NBC News: Breaking & US News

Name: NBC News: Breaking & US News
Rating: 4.75648 (150379 reviews)

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User Reviews for NBC News: Breaking & US News

Back to being a five star

If you’re on the fence about this app, look at how consistent the developers are at responding to each of our technical complaints. They addressed my issue. As far as ads go, it’s a free app offered by commercial network channel. Someone has to pay for it. I’d rather read, listen to, or watch ads while on the app than sacrifice my personal device’s autonomy when I’m off the app. Here’s my previous review: Was among my favorite news apps until today. They now force users to accept notifications. That’s ridiculous. Hate to see it go but it’s deleted now. I’ll revisit in the future - hoping they see the light. Because I will miss it. But not enough to accept nonsensical notifications.

EarlGreyNoCup, Dec 08, 2021

Fantastic coverage, no paywall

One of the very best news apps. I prefer reading the news to watching it--this app allows both, and does both well. The widget provides constantly updating headlines when other apps, like the New York Times, have totally abandoned their iOS headline widgets. You can read top stories, including excellent coverage of issues of specific importance to LGBTQ and ethnic minority communities, watch video clips or the entire NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. Richard Engel's coverage of international news, especially Syria and Ukraine, is unparalleled. There are ads, but they're not intrusive at all, unlike so many other news sites and apps that have become unusable, and there's no paywall. In this era of fake news and alternative facts, this app is a bastion of quality journalism.

iFoneReviewz, Oct 12, 2019

App developer link takes you to nowhere

This app has had the broken widgets since April of 2021. I’ve even downloaded all the new apps and for my new 13 Pro and the widgets still have not updated since April. Particularly “This week in photos”! So I have a revolving stack that just keeps showing the same thing since April 2021! It’s the same 10 images and the widget is called “This Week in photos” so it supposed to update weekly, but nope! Still seeing the same photos all summer, fall, and looks like it’s going to winter! Please fix! This is super annoying! I want them to change so bad, but the only option is to remove the widget from my phone or unless the app. I’m gonna do both if it isn’t fixed because NBC should have it where when you click on developer options, or report, it goes directly to an online form to report the problem. It cannot be fixed if we cannot report it. So I gave it one star, hoping someone will just happen to see this review, because there is no way to report this information to the developers!

Jkeeton, Nov 19, 2021

The streaming is down a lot

I like the app, and when it works it’s great, I like to listen to the streaming simulcast at work. Seriously good app, but the msnbc streaming is down a lot. In fact for three days now whenever I try to listen I get the same error message. “Unable to load audio. We’re sorry there seems to be a network error. Check your network connection and try again.” It’s not my connection, there is nothing wrong with my connection. I can stream everything else from audio to movie streaming apps. And until three days ago I could stream msnbc through this app, even if it would go out frequently, it was usually only out for a few minutes. This time it’s been several days.

Joe Lee 2814, Jan 06, 2022

Good app but needs fix

I really like this NBC news app. It’s just the right amount of news without the overwhelming and completely depressing, overblown, polarised information of other news apps. I want to be updated with the latest important news; not bludgeoned with gruesome murders, US vs YOU political crap and a TMI style of app reporting that complies a bunch of other nonsense making me feel that human beings are the worst idea ever created! That being said, I have a couple of technical issues; why does it jolt you off the section you are reading ( I assume more stories are being added? ) it is incredibly frustrating to be reading a headline and suddenly your 3 or 4 stories down and have to scroll back to what you were originally looking at. Also, while I love that the content is limited, which makes for a clear straight forward news feed, some of the stories at the bottom seem to never change, so really you end up reading just the upper portion...how about moving those older stories along. More stars when small issues are fixed😉 Thanks for doing the news right!

kdbull, Mar 21, 2020

NBC news is great, The app as well…except…

I see reviews here that are up to two years old that address my issues. NOTHING has been done to address the app’s “automatic refresh” boondoggle. This apparent “brain fart” of an idea is, in my opinion, screamingly frustrating! Literally every time I go to take in my daily diet of your news options on my iPad, I get automatically catapulted to an awfully rearranged menu. So many times I’ve been just about to make a selection and then “POOF” it’s gone! At which point I proceed to look for the item unsuccessfully and give up. I give up because of the other problem I have with it, “lousy search options”. Seriously??? This app is from the NBC that I’ve always loved and respected? As per usual, the content etc. are in line with how I’ve come to expect from you folks, top of the line. But these problems I’ve listed are what I’d expect from rank amateurs. (I’m not going into the bugs I’ve experienced, I don’t want to split hairs.) I love you guys. (Loved you better when news was a public service and not a corporate venture.) But even now you are the one I turn to. The best thing going. Please fix this weirdness? I think, by now the public knows how to push a “Refresh” button when THEY WANT.

Rex Hrothgar, Jan 14, 2022

Did jhumsoon write “myocarditis?’

I love reading the comments where people are supposed to review the app itself, but ramble on about insignificant and trivia. An NBC News app reviewer, jhumsoon commented how he or she develops inflammation of the heart, every time they see someone on NBC News get stabbed when receiving the vaccine. Jhumsoon, I want to ease your heart inflammation! Pediatric and Adult patients get different size needles. A child is never given an adult sized injection in addition to adults and children have different sized breathing tubes, IVs, and pretty much every other piece of medical equipment, in a controlled environment. Kowledge is power. That’s the good news! As far as the NBC News app, I love the convenience of getting “breaking news” notifications and don’t have to search through random news outlets when I have a trusted news source right on my iPhone and/or iPad.

Roulettegrl67, Aug 10, 2021

Minor Issues Make Big Differences

There’s a lot of little things that are annoying. I have this on mobile, and it gets annoying. I can’t figure out how to search, so I can’t see anything but the past two days of news. It gets really annoying! I want to see stuff from the past, almost every other news app has this! It would also be nice to have subtitles on the videos. I don’t always have headphones with me, so it’s difficult to look at certain stories on the go. It would also make everything difficult for deaf people. Most everything else is great, the ads get annoying but it’s fine, gotta make money somehow I guess. Overall it’s an alright app, but these things start to get to you after a while.

TheBestBoot, Jun 28, 2019

PLEASE add a search function

It’s a nice way to get news and it’s free. But there NEEDS to be a way to search for articles. I frequently will have clicked on a notification to read an article and some problem causes me to go back to the home page of the app (sometimes I didn’t finish reading the article before spending an extended period of time with the app minimized, or sometimes when I click a notification it doesn’t actually take me to the article) but if the article isn’t on the home page and I don’t know where to find it in the explore tab, there’s no way for me to get back to it. This is less pressing, but it would also be nice if clicking links inside an article that lead to another NBC article would open up that article inside the app rather than in my browser.

Toby (the girl), Dec 27, 2019

When “Breaking news” push notifications aren’t breaking news

The push notification options for this app appear to be “all or none”. There is one option in settings for “Breaking news”, another for “Quiet mode”. The problem is, I get tons of notifications for things that aren’t breaking news at all. Some are editorials (notification title starts with “OPINION:...”), others are non-breaking news stories: “Toddler's family grapples with 'unfathomable' loss after her fall from cruise ship”. The app needs a *real* “Breaking news only” push notification option. Until it does I’m about to turn off the app’s notifications because I get far too many non-breaking news notifications.

TrekFan359, Jul 22, 2019

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