Lock screen apps not showing up on lock screen

Josey Wales said:

I would not do that over this silly thing, still wondering why I concerned myself with it. OCD??

You know, it's not really that important a feature but as soon as I read this I had to test Win+L myself - sure enough my Weather app details were missing from 15063.296's lock screen.

Then I opened the Weather app to check it was still working.

Thereafter the Weather details appeared on the lock screen and continued to do so after I closed the Weather app.

Then I checked Settings > Privacy > Background Apps. I note that at some time I had turned off 'Let apps run in the background'. I turned it back on, then turned it off individually for all apps except Weather. After a Restart the Weather details now appear on the lock screen even if I've never opened the app itself.

Hi there.

Just curious why so many people are bothered with the weather app -- just look outside !!!! or use a phone.

One of the best for phones is actually the BBC weather app (Android and iPhone available world wide - not restricted to only UK users / residents) -- beats all the computer tiles rubbish. Quite frankly I'd be quite happy not to have any of those tiles at all - just a simple cascading menu.

Much better than tiles were the "Gadgets" feature of the much aligned VISTA system. VISTA was fine if it had sufficient hardware power - and I still like the Aero Glass look. I do like though Windows 10 "Spotlight" type feature - new pictures at login time - and of course there are loads of themes as per W7 style.

However on my lock screen weather app works just fine so I'm not sure what your specific problem is -- perhaps a totally clean Windows re-install using the most up to date media creation tool.

Cheers
jimbo

Hello jimbo,

You make some valid points. For me it is simply OCD. I don't like tiles myself and I delete all of them on first startup. That is why I find it curious that restoring the Weather tile made Weather on the Spotlight lock screen work for me when nothing else would. I do look outside from time to time and I do have a smartphone and sometimes I even go outside.

No worries
Michael T

I have always had the lock screen disabled in Windows 10, but decided to enable it recently for increased security. I also wanted to have the MSN Weather app display its status there (because, uhh... I can't tell what the temperature is outside, nor the likelihood of precipitation and/or dangerous weather by simply looking outside). But it doesn't display. Yes, I am logged in when I hit Win+L to check. Annoying.

I've been struggling with this off and on for about 6 months with no luck in getting weather to show up on the lock screen whether I'm logged in or not. 6 months ago it showed up - no problem. On my computer I've made quite a few customizations using mostly registry mods.
On my wife's computer I haven't made any customizations on her computer, it's running the same version of windows, and weather always shows up on the initial boot up and anytime I hit Win|L.

I haven't tried undoing all my customizations, mainly because I'm not sure what they all are, but I suspect one or more of them combined with a windows update squashed the ability for weather to show up.

BTW: occasionally, when there's some kind of WX warning a little icon pops up with a following !. This shows up on initial boot & Win|L.