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title: "SBS News - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in Australia | Apple App Store"
description: "Discover a world of news with the SBS News app. From Australian news to world news, find key news headlines, context and perspectives that matter to you and your community. Whether it's politics, cult"
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# SBS News — Australia
> Latest Australian & World News

![SBS News App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/8b/27/31/8b27315b-74b7-1603-ba32-efdea93b4619/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-11-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)](https://apptail.io/developer/special-broadcasting-service-sbs-NlQ) (Australia)
**Category:** News
**Rating:** 3.1/5 (576 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** au.com.sbs.worldnewsaustralia.World-News.iPhone
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** Australia
**Version:** 5.16.1 (released 2026-04-16)
**Original Release:** 2011-05-06
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/au/app/app/id432849691)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/australia](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/australia)

## SBS News Description
Discover a world of news with the SBS News app. From Australian news to world news, find key news headlines, context and perspectives that matter to you and your community. Whether it's politics, culture, or current affairs, access accurate and reliable information effortlessly. Get real-time notifications for breaking news and stay ahead of the curve. Join us for a seamless news experience that keeps you connected.

- Global News: Discover the latest news from Australia and around the world
- Instant Updates: Receive breaking news alerts and updates on topics you want to follow
- Live Streams: Video live streaming of news events; SBS World News
- Personalised Access: Dark Mode, iOS 14 Widget, and 3D Touch for a tailored experience
- In-Depth Exploration: Dive into explainers, related stories and trending topics
- Curated Newsletters: Subscribe for a customised news briefing at your preferred time
- Seamless Sharing: Share stories with friends via social networks, email, or SMS
- Trusted Journalism: Explore unbiased, diverse perspectives
- Stay connected: Read the context behind the headlines, discover inspiring and informative stories

## SBS News Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/b3/fa/40/b3fa4056-e4d1-8993-abea-94ab436b61a8/adbda900-5d77-4cc5-a57c-3897c8c85759_01-AppStore-Mobile-Home_-_iPhone_6.5_U002522_Display_1284_x_2778px.jpg/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/b4/2a/3b/b42a3b64-e321-7b37-81c8-ca2199a33d10/65651ee2-8f34-4349-8e1e-a9a35e6f1326_02-AppStore-Mobile-Explore-Topics_-_iPhone_6.5_U002522_Display_1284_x_2778px.jpg/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/42/7d/bf/427dbf36-f577-d731-3716-f7d3a188b0f6/d29932f0-a914-4202-a508-323f3e2c3f22_03-AppStore-Mobile-Watch-Now_-_iPhone_6.5__Display_1284_x_2778px.jpg/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/e0/33/d0/e033d0e7-3e46-5237-ff46-56d117be3af6/3d006afb-6560-401b-8c58-02a8cb020734_04-AppStore-Mobile-Notifications_-_iPhone_6.5_U002522_Display_1284_x_2778px.jpg/1284x2778.png)

## SBS News Rating Breakdown in Australia
- 5 stars: 166 (29%)
- 4 stars: 101 (18%)
- 3 stars: 89 (15%)
- 2 stars: 77 (13%)
- 1 stars: 143 (25%)

## SBS News Reviews in Australia

### ***-- "Cannot scroll"
I cannot simply scroll through news stories without the interface “jumping” and defeating my efforts to actually preview news stories. Drives me mad, I eventually give up trying. I’d say it’s due to attempts to load advertising that’s causing this. Any updates to fix this in the foreseeable future?
-- mellzo, 2024-12-30

### *---- "Unusable"
Impossible to read- if you try to scroll through stories, the page goes blank, reloads, flickers, jumps around on the page, reloads again.. 
don’t even bother
-- snappy_don, 2024-11-25

### *---- "Can do better"
Take a leaf from the ABC NEWS app or even copy it as it's far too cumbersome to go to another news story with the SBS app.
-- Wic48, 2024-10-08

### ***-- "App"
SBS news app is no way as good a look or feel as other main news feeds.
Look is very important, and relevant updated news events are essential. Needs an overhaul.
-- grumpybaker, 2024-09-26

### ****- "I would give 5 stars except…"
I think it would be a really great idea for the developers to consider allowing readers to save articles they want to read for later! Is that possible?
-- caitlin_contagious, 2024-09-03

### ***-- "Update me to death."
How about saving all the little updates until there is a bunch. Seems like every time i open the app it wants an update. I just go to another news app while it does it. Maybe come back.
-- they're dreamin', 2024-08-17

### *---- "Old old news"
Why is so much of this app populated by news that is days, and sometimes weeks old. It’s in the name, stupid: NEWs. I don’t want archival news, I want to find out what’s happening now, not what happened a week ago! Mongrel of an app: doesn’t know what it is!
-- Toe-in-the-water-user, 2024-08-14

### *---- "Notifications"
Serious, ongoing issues with notifications: sending multiple times, in the wrong language, against preference in app.
-- Radkovicbe, 2024-05-30

### *---- "Getting only Chinese notifications, no English"
For some reason, the notifications are all in Chinese, leading to Chinese articles. I downloaded this app primarily for news notifications, so it’s basically useless for my use case. 

Can’t see any area to change the language and SBS mandarin news notifications are turned off.
-- Patrick193747, 2024-05-29

### **--- "SBS news alerts changed to Chinese"
My news alerts have automatically changed into Mandarin for some reason. When I go into the app everything is still in English. I can’t seem to change it
-- Joyziebellzoh, 2024-05-29

### **--- "SBS news"
Far too many articles remain in the app for too long and are old news

Malcolm, Attadale
-- Malfellow, 2024-04-06

### *---- "More app updates than news stories"
Surely it doesn’t need updating THAT often - I mean how much difference does it actually make?
-- Sufferin Jesus, 2024-03-25

### *---- "Why can’t I see more photo detail?"
The quality of news is debatable. Generally it’s still a cut above the murdoch shlock. BUT you often feature some great images. Why then can we not zoom in and look at the detail?! Very frustrating when this option is available on most other news aps.
-- Sancho Alpaca, 2024-03-02

### ***-- "Poor"
Same news stories stay in app for days / weeks. 
Only one or two new stories each day. No point using more than once a week or so.
-- Incredibly dissatisfied, 2024-02-04

### *---- "Headlines only"
Can’t read full stories, headlines ony
-- Help Cath, 2024-01-15

### **--- "News app? Really?"
While I enjoy much of the drama and movies on SBS it’s news is way too lefty for me. So something I found particularly offensive made me delete the app. Was just watching the news- something I rarely do because I no longer trust MSM there was an item about an ancient sea creature on this afternoon’s news. I have a grandson obsessed with dinosaurs so I reinstated the app so I could send it to him. I scrolled- nothing. So I searched dinosaur, sea creature and a few others. Nada. I’ve re deleted the app.
-- Reds Supporter, 2023-12-11

### *---- "Just another propaganda site"
Bias and partisan is the name of the game and this site does not discriminate nor does it disappoint. Just like any other mainstream cooperate media, and they wonder why people are turning away from these outlets! Waste of time.
-- meowmak, 2023-10-28

### *---- "Adds"
Too many adds.
-- macanolli, 2023-10-14

### ***-- "App uses too much space"
App is using 30 gig of storage but there’s no way of seeing how. I need to delete the app to recover the space.
-- Ben Hoad, 2023-09-26

### *---- "Getting worse"
The content in the app does not reflect the quality of SBS’s tv bulletins. There’s more and more clickbait content or generic junk stories. 

The instagram stories style buttons at the top are pointless and rarely relevant or updated. 

There are too many ads (there shouldn’t be any), they look like unsophisticated scammy ads and their placement is annoying. 

Finally, the new red icon is ugly. It was much nicer when it was the simple SBS logo on a white background.
-- H.Collingridge, 2023-07-13

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## SBS News Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Free | Australia | News | #49 |
| Top Free | New Zealand | News | #54 |
| Top Free | Peru | News | #111 |
| Top Free | South Africa | News | #125 |
| Top Free | Taiwan | News | #138 |
| Top Free | Nigeria | News | #253 |
| Top Free | Indonesia | News | #257 |
| Top Free | Hong Kong SAR China | News | #312 |
| Top Free | Thailand | News | #329 |
| Top Free | Singapore | News | #343 |
| Top Free | Pakistan | News | #429 |
| Top Free | United Kingdom | News | #449 |
| Top Free | Japan | News | #466 |

## SBS News Discovered Keywords
- world news
- australian news
- sbs radio
- sbs
- sbs news
- abc news australia
- sbs viceland
- sbs news app

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## SBS News Available In
- [Australia](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/australia)
- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/united-states)
- [United Kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/united-kingdom)
- [Canada](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/canada)
- [New Zealand](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/new-zealand)
- [Vietnam](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/vietnam)
- [Hong Kong SAR China](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/hong-kong)
- [China](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/china)
- [India](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/india)
- [Japan](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/japan)
- [Switzerland](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/switzerland)
- [Indonesia](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/indonesia)
- [South Korea](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/south-korea)
- [Malaysia](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/malaysia)
- [Israel](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/israel)
- [Singapore](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/singapore)
- [Thailand](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/thailand)
- [Sri Lanka](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/sri-lanka)
- [Türkiye](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/turkey)
- [Jamaica](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/jamaica)
- [Jordan](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/jordan)
- [Kenya](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/kenya)
- [Kuwait](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/kuwait)
- [Kazakhstan](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/kazakhstan)
- [Lebanon](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/lebanon)
- [Madagascar](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/madagascar)
- [North Macedonia](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/north-macedonia)
- [Macao SAR China](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/macau)
- [Mauritius](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/mauritius)
- [Mexico](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/mexico)
- [Namibia](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/namibia)
- [Nigeria](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/nigeria)
- [Norway](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/norway)
- [Nepal](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/nepal)
- [Oman](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/oman)
- [Peru](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/peru)
- [Philippines](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/philippines)
- [Pakistan](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/pakistan)
- [Qatar](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/qatar)
- [Russia](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/russia)
- [Saudi Arabia](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/saudi-arabia)
- [Senegal](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/senegal)
- [Tunisia](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/tunisia)
- [Taiwan](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/taiwan)
- [Ukraine](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/ukraine)
- [Uzbekistan](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/uzbekistan)
- [United Arab Emirates](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/united-arab-emirates)
- [South Africa](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/south-africa)
- [Armenia](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/armenia)
- [Argentina](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/argentina)
- [Azerbaijan](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/azerbaijan)
- [Barbados](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/barbados)
- [Bahrain](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/bahrain)
- [Bermuda](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/bermuda)
- [Brunei](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/brunei)
- [Brazil](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/brazil)
- [Belarus](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/belarus)
- [Chile](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/chile)
- [Colombia](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/colombia)
- [Dominican Republic](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/dominican-republic)
- [Algeria](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/algeria)
- [Ecuador](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/ecuador)
- [Egypt](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/egypt)
- [Grenada](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/grenada)
- [Greece](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/greece)
- [Iceland](https://apptail.io/app/sbs-news-ymb/iceland)

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