How to Add the Weather Widget to Your iPhone

From iOS14, you can add widgets to the iPhone and iPad, allowing a variety of information to be placed on the home screen, such as clocks, photos, weather widgets, and more! Especially since iOS16, You can add widgets to the lock screen as well!

If you check weather information every day, it’s gonna be convenient to be able to check it quickly on the home screen or lock screen💗

In this article, I will explain how to add widgets to your iPhone home screen!

You need to download apps

You can also add weather widgets with the app preinstalled. However, the widget designs are limited(only 3 patterns are available), if you want to add a more stylish weather widget, you need to download a specialized widget app like “WidgetClub”!

With the WidgetClub app, there are various kinds of weather widget designs are available. In addition to this, you can easily customize the weather widget as you want with fonts, color, and background images!

I strongly recommend using an specialized app for home screen customization called “WidgetClub”

How to add stylish weather widgets

If you want to set up a stylish weather widget on your home screen, we recommend the WidgetClub app. You can put weather information on top of your favorite photo, and customize colors and fonts, and it's very convenient!

1. Download the WidgetClub app from here (Free for download)
Tap here to download WidgetClub
2. Open the WidgetClub app and tap the "+create" button on the bottom menu > tap "Widget”

3. Select one widget size from 3 size, and Select the widget style you want to set!

(This time, we select medium size weather widget)


4. You will be taken to the widget editing screen, where you can put your favorite image as the background image, set the font and color.

5. After editing the widget, tap "Set".

6. The "Widget Setting Frame" will be displayed, and tap the widget-setting slot to set the widget. If you already have a widget added to the Home screen, you can replace the previous widget with a new widget!

From here, the method of adding to the home screen differs between iOS17 and iOS18!

For iOS17

1. Go to the Home screen and press and hold on an empty space. When the app shakes, you will see a + button in the upper left or right corner, tap it.

2. Search for "widgetclub" in English and select WidgetClub in the search results.

3. The widgets you have just set in the widget setting box will be displayed as candidates, so find the widget you want to set and tap the "Add Widget" button.


Note;

The larger size widgets are on the right side, so if you set a large size widget, please move to the far right side until it appears! There are three sizes of widgets (Small/Medium/Large), and you can set up to 20 widgets for each size!

4. Done!

Let’s check the video on how to add the widget.

Adding a widget to your home screen is little bit tricky. Please check the video below and check how to add a widget to your home screen.

For iOS18

1. Hold down the Home screen.
2. Tap "Edit" in the upper left corner.

3. Tap "Add Widget".
4. Search for "WidgetClub" in the search box.

5. Move left to right to find the widget you want to set. The widgets are displayed from left to right: 20 frames for S size, 20 frames for M size, and 20 frames for L size.

6. Once you find it, tap "Add Widget" at the bottom and you are done.

How to change the location

Basically, the location is set from the current location, but it is possible to display the weather information of another location!

1. Go to “Profile” and Tap “Setting⚙” button
2. Tap “Weather location permission”, and reload the current location.

And you can also switch the weather unit of temperature on setting page!

Note: As for the weather widget, you need to subscribe to the premium plan!

Suppose you are a premium member of WidgetClub. In that case, you will not see any advertisements, and you can freely use the template sets (sets of wallpapers, icons, and widgets) for setting icons and customizing a stylish home screen.

How to set up a weather widget using the Apple Weather app

The setting methods are different for iOS17 and iOS18, so see which one suits yours👇

For iOS17

1. On the Home screen, tap an empty space, then press and hold until the + button appears in the upper left or right corner.

2. When the search box appears, enter "weather" and tap the weather application.

3. Select the widget you wish to add from the three different sizes, and tap "Add Widget" to complete the process!(Small size is selected in the sample)

For iOS18

1. Hold down the Home screen.
2. Tap "Edit" in the upper left corner.

3. Tap "Add Widget".
4. Enter “weather” in the search box.

5. Move left to right to find the widget you want to set.

6. Once you find it, tap "Add Widget" at the bottom and you are done.

How to change the location to be displayed

Basically, it is set from the current location, but it is also possible to display weather information from another location!

1. Hold down the weather widget you have added.
2. Tap "Edit widget" when the option appears.

3. Location information will be displayed (current location in the sample), tap the blue text.
4. Enter the name of the place you wish to set in the search box.

5. Tap the place name to complete the change.

How to make your iPhone home screen stylish, including the weather widget

You can also make your iPhone aesthetic with total coordinate🫶💗

Actually, you can make your iPhone home screen more aesthetic by combining icon changes, wallpaper, and widgets!

Aesthetic home screen ideas are below!

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