{"id":528179,"date":"2026-03-11T03:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528179\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:04:18","slug":"the-google-weather-android-app-is-going-away-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528179\/","title":{"rendered":"The Google Weather Android \u2018app\u2019 is going away [U]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google is getting rid of Android\u2019s de facto Weather app in favor of Search results.\u00a0This deprecation slowly started a few months ago<\/a>, but is now picking up steam.<\/p>\n

Update 3\/10: In recent days, we\u2019ve seen this removal widely roll out on all of our Android devices and Google Accounts. This is a server-side change coinciding with version 17.8 of the Google app.<\/p>\n

Original 2\/20: The Google app has long offered a fullscreen \u201cWeather\u201d experience that\u2019s launched from a homescreen shortcut: sun and cloud badged by the \u2018G\u2019 icon.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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In recent months, users tapping the Weather homescreen shortcut have instead been taken to a Google Search results page for \u201cweather.\u201d<\/p>\n

Your home screen shortcut now leads to Google Search<\/p>\n

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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).<\/p>\n

Google also makes use of AI Overviews to provide a summary of current weather conditions.<\/p>\n

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Those who received \u201cThe weather page has moved\u201d notification no longer have a \u201cView all details\u201d button at the bottom that opens the fullscreen Weather experience. Scrolling down on this new experience shows web results.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Google presumably no longer wants to maintain two\u00a0experiences and has picked Search to be its weather app.<\/p>\n

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