Name: BBC: World News & Stories
Rating: 4.4 (3656 reviews)
Author: BBC Studios Distribution

Description

THE BBC APP: News, stories, audio, videos and live coverage from our trusted global network of journalists.
BBC STORIES: The latest, breaking news headlines, articles, podcasts and videos, including coverage of world News, UK News, elections, BBC Verify, BBC In-Depth and more. Stories and videos covering business, innovation, culture, arts, travel, Earth, and much more.
LIVE COVERAGE: Follow live news updates and live global sport in our Live section.
BBC AUDIO: Listen to, save, and follow BBC podcasts such as The Global Story and World of Secrets. Browse schedules and live stream BBC Radio 4 or BBC World Service. From news, politics and culture to true crime, history and science, you can find the latest episodes or dive into the BBC audio archive.
WATCH BBC NEWS: Users in the US and Australia can stream live breaking news from around the world 24 hours a day on the BBC News channel.
BBC VIDEOS: Watch BBC News videos, BBC Sport videos, and video stories about climate, sustainability, science, health, technology, entertainment, and history.
BREAKING NEWS ALERTS: Sign up for breaking news notification alerts from BBC News, delivered straight to your mobile device.
FEATURES:
• Log into your BBC Account to save articles, podcasts and videos for later on the app and BBC.com
• Watch videos and listen to audio over both cellular and wifi
• Follow podcasts, save & download episodes to your mobile device or tablet
• Download and listen to podcast episodes offline
• Choose your settings to allow the app to automatically update in the background
• Control audio playback with sleep timer and live rewind
• Increase your font size for improved readability
• Choose dark mode for a dark-background reading experience
• Share stories, podcasts, and videos to social platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp, and send to friends via SMS and email
• Opt-in or opt-out of breaking news push notifications, you decide
ADDITIONAL INFO:
If you choose to receive push notifications, a unique identifier relating to your device will be stored by Airship on behalf of the BBC to provide you with the service. You can choose to unsubscribe from push notifications from BBC in your device’s ‘Notifications’ screen.
Our data processor AppsFlyer collects information on behalf of the BBC for attribution and analysis purposes. You can opt out from AppsFlyer tracking by filling out their ‘Forget My Device’ form: https://www.appsflyer.com/optout
The BBC will keep your information secure and not share it with anyone else in accordance with the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy. To read BBC’s Privacy Policy go to https://www.bbc.com/usingthebbc/privacy/
If you install this app you accept the BBC Terms of Use at https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/terms

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User Rating

4.39 out of 5

3,656 ratings in Ireland

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Ratings History

BBC: World News & Stories Reviews

Was once good…

I used to really love using this app. Now when I get alerts 80% of the time when I click on it the app opens, but then stalls and the story doesn’t come up. Very frustrating. There is the fact you can’t highlight and copy text to make posts on social media more interesting by using quotes, you only get the headline and the link. Thats not how you stimulate interest when posting on social media. If the issues are not fixed in the next app update or the one after that… I won’t be using the app anymore.

BBC

the BBC ARE COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE BY INTENTIONALLY MISREPORTING ON THE GENOCIDE TAKING OLACE IN GAZA AND THE UK GOVERNMENTS FUNDING OF THE IDF

Crashes too often - badly laid out links disappear in stories

Only commenting on app not content - app is not well structured and crashes ina regular basis

Whatever happened to QA?

The app is pretty appalling - articles repeat on the page, and often don’t change for several days; elements fail to work (clicking a headline regularly leads to a blank page); and the navigation is just terrible. Previous versions of the app were better. This one needs a redesign, and someone investing in a developer who can make it work. At the same time, perhaps hire a few editors to pick up the glaring typos and reject the occasional rambling personal opinions - make news stories statements of fact again?!

Recently changed for overseas user

The app has recently changed to a world service version, which is different from the UK version I was using and wanted. Now I am getting stories mostly from America which defeats the purpose of having the BBC app. Stared using Skynews instead sadly.

Ads are intrusive, too long, and impossible to control.

I have given up trying to read any articles as, since the last update: 1. I cannot use it without an account I don’t want to create unless I click two separate “use without an account” links each time I open the app 2. I cannot even _read_ articles as a bloody great ad which I cannot mute, pause, scroll away from or minimise takes up the screen for 30seconds. You are the only app I use where ads and accounts are this intrusive. The result is that I no longer use it.

New layout is horrible

I used to use the app 4-5 times a day; now… I don’t want to open the app. Its visually horrific and hard to navigate. I’ll look elsewhere for my news.

Video doesn’t fill screen when I turn my phone horizontally

It’s very annoying that BBC have t tested their app!!! Videos will not fill the screen when I turn my phone from portrait to horizontal landscape!! Please test your own app before releasing!! A video shot in portrait mode appears in a 16:9 frame and is just tiny when the phone is held vertically

New layout is amazing

Love the new layout, it makes finding interesting articles easy

Awful navigation

Once again the latest version is a mess to navigate. The full sports section is missing

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