How to Change Weather Location for News and Interests in Windows 10
News and interests on the taskbar provides easy access to information that’s important to you, without the distraction of switching between apps, websites, and other devices. View your location’s current weather conditions directly on your taskbar and hover over the icon to see concise, scannable information from sports and stocks to local news and breaking headlines.
The information shown in news and interests is personalized for individual users. Users can customize the content they see, enabling scenarios like the following:
- Keep an eye on nearby weather and traffic that may impact a commute.
To change the location shown for weather and traffic updates, select More options (…) on the Weather or Traffic card, and select Edit Location.- Follow a topic related to professional or personal interests.
Follow a specific topic related to an industry, job role, or subject to learn more about. To follow a specific topic, select Manage Interests and select or search for a topic.- Get personalized updates on stocks.
Keep an eye on major market indicators, see top gainers or losers, or create a watch list of stocks to see updates throughout the day.- Share, save or see more stories.
Select More options (…) on headlines and articles in news and interests on the taskbar to share them with others or save them to read later. Users can also request to see more or fewer stories like the ones shown.
In addition, the appearance of news and interests on the taskbar can be customized. Users can choose to right click or long press a blank space on the taskbar and select News and interests to customize. They can choose Show icon and text or, to save taskbar space, select Show icon only. Users can also select Turn off to unpin news and interests.
You can edit your location in the weather card for News and Interests. If you update your location from the weather card, it will also update the location used for weather on the taskbar.
See also:
- Stay up to date with news and interests | Microsoft Support
- Personalized content at a glance: Introducing news and interests on the Windows 10 taskbar | Windows Blogs
- Group configuration: news and interests on the Windows taskbar | Windows IT Pro Blog
This tutorial will show you how to change the location used by the weather card in news and interests for your account in Windows 10.
This will apply whether you are signed in to Windows 10 with a local account or a Microsoft account.
You are not required to be signed in to News and Interests with a Microsoft account.
EXAMPLE: Location in weather card and weather on taskbar icon for News and Interests
Here's How:
1 Click/tap on the News and Interests icon on the taskbar.
2 Click/tap on the More options (3 dots) button at the top right corner of the Weather card, and click/tap on Edit location. (see screenshot below)
3 Do step 4 (detect location) or step 5 (specify location) for how you want to change the location.
This is the default setting to use your currently detected location.
This option can be good for when you want to specify a location other than your currently detected location.
A) Select (dot) Specify location. (see screenshot below)
B) In the search box, type the ZIP code or city and state of the location you want, and select the location in the search results. (see screenshots below)
C) Click/tap on the Save button. (see screenshot below)
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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