Weather today: Your iPhone can give rain alert; save yourself much pain

The weather today? You can get rain alerts on your iPhone in simple steps. iPhone 14, iPhone 13, and iPhone 12 users should do this first.

Know how to get rain and weather alerts on your iPhone 14, iPhone 13, iPhone 12 and more. (Pixabay)

The weather today? You can get rain alerts on your iPhone in simple steps. iPhone 14, iPhone 13, and iPhone 12 users just have to switch on the notifications. With the arrival of iOS 16, iPhone users have been blessed with some major upgrades in the Weather app and getting rain alerts has become much easier. Adding new types of notifications and increasing the information that you see from humidity, and temperature to visibility, the iOS 16 update makes the Weather update much more informative than before. And during these sudden rain showers, the iPhone's Weather update is perfect to give you a rain alert before you plan your schedule for the day or week. These little-known iPhone tricks will help you to avoid getting stuck in the midst of heavy rain or extreme weather conditions as the Weather app in iOS 16 will send a notification if there is a severe weather alert issued near you.

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This feature to get rain alerts is called Next-hour precipitation, which will send you forecasts and precipitation notifications to iPhones via the Weather app. Apple confirms that the data is provided by national weather services. Know how to get rain alerts on your iPhone 14, iPhone 13, iPhone 12, iPhone 11, and more.

How to get rain alerts on iPhones

Step 1:

First of all, open the Weather app on your iPhone and click on the List icon in the low-right corner.

Step 2:

Now tap on the Enable Notifications option.

Step 3:

After this, simply toggle on the Next-hour Precipitation option to get the rain alerts.

Step 4:

The important part is the location. So you will have to allow the Weather App to use location via your iPhone. For that, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Weather and then turn on the precise location.

Step 5:

And that’s all! It will get alerts on the iPhone of rain an hour or so in advance.

Weather App location is important

You should note here that the Weather app uses your current location to send you updates about the weather. So, if you are travelling to another city or country, you will need to adjust the location. To add any of the locations, you will need to enter the name of the city, the zip code, or the airport code in the search field, and simply tap on ADD. Now you will be able to have a view of all the desired weather updates about your selected locations.