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The Weather Channel - Radar

United States

4.76★ from 6,048,365 ratings · version 16.26 · 38 of the last 81 written reviews are one or two stars

Excessive advertisements and paywalls

6of the 38 read16%

App is overwhelmed with ads, pop-ups, and aggressive upgrade prompts that obscure the actual weather information.

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“Sooooo many ads! — Sooooo many ads! I get you want to make a buck off providing weather information, but holy cow is this app overwhelmed by advertisements.” — ★★☆☆☆ · English“SO.MANY.ADS — If you like a ridiculous number of ads, popups, requests for your personal info, and a nonstop barrage of give-us-your-money prompts to upgrade to paid, this app’s for you.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Terrible — The increasing number of ads have completely ruined this app” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English

App won't load or crashes on startup

6of the 38 read16%

App fails to open, gets stuck on loading screens, or bootloops and requires repeated reinstalls to work temporarily.

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“TERRIBLE — absolutely awful. App never loads and is incredibly touchy? Never had an app this bad.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Broken — The app won’t open at all.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“App will not open — App used to work well and was my go to for weather. Now app doesn’t open pay. I tried reloading app and signed in. Once you close app and reopen it, the app cycle through weather symbols and goes no further.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English

Weather forecasts are frequently inaccurate

4of the 38 read11%

Predictions change dramatically within hours and miss actual weather by wide margins, making the app unreliable for planning.

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“Inaccurate — This past year, weather is consistently inaccurate.” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Tired of inconsistent forecasts — 3 hrs before writing this review we had 100% rain with 1.4 in predicted. Dropped to less than 30% and a tenth of an inch at the current hour. Same thing happened over the winter with 9in forecast of snow within 24 hrs that actualized less than 1 inch. It’s as though they take the most extreme model to keep you checking the app. Going to move to a more reliable app. A at” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Useless — The app will change every 15 minutes and is an awful way to plan anything… would be just as useful to go look out the window and guess” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 38 most recent negative ones. Newest review 23 days ago (07.09.2026), last collected 22 days ago.

Britain

4.41★ from 5,932 ratings · version 16.26

We have not read this app's reviews yet. Apple rations that feed to about one page per address every ten minutes and refuses datacentre addresses, so the reading is done by hand — the rating above is live, the complaints are not there yet.

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 0 most recent negative ones. Newest review never, last collected never.

France

4.13★ from 1,030 ratings −0.01 since yesterday · version 16.26.1

We have not read this app's reviews yet. Apple rations that feed to about one page per address every ten minutes and refuses datacentre addresses, so the reading is done by hand — the rating above is live, the complaints are not there yet.

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 0 most recent negative ones. Newest review never, last collected never.

Germany

4.23★ from 2,461 ratings · version 16.26.1

We have not read this app's reviews yet. Apple rations that feed to about one page per address every ten minutes and refuses datacentre addresses, so the reading is done by hand — the rating above is live, the complaints are not there yet.

Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 0 most recent negative ones. Newest review never, last collected never.

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