Home screen weather app disappearing?

[mcrox]

The 9/15/21 Google update broke the weather on my Pixel 4a. The weather widget doesn't disappear, it just functions in any number of erratic ways. Occassionally it works properly, usually it says 'unable to show weather for the location', sometimes the favorites are gone, sometimes selecting a location opens a previous one, and on and on. Clicking on the temperature on the Google search page displays the info for my location but if I choose 'tomorrow' or '10 days', it shows whatever problem I'm currently experiencing. Doesn't matter if I add a duplicate widget, change Google accounts, change Nova to Pixel launcher, clear cache, clear Google data, restart phone... whatever problem I'm having continues. Only thing that fixes it is to remove Google updates and then all works as should and my original favorites are back regardless of what changes or locations I added while it was acting up while Google was updated.
Update... perhaps this should be posted elsewhere. Just noticed it's P5 forum but it's best I found while searching.

 

[mastawindu]

Same annoying issue here...

 

[andybones]

Seriously. I'm getting sick of this redundancy..

 

[EvanVanVan]

I've had pretty good luck with the "redundant" Google widget hidden on an unused 3rd home screen. The weather stayed for over a week. Just in the past couple days I've been in an area/buildings with terrible/zero service and the weather has disappeared, but it's come back reliably once I got home.

As an update to my last post, when I removed the redundant widget initially the weather disappeared a few hours later..but like i said, it been good when it's kept hidden on another screen.

 

[bobby_sucker]

Same crap here, P4XL

 

[bobby janow]

Same crap here, P4XL

It seems that a lot of apps, weather from Google included, are not allowing VPN connections. Even XDA didn't load when connected. I'm not sure if it's only my VPN but I have seen reports of this recently. Even messages chat services will not connect unless I turn off the VPN or make an exception.

 

[EvanVanVan]

It seems that a lot of apps, weather from Google included, are not allowing VPN connections. Even XDA didn't load when connected. I'm not sure if it's only my VPN but I have seen reports of this recently. Even messages chat services will not connect unless I turn off the VPN or make an exception.

Yeah, Google maps takes forever to connect/load traffic data if I don't turn off VPN for a second.

 

[bobby_sucker]

Somehow they fixed it.
WTF

20hours later ..
It's broken again)

 

[bobby_sucker]

Yeah, correct now.
Proton VPN is the issue here, so widget works just fine.

 

[bobby janow]

Yeah, correct now.
Proton VPN is the issue here, so widget works just fine.

Yeah same here, Proton VPN. Did you just make an exception and if so what did you exclude? I couldn't find a specific weather app so I excluded Google although I hate to open all of that.

 

[bobby_sucker]

Yeah same here, Proton VPN. Did you just make an exception and if so what did you exclude? I couldn't find a specific weather app so I excluded Google although I hate to open all of that.

Yes, just added "Google" and "geodata from multiple sources" (System apps exclusions) in Proton.
The geodata is probably for no reason, just to make sure navigation won't have any hiccups while running VPN.
So far, the home screen widget seems to work with no issues.
It has been like that for few days already, but i will keep monitoring tho

 

[Baronik]

It's definitelly something wrong here, but I can't fugure out what - I've just updated to latest Google app update (2021.09.19.402388881.Release), which introduce new widgets from Pixel 6s'. Now I got on homescreen two weather indicator - one from usual widget (with date) and one from new google app. Both shows the current weather, but only the first allows to get inside and check all the data (current/tomorrow/10 days), while the other starting the same app, but says weather is not available for my place. I've tried removing all updates to Google app and re-updating it, cleared app cache, checked localisation setting, nothing helped. I use no VPN, stock soft after latest update to Android 12 on stock Pixel 5.