WDIV 4Warn Weather

Hi. I really appreciate the updates and the newformat Only one problem: when giving the forecasts, the guys talk in counties. While I recognize them as Michigan counties but don’t always know wWHERE they are. It would really help if the county names were on all the maps. With the radar I can check on my kids: AnnArbor, Pinckney and Abingdon Virg. I even liked the old way. Thank you for being there and giving updates, warning, and locations of bad weather to this senior citizen who lives alone and can’t drive anymore. Hello to all the weather guys. I enjoy watching them. But get those county names on there— for our state and any others that can be brought up on the maps. Take care God Bless. Linda Kuffel, Farmington Hills.

I downloaded this app. Used it a handful of times. Immensely impressed! A message popped this last time to review it. I hit close by accident. So I specifically came back to the App Store to give it a 5 star rating! So thorough, easy to use and the best part, is the straight forward language used. They don’t use the technical language meteorologists use! I would probably have to use a dictionary to use this app if that was the case! 😆 ‼️Also, please don’t change the app‼️Maybe the colors could be “jazzed” up a tad, but otherwise devs, well done! 👍

The newest update changed the formatting of the app. While the changes may work for some people, people like me, who have been grateful for this apps simplicity, are likely to be disappointed. I find that this version is harder to navigate. Instead of having the menu on the side, it is near the bottom, and instead of having multiple sub-sections, this version requires you to scroll down to find some of the accessories. If this sounds wonderful to some people, I’m happy to hear that they can continue using this app comfortably. If I am not mistaken, there were about the same amount of bugs in both versions. I noticed that when you go to type in another location, I was unable to see the word as I was typing. This may have just been an issue with my phone, but if that happened to you, you’re not alone. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

The app is great! The radar is the best of all the weather apps I have seen! There is a lot you can learn in this app. The reason for the 3 stars is that the forecasting is the worst of all the weather apps I have. They are wrong more than they are right. Also they don’t update it during the day. As an example today was forecasted to be a sunny day. You look at the hourly forecast and it shows sunshine all day. Well they got the first few hours of the day right. It became cloudy by noon. It stayed cloudy all afternoon and when you look at the hourly forecast it still says sunny all afternoon! When I look at the radar and view cloud cover it’s pretty clear that we will be lucky to see clear skies by evening! So yeah, the app is great but would be better if the forecasting improved!

The widget is no longer available so I can’t see relevant info at a glance. They also got rid of the written summary. I guess I have to watch their videos now. I promise I won’t be doing that. I’m an adult who doesn’t work from home, so watching videos to get my weather isn’t really conducive to an office job. I liked getting my weather from a local source but this new version of the app does not fit my needs. At all. They have also gotten rid of allowing me to choose which notifications I receive. I really don’t need to know every time lightning strikes 15 miles away. I have also chosen to opt out of analytics, yet every time I open the app I’m opted back in. I’ll wait a while to see if they fix things. If not, I’ll be deleting it. Maybe one of the other local stations has a better app

I recently installed the 4Casters app on my phone and I couldn’t be happier. I love the written forecast I get in the morning, the menu makes it simple to pull up the daily or the ten day along with the radar! More is less, and the 4Casters app gives me everything I need to plan my day. Don’t change a thing. Oh, and one more thing, you are accurate! I had the app of another local station and it was awful. Their on air forecast never matched their app, not even close. It was terrible to maneuver around in as well.

Love my Detroit forearm weather app very accurate ! Love Kim Addams ! She’s my favorite ! She’s down to earth and feel she don’t get enough credit in there she’s a sweetheart and very accurate ! I trust wdiv 100 too plan my day ! Brian on the weekends rocks too ! Devin & pets are great too ! Wish they would come to Dundee mi to visit ! Karen too ! Attention on Rhonda a lot and Jason they are great but need to see themm more they deserve to be noticed for their hard work also ! Thanks # 1 fan glad your back Kim missed you last week

Good app. VERY informative... but done a bit aggressively. Needs more detailed settings for Alerts. Need the ability to choose what alerts I want. Example: I Don’t need alerts waking me All throughout the night stating “Lightning detected 3 miles away” or “Moderate rain near your location” or “Get ready for some wind” over & over. What I Do need are Emergency Alerts: Tornado Watch/Warning, Severe Thunderstorm with High Winds, etc. OR The ability to get alerts only at certain times: “No alerts from 11:00pm - 7:00am unless life threatening emergency situation occurs.” Good information on this app an it is informative. It just needs more Settings to accommodate our Alert Preferences. Thanks!

Had the app, enjoyed getting a daily briefing of weather to come as a notification each day, really simple! Then i started seeing these daily notifications getting “cute” that was sort of it for me...I don’t want cute, the weather is to the point informational, not cute. Something has occurred over the last many years where they have tried to make weather entertaining and light, again it’s just informative not supposed to be fluff! With this app, I see the same thing you see on the 3 hour daily morning news broadcast with weather every 10 minutes, where it gets monotonous. Well I choose to not get my weather in a cutsie way, I don’t need a report telling me at 6am as a notification “No 50s today” I need the accurate info at a glance when I look at my phone...a quick simple “High of 45, no rain expected, cooler to 15 tonight” simple, easy, to the point, and most importantly doesn’t talk about what it’s not going to do today! I gave it a month or so and never used any of the other stuff on it, this is a hard pass!

This went from being a very solid weather app to worthless overnight. The user interface is not intuitive and way less interactive. The radar page is so much less responsive to overlays and clicking on warnings. The alerts in the overlays for warnings don’t seem to expand. The daily and hourly forecasts are way less user friendly. It was so easy to navigate to and scroll through before. It feels more rigid and less fluid than before. When I first downloaded this app it was after the Fox 2 app did an update and went downhill. Looks like I’ll be shopping around again. This is just unusable at this point. Either it’s super buggy or it wasn’t developed with user input.

I recently moved here from out of state. When we were looking for houses it was March and in the week we visited we had spring weather and snow. I watched 4 casters on TV and they recommended the app. I’ve found 4 casters to be highly accurate up to the hour about what is happening in our neighborhood . Thanks for helping us keep a true eye on the weather so we can be geared up for whatever Is happening day to day, season to season.

The new version of the app is terrible. What a downgrade, seems like it was a ploy for more click thru channels and ads… $$$. This appears to be the Darksky reskin of the Apple IOS weather app, so why not just use that? The misses from the old version: 1. Radar is harder to see different density return levels than before. 2. The future radar seems very rudimentary and only 2 hours in the future vs 6+ on the old version. The tracks are basically all West to East - suuurreeee. 3. Lots of noise at the bottom with other stuff like school info (schools out), news - no I just want weather 4. Maybe user error but cannot find the dialog from the meteorological staff now, buried in app? And no I don’t want to watch a video - just give me a quick text synopsis so if I’m at work or whatever I can have useful info. 5. Data use seems to be more, no big deal really with WiFi and unlimited but still just another thing to slow down my phone if I’m multitasking apps….

I appreciate that they updated the app to make it better, but I wish they would have kept the format the same. I feel like there is too much going on on the home page and it’s kind of a pain to figure out where to find things amongst all the extra ads and videos. I miss the written description of the forecast that used to be at the bottom. I also hate the new map. I’m probably just getting old and not liking change, but I thought the previous format was better. Just my opinion.

Overall I think this app is decent but it has a weird habit of telling me that lightning is x miles away from my location on days when the weather is completely clear throughout the entire region. I am currently staring at a blue, cloudless sky while getting a notification that lightning was detected 0.2 miles away from me. Not sure if this is a bug or some type of meteorological phenomenon of which I was otherwise aware.

This weather app is so very confusing June 20 at 2:30. We’re having heavy rain and you can’t even see it on radar cause when you click on it it just goes to like the heat so and I’ve talked to quite a few people and they really miss the old version that you had, which was great that we all used this new one very bad that’s all I can say very very bad.

Your radar map would be much, much better if you got rid of all of those large-letter city names on the map. All this crap just gets in the way—-viewers are not grade-school children—-anyone who uses your map already knows where they are and the area they are interested in. I love the radar picture itself but absolutely hate all of that unneeded name clutter that blocks the view. Sincerely, Gordon Roberts

I have an iPhone 6s Plus and I have had difficulty with temporary locations. I don’t know if it’s the phone or the app, but when I identify a location as temporary, I am unable to pull up weather information about it. I can only get weather information on cities that I identify as permanent. And then I am unable to remove the cities, except one time when I got lucky. Mainly they stay and I have a long list of places that I have visited and I’ll probably not visit again for quite a while.

Had used the app for years and enjoyed the ease of navigation and the graphics. That has all been eliminated with the release of the 6.9 app update. First off, the Home Screen will only operate in portrait mode but radar will display in either portrait or landscape. Navigation is not intuitive as the previous versions were. The graphics appear to come from a high school project. This update has forced me to remove the app and search for a suitable replacement. If an update to return it to the previous functionality and appearance I would gladly reinstall the app.

What happened to the great little weather app that I loved to look at everyday and many times throughout the day. The Home Screen would tell you everything you needed to know and now it looks like garbage. It’s so hard to navigate to get basic information. The menu is a bad idea. Too many clicks to get what you want. I swear it used to also show uv for the day and now I can’t find it anywhere. The radar before was so easy to follow and accurate and now it’s just not good. Please please let us go back to the previous version!

I just want to know the temperature. The first screen is a map. Then you have to tap the photo of the weather forecaster. Then you have to read his spiel. Or else you have to tap the menu tab to select your choice. I'm very disappointed in my local weather website.

Pretty good website. Radar very good except for the contrast between rain & the green background of the land. Sometimes hard to see where the light rain is. Recently, I’ve had problems getting it to open. I just see the picture of one of the weather people. I did use it while on a trip to West Virginia & got good weather info when I could get it to open. I’m not sure the current weather screen shows the humidity info.

New App gets 2 stars. I’ve relied on this app for the past 6 years when I travel the US in a travel trailer. The features of the old app forecasting where hail, heavy wind, tornadoes and the path it was taking in storm tracker was always spot on. I’ve gotten out of hail and tornados paths because of that app. The app now doesn’t have that type of layer. It showed tonight thin arrows a lot of colors but it just were just not a helpful. I’m looking for a new app that was like your old version. I wish I didn’t upgrade.

I've had this app since it first came out years ago. I like it a lot. I would have given 5 stars before the update. Three concerns I have with the update. 1. Even though I have it set to only use my location when I am using the app, I have to "kill" it every time I am done with it because it will continue to use my location (blue bar at the top of the phone screen indicates this). 2. I can't figure out how to delete a city once I am done wanting to know the weather there. For example, I was going on a trip to Charlevoix so it got added to a list of locations. But once I was done with needing to know, I can't seem to get rid of it. Should be more user friendly. 3. I wish the daily breakdown of temps was what was on the screen when it is first opened instead of the radar.

We just had a severe storm but the most current update is from 4 hours ago?! Where’s the current update when we really need it?! There’s Ben Bailey broadcasting live on TV but the app has a four hour old report. What’s the point of the app if you can’t get current available info? This happens all the time. Many hours old forecast updates on the app-even in active weather situations. How difficult is it to put that recent report on the app? Looking for something reliable. Not worth it.

I really like the app, but I sleep with my phone near me in case someone contacts me with an emergency. I just got woken up by your push notification at 4am about the frost warning. If there is a tornado headed to my house at 4am, I want you to send that notification. But please don’t send trivial notifications when most people are trying to sleep.

I just switched to this weather app. I do like it and would probably keep it, however, I don’t like that it opens to the “Radar” page as opposed to a “Forecast” page. I like to see a quick weather forecast and not a radar. I do like to have the option to switch to radar but a quick look at weather, in my opinion, should always default to the forecast and current conditions. Sorry that it isn’t possible on this app.

Thanks for displaying the Dew Point !!! I’ve removed the Weather Channel & Accuweather apps because if too much news and NO dew point value; Humidity value is blah as the barometric pressure is figured into the value and I could care less about the ‘real feel’ temp; dew point tells me when it’s Muggy out.

I just wish the “today” hourly was still set up like “tomorrow’s” hourly is set up. It used to be that way, but changed a few months ago to where we have to scroll left and right instead of up and down. Now we can’t see the whole day at once. That’s the only thing I don’t like. But still my favorite.

Your localized weather alerts are great!! Today I was alerted of a severe weather alert in my area as well as surrounding areas. I like to be able to click on the radar and see what is going on with rain and storms in my area etc.

I used to love this app. The future cast on the radar was my favorite, I could plan for a few hours in advance, that feature is gone or buried making it not user friendly. I hate the look of it, it’s cluttered, harder to find things and the information isn’t helpful- I don’t know why I’d care if there WAS raining 2 hours ago, I want to know if there WILL be raining in 2 hours. It removed all my saved locations with the update. This new one is awful, I’ll be looking for a replacement

Until the last update, the Today view of weather was condensed which I prefer. I could see the entire day with one swipe up. Now it's so big with graphics that I have to swipe multiple times sideways to get the whole days information. I also do not like the tracking and the blue bar so I'm always taking the app out of memory. Yesterday there was a "wind" advisory. It it should've been for the dog we really had.

I am so disappointed. I actually recommended the 4Warn App to a friend tonight. When she couldn’t click on what I asked her to, I thought she downloaded the wrong App. Upon checking the App Store I saw the update button and clicked on it finding myself in a completely different environment. Now I can’t get my old App back. I hate this new one. The radar is not the same. The original App was superior in every way. Who changed this and why? This is not an improvement. This is horrible.

If I wanted a source of weather info this chock full of needless information and a terrible layout that takes longer to get the information I actually want due to awful navigation, I would just go to your website. The previous app was so simple and the layout provided the essential information in an easy to read format. The new app is trying to do too much. You lost the plot. So unnecessary.

I just got this recently and so I’m not too familiar with it yet. I can definitely say one thing I don’t like, though. I assumed the push notifications would be warnings of imminent inclement weather. I really don’t need multiple messages a day from you guys, telling me things like “the sun is still shining” or some such nonsense. At least give users a choice on what level of notifications they want.

When I first downloaded the app it worked fine. Then after a couple of weeks I stopped getting alerts for some reason even though they are turned on to receive.

Yesterday we had thunderstorms come through. I have TWO FULL SCREENSHOTS of all the notifications from this app. Some were just two minutes later than the previous one, and basically said “lightning strikes 3.2 miles from current location.” Noooo, really? Like I can’t hear the thunder? If raindrops can be heard from my location, I don’t need the app to tell me it’s raining.

This has been my go to weather app for years. The new version is absolutely terrible. The old navigation bar at the bottom was great. The new navigation is poorly done and the Home Screen is just plain ugly. I used to be able to launch the app and see my local weather information at a glance. Now it’s full of things I don’t care about and slower to move around. App design is now a decade behind the previous version.

Weather app is always accurate, the Local4Casters put hard work into developing a trustworthy forecast. Detects lighting and rain in my area. Would recommend to anyone who lives in southeast Michigan or anyone who has family in southeast Michigan! Best weather app I’ve owned!

This app quit working properly recently. When I would open it, the picture of Ben Bailey would stare at me without opening the next window. Since the update a few months ago, the app hasn’t functioned well. More often than not, the radar would not open and would often freeze when it did open. So, I’ve decided to try another source for weather. I am disappointed. Finally, please remove Ben Bailey’s picture! It is not the only meteorologist working for Channel 4, WDIV, Detroit, MI.

The new update makes the app harder to use. On the old version it opened up to show all the current conditions you could want. Now if you want to see something like dew point, humidity, cloud cover, it takes 2 clicks to get to it. This is not user friendly. It also no longer shows UV index anywhere, so I guess we’ll all just go get sunburned outside. There is no longer the regular morning/evening/late night typed-out update from whatever meteorologist is on at that time, which was very helpful. I think the only improved feature is the radar and the ability to swipe to change the location you’re looking at.

I’m not sure if anyone has complained about this but your app isn’t showing lightning and it’s really important to our family because we have dogs. Can you please look into this because it’s my app and my husband’s app. We both looked for an update and there isn’t one. Please get this fixed. Thank you, Sandy and Paul Dog lovers

Love this app. But we’ve had a few days in a row of severe weather. Please suspend ads during times of severe weather. No one should have to sit through an ad when they're trying to get a weather update while it’s thundering and lightening outside.

I’m glad for the 4WARN weather app it keeps me informed on how good or bad the weather gets ,its more convenient because we all don’t have time to watch tv so when you’re on the go make sure 4WARN is with you too. Rain brid

When using your app, there is no longer an option to shut off "closed captioning" while watching "4Warn Video Forecast". PLEASE FIX THIS. The words cover the view of the video. Subscribers cannot see the videos we're trying to watch.

4 warn weather was my go to weather app for years. This latest update is miserable. Besides requiring going between portrait and landscape as you change tabs, we lost the satellite view on the radar. In addition the sensible layout of the major tabs on the side went away. Reconsider your update and restore some stability to the app. I don’t want to constantly rotate my tablet as I review weather data.

It would be nice if I could change what screen opens first. I would rather be able to go right to the daily forecast or 10 day outlook instead of right to the radar. Now I go right to Ben Bailey. How annoying. Other than those annoyances the app works fine. Radar is finer detail than other apps and the weather alerts are nice.

Appears too much content was attempted. Get rid of the smiling videos, video commercials, etc. Provide data and intuitive navigation. Since the recent update of weather underground with too much junk also, been looking at several new weather apps. Thinking this one is just too cluttered and will be deleted soon.

4 Star but close to 5 because I downloaded it for the zones but it only shows temperatures in the area. A lot of updates, maybe too many but great when there is bad weather. Overall well worth having.

It doesn't show current radar. I would like to know what might be coming or currently happening, not 30 minutes ago. Only shows past radar. Plus on "today", please go back to the vertical showing of the hourly forecast. When it went to horizontal and only shows and few hours at a time, it bothered so much that I went to using other weather apps.

I love the team, Brandon, Kim, Kim, Bryan….hope I did not leave anyone out. Thank you, thank you!! You guys and gals have made it easy to plan my errands. I fell an the ice last year and did serious injured to myself, now I don’t go out on days with I in the forecast!