The Pixel 9's amazing new Weather app is now heading to older Pixels

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Google has importantly upgraded its Weather app (Image credit: Future)

  • The Weather app was antecedently a Pixel 9 exclusive
  • Pixel 6 and later Pixels tin now get nan app
  • The update should get connected your telephone automatically

Our Google Pixel 9 review will show you that this is simply a telephone bid we're very overmuch fans of, and alongside its flagship handsets for 2024, Google besides put a caller and improved Weather app connected nan Pixel 9 devices – an app that's now making its measurement to older Pixels, too.

Earlier this period Google told us this would beryllium happening, and 9to5Google has spotted that nan rotation retired is now underway: each Pixel telephone from nan Google Pixel 6 onwards is now eligible to get nan updated Weather app.

If you ain a supported phone, you should get nan update automatically. You tin besides manually cheque for it by opening up nan Play Store app, tapping your floor plan image (top right), past choosing Manage apps and device. If immoderate updates are disposable (including nan Weather app), you'll spot them here.

This will upgrade nan Weather app already connected your Pixel telephone pinch each nan caller features. It's a bully thought to restart your telephone aft updating, truthful that each portion of Android (including nan at-a-glance widget) is pulling information from nan caller app.

Lots to explore

Google Pixel 6 from nan back

The Google Pixel 6 tin get nan update (Image credit: Future)

As we've previously reported, there's tons to research successful nan caller Weather app, not slightest a Dark Sky-style radar representation showing precipitation areas successful existent time. Alongside nan basics, there's accusation connected upwind speed, UV levels, visibility, and sunset and sunrise times.

There's an hourly forecast too, arsenic good arsenic notifications that will pass you if rainfall aliases snowfall is connected nan measurement to your existent location. You tin motion up for regular upwind forecast notifications if you'd for illustration to, via nan app settings.

However, nan AI upwind study – which uses AI to make a summary of conditions successful your area, will stay exclusive to nan Pixel 9 phones. That's astir apt owed to nan other on-board AI processing disposable connected nan Pixel 9 bid via Gemini Nano (the Pixel 8 phones person Gemini Nano too, but it's not enabled successful nan aforesaid way).

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That AI hardware limitation astir most apt intends we won't spot nan different Pixel 9 exclusives – for illustration Pixel Screenshots and Pixel Studio – make their measurement to older phones. However, it's bully to spot nan fantabulous Weather app trickling down.

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Dave is simply a freelance tech journalist who has been penning astir gadgets, apps and nan web for much than 2 decades. Based retired of Stockport, England, connected TechRadar you'll find him covering news, features and reviews, peculiarly for phones, tablets and wearables. Working to guarantee our breaking news sum is nan champion successful nan business complete weekends, David besides has bylines astatine Gizmodo, T3, PopSci and a fewer different places besides, arsenic good arsenic being galore years editing nan likes of PC Explorer and The Hardware Handbook.

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