In this episode, Tyler demonstrates how to get weather information in your Mac's menu bar, useful if you, for example, want to be able to quickly access such information but don't want to deal with widgets or the Weather app.

To add weather information to your Mac's menu bar, go to System Settings > Control Center, and choose "Show in menu bar" from the "Weather" popup menu. The temperature for your current location, if the Weather app has previously been granted access to it, should then appear in the status menus. Clicking the temperature should reveal a dialog with the current temperature, other applicable information about current conditions, an "Hourly forecast" group showing the expected conditions for the next four hours, and a button to open the Weather app.

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Hey, Apple Vissers, Tyler here, with a quick tip for how to get weather information in your Mac's menu bar.

This is something that you've been able to do with third-party apps for a number of years now, but with the release of macOS Sequoia 15.2, this functionality has been integrated directly into the operating system.

This may be useful if you want to get quick weather information such as the current temperature or hourly forecast for the next few hours without needing to deal with the weather app, a third-party app, or a notification center or desktop widgets.

I find the menu bar I can use with far fewer keystrokes than the weather app or widgets.

So to set this up, all I have to do is go into system settings, control center, and choose menu bar under the weather pop-up menu.

So to demonstrate that, I'm going to go to system settings on my Mac.

C for control center, control center, and interact with the scroll area.

And because weather is near the bottom, I'm going to jump to the bottom with V-O-globe-right arrow.

Weather, show in menu bar.

If it's off for you, just choose that from this pop-up menu.

So now I'm going to close out of this, and I'm going to press V-O-M twice to access the status menus.

Okay, and here I am on 29 degrees Fahrenheit.

To access more information, I'll just V-O space.

Okay, so this is the top of the dialog, V-O-R-A, we have hourly forecast.

Depending on the current conditions, there may be other information here too, such as a severe weather warning if one's in effect, or if the feels like temperature is significantly different from the actual temp.

But I'm going to interact with the hourly forecast group now.

And we have a few hours, so 6 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m., 10 p.m., and that's it.

So not the full 24-hour forecast that you get in the weather app, but if you want to get hourly forecast for the next four hours, this is quite useful.

So I'm going to stop interacting, and V-R-A, open weather, and that's the only things you have in this dialog.

The temperature, any other information as relevant, the hourly forecast group, and the open weather button.

If I hit that, it'll just take me into the weather app.

Now to get out of this dialog, at the time of recording, January 2025,…

How to Get Weather Information in your Mac's Menu Bar (No Third-Party App Needed)

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How to Get Weather Information in your Mac's Menu Bar (No Third-Party App Needed)