The Met Office app has been refreshed

What's next on the roadmap of improvements?

The latest update to the app focuses on introducing a range of beach forecast information which will continue to be added to during April. Users will be able to see tide times, sea temperature and wave height for 500 beach locations around the UK. RIP currents and safety advice will also be accessible.   

Why have you changed the app?

Since 2016, our Met Office app has kept millions of people safe and informed about the weather. But technology moves fast, and the old infrastructure had become increasingly complex making it harder for us to keep improving the experience for everyone. 

Users told us they want a more modern and less cluttered design to help them get key weather information quickly and easily. We’ve listened and built from the ground up. 

Our refreshed app uses a modern framework for faster updates and a unified design across iOS and Android. It’s the same trusted weather information in a clearer, easier-to-read format.

What are the refreshed app's features?

With the new-look app you can:  

• Download a daily or hourly widget, so you can see the latest forecast from your home screen
• Get instant alerts of warnings in your area and access all UK weather warnings via a single click
• Check the weather in your area for the next hour and up to 7 days ahead 
• Save your favourite locations for quick access and notifications  
• Explore interactive maps for cloud, rain, temperature and weather warnings  
• View detailed information, including feels-like temperature, wind, humidity, visibility, UV level 
• Access mountain and beach forecasts and safety advice
• Watch our latest presented video forecast
• Give us your feedback to help us continually improve the app.

What are the latest changes to the app?

Your feedback has been invaluable in identifying issues to fix and improvements to make. Since we made the refreshed app live on 14 January 2026, we've made various enhancements including:

• Refining spacing and layout to make key information easier to scan. This includes reducing the size of the weather animation at the top of the app
• Making the weather maps more useable and the timeline smaller
• Adding 'feels like' temperature to the hourly table view
• Making it easier to find, save, compare and manage locations
• Enhancing the display of current locations to further improve the locations experience
• Adding surface pressure information and video. 
• Providing more units of measurements choices for temperature (°C / °F), wind speed (mph / km/h / m/s / knots /Beaufort scale) and visibility (miles / kms)   
• Added in-app notifications to explain improvements when they are released.
• Adding mountain forecasts for conditions at altitude
• Pollen forecast information and notifications

Our next planned improvements are focused on beach forecasts and will include: 

• Tide times
• Sea information including lowest and highest daily wave height
• Links to nearby beaches when they show for a forecast location
• Beach safety advice created in collaboration with water safety experts RNLI

What else is coming?

We’ll add the following features to the app by summer 2026:  

• Regional forecast information - giving a broader overview beyond individual locations 
• Long-range forecast information - for the outlook up to four weeks ahead.

We’ll continue to prioritise changes, based on your feedback and usage of the app, and to help you make confident and informed weather-related decisions. 

How can I get the refreshed app?

You should have received the refreshed app and get updated versions automatically, if you have our app and have auto updates enabled. Otherwise, you’ll need to manually update to get the latest version.  

By allowing your device to automatically update apps, you’ll receive new features and improvements to the Met Office app as soon as we release them.  

If you don’t already have our app, our app is also available to download from the App Store (Apple) and the Google Play Store (Android). 

How can I provide feedback and report problems? 

You can give us your feedback and report problems via the buttons on the app. This ensures it goes directly to the developers, so they can fix bugs and enhance the app. 

Download our refreshed app on an iOS device or an Android device now - and let us know what you think.

This webpage was last updated on 06 March 2026.