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I keep getting a "Forecast Failed" message when I try to take a look at the weather widget in MacOS Ventura (see first attached image below).
I live in Portland, OR. When I click on the widget to open the weather app, my location is still showing blank, but if I pull up Portland, OR it shows me the forecast for my city (see second attached image below).
Any thoughts on how to fix this?
Thank you!
MacBook Air, macOS 13.0
You're welcome. If you are running a VPN, disable it. If not, try booting into Safe Mode then restart normally. Sometimes that fixes odd glitches.
How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support
I assume you have Wi-Fi enabled.
You're welcome. If you are running a VPN, disable it. If not, try booting into Safe Mode then restart normally. Sometimes that fixes odd glitches.
How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support
I assume you have Wi-Fi enabled.
Well, that didn't last long. My Mac went to sleep. Woke it up, and now location services are out again.
This is frustrating. Any thoughts on any other possible solutions (other than not letting my Mac sleep ever)?
launch Activity Monitor (in Applications, Utilities)
search for Notification Center (search field, upper right of window)
click on the line which says Notification Center (should now be highlighted)
click the icon in the toolbar which looks like a stop sign with an x in it (8-sided symbol)
dialogue box appears : "Are you sure you want to quit this process?"
click Quit (or Force Quit, if Quit does not cause Notification Center to disappear from the list within seconds)
wait until Notification Center disappears from list (if it doesn't, try Force Quit - see above)
Notifications Center should now function normally
quit Activity Monitor
I had the same problem with the Weather widget/app and where-am-i. Are you using Apple's Private Relay? I had Private Relay enabled and when I checked the settings for Private Relay discovered that Private Relay was displaying an error message that read, "Private Relay: Unavailable." I disabled Private Relay, and the widget/app started working again. Unfortunately, when I re-enabled Private Relay, I received the same error message, and the Weather app stopped working again. So if you have the "Private Relay: Unavailable" error message, the workaround is disabling Private Relay until Private Relay is working again. I haven't looked for the solution to the Private Relay error message yet.
It didn't, no. Weird. I double- and triple-checked that locations services are on for my laptop (see screenshot below).
Now what? How do I fix this?
Thank you so much for your help!!!
Based solely on your screen shot it looks like you don't have Location Services enabled.
Thank you for your suggestion! Sadly, that isn’t it 😔
That was the first thing I checked.
Any other thoughts?
Does this site locate you?
Booted into safe mode, turned location services off, gave it a minute, turned them back on. Rebooted into normal startup mode. SUCCESS!
Thank you again for your help!
You're welcome.
This fixed my issue, in my case all widgets were broken
Forecast Failed message in Weather Widget on MacOS Ventura
