I’m staying in South Korea for over a year now, and the air pollution has never been this bad. As I recall, back in early 2000 when I visited, this was mostly a Spring seasonal phenomena, but now it takes a separate app in everyday device.
Note to any English-speaking users: higher the numbers, worse the air is. AQI I’m used to only goes up to 10, but apparently this PM unit counts actual molecules in the air. The app slowly turns yellow-and-red, that’s the warning sign you should avoid outdoor activities. Everything else works as intended.
There is an unfortunate glitch though. The app goes into infinite loading if it cannot get an accurate reading of location data. In iOS 13, location service is much more regulated than what developers seem to think so, so the loading bar doesn’t go away after waiting awhile. Instead, what I did (and what you could try) is disable location services for this particular app, and add a random location manually so that the app will jumpstart before it falls into infinite loading loop again. Then you can enable the location services again. This should be a simple enough to fix it in future versions.
A quick feature request: the app doesn’t work on iPad. I just needed a glimpse by the widgets, so I have it installed anyway. Hopefully developers may consider adding a support for it.
Over all, I’d love to see this app grows. Some of the Korean reviews I’ve read so far suggested this might be a portfolio work for the studio. In that case, I’d solely miss the app support. At any rate, a work well done.
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