AutoI hope Android Auto steals this new Apple CarPlay weather featureiPhone navigation app gains live weather forecasts for your journeysWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
AutoI hope Android Auto steals this new Apple CarPlay weather featureiPhone navigation app gains live weather forecasts for your journeysWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
iPhone navigation app gains live weather forecasts for your journeys
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Piotr Knapczyk)
(Image credit: Piotr Knapczyk)
It is now possible to view live weather data for your driving route, alongside navigation instructions, within theApple CarPlayinterface.
This is thanks to an update from an app called Weather on the Way, which combines weather forecasts with driving directions, and now works withAppleCarPlay.
The app was updated to version 1.7.2 this month, and with that gained support for CarPlay. When a destination is entered, the app shows your route and how the weather forecast looks along the way. This includes the weather type and temperature, as well as sunrise and sunset times, so drivers can avoid driving when the sun is awkwardly low, if they so choose.
(Image credit: Piotr Knapczyk)
(Image credit: Piotr Knapczyk)
Weather forecasts on CarPlay are only available with the application’s ‘Pro’ subscription tier, which is priced at $4.99 a month, $24.99 annually, or can be unlocked for life for $84.99. This tier also includes alternative routes, precipitation chance and amount, feels-like temperatures, wind speed and UV index scores.
The app can also issue local weather alerts, but this is only available in the US, Canada, Iceland, Israel and the European Union for now.
We’re actually surprised that no one has combined weather and mapping before, and hope other mapping companies offer something similar in the future. For the sake ofAndroidusers, we also hopeGoogleallows such a feature for apps running on itsrecently-updatedAndroid Auto.
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It would be great to see Apple Maps,Google Mapsand Waze all offer some form of weather forecast on top of navigation mapping, so long as the interface is shown in a way that doesn’t distract the driver.
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