I know that there are already a butt billion (new kind of number, keep up!) posts where I start off saying “it’s such a hassle tapping this and then that…uuuuuugh”. Well, you’ll be glad to know this isn’t one of those posts.
I was scrolling down a long list of free Rock Your Phone applications recently when I stumbled upon something called Weather Icon. Upon closer inspection I learned that the app could report the local temperature right on springboard so I would never even have to leave the home screen.
I’ve actually always wondered about why the weather icon was static. I mean, c’mon Apple, do you really expect me to believe that every single day is sunny and 73 degrees Fahrenheit just because I have an iPhone? Right. Try telling me that in the dead of Canadian winter when my fingers are frozen
Whatever. Now that I’ve got Weather Icon loaded, I’ll never have to tolerate your fake weather report on my Springboard ever again!
Set up
Once installed, the Weather Icon settings actually lie in the iPhone settings. You can set the app to work with your default weather app, but there is also support for 11 other weather applications (Sorry Patrick, no World Weather). Besides changing the actual application icon, you can also display the current temperature on the status bar or even as a badge above the weather icon. I’m currently using the badge on top of WeatherEye, and have the current “feels like”temperature (which takes elements like wind chill into account) refreshing every six hours.
notice the status bar temperature, too
I love Weather Icon
Just in case it wasn’t evident in the section header, I think Weather Icon is a pretty awesome free app with great utility. I’ve been testing it out for about three or four days now and haven’t noticed any major drain on battery (it updates only four times a day!), and I really like the ability to see a bright red badge to show me the temperature. It’s a simple Springboard modification that really goes a long way. Short of a GPS-related push notification, the weather really couldn’t be more in my face, and the iPhone just feels a lot smarter for feeding me relevant information automatically instead of my having to launch application to find something out. I think I’ve just found another name to drop when people ask me “why jailbreak?”.
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Weather Icon is a free jailbreak app. You can pick it up through Cydia or Rock Your Phone.
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Weathericon is great. Been using it for a while now. Not sure how good of an app weathereye is, but you know you can use weathericon with the stock app, or any other weather apps out there. I'm currently using using world weather(thanks PJ!) with weathericon displaying the current temp on the springboard icon. Gotta love it!
ex. "1-4 home screens" 
P.S. Great show last night Thomas! Very informative and quite a few humerous moments as well!
Im having trouble finding this. Which repo? Thanks!
Found it and loving it! This is another keeper for me. THANKS!
The weather seems to ONLY display what the Default weather app reads. I can get the Icon to show up on different weather apps, but it doesnt display what that particular app reads the temp. For example, Weatherbug Elite shows 88degrees on its icon but if you open Weatherbug Elite it actually says it is 85degrees. Also, I have yet to get the "feels like" temperature to work. I am bummed, this seems like a very useful concept. Something must have gone wrong during installation, or another app is conflicting with it. Any ideas guys? Is it supposed to work this way?
Did you find any solution to that issue? I'm having the same problem: the weather shows on the WeatherEye icon, but it's actually the report from the default app!
Sorry – didn't catch this comment.
I think Simon got it right on — it probably just reports the default weather, but I'm okay with that overall. Anything more than that, and you'd probably have to find the developer to ask. There's a contact button on Cydia when you search for the app.
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