APPLE is closing down one of its popular apps just as we enter 2023.
But there’s a perfectly good reason for it all.
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The iPhone maker is pulling the plug on Dark Sky, a weather service the firm took over in 2020.
Apple had already closed the Android version of the app.
But beginning on December 31, the iOS one will also bid farewell.
However, the prowess of Dark Sky is not gone nor wasted.
Instead, Apple has already pumped a load of the features into its own dedicated Weather app.
It began with more maps and detailed information in iOS 15.
Even more was added with iOS 16 earlier this year.
This includes useful things like real-time notifications.
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It’s a feature that comes in particularly useful to warn you about important weather changes, such as incoming snow.
Closing down Dark Sky as a standalone app and putting all its power into the Apple Weather app was always the plan.
The app was already pulled from the App Store in September.
But now the service will stop working altogether for anyone who still has it installed on their iPhone.
“As previously announced, the Dark Sky iOS app will no longer be available beginning on December 31st, 2022 and, as of this date, already purchased versions of the app will no longer provide weather data,” Dark Sky’s website says.
“The Dark Sky API and website will continue to function until March 31st, 2023.”
Dark Sky claimed to offer the “most accurate source of hyperlocal weather information”.
But it wasn’t a free app.
It cost $3.99.
Whereas the Apple Weather app is free, of course.
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