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Alerts
Weather Buddy can nudge you when something is about to change. There are four alerts, all on to start with, and you can turn each one off in Settings → Alerts.
The four alerts
| Alert | When it arrives | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Bring the washing in | Your washing is out: 30 minutes before rain, or when drying stops for the evening | Rain is due around 14:30. |
| Rain soon | It's dry where you are and rain is due within 6 hours: 20 minutes before it starts | Rain is due around 14:30 where you are. |
| Good drying weather now | Today is a good (or worth-a-try) drying day at Home and the best window is starting | A dry spell at Home starts now. |
| Tomorrow's a washing day | At 7pm, when tomorrow looks good for drying at Home and today didn't | Dry at Home from 9am. |
Each alert ends with the time of the forecast it came from, for example Forecast at 9:40am.
Set a Home
The three laundry alerts all use your Home's forecast, so they only arrive once you've set a Home. Rain soon uses where you are.
Rain soon stays quiet while your washing is out and a Home is set, because Bring the washing in already has it covered.
Turning alerts on
Weather Buddy asks to send notifications the first time you tap Washing's out. You can also tap Turn on notifications in Settings → Alerts.
If you said no earlier, Settings shows Notifications are off. Open Settings, which takes you to iOS Settings to change it.
Keeping them under control
In Settings → Alerts:
| Setting | Choices | Starts at |
|---|---|---|
| At most n a day | 1 to 6 | 3 |
| Quiet from | 5pm to 11pm | 9pm |
| Quiet until | 5am to 10am | 8am |
If more alerts are due than your daily limit allows, they're kept in this order: Bring the washing in, then Rain soon, then Drying weather, then Tomorrow.
The one exception to quiet hours
Bring the washing in is a Time Sensitive notification, so it still arrives during quiet hours, and through Focus modes that allow Time Sensitive notifications. If your washing's out, you'll want to know.
How alerts are worked out
Alerts are planned on your phone from the latest forecast. Nothing is pushed from a server. That means:
- They're refreshed whenever the app updates the forecast, including in the background when iOS allows it.
- If the forecast is more than 6 hours old, Weather Buddy doesn't send alerts rather than send ones that might be wrong.
- They can be a little behind a sudden change in the weather.
If alerts aren't arriving, see Troubleshooting.