Apple News

This app is shocking, and the idea that anyone would pay for a subscription to it is laughable. It doesn’t seem to have even the most basic ability to react to the massive number of likes and dislikes I’ve added. It continuously serves up publications I’ve blocked and am clearly not interested in, and stories similar to others I’ve disliked many, many times. I’d (potentially) be up for an Apple subscription to a really slick news service with the intelligence to learn what I want to see and what I don’t. But this isn’t it, and an organisation with Apple’s resources should be able to do a hell of a lot better than this.

Regularly tells me I’m not connected to internet so doesn’t update even though, all my other apps are connected. Also, keeps blanking articles I’m in the middle of reading. It’s actually just a really buggy and annoying app to use.

The Apple News app pushes paid headlines to your phone and doesn’t actually send you any real news.

In the last year, it has become unusable. It used to be my go-to news app, but it keeps coming up with “no connection” when I clearly do, and wont let me do anything. Shame as I didn’t actually mind how it works, but I won’t return until the annoying connection problem is solved. Fyi, the connection issue happens about 90% while using the app - that is how bad it is.

If you block a mainstream media news source, they will continue to tempt you to unblock it by putting the thumbnail without the image there with a convenient link to unblock them. Akin to blocking a predator online but rather than them removing their presence from your digital space, not only would they give you a convenient way to get back in touch with them but placing a thumbnail of the predator on most of your storyboards. I used to queue outside of Apple back in the day for the phones. It’s clear since Steve Jobs left that Apple is no better than Google, they’re just better at pretending, and that’s good enough in a world full of people who trust people who are good enough at hiding tyranny. I’m still with Apple only because I prefer the phone and software but as soon as there’s a better alternative, I’ll gladly jump out of their walled garden on principle alone.

“Search unavailable. No internet. “ Get this message quite a lot when searching for a particular piece of news.

Everything wrong with this app has been wrong for years and called out in hundreds of reviews. Apple would like you to pay money to subscribe to news + which is weird given it’s still just as bad and Apple doesn’t give two monkeys

App seems fine but the sheer cheek of charging £12.99 a month for this and also fill it with ads.

This was by far the best news app, it knocked spots off everybody else’s ad/clickbait-riddled efforts. Nowadays it’s just stuffed with Apple News+ ads. When you block a channel your feed remains full of grey tiles for blocked channels (erm… normal behaviour would be to not see channels you’ve blocked, or am I missing something?). Clicking on the suggest less button seems to have no impact on how many stories/subjects I want to completely avoid, it may actually increase them! The thing is, this app was great, it really was, lots of interesting, paywall-free, ad-free articles, it was ace, well worth being a Mac/iPhone user for. But still, nobody seems to realise that if they wanted to save journalism and make money from it, they should’ve done something about 25 or more years ago. 99% people expect news to be free, it’s a carved-in-stone fact, nobody pays for news any more, that ship has sailed decades ago. So Apple… either make the Apple News experience great again, as it was or just kill-off the app. Frankly I’m getting to the point that News’ lack of usefulness means that I’d just rather do without any news, including the latest in what Apple is doing. Nobody wants to pay for news, nobody wants ads. Revert to being as good as Apple news was, because at least you’ll get SOME engagement, as it now is, Apple News is tanking, big time. I’ve binned all of my other news apps but it looks like Apple news will go the same way. Perhaps the old saying is true, ‘no news is good news’.

I have completely disabled all restrictions, screen time and focus groups and i still get the message for certain apps with restrictions on my ipad