That’s why I like Air Matters. You can choose your scale
Air quality reporting on iOS
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#13I have never understood how to interpret AQI in iOS. Confusingly, the UI will (edit: or at least used to?) say "Air Quality: Low" when what it means is that the pollution level is low (ie. air quality is high). Somewhat disappointing coming from Apple.
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#14'This air quality level is known to cause cancer in California'
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#15I have never understood how to interpret AQI in iOS. Confusingly, the UI will (edit: or at least used to?) say "Air Quality: Low" when what it means is that the pollution level is low (ie. air quality is high). Somewhat disappointing coming from Apple.
Hmm, what country does this happen in? I've never seen it use Low/High, only from Good to Hazardous.
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#16I have never understood how to interpret AQI in iOS. Confusingly, the UI will (edit: or at least used to?) say "Air Quality: Low" when what it means is that the pollution level is low (ie. air quality is high). Somewhat disappointing coming from Apple.
Hmm, what country does this happen in? I've never seen it use Low/High, only from Good to Hazardous.
In the UK for example.
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#17“I noticed something strange in the iOS weather app”
I’ve noticed that the weather app on my iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS all show differing forecasts with all 3 devices within 18” of each other. AQI is just one of the parts of the forecast that I just don’t pay attention too. Around here in the summer, it is always an alert saying don’t go outside
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#18'This air quality level is known to cause cancer in California'
California air quality used to cause acid rain, so cancer was the least of the problems. So at least they’ve gotten to the point where you can now worry about the cancer
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#19Interesting. This seems like the reasonable way to do it. What global scale would you pick otherwise? And would it be sensitive enough to show gradients in the least/most polluted countries and cities or would it just fill them in with one color?
I think the problem is that the colors have different meaning. The values in the screenshot for Amsterdam using the NL scale translates to 'insufficient' and while the DE scale translates to 'good' for the same city at the same time. At the very least, it means that a user cannot use these scales for inference without knowing/understanding the technology behind them. This is probably not the intention behind showing…
The colors having different meanings shouldn't come up in typical cases, because who's looking at their air quality map from two different countries? There's also a key to the upper left.
It's interesting and well designed IMO. I don't think this actually causes issues for any users.