iPhone101 QuickByte: Adding Locations to the Weather App. How’s Your Weather? How about Montreal, Jacksonville and Colorado Springs?

In this iPhone101 QuickByte, Jeff Thompson takes us through the native Weather App and demonstrates how to add locations such as cities or airports to the location list. How to arrange the locations in a preferred order and how to change from Fahrenheit to Celsius or Celsius to Fahrenheit. Join in and learn how to add family, friends and points of interests to your location list in the native Weather App.

Adding and Arranging locations in the native Weather App

Open the Weather App, Hey Siri,, “Open Weather App”. Or single finger double tap on the Weather icon.
- Note: By default the opening screen will be of the location that holds the top position on the Location List. And, if the Weather App remains in your App Switcher, you will return to the last screen you were previously on. This demo is conducted as if the Weather App was not in the App Switcher, thus, opening to the default landing screen.
4 finger tap to go to the very bottom to “Location List”, single finger double tap.
To add a new city, single finger swipe left to right twice to, “Search for a city or airport” search field, single finger double tap.
Enter your city or airport by typing or dictation. You can use the 2 finger double tap to activate dictation or use the “dictate” button in the bottom right hand side of the keyboard.
A list will populate just below and with a couple single finger swipes left to right, single finger double tap on the location you want.
A new screen opens with your choice and can be added to your saved list of locations by single finger double tapping on, “Add”, in the upper right hand of the screen.
You can choose, “Cancel”, and return to the search list and continue searching.

To remove a location from your list:

Open the Weather App, Hey Siri,, “Open Weather App”. Or single finger double tap on the Weather icon.
4 finger tap to go to the very bottom to “Location List”, single finger double tap.
Swipe down through your list and flick up to the delete choice and single finger double tap.

Note: ensure that your Rotor setting is set to, “Actions” for these choices to appear.

Moving Locations in the list

While on the Location List page, go to the location you want to move and flick up until you have the desired, Move Up or Move Down, single finger double tap.

Drag and drop by going to the location you want to move and then single finger swipe left to right to, “Reorder Button, Draggable”.
Do a single finger double tap and hold, then slide your finger up or down, listening and let go when the desired location is achieved.

Changing from Fahrenheit to Celsius or Celsius to Fahrenheit.

Open the Weather App, Hey Siri,, “Open Weather App”. Or single finger double tap on the Weather icon.
4 finger tap near the top of the screen and single finger swipe left to right to the, “More”, button, single finger double tap.
Single finger swipe left to right down to Fahrenheit or Celsius and Choose by Single Finger Double Tapping on either one.

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