StationCast 12.1
What's new since 11.0
The headline for this release is a major upgrade to how StationCast works with Siri and Spotlight on iPhone: you can name a specific station out loud, ask for the nearest one, get a little weather card back instead of just spoken text, pin your primary station to Control Center, and find any saved station from Spotlight search. Along the way, StationCast also arrived on the web.
Siri, much smarter
StationCast’s voice support grew well beyond a single canned phrase.
- Name a station out loud. Ask about a specific saved station by its name or label — “how’s Home in StationCast?”, “what’s the temperature at the Cabin in StationCast?” — and you’ll get that station, not just your default.
- Weather near me. Ask for conditions “near me” and StationCast answers with your closest saved station.
- A weather card, not just a sentence. When you ask for a summary, Siri now shows a compact result card — station name, current temperature, condition, and wind/humidity/high-low — alongside the spoken answer.
- Proactive suggestions. StationCast now hints your common requests to the system, so Siri and Spotlight can surface them at the right moments.
- Control Center control. Add a StationCast control to Control Center for a one-tap glance at your primary station.
- Open a station by voice or Shortcuts. “Open Home in StationCast” jumps straight to that station’s detail.
Tuned for iOS 27’s new Siri
iOS 27’s redesigned Siri changed how spoken requests get routed — in particular, it now hands anything containing the word “weather” to Apple’s own Weather app. StationCast adapts:
- New phrases that always reach StationCast. Because the word “weather” gets intercepted, there are now reliable alternatives that skip it: “Hey Siri, StationCast conditions”, “StationCast report”, “how’s it looking in StationCast?”, and “what are the conditions in StationCast?”
- No more dead ends. Asking StationCast for the weather no longer dead-ends with an “I can’t search for weather in StationCast” message.
Find your stations in Spotlight
Your saved stations are now indexed in Spotlight. Swipe down on the Home Screen and search a station by its name or label — the result opens straight to that station’s detail. Stations stay reliably in sync as you add, rename, or remove them.
StationCast on the web
StationCast is now available in the browser, a new client alongside iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Alexa. Sign in with Google and check on your stations from any browser — saved stations with current temperature at a glance, add stations by search, and per-station detail. This is an invite-only private beta to start, with richer conditions, charts, and map discovery arriving iteratively.
Fixes and reliability
- Wind card. Fixed a case where the wind card’s headline number could disagree with the small trend chart beneath it.
- Under the hood. Continued backend reliability and observability work that keeps the service healthy without changing what you see in the app.
Thanks for testing. Please file feedback via TestFlight or on GitHub.