Why is Apple Weather app down? Apple confirms widespread glitch affecting users

Apple’s Weather app is down, experiencing a widespread outage on Tuesday afternoon, April 28.

The world's leading tech company confirmed problems with its iOS Weather app on Tuesday afternoon, and its online support page showed the app was experiencing an active outage.

The company’s support page included the note, "This service may be slow or unavailable," a message visible as iPhone users in the United States reported trouble accessing the built-in Weather app on Tuesday afternoon.

The initial reports of the outage began around 11:36 a.m. ET, as reported by Apple’s System Status page.

Users across the United States took to X (formerly known as Twitter) and Reddit to report issues, with many reporting that the app has almost never faced an outage.

Initially, the official page from Apple confirmed that Weather was functioning correctly even hours after receiving multiple complaints; Apple later admitted there were problems.

DownDetector, which monitors service disruptions, indicated an abnormal spike in complaints about both The Weather Channel app and Apple Support.

The problems experienced by The Weather Channel may be causing the issues experienced by Apple Weather, which uses information from other companies.

The company’s support page included the note, "This service may be slow or unavailable," a message visible as iPhone users in the United States reported trouble accessing the built-in Weather app on Tuesday afternoon.

Additionally, it seems that the issue is sporadic and affects different users to varying degrees.

For many users the app would not load at all, while others experienced long delays.

Multiple editors at Mashable in the United States said they were unable to access the app, while one Mashable editor could reach it only after a roughly 10-second wait.

This leaves millions of iPhone users from checking current forecasts and temperature data.

Until the company marks the incident resolved on its official page- the problem remains under consideration.