Samsung's Weather widget gets radar maps, weather alerts and more

Final updated: September 17th, 2019 at 08:17 UTC+01:00

Samsung has introduced a series of new features to the Weather widget in partnership with The Conditions Channel. The widget now offers government-issued weather alerts, radar maps, equally well as weather-related videos published by The Weather Channel'southward editorial team. Galaxy users were previously able to access The Weather Channel'southward website and obtain more weather data that mode, just radar maps and weather videos are now shown directly within Samsung'due south Weather widget. Users will still be redirected to The Weather Channel'southward website once they tap on the radar or a video, but it's a right footstep in the management of user convenience.

The new Weather features are non exclusive to the Milky way Note 10

Samsung's press release on the thing states that the latest additions are currently bachelor merely for the Milky way Annotation x series, but this is not entirely true. The features did send with the Note 10 serial (or at the very least they were enabled presently after the Notation 10 debuted) only it now looks similar they're making their way onto other devices. The same Atmospheric condition widget features are also available on the Milky way A50s besides as the Milky way Tab S6, although the latter lacks the video section. Either style, the latest additions seem to be targeting One UI i.5 rather than the Milky way Note 10 lineup, so if y'all ain a Galaxy device running One UI 1.5 then you might want to bank check and see if these new Weather features are already bachelor for you.

Do go on in heed that the new features have not been released worldwide. Samsung claims that they have non notwithstanding launched in China, Nippon, and Korea. Another caveat is that the videos shared past The Weather Channel's editorial team are available only in English language and Castilian. Furthermore, weather alerts are supported in a few dozen countries. Yous can bank check Samsung's official announcement and meet if your country is listed.

In example you lot don't see the Weather widget on your home screen, y'all can add it by pinching the dwelling house screen and accessing the Widgets section. You can and then tap and agree one of the Weather condition widgets and drag and drop information technology on the home screen. Then, you can tap the widget from the dwelling house screen to get detailed weather data.