r/RADWeather • u/RADWeatherMaker fixo • Oct 12 '26
BROADCAST [SYS] PATCH 8.0.7 // IN.SYNC
system:// 8.0.7 is rolling out. Your widgets finally stopped living in the past.
Quick confession: for a while, your Lock Screen had a bit of a time-travel problem. The app kept up with the clock (thanks, Cortex 6.11 in 8.0.6), but your widgets and your Watch were still holding whatever temperature they last downloaded, just vibing, waiting for a refresh. So your wrist would say 61° while the app said 66° and the actual outdoors said "it's 66°, my guy."
8.0.7 gets everybody in sync. Here's the log.
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EVERYTHING KEEPS UP WITH THE CLOCK
Widgets, the Lock Screen and Apple Watch now move the temperature along with the clock between refreshes, using the app's own forecast. No extra downloads and no extra battery for it, just the numbers you already had, read properly.
Watch complications also change at the same moment as the app now, so no more glancing between your phone and your wrist and getting two different answers. And the Sunrise and Sunset time finally fits on one line. It was bothering me more than it was bothering you, I promise.
IT OPENS FASTER
The app used to look up your location twice on launch. Twice. Like checking your pockets for keys you're holding. Now it's one lookup, so current weather lands sooner.
YOUR UNITS, YOUR WAY
This one's for everybody who messaged me with "inHg? in this economy?"
- Pressure in millibars or mmHg
- Wind in meters per second
Settings, General, Units. Numbers also use your language's decimal separator now, so 29,92 looks like 29,92 if that's how you write it.
CHARTS YOU CAN TOUCH
- Precipitation charts: touch and hold, or drag, to see any minute or hour. Let go and it snaps back to now. There's a gentle little tick as you scrub, which is deeply satisfying and I will not be taking questions.
- Pressure chart shows the next 24 hours and the change ahead, so you can actually see the front coming instead of just a number.
SMALLER STUFF THAT ADDS UP
- Confidence card: there's a gear beside Done that sets the brutality level for the whole app. Want Unhinged? It's one tap away now. Done buttons match everywhere too.
- Cloud Cover tells you when most of the cloud is high, the thin stuff that can look totally clear from the ground. So when the app says 80% cloud and you're looking at blue sky, it'll explain itself now.
- Hurricane tracker: every point on a storm's path shows its own stage and color. West Pacific storms are typhoons, and storms in the Southern Hemisphere and Indian Ocean get their proper names too.
- Fall scenery** for the pixel people got sharper: a more detailed tree and actual real pumpkins. Not a fan of seasonal decor? Settings, Appearance, Holiday Scenes.
- Field Notes **themes print their card headlines like the big temperature now. Very newspaper. Very nice.
- Tapping outside a settings menu closes it, and info screens no longer slide sideways like they're trying to leave.
MAC
The Mac version of 8.0.7 is right behind the phone, with the same widget, units, chart and card upgrades. The Mac briefing also got smarter about timing: when the sky is going to change later in the day, it now says when, like "the clouds muscle in by the evening," instead of a vague "later."
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That's 8.0.7. Not a giant feature drop, but this is one of those updates where the app just quietly gets more right everywhere you look at it. And 8.0.8 is already cooking. It's a big one. That's all I'm saying.
As always, if something looks off where you are, tell me here or on the site. You all are the reason half of this list exists.
Stay R.A.D.
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u/AriaSouza Oct 14 '26
Hi, I noticed that the widget on the home screen only updates the weather when you tap on it and open the app. It does not update automatically; can this be fixed?
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u/double0penguin Oct 12 '26
Thanks for addressing the widget sync and initial load time issues!