Not a fan of the latest update to the app interface. I miss the daily forecast at the bottom of the app when it loads. Thanks for the reply, but that’s not the daily forecast I was referring to. Plus, I don’t want to have to scroll down to find it. I want to see it quickly when I first open the app. I’m referring to the small bar that was at the bottom of the main screen (without having to scroll down) that had the highs & lows of each day & you could scroll to the right to see the days that didn’t fit on the screen. That was nice & convenient to be able to see a forecast summary.
Okay so I just got this app thinking...I am tired of just the weather with out a map! So I figured this app was going to be great!! So I get the app and I am trying to pin my location but this thing keeps popping up that says something about unable to pin your location and that you need to check your network and so on. Then it says cancel or retry I press retry. The same thing keeps popping up over and over and over again. I don’t know if it is my WiFi or something but it might be. So it is just really hard to pin your location well it is to me at least. Also I just pinned a random location and looked at all the stuff I really don’t like how you have to scroll down it just is kinda weird. But other than all of that I think this app is really good!!
As a former Financial Systems Analyst for Xerox, and living in Upstate NY , I love this app. I’ve gone from IPhones to Androids and used my Galaxy S23, and now my IPhone 15 Pro, and love everything about it. I can see the weather where my sons are living, I can see the incoming winds to just get candles and a generator out for downed trees, and even better, I can screen shot what I see to warn someone else who doesn’t look at weather. Everything seems just really simple and even has a great display ! And yes, I know it’s from Texas, but when you surf the App Store for something great, even paying for some weather apps, this one was the best for me … search # 123 (Kidding!)
This used to be my go to most trusted weather app. If anyone needed a weather app this was my recommendation. Then the option to see the 24hr radar was added. The addition of the 24hr radar has undermined confidence in this app. If I select the radar with the normal setting of 6 hrs I see what appears to be an accurate radar for a “now” setting. If I then select the 24hr aspect I see completely different radar information for the “now” setting. A current radar display should be a current radar display with the 24hr aspect selected or not. It should still display what is currently going on “now” but it doesn’t. Given the discrepancies I no longer trust the accuracy of the radar with any setting. Very disappointing.
The updated home page is not as well designed as it was (or as depicted on the app download page). It’s very difficult to read the summary text against the skyline, and the summary is not as clean organized s as it was in the previous version. Don’t really like the “new” look. Send like a change was made “just to make a change” and not really to improve any content. Still like the data available, just think the interface has taken a step backwards.
This app is wonderful. When hail or other bad weather threatens I use this exclusively. It pinpoints areas being affected so accurately,to the block, and has saved my car from hail damage many times. I can just drive to a safer area. The tornado and hail overlays are a lifesaver. When you listen to live TV the weatherman can only talk about your area so much, but this gives me precise information to the block for my family’s safety and my home/car. Thank you, Fox 4 for an amazing app to have!!!
Since the last upgrade, my WAPP is only showing ‘future’ radar. The button doesn’t let me select past or past/future like it used to. Only having future radar is not very helpful. Please give us the other radar capabilities back! Note my friend is not having this problem. I’ve tried looking at settings to see if I can resolve but haven’t been able to. WAPP is still my go-to weather app. It’s very helpful in planning outdoor activities for daily life as well as trips.
I finally had to delete the app from my phone after putting up with terrible performance since I downloaded the app a few years ago. It would work fine for a period, then another update will download to “fix” bugs, which ends up crashing the app. It started with the app not fully loading so the daily and hourly forecasts would be blank. The last straw was when it decided not to load at all for several days in a row. It would freeze on the sponsor opening image and do nothing else. The same thing happened on my husband’s phone. I don’t recommend this app at all because it’s unreliable. When spring storm season rolls around again, I’ll find another weather app to get radar and weather alerts.
The latest update on the Wapp had changed the timeline of the radar. It now only shows the present and what the future computer model thinks will happen. It no longer shows the previous hour or so like it did before. I do not like that feature at all. Also, for some odd reason it now is terribly inaccurate. Yesterday it showed our location was in a red zone of precipitation but we were not even getting thunder or lightening let alone any rain. I went to another app and their radar showed with nothing anywhere near our location. Something is really messed up now so the app is useless as far as I am concerned.
The most recent app update seems to be missing something..... like the current weather! Clicking on hourly will show you what it will be in an hour, and daily shows you high and low info, but absolutely nothing shows you the current weather right now. It literally opens to a blank map, and the settings for the map view are also awful. You can turn on clouds and precipitation overlays so you can make an educated guess on the weather conditions. Or you can turn on the temperature overlay which gives a tiny circle showing the temp in each city. So that view is like a hundred little circles with numbers covering the map. Super helpful as well. What in the hell happened here?
There’s a problem with this app if you are first opening the app and you click on the Weather map, you can see the past and the future weather predictions but if you let it pause. And try to see the past in the future Mapp it doesn’t work. The weather issues are blank. The app just looks like a regular map. I’m not sure exactly how to explain it but they are some issues somebody needs to work with this App turn it on themselves and then let it go to sleep in your phone then open it back upand the past and the future Mapp will not work
I have a iPhone 12. Radar works. Future radar works. Not sure why you use the app for its photographic image view. But my house is there. Thus is my go to app no matter where I am when I want radar, forecast and hourly conditions. It is power hungry so if you just want the temps then others load faster. I haven’t experienced any odd battery drain. For me it’s the most complete weather app. Plus you can see live weather coverage if your power is out.
I have relied on WAPP for years as my weather location for DFW. This newest version is lousy. Personally, I do not need or want to see the cloud cover ... only the actual precipitation on the map. I have chosen “radar” and still get clouds AND rain shown ... for the past few times I have checked the app, it has shown no rain anywhere within the entire US. I find this rather difficult to believe ... especially since the forecast for DFW has included rain. Today, it has rained all day and all I am seeing is cloud cover when I can hear rain on my roof. Something is wrong here!!! Please go back to the old version that was reliable!
Once the weather goes south, this app’s radar is essentially worthless. Either it won’t open at all or the radar locks up displaying ??:?? for times or it locks on “future”. If the weather is good, we use it regularly for hourly/weekly forecast. If weather is bad, we go to channels 5 or 8’s apps. Also, app forecasts do not mirror meteorologists’ forecasts. Odd.
As other reviewers have mentioned, the default of every single type of weather alert automatically loading makes it so you can’t even see the precipitation on the radar. Yes you can remove them but you have to do it every time you re-open the app. You used to allow users to set their own preferences in alerts and overlays that would “stick” permanently until redefined by the user. Please bring back this functionality. I am going to use another app in the meantime because this new feature is so frustrating. It has been my go-to weather app for years. Very disappointed.
I’ve been using the WAPP since it came out, I’ve never had a problem with it and I use it for every place I travel too. Recently we moved about 15 miles west of where we used to live and it’s giving me an error when I open it that it’s not available in my current location along with a pair of coordinates and it didn’t do this till a few months ago. I love the app but I’d like to be able to use it when I’m home now too!
So I used to love this app because it had a great landscape radar. However someone thought it would be brilliant to put a freaking ad over about 20% of the freaking screen in landscape mode. If this isn’t fixed I’ll just delete the app. It no long has value. Update.. they fixed the issue right after I submitted my review. It’s good again!
This used to be my go-to weather app and always seemed to be reliable, including the radar which was my most desired feature. The radar portion suddenly changed at some point and is rarely reliable now. The other day, I was out in my truck sitting in a monsoon rainstorm. I wanted to see the radar to see when it might be moving past me and it showed a completely clear, rainless sky. Again just now. Raining like crazy and the radar shows not a cloud in the sky. Happens a lot. Very frustrating.
Please go back to the old interface , the WAPP used to be reliable. With the recent update the radar takes awhile to load and the drag and drop is not in the best spot on the map. Today it’s raining in my area for the next few hours but this is not indicated on the radar. Last week there were tornadoes and it took awhile to figure out how to figure out the drag and drop along with setting up alerts...this should be automatic. Very disappointed in the update, looking for a safer weather app.
The weather forecast 24 hours out is worthless. I would not make plans on that forecast. It will tell you the weather will be fine and then 12 hours later it is going to be raining. The radar is even worse, it will show that there is no precipitation over your location but it is pouring rain outside. Then it will show a massive red and orange area overhead for a half hour and nothing more than a few sprinkles are seen.
This was my go to weather app but for the last 2 days you would have thought it was weather Armageddon on the app radar. But when watching their live broadcast I realized something was wrong and checked another weather app. Yes, their app was messed up and it took them 2 days to figure that out. No apology for watching waves of storms coming in that weren’t there. As a follow up, the app is showing a large storm coming in from the west but 2 other apps are not showing a lot of activity. The forecast is fine but don’t trust the map.
I do not like the new radar screen color and I do not like that there is hardly any detail on the map. Only the major roadways and only cities of your choosing, so people like me that live in a smaller suburb we can’t zoom in to see where exactly we are. The overall aesthetics are not nearly as good as before . It was better when you could actually zoom in to small side streets like google earth type map. I. Have used this app since it became available, but today am shopping for a new app.
...for one thing. I have been using this app on my iPhone from early days and it’s a great app for tracking weather in the DFW area as well as when traveling. I recently bought an iPad which I use primarily in landscape mode with a keyboard case. The WAPP will not rotate into landscape mode rendering it mostly useless on my iPad. I have ended up installing another weather app that does work in landscape mode.
I have used this app for several years and really liked it. However, the new ‘updates’ have rendered this app useless. The radar seldom works, when it does, it takes much too long to view the radar as it moves forward at a snails pace. I have reinstalled this app 5 times in hopes it would work properly but the issues remain. Sometimes you’re better off leaving a good thing alone - this would be one of those times. No longer using this app….
I like the app to see the forecast, however the radar view on the map is inconsistent at showing what is actually going on with precipitation and storms. For example, right now I see the lightening strikes and there is no storm cell showing. However, when I go to another radar app, I can see the storm. This has been within the last few months. I never had trouble like this before. Something must have changed to cause issues.
Really strange how all the fixes I install on this APP when called to update on my iPhone X just make it perform even less each time it is updated! Weirdness!! Shows my location near Nigeria in the South Atlantic Ocean today! Rarely get to see fronts heading towards the DFW area if any and if so those disappear quickly. FYI Your Advertising works without a hitch. Initially I bragged on this APP and encouraged many others to use it! Even worked out of state on East and western states! Now it is a flop for me!! Boo!
This used to be a great app, now it is covered by ads in all phases- which is why I dumped the weather channel app. Trying to slide down to see current weather past the ads is annoying. Bring back the choices at the bottom where you can click radar, daily and extended forecast. Plus the fading color radar is hard to see. The app constantly says it looses connection and to retry...I’m on home WiFi- there is NO lost connection. Fix it or I dump it too.
The app will work for a few hours and then I get a “Network Failure, make sure airplane mode is off and WiFi is on” alert. This has happened daily in various locations with WiFi and cell service. All other apps work fine. I have to uninstall this app and reinstall it and it will work. I didn’t have this problem until the updated version came out.
Just downloaded the FOX 4 WAPP after seeing a short blurb at the end of tonight’s forecast! I have been slowly starting to watch your FOX 4 weather now that my Sony TV can receive the NextGen TV signals! Perhaps you can bring elements of your WAPP and the FOX 4 News app to the NextGen menus when your station starts offering them on your new signal?
Well it is a very good app over all but I wish the radar was a little more detailed and fast other than that it’s pretty decent easy navigation and smooth graphics not to mention pretty accurate I wouldn’t mind having a professional App but for free this is great.
This app was my Favorite weather app, simply because it let you set your exact location for forecasts. The other apps all give you the forecast for your town or city. We don't have one. We love 30 miles from the closest town, so the forecast for that town is spotty at best. The new update removes this capability, and contracts the area it supports. When I open the app now, all I get is a message saying "not available for your current location", which is our house. Want a better rating, fix it.
I hate this new update. I do t like the look of the map and can seem to go back to match the simulated map on the app page. I don’t like the black and white background. The choose your own buttons don’t make any sense. I liked that you could choose past present and future of the forecast. Really before this update I loved that I finally had downloaded something that people around me were talking about. Now I’m ready to ditch it.
I don’t know when this changed, but recently a ton of new weather warnings and watches have showed up. Now when I open the radar to look at the weather, I can’t see how severe it is because twelve different watches and warnings all in different colors cover up the actual weather
Previous versions I was able to set my weather condition to precipitation, my overlay to storm track, and remove all alerts in the map section. Now I can do it when I’m in the app but the moment I leave and return, everything is back. It’s far too cluttered and opaque. I can’t even see that’s going on in my area. Allow the user to decide what they want on their map.
I typically ride a motorcycle so forecasting is very crucial to me. Other apps I have used such as MyRadar/Apple, while very good for current radar, have had HORRIBLE forecasts. So far this app has been good. My only gripe is there doesn't seem to be a way to get rid of advertisements. Can there please be a way to buy out of those?
The app was working just fine until the update a month ago! It works fine and then for hours I will get the network failure. It doesn’t matter if I am at home using WiFi or out and about using my cellular network. The radar seems to have something going on with it as well as the last few storms that have came, nothing was on the radar! Please fix whatever the bug is so I can utilize this weather app! Please HELP!!!
In the last month, when I go to open the app, my location and all of that pops up, but the forecast and radar doesn’t. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the app and the problem is still repeating itself. This is the ONE app I use for weather because I enjoy the accuracy and the news the channel offers. I really hope they get that worked out, because it’s frustrating!
I have used this weather app for years. After looking at the temperature I always look at the dew point it tells me how it’s gonna feel outside ! All of a sudden it’s gone .. telling me the humidity is not the same ! I’m now on the hunt for an app that tells the dew point right on the from page ! Bring it back please the dew point especially where I live is very important to understanding the actual real feel of the temperature outside!
I’ve used this app for several years but the couple of years it hasn’t worked more than it works. Routinely I check in to see temp and forecast and all I get are dashes and blank boxes with no information. Invariably I have to go to AccuWeather or the weather channel to get my local weather because this app doesn’t work. I really liked it when it first came out. Now it’s just meh…. Would love for the developers to solve the issues.
I have to manually turn off the weather alerts that cover the map every time I open the app. I’ve tried selecting one or 2 but it always reverts to all items being selected. I’m really only interested in tornado alerts most of the year but it won’t stay the way I set it. It makes it difficult to see what’s under the various colors blocking the map itself. Very annoying!
The radar map no longer functions properly since about two weeks ago. If you go tap into it, the weather map flashes on screen very fast or the weather data just doesn't load at all. If you try to use the time-lapse function, you'll get nothing. Basically the primary purpose of this app is not functioning.
When you designed this app, the priority should be the short term forecast. In other words, people open this app up to see what the forecast is for the next seven days and they want to see all the data immediately, we don’t want to have to scroll all over the place to find it. Make it user-friendly and put the forecast front and center.
I still cannot delete a location using my iPhone but I can do it on my iPad on your app. I just updated the latest update that y’all put through but it’s still not giving me the option to delete a location that I don’t want anymore
Ok so normally I love this app, best weather app there is. But today I open the app and it’s not working at all, every time I try to use it it says “this application is not available in your current location”, with no way for me to fix it or do something else. if someone could please fix this that would be great! I rely on this app for all my weather predictions, and it rlly throws me through a loop to have it not working.
I miss being able to keep this app on my main screen on my phone. The radar would work to a degree at one point then it would crash when weather was rolling in. Maybe too many people using it at the same time? This latest update doesn’t even let you see the radar from the last hour. Only current and future conditions. Wish y’all the best but I’m out.
I use your app all the time and love it. While introducing the ability to have alerts follow you, you have now created a problem with just seeing the forecast at your current location. I do not want the app always using my location but I do want to be able to select “current location” from the weather dropdown. Please fix! Thank you!
I’ve depended on the app for several years however this last storm season in Texas has been so frustrating. Tonight it said huge storms were coming across our area and other apps showed nothing happening. When I pulled up the radar it still showed we were getting hammered by storms, outside nothing. Not sure how it can be so off.
FIX THE OVERLAY ISSUE!!! Hey app developers...wake up; you fixed NOTHING. Your app is a complete waste of time as are you. Keep lying to everyone...that will get your ratings up...SURE it will! If you can’t be bothered to fix the app, how about reverting to a last-known working version? Oh, wait....that would mean you guys would have to utilize a little common sense, something the entire lot of you couldn’t come up with if your names were common and sense!
This is one of the best weather apps I have ever found, love the way I can set it for my Exact location and actually get weather information for here and not 20-30 miles away from me where it’s not relevant. In Coffee City on Lake Palestine. 5 stars for this app
When switching between the 6 hour and the 24 hour maps, the map displays completely different coverage even at the same time. Try this. Open the map and zoom back from your location so you see the entire US, then switch back and forth between the 6hr and the 24hr map. Every time you switch back and forth, the time line on the map defaults to the current time and displays current weather. Why are they both in the same time and look different? After researching, the 6hr map is accurate. The 24hr map..,no idea where you are getting this map from. None of the data matches past, present, or future conditions.
Weather in a snap--Trust the WAPP! Live Interactive Radar, Storm watches & warnings, hourly forecasts, 10-day outlook, closings, and more—all on FOX 4’s FREE Weather App. With over three million downloads, the FOX 4 WAPP’s improved design and trusted weather alert system insures you’ll be “4-Warned” of approaching storms. It’s peace of mind—in the palm of your hand. Why get the FOX 4 WAPP? ° Your current forecasts at a glance, with fully integrated GPS to give you accurate conditions wherever you are. ° Customized alert system warns you about severe weather, winds—even earthquakes. ° Watch FOX 4 News LIVE on your phone or tablet. ° Interactive radar map lets you track a storm’s history—and project where severe weather is headed. Regional lightning data and high resolution satellite cloud imagery are also included. Radar is optimized for in-network and WiFi performance. ° Daily and Hourly forecasts, updated round the clock ° The WAPP tracks weather anywhere in the world. Headed on a trip? After you map it—WAPP it! ° Video forecasts and live streaming direct from the Fox 4-WARN Weather Center, keeping you informed even during power outages. ° Real-time traffic info for the North Texas area.
