Sigard, Do you enable the settings for Degrees from within the app itself, or is there something under settings on the i phone? I have this app but can't find where to set the thing where you can see the current temp on the badge and would greatly like this! Thanks, Caitlyn in rainy Ontario
On 2012-12-08, at 2:53 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > I am in British Columbia and I find the native weather app that comes with > the iPhone is not very good. I use an app called "Degrees" it is a Canadian > weather app and uses the same information you get on the Environment Canada > weather forecast website. It lists current conditions including temperature, > whether it's cloudy/sunny/overcast etc., humidity, wind, pressure, > windchill/humadex, air quality (where supported) and then it gives you the > 7-day forecast. You can even set it so the current temperature is displayed > on the badge icon, however due to limitations imposed by Apple it would be > spoken like this "Degrees, 5 new items". This would be if the temperature is > either +5 Celsius or minus 5 Celsius. The developers told me that they can't > display the minus sign because Apple doesn't allow it, but I still find it > useful since I typically know if it's plus or minus outside, only time when > it is ambiguous is if it's just 1 or 2 or 3 degrees plus or minus. If you > enable this in the app settings and it's exactly 0 degrees it would just say > "Degrees" with nothing else. > > You can add cities and once you added them you can easily choose which > forecast you want to see, once the app opens you have a list of the > cities/towns you added and the app is, of course, very Voiceover friendly > since I am completely blind as well and use Voiceover exclusively. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
