Google, on the other hand, has always just pushed you into the Google app for a weather experience. OnePlus has a weather app, Samsung lets you access it via widget, and Apple recently released a fancy new version of their own. Most phone makers include their own app or a shortcut to see a built-in weather app through a widget. Version 7.5 of Google Clock is live on the Google Play Store, and you can also pick it up from APKMirror.Checking the weather on your Android phone is a simple task.

As for the upcoming Weather app, one would hope that its new status as a standalone app would unlock timely updates and UI refreshes on par with some of the other core Google apps. It's no secret that Google Weather hasn't historically received much attention on Android, although it got the Material You treatment earlier this month, finally catching up with some of its fellow Google-branded apps, such as Google News, which was also late to the party. Meanwhile, interacting with the weather results on the Clock app could redirect users to the new standalone Weather app. Toward this end, 9to5Google says the Clock app has new elements to notify users, including Clear day, Blizzard, Very hot, Tropical storm or hurricane, Flurries, Low visibility, and Nighttime isolated scattered thunderstorms, to name a few. This implementation could offer weather results for each city you have on the Clock app, in addition to displaying metrics like high/low temperature and general conditions in the region. There's a good chance that some of these details could also pop up on the Clock's home screen widget. On top of functioning as a standalone app to check weather forecasts, local weather results would be integrated within the Clock app for a better user experience.

It's hard to tell when the feature will roll out to the masses, but since there's a reference to a package named ' .weather' within the Google Clock app's code already, 9to5 posits that it could arrive sometime after the Google Pixel Tablet and Pixel Fold are launched in less than a month from now. Based on the app's launch on Wear OS last year, one could think it would only be a matter of time before Android smartphones and tablets got the same treatment, though it's been a long wait since October 2022. Some digging within version 7.5 of the Google Clock app by 9to5Google uncovered hints of a new Weather app for Android, supposed to function independently of the Google app.

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