s a new section called “Image Control”. * By default all artwork is available. * There is an option to make AI artwork not allowed. * There is another option to make only AI artwork allowed. * The “Random Images” setting will respect whatever choice is active. The majority of the artwork in the app was drawn by my sister and her images are the default for all weather conditions. However, if you don’t like AI artwork there was no way to stop them from appearing if you wanted to use random images. That’s no longer the case! # New Theme The newest theme drawn by my sister is Webs. Happy Spooky Season! # Optimization Greatly improved how the app handles data for charts to improve overall app responsiveness. This should especially be true when you perform a long press gesture on an individual hour in a chart to see the popup. # UI Change Under Settings, “App Appearance”, you are able to turn on “Extra Navigation Arrows” to change to the next or previous day. This change adds arrows in more places. # Bug Fix If you performed a tap gesture on another day in the “Nearby Days” section the details for that day wouldn’t include the new wind chart.

Hurricane Helene made me realize that there was a glaring omission with the app. Users couldn’t track the wind speeds during each part of the day. # Wind Chart * The wind chart lets you toggle between viewing wind speed and wind gusts. * A tap gesture on the “Wind Legend” will reveal how the Beaufort Scale is used to categorize wind speeds. * As with all charts a long press gesture on an individual hour will reveal details about that hour. # New Theme The newest theme drawn by my sister is “Spooky Season 2”. # Settings UI Change Added a “Done” button in some views that were several views deep in the Settings menu. This is so you don’t have to keep hitting “back” over and over again to get back to the forecast.