Weather widget not working in Tahoe

Don Goldberg1 wrote:

On my iMac, the default widget for the Weather app was working up until a few weeks ago. Now I get an error message, simply saying "weather unavailable." This appears in the widget and in the desktop app, although I am still able to get custom readings for cities stored in the app. I thought upgrading Tahoe to 26.0.1 might solve the issue, but it remains. My attempts to refresh the default widget have failed thus far, and I am at a loss on what to do now.

Apple Weather app is unavailable check that Location Services is enabled for it in Settings...

Toggle some changes, then come back to your preferred settings.

Same for Date & Time ie automatic for Location Toggle some changes, then come back to your preferred setting and compare your results

no resolve—

A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled temporarily.

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

The current stable release of Tahoe including bug fixes, security updates is macOS 26.0.1

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

To be proactive you can file a bug report / submit your Apple Feedback here:

Feedback - Weather - Apple

You can also set a fixed location, so it no longer relies on Wi-Fi location. Right-click on the widget and select 'Edit "Forecast"'. Then click on the location and change it to what you want (you can search for it if it's not already in your list).

Ah - great observation! Mine was "unavailable" in the control bar and showing the first explicitly configured location in the menu bar. I do not generally use WiFi, so it was already off. But turning it on resurected the widget as well as updated the menu bar location to current. It did not immediately die when I turned WiFi off again.

This seems to suggest that neither the widget nor the menu bar can make use of course location even though it is available.

I had the same problem. Then I turned on WiFi and the Weather app and widget started working. The computer is connected via Ethernet to the modem, so I usually leave the WiFi off.

I have noticed that on Tahoe 26.0.1 when you uncheck the box to show weather on the menu bar, it ALSO disables weather background access. Toggling background access back on ALSO puts it back on the menu bar. But regardless neither the menu bar nor the widget shows weather for the current location. The menu bar shows the next configured location in the weather app, and the widget shows "Weather Unavailable".

I have toggled location access, date/time settings and background access as well as rebooted multiple times with no resolution.

It was broken again for me this morning after a reboot. I had to toggle WiFi on then off again. And this is still an issue, but maybe a separate one?

> I have noticed that on Tahoe 26.0.1 when you uncheck the box to show weather on the menu bar, it ALSO disables weather background access. Toggling background access on ALSO puts it back on the menu bar.

Don Goldberg1 wrote:

Almost two weeks later, and the widget is still working. I seem to have found the solution, so this issue can be marked as Solved.

It can't be marked as "Solved". It might help others if you posted your solution. That's the point of this forum, to help users.

Turning WiFi off and on did not help restore the weather widget to work based on my current geolocation. The same situation occurs in the Weather app, even though geolocation services for Weather and time zone are enabled.

Don Goldberg1 wrote:

Almost two weeks later, and the widget is still working. I seem to have found the solution, so this issue can be marked as Solved.

Ok Don Goldberg1 appreciate the feedback.

There are no more "solved"...simply "upvotes."

This fixed it for me - Thanks