iPhone Weather app screenshot showing Cupertino at 70 degrees Mostly Sunny with sunny background art

Cupertino

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Published October 9, 2026

Cupertino is the default city on Apple's iPhone weather app, and in 2025 TikTokers turned it into a running joke about a seemingly perfect California town where the forecast is forever sunny and 70 degrees. The snowclone 'Average X in Cupertino' spawned a wave of edits framing the city as a utopia free of crime, bad weather and basic human misery.

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Overview

The joke runs on a single observation: open the iPhone weather app anywhere in the world and the top of the list is Cupertino, California, Apple's hometown, where the forecast is almost always clear skies and mild temperatures1. TikTokers turned that quirk into a running bit about Cupertino being a secret paradise, with the 'Average X in Cupertino' snowclone used to describe residents waking up to another 70 degree day with a slight breeze2.

The tone is the opposite of the long running Ohio memes, which frame Ohio as a cursed hellscape3. Cupertino edits instead stage the city as a crime free, poverty free bubble where even the 'worst civilian' is a saint helping strangers on the sidewalk4. Common formats include POV shots of the weather widget, Captain Underpants reaction clips used as a stand in for sunny Cupertino residents, and comparison slideshows pitting Cupertino against Detroit and Ohio5.

Origin & Background

Platform
Twitter (early jokes) / TikTok (viral spread)
Date
2022

Jokes about the iPhone weather app defaulting to Cupertino go back to the early 2010s, with a March 2014 tweet reading 'When you realize you're looking at the weather in Cupertino...' picking up modest engagement6. The first viral post is credited to X user @autipulatious, who on March 26, 2022 replied 'At least I know the weather in Cupertino' to a now deleted tweet about the iPhone weather app 'freestyling,' pulling in over 6,800 likes7.

From there the joke jumped to TikTok. On August 8, 2022, @soupspamsoupspam posted a video asking 'Where TF even is Cupertino?' in front of the in-app weather widget, which collected over 114,000 likes8. Later that year, on December 26, 2022, X user @OvOBrezzzy tweeted 'Someone tell Apple we don't care what's the weather in Cupertino,' earning more than 8,000 likes1.

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How It Spread

The format sat dormant for most of 2022 and 2023 before TikTok picked it back up in early 2025. On February 12, 2025, @.semicolin posted a clip of the Cupertino weather with the caption 'Cupertino always flexing they good ass weather on us,' which cleared 201,000 likes2. Older Reddit entries, like an October 2022 Hulk Gives Ant Man a Taco edit about 'Literally every iPhone world clock ever,' had already racked up 11,000 upvotes in r/memes but didn't trigger the broader trend1.

The real surge came in late June 2025. On June 22, @michaelcoreas posted that he had 'never seen any thunderstorms in Cupertino,' pulling in over 99,000 likes9. Five days later, @keaton.kitchen paired a Captain Underpants scene with the caption about residents waking up to another 70 degree day, hitting more than 142,000 likes10. On June 28, @dihrubber4000's 'Worst civilian in Cupertino' edit, showing a man helping strangers on a walk, cleared 257,000 likes within about a week4.

On July 2, 2025, TikToker @probgrim posted a photo slideshow directly comparing the Cupertino meme to Can't Have Shit In Detroit and the Ohio memes, scored to the 'Is that you, Obito?' sound, racking up around 269,000 likes in four days5. That cross meme comparison framed Cupertino as the inverse of the doomer city memes that had dominated the previous few years1.

Timeline

2014-03-16

Early tweet jokes about accidentally checking the weather in Cupertino, one of the first known posts about the iPhone default[6].

How to Use This Meme

The typical format pairs a screenshot or video of the Cupertino weather forecast with a caption built on 'Average [thing] in Cupertino' or 'Cupertino residents when...' The common convention is to frame the city as impossibly idyllic, often sourcing wholesome or utopian imagery (Captain Underpants clips, sitcom neighborhoods, random acts of kindness) as stand ins for life there.

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