Apple’s iOS 17 update arrives today, and many apps are rolling out updates to support the new features. One application in particular is islands weather, Weather app that offers funny daily forecasts. The app has launched a variety of new features, such as a voice impersonation feature, weather widgets, and more.
Thanks to Apple’s new Personal Voice Accessibility feature, which mimics a user’s voice, Carrot can now sound like a user when providing weather updates. Personal Voice is primarily designed for people who are at risk of losing the ability to speak. Carrot’s new voice impersonation tool may be useful for these individuals. Additionally, this feature could be fun for those who can imitate celebrity voices, Brian Mueller, creator of the Carrot apps, told TechCrunch.
The Carrot 5.12 update also includes several weather widgets that can now be added to the iPhone standby screen, iPad Lock screen, and Apple Watch Smart Stack. StandBy is the new full-screen experience on iPhones that allows users to lay the device on its side and view quick information. Carrot offers widgets that provide jokes as well as hourly and daily forecast charts.
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Additionally, the Carrot app for Apple Watch has been redesigned for watchOS 10. The main interface will now use a vertical tab view, so users can quickly switch between forecasts, whether current, hourly or daily. Each section is clickable and can be expanded to show additional details. Users can also view animated weather maps and customize data points.
For the first time, Carrot is now available in 14 additional languages – Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. However, Carrot’s diatribes – for which the app is so famous – are still only in English.
There’s also a new next-hour radar feature that tracks storm movement 60 minutes into the future. The feature is available in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, and South Korea.
Version 5.12 of Carrot is available on the App Store today.