With the introduction of the Tides app in watchOS 11, users can now view information about tides and swells along the coast. Is this data accessible to developers via WeatherKit? In the Tides app, the data source for tides and weather is shown as WeatherKit.

I'm using WeatherKit for my weather app built with SwiftUI. Even though the location is set in an area where the NWS is issuing weather alerts, WeatherKit randomly returns availability.alertAvailability as temporarilyUnavailable or unsupported, and the weatherAlerts is always nil.

Hello fellow developers, I’m posting this short message because I’m trying to add WeatherKit to my application, but I’m running into a problem. I have correctly declared my application on Apple’s website under Certificates, IDs & Profiles, and I have checked WeatherKit. However in Xcode, I do not have the option to add WeatherKit in Signing & Capabilities. The option doesn’t appear even though I have the Automatically manage signing box checked. What can I do to resolve this issue? Thank you for your response.

HI there, when requesting the daily forecast via the WeatherKit REST API, I found out that under certain circumstances the moon phase full is skipped. Example from Japan (working): { "forecastDaily": { "name": "DailyForecast", "metadata": { "attributionURL": "https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/data-source-attribution/", "expireTime": "2024-10-21T15:16:10Z", "latitude": 35.650, "longitude": 139.840, "readTime": "2024-10-21T14:16:10Z", "reportedTime": "2024-10-21T12:00:37Z", "units": "m", "version": 1, "sourceType": "modeled" }, "days": [ ..., { "forecastStart": "2024-10-16T15:00:00Z", "forecastEnd": "2024-10-17T15:00:00Z", "conditionCode": "MostlyCloudy", "maxUvIndex": 4, "moonPhase": "waxingGibbous", "moonrise": "2024-10-17T07:47:26Z", "moonset": "2024-10-16T20:09:01Z", "precipitationAmount": 0.09, "precipitationChance": 0.43, "precipitationType": "rain", ... "windSpeedMax": 16.03, }, { "forecastStart": "2024-10-17T15:00:00Z", "forecastEnd": "2024-10-18T15:00:00Z", "conditionCode": "Rain", "maxUvIndex": 4, "moonPhase": "full", "moonrise": "2024-10-18T08:20:34Z", "moonset": "2024-10-17T21:24:49Z", "precipitationAmount": 4.83, "precipitationChance": 0.83, "precipitationType": "rain", ... "windSpeedMax": 15.57, }, { "forecastStart": "2024-10-18T15:00:00Z", "forecastEnd": "2024-10-19T15:00:00Z", "conditionCode": "Drizzle", "maxUvIndex": 5, "moonPhase": "waningGibbous", "moonrise": "2024-10-19T08:58:43Z", "moonset": "2024-10-18T22:42:03Z", "precipitationAmount": 3.85, "precipitationChance": 0.76, ... "windSpeedMax": 28.81, }, ... ] } } Example from Germany where the fullmoon is skipped: { "forecastDaily": { "name": "DailyForecast", "metadata": { "attributionURL": "https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/data-source-attribution/", "expireTime": "2024-10-21T15:41:17Z", "latitude": 47.760, "longitude": 12.650, "readTime": "2024-10-21T14:41:17Z", "reportedTime": "2024-10-21T13:00:37Z", "units": "m", "version": 1, "sourceType": "modeled" }, "days": [ { "forecastStart": "2024-10-16T22:00:00Z", "forecastEnd": "2024-10-17T22:00:00Z", "conditionCode": "MostlyClear", "maxUvIndex": 3, "moonPhase": "waxingGibbous", "moonrise": "2024-10-17T16:07:30Z", "moonset": "2024-10-17T05:19:30Z", "precipitationAmount": 0.0, ... "windSpeedMax": 8.23, }, { "forecastStart": "2024-10-17T22:00:00Z", "forecastEnd": "2024-10-18T22:00:00Z", "conditionCode": "Cloudy", "maxUvIndex": 2, "moonPhase": "waningGibbous", "moonrise": "2024-10-18T16:30:22Z", "moonset": "2024-10-18T06:48:39Z", "precipitationAmount": 1.17, ... "windSpeedMax": 8.73, }, { "forecastStart": "2024-10-18T22:00:00Z", "forecastEnd": "2024-10-19T22:00:00Z", "conditionCode": "Cloudy", "maxUvIndex": 2, "moonPhase": "waningGibbous", "moonrise": "2024-10-19T16:59:14Z", "moonset": "2024-10-19T08:18:33Z", "precipitationAmount": 0.02, ... "windSpeedMax": 7.16, }, ] } } As you can see here https://moon.nasa.gov/moon-observation/daily-moon-guide/?intent=011#1729171951907::0:: and on several other sites specialized on the lunar cycle) on 2024-10-17 should be shown full moon. I know this error is probably because the forecast starts prior to the full moon phase and ends after it but customers don't care about technicalities. They see that there is a full moon missing and complain to me. And they are right. Can you fix this somehow? For example, if a DailyForecast spans the majority of a full moon this Day is marked as full moon. Another question: Are you considering providing a moonPhase attribute to the "currentWeather" dataset? That would be the best option. (At least for me :))

Hi. The WWDC video of the v2 weatherkit api showed some examples for the REST API. However, they were very limited. The documentation for the REST API is currently for the v1 weatherkit API. When will the documentation for the v2 API be released? There are some new features of the v2 that I would really like to use, but I can't without knowing the new v2 REST API specifications. Any guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks!

My Weather beach app displays the time according to the country in the weather link under iOS 17 but not under IOS 18 NSTimeZone.resetSystemTimeZone() is no longer supported by IOS 18 or it is a bug