Google is getting rid of Android’s de facto Weather app in favor of Search results. This deprecation slowly started a few months ago, but is now picking up steam.
The Google app has long offered a fullscreen “Weather” experience that’s launched from a homescreen shortcut: sun and cloud badged by the ‘G’ icon.
Tapping takes you to a single feed with a search bar that lets you switch between saved cities. A Froggy background appears first with the current temperature, high/low, condition, and feels like.
Next is the Hourly forecast carousel and 10-day forecast that can be tapped for more details. Current conditions has cards for Wind, Humidity, UV Index, Pressure, and Sunrise & sunset. Precipitation, Wind, and Humidity graphs appear in Hour details.
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In recent months, users tapping the Weather homescreen shortcut have instead been taken to a Google Search results page for “weather.”
Your home screen shortcut now leads to Google Search
This page was recently redesigned with the Froggy card pulling double duty for current conditions and hourly forecast. This is joined by a 10-day forecast carousel that you can tap on, as well as drop-downs for Precipitation, Wind, Humidity, and Air quality (which is new).
Google also makes use of AI Overviews to provide a summary of current weather conditions.
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Those who received “The weather page has moved” notification no longer have a “View all details” button at the bottom that opens the fullscreen Weather experience. Scrolling down on this new experience shows web results.
Over the past few days, more and more of our devices have been migrated to this new experience, with the old Weather app no longer accessible. However, this has not fully rolled out yet.
Google presumably no longer wants to maintain two experiences and has picked Search to be its weather app.
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