Bug fixes • Cloudmesh sometimes swore you were offline while every other app on your phone loaded just fine. Some mobile networks and Wi-Fi hotspots were quietly blocking the address we fetched your weather from. We moved to our own address, so radar, rain alerts and forecasts now come through on those networks too. The clouds were never the problem. We were.

A small tune-up behind the scenes. The rain didn't notice, and neither will you. Same minute-by-minute rain alerts, same radar, same forecasts. Keep an eye on the sky.

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Your Watch Buddy pick now actually shows up on your wrist. • Picked Cloud Kitty, Drip or Mochi, and your watch stubbornly kept the classic Cloud Buddy? The watch fetches its own weather now, and it decided that newer weather meant your pick no longer counted. Very confident. Very wrong. It now keeps its fresh weather and wears the buddy you chose. • Same mix-up with °C and °F: switching units on your iPhone now reaches the watch, even if the watch has just refreshed on its own.

Cloud Buddy learned some new tricks, and your watch finally keeps up. • Your watch app was crashing every time your iPhone handed it fresh weather. Imagine fainting whenever someone brings you coffee. That's why the watch so rarely updated. Fixed. • The watch now refreshes itself in the background the way watchOS actually allows, and it no longer drops updates your iPhone sends while it's asleep. • Buddy has new moods: it hangs on to its scarf when it's windy, wears earmuffs when it's cold, holds up an umbrella when rain is minutes away, and cheers under a rainbow when the rain is about to stop. • Tap Buddy for a wink and a random trick: a hop, a spin, a twirl or a giggle. Turn the Digital Crown to give it a wobble. It snores at night, sweats in the heat and puffs frosty breath in the cold. • Premium: pick your watch buddy in Settings → Apple Watch Buddy. Cloud Kitty, Drip and Mochi join the classic Cloud Buddy, with every mood.

Your Apple Watch got a new best friend. • Meet Cloud Buddy. The watch app used to cram four pages of numbers onto your wrist. Now it's one screen: a little cloud that acts out the weather (sunglasses when it's hot, a beanie in the snow, a nightcap after dark), the temperature, and one line telling you when rain starts — or when it stops. Tap Buddy for a fresh update. • Your watch sometimes lived in the past. If you hadn't opened the app for a few hours, the watch and widgets quietly stopped updating. They now keep refreshing on their own. • Switching °C to °F on your iPhone was politely ignored by your watch. It listens now. • Thunderstorms showed up as "Unavailable" on widgets, the watch and the Mac menu bar. Embarrassing for a weather app. Fixed. • "Rain in 10 minutes" alerts sometimes arrived together with the rain. They now arrive before you get wet. • Rain alerts keep reaching you even when you haven't opened the app in a while: after six hours we use an approximate area (about 10 km) instead of forgetting where you are. • The Forecast Provider setting was being ignored. Oops. It works again. • Plus: the live radar is lighter on data, alerts only fire for where you actually are, and a pile of time-zone, unit and VoiceOver fixes.

Updated for iOS 27 with compatibility and reliability improvements.

More reliable weather and route forecasts. - Improved location precision to approximately 250 m for weather lookups and anonymous contributions. - Reduced repeated route forecast requests and improved saved-route refreshes. - Fixed a forecast loading issue. - Raw user reports and server-held GPS coordinates now expire within six hours. This update also fixes stale widgets and pressure readings, labels estimated conditions more clearly, and adds a review link in Settings.

Route planning and commute setup are more reliable: - Improved route planner stability, address entry, and saving and reopening routes. - Saving a commute now adds its card to the dashboard, including custom city layouts. - Commute forecasts use your home and work locations and refresh when settings change. - Clearer messages for unavailable weather and Premium access.

This update makes short-range rain guidance more reliable: - Live precipitation observations can now inform the forecast when a broader model is dry. - Weather guidance, gear advice, and widgets stay aligned when rain is observed overhead or approaching. - Sending a local weather report is more reliable. - Standard refreshes use Cloudmesh Blend instead of Apple Weather, reducing Apple Weather API use.

More reliable short-range rain guidance: • Incoming rain bands tracked by live precipitation observations now inform the forecast, even when a broader forecast model is dry. • Weather guidance, gear advice, and widgets stay aligned when live observations confirm rain overhead or approaching. • Sending a local weather report is more reliable.

• Save up to 20 cities — your Current Location stays separate. • Choose where Radar Preview appears on your dashboard, or hide it completely. • Hide the Route Planner shortcut when you do not need it. • New dashboard controls are now available in all supported languages.

• If you live in Denver, La Paz, Mexico City, or anywhere pleasantly elevated: the app quietly assumed your barometer was broken. It wasn't — our validation maths was. High-altitude pressure readings now count. • Pressure maps were treating mountains as weather systems. Everything is now normalized to sea level, where meteorology intended it to be. • Turning off mesh contribution now stops in-flight readings instantly, not "eventually". • The weather report button used to say "Thanks!" even when your report never arrived. It now only thanks you when it means it. • Switching cities fast could briefly show the previous city's weather. Slow responses now lose that race, as they deserve. • Towns 10 km apart no longer borrow each other's weather alerts. • Plus sturdier alert delivery and a stack of reliability fixes behind the scenes.

Fixed a widget and Apple Watch refresh issue where changing temperature units could make stale weather look newly updated. Widgets and the watch now keep the original weather timestamp, so direct refreshes and rain countdowns stay accurate.

What's new in 1.1.28 • Rain-front data used to vanish the moment our barometer smarts kicked in. Turns out "enhance" was not supposed to mean "delete." Fixed. • Stale cached weather was being served with a straight face, pretending it was fresh. It now admits its age. • Purchases and restores used to happen in total silence. They now actually tell you what happened — success, failure, or "try again." • The Mac widget finally refreshes on its own instead of waiting to be asked nicely. Also, long city names are no longer beheaded on Mac. • Watch complications now refresh themselves, gained tidy new gauge corners, and tapping one opens the page you actually meant. • The watch now shows "updated 3m ago" so you know how stale things are — tap to refresh on demand. • Added VoiceOver labels across the app, because "button" is not a helpful description of a button.

Your widgets were a little too zen — they'd quietly stare at the last weather they saw until you opened the app. On iPhone and Mac they now refresh themselves in the background, so the temperature and rain countdown stay current on their own. Thanks for using Cloudmesh.

We spent this one making Cloudmesh nag you less and get the details right: • Temperature alerts finally learned some restraint — they only buzz you when the change actually matters, not every time the thermometer twitches. • Fixed widgets showing the wrong hours for cities in other time zones. "Rain at 3 PM" means YOUR 3 PM now. • Taught the rain forecast to stop exaggerating how much is actually falling. • A stack of quieter fixes under the hood, so everything runs faster and steadier.

New: switch the radar to Temperature and the map now dots the biggest cities with their live temperatures — pan and zoom and they update, like a TV weather map. A few bugs, lovingly hunted down: • Weather alerts had started photocopying themselves on every refresh. We've recalled the duplicates. • Severe-weather notifications were proudly showing a web link instead of, you know, the actual warning. They now say what's happening. • Tapping “Join” to help the community mesh during setup looked like it worked but quietly didn't. It does now — and Settings agrees. • Colour-coded weather warnings had their wires crossed: a Red-level warning could glow purple and an Amber one turn red. Now the colour matches the level — yellow, orange, red. • Earthquake alerts now measure the distance from where you actually are — no more being warned about a quake on the other side of the planet.

Widgets, meet Dark Mode: • Fixed the home-screen widgets stubbornly glowing in bright daytime colours while your phone was in Dark Mode — they now go properly black at night instead of lighting up your home screen like a tiny billboard. • All the text and icons stay crisp and readable on the new dark background. Quieter home screen, happier 2am eyeballs.

A weather app should be honest about what it doesn't know. This update is mostly us being honest out loud. • New — a confidence ribbon under the hourly forecast. Where the forecast models agree, it stays quiet; where they're arguing about your afternoon, it turns amber — so you know which hours to trust and which to keep a backup plan for. Most apps hand you one confident-looking number and cross their fingers. We'd rather show our work. • New — "Rain starting in ~12 min" now appears right at the top when a shower's about to arrive, instead of leaving you to squint at a wall of percentages. • New — a "Good window for outdoors" line reads the next 12 hours of rain, temperature and wind and just tells you when to take the walk. • New — ask Siri. "Do I need an umbrella?" and "What's the weather?" now answer straight from Cloudmesh, hands-free. • Fixed — severe weather alerts used to arrive as a tangle of raw forecast text and stray web links. They now read like a notification a person actually wrote — and in your app's language. • Fixed — earthquake alerts now tell you roughly how far away it was, instead of insisting it happened 0 km from your couch. • Fixed — the app had a quiet habit of crashing in the background while doing its chores (refreshing your forecast, sending barometer readings). It now finishes the chores instead of keeling over halfway through.

Cloudmesh 1.1.22 — the 'we believe you, it's dry out' update: • The big one: the app used to insist it was raining while you stood in the sun. It now checks the live radar overhead before crying rain — so a confident 'rain' can't show up when the nearest cloud is miles away. You get an honest 'dry now, rain likely later' instead of false alarms. • The home-screen widget stopped claiming 100% rain during a dry spell. It looked outside this time. • The watch complication used to trail off mid-sentence — 'Rain in 2…' like a season finale. It finishes the thought now. • Rain alerts stopped pinging you twice for the same shower. One polite heads-up. • During a long earthquake, alerts no longer buzz every 30 seconds — one alert per quake. • Smoother live radar, plus quiet battery and tidying behind the scenes.

Your watch deserves better, so: • The complication now always shows YOUR location's weather — not whichever city you were last poking at in the app. Browse Tokyo all you like; your wrist stays home. • It also used to quietly freeze when the weather was calm. It no longer sulks — it refreshes at least every couple of hours no matter what. • Added proper version logging behind the scenes so we can actually diagnose your watch instead of guessing.

• Fixed a bug where one stubborn cloud refused to render its silver lining. • Chased down a forecast that was loading at drizzle speed — it's brisk now. • General performance tune-up across the app and your wrist.

A weather app should not need a changelog this honest, and yet: • Air quality, nearby reports and earthquakes had silently stopped showing up after a server change. They are back. We have apologised to all three. • Offline mode used to show confident made-up weather, including a fictional afternoon rain alert. Now it admits it is offline instead of improvising. • Sunrise and sunset were hardcoded to 6:30, as if it were permanently equinox. The actual sun is now consulted. • Background refresh sometimes labelled your local weather with the last city you looked at. Vienna, we are sorry about the London forecast. • Rain countdowns tick down live now instead of waiting for you to blink. • Widgets, complications and notifications got better at speaking your language.

• Fixed: the "Allow Notifications" prompt now appears like it always should have, and your weather alerts register properly. • Bonus fix: a related bug that let the Apple Watch complication go stale. Watch and phone are on speaking terms again.