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Rita El Khoury \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n
A few months ago, I went through the process of shifting my entire family to my older Google Pixel phones<\/a>. I did it to simplify remote troubleshooting, reduce issues with unfamiliar Android UIs and skins, give them a more solid camera experience, and keep them updated with the latest security patches.<\/p>\n One side effect I hadn\u2019t anticipated, though, is how much my mom, aunt, and specifically, my dad would fall in love with the simplest app on their Pixels \u2014 Pixel Weather.<\/p>\n Do you use Pixel Weather on your Pixel phone, or do you have another app?<\/p>\n 115 votes<\/p>\n Pixel Weather.<\/p>\n 69%<\/p>\n Something else (tell us in the comments)<\/p>\n 26%<\/p>\n I don’t care about weather apps. I look out the window.<\/p>\n 5%<\/p>\n What is it with parents and weather applications?<\/p>\n Rita El Khoury \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n My parents have had Android smartphones since the mid-2010s. 10 years or so, now, of using these wonderful machines, and yet one thing hasn\u2019t changed since the moment I first set up my mom\u2019s Galaxy S7 Edge: \u201cPut the weather on the screen, please, Rita.\u201d<\/p>\n I care about the weather, too, and I have it on my home screen just like them, but there\u2019s a certain fascination and urgency that my family has around the weather widget and application on their phones that I can\u2019t explain. You have to be there when my dad mistakenly deletes the widget or moves it to the second home screen, and it\u2019s suddenly DEFCON 1, call Rita, get her to fix it ASAP. My dad mysteriously resetting his OnePlus phone four times in the span of two years didn\u2019t elicit as much panic as a disappeared weather widget from his home screen.<\/p>\n When your dad goes DEFCON 1 after the weather widget disappears from his home screen, you know he takes his weather very seriously.<\/p>\n Maybe it\u2019s because my parents are getting older and they need to know when it\u2019s safe for them to drive or not. Or because my mom still hangs clothes to dry outside and has to know when she needs to bring them back in. Or because my dad has to know when to water the garden and when to leave it up to the elements. Or maybe they\u2019re just crazy people (I say this lovingly) who are obsessed with knowing exactly what kind of weather is coming in 10 days to prepare in advance. The jury is out.<\/p>\n This is how Pixel Weather won my dad over<\/p>\n Rita El Khoury \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n For a few years now, I\u2019ve had to get creative with the weather application on my parents\u2019 phones. They\u2019ve had OnePlus and Samsung phones, but the default applications and\/or widgets didn\u2019t suit them. Not enough info or too much info, lots of ads, no precise location for the Lebanese towns they live in, etc. I\u2019ve tried app after app, switching as what was once free became paid, or useless, or filled with ads, and often having to tell them to contend with whatever I could find, even if it wasn\u2019t perfect. Then I created a Weather shortcut from Google Search and added it to their home screen. That was a better experience overall.<\/p>\n But now that I\u2019ve switched them all to Pixel phones, I don\u2019t have to do that anymore. I set up Pixel Weather on the Pixel 7 Pro, opened it, and told my dad to check it out. His eyes lit up. \u201cClear\u201d was his first word. Then, after checking out the different information boxes, he told me everything he wanted was there. We decided together on how to organize the info \u2014 he doesn\u2019t care about pressure and pollen, for example, but visibility, wind, and UV are crucial to him, so I sorted them for him.<\/p>\n I helped him organize Pixel Weather so it shows the most important information first.<\/p>\n He didn\u2019t know how to explain it, but he was amazed that there weren\u2019t useless UI elements; \u201cit\u2019s simple; the other ones had things on top or below.\u201d Ads, he meant ads. And he often mistakenly tapped those, which used to take him out of the app. Not here, though.<\/p>\n It didn\u2019t take him long to understand that every box is clickable to get extra info. Checking the UV index before he goes out gardening, or the precipitation before he waters, has helped a lot.<\/p>\n Rita El Khoury \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n On top of this, the large Pixel Weather widget is exactly what he wants. Large font, very readable, with the next few hours\u2019 expected weather. It helps that the new icons are a lot more accessible<\/a> for his older eyes. Personally, I would\u2019ve liked the forecast for the next few days, but he cares more about the immediate weather first, then he taps to get the extra details for the following days.<\/p>\n Oh, and yes, Pixel Weather has weather predictions for his hometown in Lebanon, which is obviously a huge win in anyone\u2019s books. Otherwise, I\u2019d still be scrambling trying to find a good weather app for him.<\/p>\n Lesson of the day? 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