FOX 4 Dallas-FTW: Weather Reviews

by Mcg55

FOX4DallasFTW was my Favorite weather app, simply because it let you set your exact location for forecasts. The other apps all give you the forecast for your town or city. We don't have one. We love 30 miles from the closest town, so the forecast for that town is spotty at best. The new update removes this capability, and contracts the area it supports. When I open FOX4DallasFTW now, all I get is a message saying "not available for your current location", which is our house. Want a better rating, fix it.

by VintageRestyle

I finally had to delete FOX4DallasFTW from my phone after putting up with terrible performance since I downloaded FOX4DallasFTW a few years ago. It would work fine for a period, then another update will download to “fix” bugs, which ends up crashing FOX4DallasFTW . It started with FOX4DallasFTW not fully loading so the daily and hourly forecasts would be blank. The last straw was when it decided not to load at all for several days in a row. It would freeze on the sponsor opening image and do nothing else. The same thing happened on my husband’s phone. I don’t recommend FOX4DallasFTW at all because it’s unreliable. When spring storm season rolls around again, I’ll find another weather app to get radar and weather alerts.

by Hugsaly

As other reviewers have mentioned, the default of every single type of weather alert automatically loading makes it so you can’t even see the precipitation on the radar. Yes you can remove them but you have to do it every time you re-open FOX4DallasFTW . You used to allow users to set their own preferences in alerts and overlays that would “stick” permanently until redefined by the user. Please bring back this functionality. I am going to use another app in the meantime because this new feature is so frustrating. It has been my go-to weather app for years. Very disappointed.

by No-ads!!!!!!

The most recent app update seems to be missing something..... like the current weather!
Clicking on hourly will show you what it will be in an hour, and daily shows you high and low info, but absolutely nothing shows you the current weather right now. It literally opens to a blank map, and the settings for the map view are also awful.
You can turn on clouds and precipitation overlays so you can make an educated guess on the weather conditions. Or you can turn on the temperature overlay which gives a tiny circle showing the temp in each city. So that view is like a hundred little circles with numbers covering the map. Super helpful as well. What in the hell happened here?

by KCMom0702

Ok so normally I love FOX4DallasFTW, best weather app there is. But today I open FOX4DallasFTW and it’s not working at all, every time I try to use it it says “this application is not available in your current location”, with no way for me to fix it or do something else. if someone could please fix this that would be great! I rely on FOX4DallasFTW for all my weather predictions, and it rlly throws me through a loop to have it not working.

by Crested12

I have relied on WAPP for years as my weather location for DFW. This newest version is lousy. Personally, I do not need or want to see the cloud cover ... only the actual precipitation on the map. I have chosen “radar” and still get clouds AND rain shown ... for the past few times I have checked FOX4DallasFTW , it has shown no rain anywhere within the entire US. I find this rather difficult to believe ... especially since the forecast for DFW has included rain. Today, it has rained all day and all I am seeing is cloud cover when I can hear rain on my roof. Something is wrong here!!! Please go back to the old version that was reliable!

by Textumbleweed

I hate this new update. I do t like the look of the map and can seem to go back to match the simulated map on FOX4DallasFTW page. I don’t like the black and white background.
The choose your own buttons don’t make any sense.
I liked that you could choose past present and future of the forecast.
Really before this update I loved that I finally had downloaded something that people around me were talking about. Now I’m ready to ditch it.

by Rds0917

Please go back to the old interface , the WAPP used to be reliable. With the recent update the radar takes awhile to load and the drag and drop is not in the best spot on the map. Today it’s raining in my area for the next few hours but this is not indicated on the radar. Last week there were tornadoes and it took awhile to figure out how to figure out the drag and drop along with setting up alerts...this should be automatic. Very disappointed in the update, looking for a safer weather app.

by Linds7302

I like FOX4DallasFTW to see the forecast, however the radar view on the map is inconsistent at showing what is actually going on with precipitation and storms. For example, right now I see the lightening strikes and there is no storm cell showing. However, when I go to another radar app, I can see the storm. This has been within the last few months. I never had trouble like this before. Something must have changed to cause issues.

by 19Colorado

I do not like the new radar screen color and I do not like that there is hardly any detail on the map. Only the major roadways and only cities of your choosing, so people like me that live in a smaller suburb we can’t zoom in to see where exactly we are. The overall aesthetics are not nearly as good as before . It was better when you could actually zoom in to small side streets like google earth type map. I. Have used FOX4DallasFTW since it became available, but today am shopping for a new app.

by Scrit025

Really strange how all the fixes I install on FOX4DallasFTW when called to update on my iPhone X just make it perform even less each time it is updated!
Weirdness!! Shows my location near Nigeria in the South Atlantic Ocean today!
Rarely get to see fronts heading towards the DFW area if any and if so those disappear quickly.
FYI Your Advertising works without a hitch.
Initially I bragged on FOX4DallasFTW and encouraged many others to use it! Even worked out of state on East and western states! Now it is a flop for me!! Boo!

by Blf2050

This used to be a great app, now it is covered by ads in all phases- which is why I dumped the weather channel app. Trying to slide down to see current weather past the ads is annoying. Bring back the choices at the bottom where you can click radar, daily and extended forecast. Plus the fading color radar is hard to see. FOX4DallasFTW constantly says it looses connection and to retry...I’m on home WiFi- there is NO lost connection. Fix it or I dump it too.

by Fan Of Didi

FOX4DallasFTW will work for a few hours and then I get a “Network Failure, make sure airplane mode is off and WiFi is on” alert. This has happened daily in various locations with WiFi and cell service. All other apps work fine. I have to uninstall FOX4DallasFTW and reinstall it and it will work. I didn’t have this problem until the updated version came out.

by Tootrmonky

I don’t know when this changed, but recently a ton of new weather warnings and watches have showed up. Now when I open the radar to look at the weather, I can’t see how severe it is because twelve different watches and warnings all in different colors cover up the actual weather

by Taylor2756 E

Okay so I just got FOX4DallasFTW thinking...I am tired of just the weather with out a map! So I figured FOX4DallasFTW was going to be great!! So I get FOX4DallasFTW and I am trying to pin my location but this thing keeps popping up that says something about unable to pin your location and that you need to check your network and so on. Then it says cancel or retry I press retry. The same thing keeps popping up over and over and over again. I don’t know if it is my WiFi or something but it might be. So it is just really hard to pin your location well it is to me at least. Also I just pinned a random location and looked at all the stuff I really don’t like how you have to scroll down it just is kinda weird. But other than all of that I think FOX4DallasFTW is really good!!

by Kar120c

...for one thing. I have been using FOX4DallasFTW on my iPhone from early days and it’s a great app for tracking weather in the DFW area as well as when traveling. I recently bought an iPad which I use primarily in landscape mode with a keyboard case. The WAPP will not rotate into landscape mode rendering it mostly useless on my iPad. I have ended up installing another weather app that does work in landscape mode.

by Graham Mees

I’ve been using the WAPP since it came out, I’ve never had a problem with it and I use it for every place I travel too. Recently we moved about 15 miles west of where we used to live and it’s giving me an error when I open it that it’s not available in my current location along with a pair of coordinates and it didn’t do this till a few months ago. I love FOX4DallasFTW but I’d like to be able to use it when I’m home now too!

by Number231

I have a iPhone 12. Radar works. Future radar works. Not sure why you use FOX4DallasFTW for its photographic image view. But my house is there.
Thus is my go to app no matter where I am when I want radar, forecast and hourly conditions. It is power hungry so if you just want the temps then others load faster.
I haven’t experienced any odd battery drain.
For me it’s the most complete weather app. Plus you can see live weather coverage if your power is out.

by Arcadeenjoyer

Just downloaded the FOX 4 WAPP after seeing a short blurb at the end of tonight’s forecast! I have been slowly starting to watch your FOX 4 weather now that my Sony TV can receive the NextGen TV signals! Perhaps you can bring elements of your WAPP and the FOX 4 News app to the NextGen menus when your station starts offering them on your new signal?

by Aridon1970

So I used to love FOX4DallasFTW because it had a great landscape radar. However someone thought it would be brilliant to put a freaking ad over about 20% of the freaking screen in landscape mode. If this isn’t fixed I’ll just delete FOX4DallasFTW . It no long has value.

Update.. they fixed the issue right after I submitted my review. It’s good again!

by Gr8tohave

FOX4DallasFTW was working just fine until the update a month ago! It works fine and then for hours I will get the network failure. It doesn’t matter if I am at home using WiFi or out and about using my cellular network. The radar seems to have something going on with it as well as the last few storms that have came, nothing was on the radar! Please fix whatever the bug is so I can utilize this weather app! Please HELP!!!

by Miz.liberty

In the last month, when I go to open FOX4DallasFTW , my location and all of that pops up, but the forecast and radar doesn’t.
I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled FOX4DallasFTW and the problem is still repeating itself.
This is the ONE app I use for weather because I enjoy the accuracy and the news the channel offers.
I really hope they get that worked out, because it’s frustrating!

by Porsche Mom

I have used FOX4DallasFTW for over 5 years, probably closer to 7, and it has usually been my go to app for weather. But since the last few updates since about a year ago, it has a few wonky things that frustrate me. Many of those things have already been brought up.

My biggest frustration has to do with the list that shows all my saved locations. It used to be that I could look up a location, rename it if I wish, then save it to the list. If at another time I wished to delete a few locations because my list was getting too long, I could do so.

Now, since the last big updates within this past year, I can’t for the life of me figure out how to delete locations! My list is getting big enough that it is becoming difficult to find the location that I am looking for. Is this still a feature of FOX4DallasFTW ? If it is, where is it? And if not, make it one again!

So App Developer, have any advice?

by SRamBler7

The whole app is glitchy since the last update. I keep having to completely close it and start over. The radar map looks terrible. Please go back to however it was. The time lapse on the radar does not work properly. Reset!!! It was fine the way it was!!!!

by Murray R.

I’ve always been a fan of the WAPP especially the radar, but the new update makes it a lot easier to find the other features. I didn’t know you could watch the fox 4 news right on FOX4DallasFTW .
That’ll come in handy if the power goes out. Thanks!