There are not a few users who check our mobile often on a daily basis to find out the weather of the day, something that we can do very easily on Android thanks to the weather widget on the phone. However, on many occasions and, especially when changing smartphones, we can find errors in the location. So we will go on to consult only the climate of another locality different from ours.
So that this does not continue to happen to us on the phone, we are going to try to fix this annoying failure so that you can see the time with the correct location on the mobile and you do not have to resort to other alternatives, as we will also see later. The problems are mostly generalized and the steps that we must follow do not vary too much between the layers of personalization, but they will still serve you, since they will be generalized processes that you can carry out from your smartphone.
Why does it fail?
Believe it or not, there are many reasons that can lead us to this situation and, among them, we prominently find the permissions and accesses of the app. But, they will not be the only ones to blame for this error. However, especially when brand new mobile. The first thing we will have to do is click on it to take us to the app in question that takes care of the weather on the smartphone and we can give it access to the location. This step, which should be something automatic and easy to do, allows us to always have our location in the weather widget.
But this can get complicated and lead to an error with the weather widget on the mobile if we do not do it from the beginning. It will not ask us again to access the location and we will have to do it manually if we do not want to live with this failure forever.
- To solve it we will have to enter Settings.
- Later, we must go to the applications.
- Find ‘Weather’ or ‘Climate’ and select it.
- Then, we will have to enter the Permissions section.
- And, to fix it, we always grant Location permission .
However, not all phones have a specific application to view the weather conditions from the smartphone . If not, they only use widgets that are based on the data of a specific website.
For example, on some Android devices, include this tool on the desktop to access its settings. To achieve this, we must click on an empty space on the main screen of the phone> Widgets > and look for the one that is in charge of the weather (it may be one of the brand of our phone or Google itself). Then, we must press and hold on it and drag it to the area of the mobile panel that we want. In our case (as we see in the following image) we will have to click on ‘+ cities’ to open the ‘Weather’ section. Here, we will have to allow the localization or add one manually.
Location issues
The layers of personalization MIUI from Xiaomi, EMUI from Huawei, among other manufacturers’ own software are also usually part of the problem, since they have a very different system from the rest of Android phones. In them the problems can come from the option that we have seen previously although they can also go further and we will help you solve it.
Remove the widget
However, the fault may be that this tool has been ‘bugged’ due to an internal process on the phone. So we recommend that you first remove it from the desktop and then add it back to the main panel of your phone. If it came standard and you don’t really know how to put it, you just have to press and hold in an empty space at the beginning of your terminal> Widgets and look for the one that is in charge of the weather. To put it, press and hold on it and drag it where you want. Then, you must enter and give the permission of the location to this function or, simply, add your city or town in which you want to see the weather from your mobile .
Try another app
If you are tired of trying to find the ideal solution for this error, don’t worry, because we will always have the option of trying another meteorological tool. By this we mean that we have the opportunity to download another application from Google Play to see the weather from the phone . We just have to enter the Android software store and look for an option. Although, here are some of the best apps:
When installing these tools, we just have to enter and grant the location permission so that you can tell us if it will rain, be cold or hot where we live.
Restart the smartphone
Believe it or not, restarting the mobile is one of the methods that will most often work for us to solve software bugs that are specific cases. It is all due to an internal process being ‘hung’ in such a way that it has affected the overall operation of the device. Therefore, by turning it off and on, we will clear its cache. Therefore, we recommend doing it.
The battery is to blame
Huawei’s energy saving system, or other layers such as One UI, may be able to limit consumption as much as possible and this sometimes leads to GPS location not working well for certain apps or updates. location. If we are people who travel often, this can lead us to find that the information in the weather widget is wrong .
To solve it we just have to go into Settings> Battery> Start applications and look for the system’s weather app (or application in charge of the phone’s widgets). Then we touch on it to manually manage its use and activate all the options so that it can work whenever necessary.
Through the Internet connection
In this case, the origin is not in the battery, that is, it would only occur if the battery saver is activated. Here the restrictions are on mobile data, where the system prevents the weather app from updating when we are not with Wi-Fi. This can lead us to errors when we travel and normally we do not have this connection.
To fix it (depending on whether it is a specific application or an app that is responsible for these elements) we must enter the phone’s Settings> Applications and notifications> Weather or the application that is responsible for having a weather widget. Here, we must click on Mobile data and Wi-Fi. It will be necessary to deactivate the ‘Unrestricted use of data’ when activating the saving of data and ‘Data in the background’ so that it continues to refresh the information at all times.
Update the phone
The weather widget can also fail due to the software of our Android smartphone. If we are that type of user who for nothing in the world updates the mobile, it is time for you to check if they have any pending firmware. This error may have reached your mobile and the only way to solve it is by updating it. So if you’ve tried to download the new version of the weather app and it still doesn’t work well, it’s time to go into Settings > System > Updates .
The case of Xiaomi and Huawei
We make a special mention of these two brands of devices for the simple fact that there are many of you who have told us about this error with the location in the weather widget of your Android phones. Luckily, you will find the solutions that you can apply in the previous list of options that we have just explained step by step.
For example, in phones with MIUI, the failure was due to the restriction of mobile data used by that particular app, while Huawei smartphones with EMUI were due to the battery. Well, rather to the own settings that this component has within the configuration of smartphones from this manufacturer.
That is why, you will only have to follow the previous solutions, in the event that you have a terminal of these brands, and you have this failure that could make your day bitter. In this way, if in your case it has also failed you for another reason, you can also fix it with one of the other options that we have explained to you.