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But when you open the Privacy Settings tab, it gives you the option to directly open your phone settings to change permissions, see data usage information and toggle off 'Allow background data usage.' There's also a choice directly in the app's privacy settings page for either 'standard advertising settings' (allowing ad partners to use your device information to target ads and for other purposes) or 'do not share my information other than for ads in this app.' There's also a tab to let you request a portable copy of data, manager permissions and request a data deletion. Weather Underground has perhaps the most impressive privacy policy of the pack: It lets you know up front when you open it for the first time that it will be using your information to target ads.

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The app is free, but you can upgrade to a premium ad-free version for $20 per year or $4 per month, which also includes detailed visual forecasts up to 15 days out. Like The Weather Channel, Weather Underground is also owned by IBM. Scroll down to find hourly and weekly forecasts, the air quality index, sunrise and sunset times, and tabs that take you to news stories and weather forecast videos. If you tap 'more,' you'll find information on humidity, dew point, visibility, UV index and flu outbreaks. On the homepage, you'll see the current temperature, what it actually feels like, the daily high and low and precipitation and wind information, along with a radar map. Weather Underground offers hyper-local forecasts for your neighborhood, along with interactive radar, satellite maps and severe weather alerts.

But these are the ones we liked best, along with their privacy policy information. There are hundreds of weather apps in the App Store and Play Store, so we haven't tried them all. If you want to be even safer, check the weather manually in your internet browser or another device. The built-in Weather app on your iPhone (which uses data from The Weather Channel) or Google Weather app on your Android may not be perfect, but if you're already in those device ecosystems, they have your current location information anyway. A number of weather apps, including those from The Weather Channel, AccuWeather and WeatherBug, have come under fire or faced lawsuits for selling location data to advertisers. However, any third-party weather app - as in, those that don't come built-in to your phone - poses a risk, since they operate using location data, and sometimes ask for permissions they don't actually need. Depending on which weather app you choose to download, you may also get additional information like monthly forecasts, humidity levels and precipitation totals.

Weather apps provide us with one of the most basic but essential tasks, giving us a forecast to plan out our days and weeks.

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