A crop of the iPhone home screen with a "Location Services is off" message displayed over the Weather widget.

Many iOS 17 users are reporting a bug that makes the Weather app’s widget on their iPhone display a “Location Services is off” error message. When they tap on the widget the weather app works fine. So here’s what to do when your weather widget is not working:

The iPhone home screen with a "Location Services is off" message displayed over the Weather widget.

Solution of “Location Services is off” error

The solution is pretty straight forward.
You have to go to:

  1. Settings>Privacy & Security> Location Services
  2. Scroll down and select Weather> Always

And voila! Now the widget works just fine!

The iPhone home screen with a blue arrow pointing on the Settings app
The iPhone settings app with a blue arrow pointing on the Privacy & Security settings
The iPhone Privacy & Security settings with a blue arrow pointing on the Location Services
The iPhone Location Services settings
The iPhone Location Services settings with a blue arrow pointing on the Weather option
The iPhone Weather settings, pointing towards the Always option
The iPhone home screen with the Weather widget working.

I hope this helps. Leave a comment if it doesn’t!

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