Jim Rigsby 21
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Bad. OK for news, but would like more stories to pick from (this is a news organization). Forces you to sit through a long opening splash screen (the night screen looks like the Evil Eye). Tapped an ad - could not kill it, even by closing app. Had to mute my phone - glad it didn't happen in public. When the ad finally ended, still could not close the pop-up - had to force-kill. Opening popup says it collects data, even when not in use. Uh, no - I deny permission & force-kill it after every use. Edited
Brian Peddicord 3
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Boy, I hope you like notifications because you will be getting a lot of them. Sure, there are some pretty granular options to control what news items you want to receive notifications about but, guess what? They don't work. I have it set to receive notifications for traffic and weather and instead I receive them for everything from high school football to local nobodies doing handstands on unicycles. All. Evening. Long.
A Google user 58
Sunday, September 8, 2019
The only complaint is that when there is a traffic incident in the notifications, the verbal description only appears in the notification (unless I just need to be taught how to find it within the app.). In my experience, once you click on the notification, you get the map which shows congestion with colors, but in the case of such information, the verbal is at least as helpful as the map, and often more so, especially if the estimated clear-away or reopening time wasn't memorized.
A Google user
27
Friday, March 6, 2020
Horrible app. It crashes CONSTANTLY and EVERY single video plays for a brief moment, then is cut off by a black screen and a commerical takes absurdly long to load. (I have an excellent data plan) After many of the commercials, which are apparantly more important than the news in which I downloaded the app for, the news video NEVER even comes back up! Don't waste space and time, just go Google the weather and download SMARTNEWS, which has ZERO ads and customizable news worldwide and local.
John Henry 31
Friday, January 1, 2021
Would rate higher but I can't turn off notifications for news. I only want weather. Have all other notifications turned off. But I get 10 notifications a day from different categories, traffic accidents, mayor speeches, sports. Fix that or I will be uninstalling. VERY annoying to continually get dinged throughout the day when it is indeed turned off. Samsung S9, One UI 2.5, kernel 4.9
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