uNotch Weather Privacy: What Leaves Your Mac

uNotch Weather privacy comes down to two optional connections: city lookup through Apple MapKit and forecasts through Apple WeatherKit. Weather requires uNotch Premium. It does not require a uNotch account, and the requests go directly from your Mac to Apple.

There is one setting worth checking carefully: the temperature in the menu bar works independently of the Weather page. Switching the page off does not stop that separate display from requesting weather.

What leaves your Mac when you choose a city

As you type in the city search field, uNotch sends the search text to MapKit to find matching places. Selecting a result also resolves that place's coordinates. WeatherKit then uses the chosen location to return a forecast.

Choosing a city is different from continuously tracking your current location. You can select somewhere you plan to visit or simply want to follow. The Weather feature is based on that choice.

The uNotch overview explains which features are free and which need Premium. Without Premium, the Weather search is inactive.

When forecast requests happen

With Premium and a city selected, weather is requested when either the Weather page is open or the menu-bar temperature is enabled. The menu-bar setting works even with the page off.

For example, someone who removes Weather from the notch but keeps the temperature in the menu bar is still using Weather. Treat those as two controls for the same external feature, rather than assuming the page switch covers both.

What stays on your Mac

uNotch stores the selected city and a forecast for the current day locally. The cache avoids a fresh request every time you look. It is reused only for today's forecast and the same city, replaced by the next day's data, and discarded when you clear the city. Search text is not retained by uNotch.

These details describe the app's storage. Apple's handling of its service requests is a separate question. For the full data flow, see the uNotch privacy policy.

How to stop using Weather

If you want to keep the selected city but stop showing weather, switch off both the Weather page and the menu-bar temperature reading. Avoid city searches, which make their own MapKit requests. Clear the chosen city if you also want to remove the saved weather location and its cached forecast.

Review both display settings when checking a managed Mac or troubleshooting unexpected traffic. The support page describes the Weather feature alongside the other pages and permissions.

Keep the claim specific

Calendar, files and the Music widget's current-track data are handled locally, while optional Weather uses named Apple services. You can use the rest of uNotch without adding Weather to your routine.

If a forecast in the notch or menu bar is useful to you, enable it knowing which location information is sent. If it is not, leave both weather displays off and skip the city search.