What's New | Yawa

Version 1.9 - Make It Yours · June 2026

New dashboard preview

New

Customizable dashboard - rearrange your weather tiles with drag-and-drop and resize them between small and large. Tap edit to make the dashboard truly yours.
Weather alerts - severe-weather warnings now surface right on your dashboard, with a dedicated tile and detail view.
Choose your language - pick your preferred language directly in Settings, independent of your device language.
Light, dark, or system theme - switch the app's appearance whenever you like from Settings.

Improved

Redesigned weather tiles - temperature, UV, wind, moon, sun, precipitation, and atmosphere tiles have all been reworked for clearer, more glanceable info.
Smoother moon phase - the moon's shadow now glides seamlessly as you scrub through the timeline, including a clean transition through the new moon.
Smarter sun tile - the sun's arc and horizon now reflect the real daylight at your location and date - even the endless days and long nights near the poles - and the larger tile now also shows your total daylight hours alongside sunrise and sunset.
Improved widget reliability - the widget works now more reliably on Android.
Widget opens displayed place - the widget now opens the displayed place when tapped.
Smoother animations and a faster, more responsive app under the hood.

Fixed

Widget Unit - the widget was not updating when the user changed the units type in the app.

Radar revamp preview

New

Revamped radar map - tiles are now loading much faster, and the map is now more responsive and smoother.
New radar provider - you can now choose between Rainbow AI and OpenWeatherMap as your radar source.
Radar timeline - you can now scrub through the radar timeline similarly to the weather timeline.

Improved

The weather timeline has been redesigned with smoother temperature graphs, better animations and less clutter.
Faster map and radar loading thanks to smarter caching.
Clearer markers for locations on the map.
More reliable state handling.

Improved

Yawa has been updated to a newer engine under the hood. The app starts faster and scrolls more smoothly, especially on older devices.
The animation system has been refreshed for better performance.
Dozens of internal dependencies have been updated for reliability and security.

New

Home-screen widgets in multiple sizes, so you can see the current temperature and forecast without opening the app. Available on both iPhone and Android.
Nine new languages - Arabic, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Ukrainian, and Yoruba. Yawa now feels at home in more places around the world.

Improved

Particle animations - rain and snow particles now match what's actually happening outside, with more detail and smoother motion.
Refreshed icons across the whole app, plus subtle micro-animations that make daily use feel more alive.

New

Fresh look - a brand-new splash screen, an updated launcher icon, and a polished set of in-app icons.
More customisation - extra options to personalise how your forecast looks and what information you see first.

Improved

Smoother navigation on Android with better support for the predictive-back gesture.
Local storage and subscription handling have been rebuilt for faster, more reliable day-to-day use.

New

Yawa account - sign in so your Pro subscription works on every device. Set it up once and you're covered.
Landscape and tablet layouts - flip your phone sideways or grab a tablet and Yawa adapts to the wider screen.

Improved

Visual refresh - updated designs for the moon, sun, and wind tiles, plus smoother animations across every screen.
Smarter radar - map markers now cluster automatically when you zoom out, so the radar stays readable even with lots of saved places.
More customisation - additional options to tailor the app to the way you check the weather.

The public debut, including everything that makes Yawa, Yawa:

Brand-new UI - clean, modern, and designed to be glanceable.
Works on more screen sizes - phones and tablets, portrait and landscape.
Rebuilt radar - scroll through recent radar history to see where the weather has been and where it's going.
Yawa Pro - longer-range forecasts, up to 16 days and 96 hours, plus an ad-free experience.
Richer forecasts - day-at-a-glance summaries that tell the story without the noise.
Weather animations - scenes that reflect the real sky outside.
Performance - tuned from day one to feel fast and light.

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