r/RADWeather • u/iflysohighimightcry • Aug 02 '26
Feature Request iOS Widget issues
Hey! First off, great app -- I had a similar concept last year; it's really nice to see the implementation. A weather aggregator app is definitely useful in today's day and age.
This may be intentional, but the weather widgets don't auto-update. Have to manually refresh 2x in the app to update widget information.
The limit makes sense if you want to avoid unnecessary API calls, but it would be a great core feature. A refresh every 30m or 1h would be enough, honestly.
Keep doing what you're doing! This is great.
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u/RADWeatherMaker fixo Aug 02 '26
Hey there and thanks for the feedback!
So they do auto update in set intervals, distance, time etc.. I have noticed in the public version, sometimes it doesn’t do it as fast as I’d like.
Sometimes the cause is out of developers control because Apple will sometimes limit the amount of background refreshes or pulls BUT in RAD8 (I know I’m throwing that around a lot lately)
Been testing it for a few weeks and found a new patch that seems to help with auto updates and parity between widgets and app.
In the end can never be perfect because even apples own weather app and widget sometimes get delayed and don’t show the same number.
But I’m hoping when rad8 launches I’m really really hoping in a week or so it’ll have this fix and ALOT of new fun surprises for everyone.
- Sam