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United States

4.78★ from 2,182,476 ratings · version 6.7.0 · 33 of the last 63 written reviews are one or two stars

Loud, auto-playing ads with audio or music

9of the 33 read27%

Apps play loud, obnoxious ads with audio or music automatically when opened, sometimes overlapping, with no way to turn them off.

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“Super loud and annoying ads — I don’t know what happened with the last update but whenever you open the app a super loud annoying ad starts playing makes me not want to use the app at all.” — ★☆☆☆☆“Was a good app — This app was great until the ads began playing audio, now it plays anytime you open the app.” — ★☆☆☆☆“Intrusive Ads — Been using this app ever since I had a smart phone. Had to delete due to loud, annoying, and obnoxious adds blaring every time I opened the app.” — ★☆☆☆☆

Lightning strike map made harder to read

8of the 33 read24%

Recent updates made the lightning map bland, minimal, and difficult to see strikes clearly; users miss the old bright yellow real-time display.

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“Bring back the old Spark! — Why would you change Spark to this ugly mess??? The new version looks TERRIBLE and is not anywhere near as accurate or efficient! Spark was basically the only reason I was still keeping this app around so I guess it’s time to delete. Do you guys even user test this garbage before forcing it upon us? Judging by the hundreds of reviews I saw just in the last few days I’m not the only one who…” — ★☆☆☆☆“New Lightning Map Is Awful! — Bland, minimalist, and not nearly as helpful as the old map precisely because it’s been rendered bland and minimal. Please bring back the old one!” — ★☆☆☆☆“What happened to Spark? — Been using the app for years. Apparently there was an update to the Spark section of the app. You used to be able to watch the lightning strikes and easily see them in bright yellow. Now since the update, it’s just a mess of hard to see blobs. Two thumbs down on the update ruining what was a useful feature that differentiated this app from others.” — ★★☆☆☆

Weather forecast accuracy significantly worse

3of the 33 read9%

App is unreliable for extended forecasts and inaccurate outside the US; short-term predictions were previously accurate but no longer are.

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“Outside the US — I have found this app to be very unreliable when outside the US, works ok when home but sitting in Mexico right now and the radar show clear skies and no rain when there is plenty of rain around.” — ★★☆☆☆“This app sucks — It used to be the best weather app but something has changed. It’ll predict a good 30 minutes out accurately but is completely unreliable for the extended forecast.” — ★★☆☆☆“Used to be great. No more — This app was my go to during storms especially because of the lightning tracker. Unfortunately, both the interface design AND accuracy is bad. Will be deleting it as it’s useless to me now” — ★★☆☆☆

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 33 most recent negative ones. Newest review yesterday (07.09.2026), last collected today.

Britain

4.79★ from 10,480 ratings · version 6.7.0

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

4.67★ from 4,417 ratings · version 6.7.0

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

4.66★ from 3,575 ratings · version 6.7.0

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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