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kylehotchkiss
The first thought that ran across my mind is that they don’t want Siri to say it and it was probably easier to enforce that at the weather API level?
et2o
If they are intentionally not displaying 69 to avoid a childish joke, that is dumb.
Tagbert
“ Interestingly, with 69 showing up in Apple’s Weather app widgets, it’s possible this is more of a glitch than an intentional move from Apple. ”

It seems to only be on some versions and components.

bellyfullofbac
The tweets referenced from the article are gone. Maybe it is a rounding thing, and maybe the newer version gets data from the API using Celsius. 20C is 68F, and 21C is 69.8F and the app would display 70F.

Hopefully they've not gone ultra-puritan and decided an innocent number needs to be banned just because some adults know what it refers to and giggle about it...

mikestew
Meanwhile, in Carrot Weather on iOS, you get an achievement award for experiencing a temperature of 69F.

(I assume it would do the same in Celsius, but have been unable to test.)

coldacid
You probably wouldn't want to test 69°C anyway.
tolbish
Not to trigger a Baader-Meinhof, but you could easily withstand that temperature in a sauna.
coldacid
With your phone?
HeyLaughingBoy
Well, 70 Celsius is the top of the standard commercial IC operating temperature range (0-70C) so it's not out of the question.
cmoscoe
Here in Canada, when it gets below -15c or so, my iPhone will give me an error that it's out of it's operating temperature, and needs to "cool down". Californian developers, I guess.
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joezydeco
There are other quirks. If the recorded temperature outside is -18°C, which is -0.4°F, the Weather app will show it as -0°F.

Which is technically more correct than +0°F, but I've seen people call it a bug.

Hublium
The outdoor temperature reading on my car dashboard has a granularity of: … – -0.5 °C – -0.0 °C – 0.0 °C – 0.5 °C – 1.0 °C – …