BBC: World News & Stories - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

THE BBC APP: News, stories, videos and live coverage from our trusted global network of journalists.

BBC STORIES: The latest, breaking news headlines, articles and videos, including coverage of world News, UK News, elections, BBC Verify, and more. More stories and videos covering business, innovation, culture, travel, Earth, and much more.

LIVE COVERAGE: Follow live news updates and live global sport in our Live section.

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 and videos for later on the app and BBC.com
• Watch videos over both cellular and wifi
• Increase your font size for readability
• Choose dark mode for a dark-background reading experience
• Share stories 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

4.43 out of 5

4,100 ratings in New Zealand

5 star

2,658

4 star

970

3 star

230

2 star

1 star

171

Ratings History

Reviews

Don’t upgrade to the latest version

After upgrade to latest version, I can’t select/lookup words for dict translation.

Poor design

The BBC website is faster and more interactive on a mobile than this latest version of the app and so there is no reason to use the app.

What the hell happened?

People download the BBC App for the news. The ‘live’ tab no longer has audio. The UI is atrocious and blatantly just a web interface for the website now, with no caching of news stories. How did you manage to ruin what was the best news app when you’re the most reputable news agency on the planet?

Not much improvement

Each time the BBC news app gets a refresh it seems to become less functional. You used to be able to bookmark the topics you were interested in but that got taken away. The latest version nags you to sign in, but I don’t really want my reading habits analysed and I would prefer to remain anonymous. Additionally you used to be able to navigate between articles by swiping the screen which was intuitive, I still find myself trying to swipe to the right to go back to the previous screen but this no longer works and it’s now a two gesture manoeuvre to scroll up and tap back. I wish the embedded advertising didn’t interrupt any audio that was playing on my device, I understand that the advertising is what funds the content but I’m just a guy reading the news, I don’t care how great some massive aerospace company is - I’m not about to buy a jet engine.

Frustrating App

The new Stuff app is highly frustrating , it is slow and often crashes.

Ads without prompting

As well as being a desktop-style downgrade from the previous app, making it harder to find what you might be looking for, the advertisements pop without even being on screen and certainly not clicked on. Really poor - think I will get my news from a well functioning app like Al Jazeera or something.

Advert automatically playing a video

Getting difficult to use the app - scrolling through news and suddenly I'm watching a video for an advert i didn't click on. This is happening very regularly. Very frustrating and almost unusable

Update has many bugs

DO NOT DOWNLOAD - the updated app has many bugs. It currently goes to a blank black screen and then an advertisement loads around 10 seconds later. You then close the advertisement and it reverts to a blank screen. BBC, your better than this, fix it up

Wish the update

It was can translate by iOS conveniently but now I can’t select the word from my phone it is not friendly to who English is not really good

Select/Copy text disabled

I've been a happy user for more than a decade now. Unfortunately the latest major update no longer allows me to select and copy text for looking up in other apps, such as a web browser. I don't quite understand the reasoning for disabling this feature, given that the web site has the same content without that restriction. This significantly reduces the value of this app for me.

Store Rankings

Ranking History

Category Rankings

Chart	Category	Rank
Top Free	Ireland News	4
Top Free	New Zealand News	4
Top Free	Australia News	5
Top Free	Greece News	8
Top Free	Finland News	9

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CGTN - China Global TV Network	1	4 months ago
POLITICO	4	1 month ago
Reuters News Unmatched global news source	5	2 days ago
BBC World Service	14	1 month ago
South China Morning Post Breaking HK, China & Asia news	4	1 week ago

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