When Apple acquired DarkSky, its weather app got pimped up and users have lately been surprised to find that the company‘s in-house app notoriously avoids 69 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures — even when the data source Weather.com clearly indicates the number. This may not be a big problem for us who use Celsius as a measure of temperature, but this an issue for the Americas and those who use the Fahrenheit scale.
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Immediately on the Internet, there was an assumption about an attempt to censor the number 69, associated with many jokes for “adults”. However, the most likely explanation is the software used by Apple in the Weather app. The application initially relies on temperature data in Celsius, and then converts it to Fahrenheit.
So, 20 ° C equals 68 ° F, and 21 ° C is already 69.8 ° F; which becomes 70 ° F as a result of rounding. This is supported by the fact that in a similar way, the application does not display 65 ° F, jumping from 64 to 66 ° F. The moment of implementation of such a strange rounding in iOS remains unclear.
Devices running iOS 11.2.1 are capable of displaying the number 69, like devices running iOS 15; but in the case of iOS 14.6, the error still exists and, apparently, will be fixed soon.
