New in 1.7.3 APPLE WATCH • The watch now shows the weather where you are. When it can't get a location fix, it falls back to your Home location instead of a stale pick. • Set a Home in Settings on your iPhone and it carries over to the watch automatically. • My Location takes a fresh fix on demand, and the complication follows whichever place the watch is showing. AETHER LEARNS MORE (still all on device) • Aether now learns today's forecast, not just the days ahead. It compares what the forecast said each hour would be with what your nearest station actually recorded, and uses that drift to adjust tomorrow's "today." • Expect the first adjustments a day or two after updating, once a full day of station readings has come in. New in 1.7.2 • A new app icon, built for the Liquid Glass look on iOS 26, macOS Tahoe and watchOS 26, with a matching icon on earlier releases. • Lock Screen widgets: a circular temperature gauge, a rectangular card with conditions and high/low, and an inline one-liner. • Watch-face complications in circular, corner, rectangular and inline styles, refreshed straight from the National Weather Service when your iPhone isn't around. • Now runs on iOS 18, macOS 15 and watchOS 11. AETHER LEARNS MORE (still all on device) • Aether now checks its forecasts against the temperatures your nearest weather station actually recorded, not just later forecast revisions, so its corrections improve faster. • Your current location keeps its learning history between launches. FIXES • Today's high and low are adjusted after midnight and for locations stored in other time zones. • Sunrise, sunset and twilight are correct on the days the clocks change. • Expanded day graphs stay open when the forecast refreshes. • Air quality and dew point show "--" when no reading is available, instead of 0. • The watch remembers the place you picked, even with no iPhone nearby, and its complication follows the location your iPhone is showing. • Switching to a different place no longer briefly shows the previous place's weather. • The UV index no longer drops to 0 when Aether adjusts the forecast. • Loading screens and forecast-accuracy stats respect your °C setting. • The 24-hour clock setting now applies everywhere, including on the watch. • VoiceOver now reads the temperature arc, 24-hour chart, daily rows and air quality gauge.

NEW • A new app icon, built for the Liquid Glass look on iOS 26, macOS Tahoe and watchOS 26, with a matching icon on earlier releases. • Lock Screen widgets: a circular temperature gauge, a rectangular card with conditions and high/low, and an inline one-liner. • Watch-face complications in circular, corner, rectangular and inline styles, refreshed straight from the National Weather Service when your iPhone isn't around. • Now runs on iOS 18, macOS 15 and watchOS 11. AETHER LEARNS MORE (still all on device) • Aether now checks its forecasts against the temperatures your nearest weather station actually recorded, not just later forecast revisions, so its corrections improve faster. • Your current location keeps its learning history between launches. FIXES • Today's high and low are adjusted after midnight and for locations stored in other time zones. • Sunrise, sunset and twilight are correct on the days the clocks change. • Expanded day graphs stay open when the forecast refreshes. • Air quality and dew point show "--" when no reading is available, instead of 0. • The watch remembers the place you picked, even with no iPhone nearby, and its complication follows the location your iPhone is showing. • Switching to a different place no longer briefly shows the previous place's weather. • The UV index no longer drops to 0 when Aether adjusts the forecast. • Loading screens and forecast-accuracy stats respect your °C setting. • The 24-hour clock setting now applies everywhere, including on the watch. • VoiceOver now reads the temperature arc, 24-hour chart, daily rows and air quality gauge.

• Data integrity. Location-switch data bleed fixed. Switching cities quickly could show the new city with the old city's weather, alerts, and timezone — a cancelled fetch silently finished and overwrote the screen. Every fetch now re-checks that it still speaks for the screen before writing. Aether no longer zeroes hourly UV. Whenever Aether corrections were on, every hourly UV value silently became 0 (which also fed the hero display). Background refresh stops destroying the AQ hoard. The 25–55 min background pass was wiping each location's cached air quality, UV, AQ forecast, and ZIP — forcing re-polls and re-geocodes and defeating the hoarding design. It now carries them forward. • Timezones (all fixed for remote locations) Arc time markers ("now / 4p / 8p") were in device time while everything else showed location time — phone and watch. Day-detail header could show the wrong weekday across the dateline. EPA UV hours parsed in device time, shifting the whole UV curve; fixed on phone and watch (the watch now resolves and caches each location's timezone, and uses it for solar noon too). CloudKit learning-record merge compared days in UTC while records were created in local time — two devices on opposite sides of UTC duplicated outcomes. Merge now agrees with the local calendar day. • Alerts & watch The 2-minute home alert poll now actually fires notifications and Live Activities — previously a tornado warning it caught waited up to 15 minutes for the next full refresh. Watch location service no longer leaks/hangs on concurrent requests, and waits for the permission prompt's answer before requesting a fix (first-launch failure fixed). • Visual Duplicate weekday label ("FRI … FRI") removed from extended-day rows. Map temperature legend labels now sit at their true positions — "32" is under the freezing color. The 24-Hour Clock setting now applies everywhere: sparkline axis, UV bars, arc markers, day-detail axis, astronomical times (previously only the hourly strip). Watch UV tile no longer shows yesterday's peak as "current" at night.

• Improved map overlay availability, including air quality, precipitation, and wind. • Expanded Apple Watch support without the need for an iPhone.

• The application of the Aether model has been improved. • Improved precipitation prediction. • Other bug fixes.

• More reliable severe weather alerts — no duplicate notifications, plus quick access to re-enable them if they were blocked • Enhanced efficiency and bug fixes

Severe weather, on time. - Tornado and severe weather alerts now deliver more reliably the moment NWS issues them — even if the app was closed when the warning was raised. - New "Notifications Blocked" prompt with a one-tap shortcut to System Settings if iOS permissions were ever turned off. - Minimum-severity preference (All / Watch+ / Warning) now takes effect immediately instead of waiting for the next app launch.

What's New The arc comes alive. The 24-hour temperature curve, precipitation bars, and daylight arc now animate with smooth easing whenever your forecast updates — no more snapping. The sky background no longer shows a black void on launch. It now estimates the correct time-of-day gradient immediately, then gracefully transitions as your local sunrise and sunset data loads. The current temperature ticks up or down through numbers when conditions change, and the condition label fades cleanly in and out rather than cutting. Apple Watch now runs the full animated arc — same easing, same live transitions as the main app.

• UI wider range of sunrise/sunset amber glow.

This update adds Apple Watch support, giving you a quick glance at current weather conditions right from your wrist. Also included: • A subtle solar position indicator • Improved iCloud syncing • More responsive widgets

• Brighter app icon • The sky background now subtly shifts throughout the day — lifting toward deep blue at solar noon and warming to amber at golden hour, then settling back to night. • Sunrise and sunset data is now drawn from a unified source so the hourly strip, temperature chart, and arc all stay in sync. • Fixed a CloudKit sync bug where certain records could get permanently stuck after a container reset. Forecast corrections and saved places now sync reliably.

• UI improvements

• Fixed an issue where iCloud sync could fail to update Aether's trained data across devices • New Home Screen widget for at-a-glance current conditions • Various performance and stability improvements • New: Severe weather Live Activities — Tornado, Thunderstorm, Flood, and other warnings appear on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island the moment they're issued • New: Home Screen widget for at-a-glance current conditions

• Adjusted the accessibility text size to prevent the text from becoming excessively large. • Added time stamp around the 24-hour conditions arc.

• Widget UI bug patched • Aether Prediction displayed on app launch.

Aether 1.1 adds cross-device improvements, new alert support, and more at-a-glance forecast detail: • Added iCloud sync for Aether microclimate data across devices • Improved Prune and Retrain functionality • Added notifications for National Weather Service alerts in supported areas • Added solar detail to the 24-hour precipitation arc • Added weather widgets

• Added a Radar map overlay • Added a Temperature map overlay • Added a quick-glance temperature arc with high and low indicators, plus a directional trend arrow • Added a quick-glance 24-hour precipitation arc with severe weather indicators

This update brings refinements to alerts, location behavior, and visual detail: • Fixed a layout issue affecting weather alerts when multiple alerts were active • Improved Current Location favorites so they stay synced with your live location • Enhanced the Air Quality meter with a more pronounced 3D appearance

Improved Air Quality Report

• Added UV Index forecasts where available • Added Air Quality Index reporting for current conditions where available

• Added clearer labels to the top of Week view on iPhone for easier reading • Corrected the temperature order in Aether’s 3-day extended forecast on iPhone • Continued platform readiness work for future visionOS support • Astronomical data bug fix displaying incorrect sunrise/sunset. • Astronomical refresh behavior changes related to cache replacement • Aether pulse animation fix • Added long-press scrubbing on the 24-hour graph for hour-by-hour temperature and precipitation • Updated the 24-hour graph on iPhone so the full view is visible without side swiping • Added a rain indicator to the 24-hour graph

This update brings additional forecast detail and interface refinements across Aether: • Refined the Week view layout on iPhone for improved clarity • Improved the presentation of the 24-hour rain forecast in Week view • Adjusted daily high and low temperature ordering for easier reading • Added more Aether status details to the iPhone main screen, including training progress and Active/Silent status • Added a tomorrow temperature trend indicator across all platforms to make warmer, cooler, or similar conditions easier to spot at a glance • Added the Aether forecast line to expanded 7-day forecast details • Updated forecast indicators for better visual distinction • Enhanced day-to-day warming and cooling highlights in the 7-day forecast • Updated day labels in the 7-day forecast for a more consistent view • Adjusted 24-hour forecast labels so each hour is shown consistently

This update brings a set of visual refinements and usability improvements to Aether: • Refreshed the app icon with a brighter look • Added a subtle shimmer effect to show when weather data is refreshing • Improved the Aether forecast enhancement model • Added an Aether training indicator for locations still building forecast history • Added a symbol key you can open from Aether Forecast Enhancement • Improved location search to show more suggestions • Increased smaller text sizes slightly for better readability

Version 0.89 Aether is now easier to access on iPhone. Aether details have been moved to the Week view. Week view now includes the main quick controls. Added a loading indicator for astronomical data, plus a retry option when it fails to load. Added Retrain & Prune to refresh Aether training data while preserving recent records. Improved astronomical data fallback during temporary network issues. Improved Aether’s handling of extreme outliers, especially when training data is limited.