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The Google Weather app now points to search results.
Pixel Weather (the app exclusive to Pixel phones) isn't changing.
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If you've used the Google weather app (technically a widget on your home screen) to check the forecast recently, you might have noticed a change. Instead of a visually pleasing rundown of the temperature, humidity, wind, and precipitation, you get Google Search results for "weather" instead. This change has apparently been in the works for a while, but 9to5Google recently noticed it's now widespread.
The information is mostly the same, but it's definitely a little easier to digest the old way. So what's changed?
Google hasn't offered an explanation, but I have reached out to ask. It's most likely that Google just didn't want to maintain two similar weather experiences (Google's phone line -- from the Pixel 6 and later -- has an exclusive Pixel Weather app that isn't going anywhere) when users could get essentially the same information by pointing them to a Google search.
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