Your iPhone can warn you for ‘surprise heatwave rain’ for minutes – how to turn it on

IF you’re worried about those summer showers, your iPhone has a nifty trick to help.

the UKs ongoing heat wave will almost certainly be interrupted by a surprising rainfall.

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These can often catch you at the worst of times — just when you thought you were safe in the sun.

Happy the iPhone has a hidden system to warn you just before a downpour comes.

This gives you time to take cover, turn around during your walk or unfold the umbrella.

It is linked to the massive overhaul of the new iPhone Weather app that rolled out with iOS 15 in Sept.

Apple’s Weather App Wasn’t Always Brilliant – And has been mocked before.

But the new version is significantly better and can prevent you from getting soaked.

How to enable weather alerts on your iPhone

First, make sure you’re updated to iOS 15 – go to Settings > General > Software Update.

Then give the Weather app your location information, otherwise it won’t work.

Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Weather and select Always.

You’ll get even better notifications if you grant Precise Location access.

Next, make sure the Weather app can send notifications.

Go to Settings > Notifications > Weather > Allow notifications and select what type of notifications you want.

Finally, you need to enable weather alerts.

Go to the Weather app and choose the list icon at the bottom right.

At the top you will see an option called Stay Dry.

If that doesn’t appear, tap the three dots in the top right corner and go to Notifications.

Tap Turn on notifications and then activate the switch for My Location.

Then tap Done at the top right and it should work.

Now you get a warning just before it starts to rain where you are.

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