I am really confused by some of the new data returned in WeatherKit for iOS 18. The visibility (of an object) was already being returned in HourWeather as a Measurement. iOS 18 added max/min visibility (of terrain) in DayWeather. BUT instead of a Measurement it's just a Double. HourWeather: /// The distance at which an object can be clearly seen. /// /// The amount of light and weather conditions like fog, mist, and smog affect visibility. public var visibility: Measurement<UnitLength> DayWeather's comment: /// The maximum distance at which terrain is visible for the day. /// /// The amount of light, and weather conditions like fog, mist, and smog affect visibility. @available(iOS 18.0, macOS 15.0, tvOS 18.0, watchOS 11.0, visionOS 2.0, *) public var maximumVisibility: Double This makes it sound like the new items are also a distance and not a percentage. Why wasn't Measurement used so the unit would be clear? Documentation doesn't explain this either. I'm hoping that this isn't being returned in the unit used by the current locale because my app lets you specify what unit to use for temperature, length, etc regardless of locale. Since all the temperature, length, etc data returned had used Measurement that was possible. The iOS weather app refers to the lowest/highest visibility in my preferred unit, which is miles.

Hello, is there any rough timeframe of when we can expect MonthPrecipitationStatistics to be fully populated with WeatherKit? averagePrecipitationAmount is being returned. averagePrecipitationProbability and averageSnowfallAmount are not and are always zero. I did file FB14326506 about this.

I can't figure out if I've found a VoiceOver problem with Swift Charts or if I'm doing something incorrectly. I have a loop within a loop showing 2 sets of data in the same chart. If I touch a month then VO correctly says there are two data series. But if I keep swiping down only data from the first series is read. ChatGPT said try referencing the outer loop and sure enough that worked if it done in BOTH the label and value. It sounds really awkward though. For example, "High 89 degrees F High October". Below the "bad" chart only says something such as "92 degrees F October" when swiping down. The "good" chart will read the high and low temperature data. VStack { headerText("BAD") Chart { ForEach(processedMonthlyInput) { oneMonth in ForEach(oneMonth.temperatures, id: \.month) { element in LineMark( x: .value("Month", element.month, unit: .month), y: .value("Temperature", element.tempVal.converted(to: .fahrenheit).value) ) .accessibilityLabel("\(element.month.formatted(.dateTime.month(.wide)))") .accessibilityValue(Text("\(element.tempVal.converted(to: tempUnit).formatted(.measurement(width: .abbreviated, numberFormatStyle: .number.precision(.fractionLength(0)))))")) } .symbol(by: .value("Type", oneMonth.theType)) .foregroundStyle(by: .value("Type", oneMonth.theType)) .interpolationMethod(.catmullRom) } } .frame(maxHeight: paddingAmount) .padding(.horizontal) headerText("GOOD") Chart { ForEach(processedMonthlyInput) { oneMonth in ForEach(oneMonth.temperatures, id: \.month) { element in LineMark( x: .value("Month", element.month, unit: .month), y: .value("Temperature", element.tempVal.converted(to: .fahrenheit).value) ) .accessibilityLabel("\(oneMonth.theType) \(element.month.formatted(.dateTime.month(.wide)))") .accessibilityValue(Text("\(oneMonth.theType) \(element.tempVal.converted(to: tempUnit).formatted(.measurement(width: .abbreviated, numberFormatStyle: .number.precision(.fractionLength(0)))))")) } .symbol(by: .value("Type", oneMonth.theType)) .foregroundStyle(by: .value("Type", oneMonth.theType)) .interpolationMethod(.catmullRom) } } .frame(maxHeight: paddingAmount) .padding(.horizontal) }

My app focuses on a particular day and in the app I have arrow buttons that let you switch to the next or previous day. When one of them is pressed I call WidgetCenter.shared.reloadAllTimelines(). Almost immediately, regardless of how many times they are pressed, I will usually see my widgets immediately update to reflect the new day. I thought it would be nice to extend this functionality to Lock Screen controls. I had the AppIntent the Lock Screen buttons use call some of the same code that the arrow buttons in my app do, which includes a call to WidgetCenter.shared.reloadAllTimelines(). In the simulator it seemed to work great. I could see my Lock Screen widgets update almost immediately to focus on the new day. However, when I tried it on an actual device it was a much different story. Usually the first button press will update the widgets but after that it can be much, much longer before the Lock Screen widgets eventually refresh. It makes sense that the system is probably throttling my requests but is there a way to prevent this so that my Lock Screen controls operate the same way as buttons in my app?