Ryan Haines / Android Authority
TL;DR OnePlus phones and smartwatches are showing stale or missing weather data, and users across multiple models are all seeing the same outage.
Devices running various Oxygen OS versions (14, 15, and 16) are all affected, pointing to a central OnePlus service failure.
OnePlus has not yet acknowledged the issue, but a fix is necessary and expected soon.
If your OnePlus smartphone or smartwatch suddenly shows stale weather data (or none at all), you’re not alone. A bunch of OnePlus users are reporting that the native weather app simply refuses to update.
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According to multiple user reports on the OnePlus subreddit, the company’s own weather app has stopped working across multiple devices, from the new OnePlus 15 to the older OnePlus 13. This basic service has a strange, ongoing problem that leaves the app stuck on old forecasts or showing nothing at all.
Mishaal Rahman, Editor-at-large at Android Authority, also confirms the issue on his OnePlus devices. On the other hand, some OnePlus 15 owners in Europe and our colleagues in India have confirmed that the OnePlus Weather app is working on their OnePlus devices, suggesting that the issue might be device or region-specific.
Some commenters on one Reddit post claim that Oxygen OS 16, which ships with the OnePlus 15 and has rolled out to other devices, seems to be having trouble pulling fresh weather data from OnePlus’ servers. That said, other users chimed in saying their devices running Oxygen OS 15 and 14 have the same issue.
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