Google Weather app redesign

  Google Weather redesign widely rolling out across Android devices after Pixel 

Over the course of 2023, Google launched a new Weather app on Pixel phones with a nice new design and some additional features. Search giant Google brought to light a redesigned Weather app on Pixel phones while striking it with a series of trivial tweaks to its design and feature. After extending past Pixel in small tests last year, Google seems to now be making the redesigned Google Weather app widely available on Android. The Weather app's redesigned version was rolled out to Pixel phones. Now it seems that the company is willing to expand it to more Android devices. Following are the some important points:-

 Users can enjoy a simplified design with hourly and 10-day forecasts on one page.

Revamped Google Weather app now rolling out to more Android devices, bringing with it Material You design standards.

 Google has also added weather data to Maps and Clock app.

There are few apps that are as widely opened and closed in quick succession as a smartphone’s weather app. Google knows this, and the company has been revamping its own weather app over the last year to meet its Material You design standards. Google Pixel users have been able to experience a fresh, new coat of paint ever since the Google Weather app’s full redesign rolled out to Pixel devices back in September. Samsung phones started getting the redesigned app in December, but news of its launching on more phones died down during the first half of 2024. 

Debuting around in the mid of 2023, the app was bloated with Google's Material You, a user-friendly design and language framework, and gave rise to a spate of extensive amendments to colours, weather's data-based information, and Nowcast, a new forecast tool to provide dark Sky-like predictions for precipitation by leveraging machine learning. The new Material You-full Google Weather app made its debut on the Pixel Tablet and Pixel Fold in mid-2023. The new app saw a drastic redesign with more colour more data, and “NowCast.” The new forecast tool offers Dark Sky-like predictions for precipitation using machine learning. However, the app was Pixel-only for quite some time.

In December 2023, we started to see the new Google Weather app showing up on additional Android devices, namely from Samsung. But it was a fairly limited rollout at the time. Last year's reported availability of the Pixel-only weather widget came from a Samsung device. As of now, the new Google Weather app has been accessed on Galaxy Z Fold 4, OnePlus Open, and Honor Magic 6 RSR. Now, it appears to be rolling out much more widely. Adding weight to the authenticity of its wider accessibility, a Nokia 4.2 user also reported to have seen the redesigned version of the Weather app. By all accounts, it appears the redesign is now just widely available on Android devices in general. 

Users who have access to the new Weather app will also have noticed a recent update for the Google app. Those updates seem to go hand in hand for some. The app pulls data from weather.com, but ever since it launched, it has very seldom gotten a new splash of paint. More people will now be able to experience a simpler design that keeps the hourly and 10-day forecast on the same page. The old app utilized multiple tabs to show that data, but the fewer taps needed to find the information we want, the better. Back in February, Google updated its At a Glance and Weather widget icons on Pixel phones, too. There’s still the odd case of “Pixel Weather” in recent Android beta updates, but it’s great to see this new design rolling out more widely.

The Weather app isn’t the only app that Google has brought weather data to. We reported back in October that the company was finally bringing real-time weather information within Google Maps, which is a feature that has been available for years on iOS. The Google Clock app has also been injected with weather information. Google Weather’s redesign is extremely appealing to the eyes, and its Material You influence is notably on display. Lots of apps got a splash of Material You last year, including Gmail and Gboard.