How to make Google Now and Android’s Search app show temperatures in either Celsius or Fahrenheit
Google Now is a great new Android feature that was introduced with Jelly Bean back in June. It was recently named Innovation of the Year by the magazine Popular Science and it’s part of the Google Search app.
I personally don’t have Google Now turned on since I
currently don’t have much use for it, but I regularly use the Google
Search app to find information using my voice. However, Google Now and
Google Search always showed me temperatures in Fahrenheit. I prefer
Celsius and I couldn’t find a setting to make the app switch from
Fahrenheit.
Sure, I could manually force Google Search to show
me weather temperatures in Celsius by saying “Show me the temperature in
Celsius in London”, for example. That’s a bit bothersome, though.
Luckily there’s a simple way of switching to either Fahrenheit or
Celsius, but first you need to activate Google Now (you can always turn
it off later). Here’s how to change the weather and temperature settings
in the app.
Activate Google Now (if you haven’t done that already) by launching the Google Search app and then navigating to Settings > Google Now.
There should be a button in the upper right corner (at least on Nexus
devices) that will activate the service. Choose “Yes, I’m in”.
Tap your way to Settings > Google Now > Weather > Weather units
and select either Fahrenheit or Celsius. From now on, Google Now and
the Search app will always show temperatures in the unit of your choice.
You can now deactivate Google Now if you don’t need it.
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