Xiaomi says Arunachal Pradesh weather glitch on its smartphones fixed

NEW DELHI: Chinese phone brand Xiaomi, on Monday, claimed that it has fixed the technical glitch on its weather app because of which their smartphones were not displaying the weather of Arunachal Pradesh.

There was a technical issue in our weather app that we had identified. The same has been fixed,” Mi India spokesperson said in a statement on Monday.

Social media, especially Twitter was flooded with complaints about the Mi weather app which was not displaying the temperature of India’s far-east state Arunachal Pradesh and its capital Itanagar.

Social media was abuzz with rumours and questions about the company supporting China’s claim over the north eastern region. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does not recognise Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh as Indian territory.

Xiaomi however sought to clarify that the glitch was caused due to use of “data from multiple third-party sources”, adding that weather-related data from many locations was not available on their current mobile app.