# 13 Action News — user reviews > 104 indexed App Store user reviews of 13 Action News by Gray Television Group, Inc., rated 2.50/5 from 362 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/13-action-news/id335508679/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/13-action-news/id335508679.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 100 · 4★ 23 · 3★ 19 · 2★ 53 · 1★ 167 ## What do users think of 13 Action News? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📰 Local news and weather information - 🔔 Push notifications for breaking news and alerts - 📱 Available on multiple platforms (iOS, Android) - ⚡ Quick access to current events **Cons** - 📺 Excessive and intrusive advertisements - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes - ⚠️ Forced video ads before accessing content - 🔄 App won't open or load properly - 📰 Outdated news stories not regularly updated - 🎯 Notifications don't link to actual stories - 🔒 Privacy concerns with data tracking - 📝 Poor spelling and grammar in articles - 🎬 Video playback issues and buffering - 🔍 Difficult navigation and poor user interface - ⏱️ Slow performance and loading times - 🎨 Ads overlapping and covering article text - 📍 GPS/location features not working properly - 🌦️ Weather app separated from news app - 📱 Incompatibility with certain iOS versions **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes upon opening or when clicking articles - App freezes and becomes unresponsive - Videos freeze after commercials - App won't load past initial screen - Spinning loading wheel that never completes - Notifications show but stories missing from app - GPS/location tracking not functioning - Video playback opens wrong content - News segments cut off before commercials - App incompatible with iPad and older iPhones - Weather forecast shows incorrect times and graphics - Articles not updating or showing stale content - Share functionality causes app to crash - Radar loop not functioning properly - Alert notification icons cannot be dismissed **Most requested features** - Ability to disable or skip video advertisements - Larger font size options for readability - Combined news and weather in single app - Articles sorted by most recent first - Snow emergency levels easily accessible - Mr. Food recipes section - Dark mode option - Better ad placement that doesn't overlap content - Static ads instead of video ads at startup - Option to opt-out of personalized data tracking ## Newest reviews (20 of 104) ### 2/5 — All ads now *2026-04-03* I don't need to see that Rain Wilson is coming to BG every time I switch articles & I don't need to watch 30sec ad videos before every new article, especially for heavy machinery I'll never use. This app has become useless. Used to be my go to but now I'm deleting. Your new developer stinks. ### 2/5 — Stop automatic video play *2026-03-22, version 8.0.2* I would rather read the article than to have the video start playing immediately. Then having to manually stop it from playing is very inconvenient. ### 2/5 — Latest update *2026-03-15, version 8.0.2* This update is awful! It’s hard to read and looks very generic. Thinking of uninstalling it. ### 2/5 — New update is frustrating *2026-03-11, version 8.0.2* The app was recently updated with a bunch of ads. It is now hard to read the news without accidentally clicking on the unwanted ad. ### 1/5 — No good *2026-03-09, version 8.0.1* No good ### 1/5 — What has happened *2026-03-09* I’m finding this version of your APP unusable. I used the prior format since 2020. Had no problems. Now nothing but pop up ADS that cover and interrupt the text/video of the story. I can’t delete the alert notifications even after turning it off. This APP is terrible. I’m deleting it. ### 1/5 — Review *2026-03-08, version 8.0.1* This app has gotten worst with all of the ads. I push on the app to see the news and now I receive some game advertisements. Update 3/7/26 This just got worse with new update. The app always shows a new breaking news alert. Which is false. I’ll start getting my news with WTOL 11. They don’t have the annoying ads and are not as liberal! ### 1/5 — Latest update *2026-03-07, version 8.0.1* They totally screwed up the app with the latest update. I can’t imagine why. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2026-03-07, version 8.0.1* To many ad pop ups ### 1/5 — Your app sucks with ads *2026-03-07, version 8.0.1* Your app sucks with ads in the center of the screen that have a tiny little bar at top of screen that says continue to app. ### 1/5 — App update *2026-03-07, version 8.0.1* I am very sorry but I am removing this app as the “new updated app” no longer works for me. I very much prefer the old version. ### 1/5 — 13 Review *2026-03-07, version 8.0.1* App was really good not it looks like channel 11. Not a good revamp ### 1/5 — How to get rid of advertisements *2026-03-06, version 8.0.1* I cannot get rid of the advertisements to get onto your app. Can you guide me? Otherwise, I cannot follow you. ### 1/5 — Up date is terrible *2026-03-06, version 8.0.1* Done with this!! ### 1/5 — Greedy Ads at Lauch *2026-02-15, version 7.0.16* Honestly awful. Gray Media seems to rather give you an ad rather than give you valuable news. Switching to WTOL 11. ### 1/5 — Review *2025-12-21, version 7.0.16* This app has gotten worst with all of the ads. I push on the app to see the news and now I receive some game advertisements. ### 1/5 — Garbage *2025-08-29* This app forces you to watch unwanted video advertisements with no option to exit, before you can even access the news content. In addition, each and every video news report begins with an obnoxious video advertisement, regardless of the subject matter or importance of that news report. It’s disgusting that 13 ABC is so money-hungry that they would seek to profit personally from video content they didn’t even produce, videos important for community safety and wellbeing, and videos posted purely to publicize the misery and misfortune of people in the Toledo/NW Ohio community. Also, their imbedded links to other sites rarely work properly. Finally, many of the news reports are so poorly written that you wonder how reporters could be so illiterate. ### 1/5 — Dog/kittens in hot car *2025-07-18* It’s not right to leave the animals in a hot car, or to touch an officer. However, posting the video of a take down of a woman in walmart isn’t right either. That was disturbing to watch. People make the wrong judgement calls and that should be addressed. My issue is with you posting the whole hot mess on the internet. That was uncalled for. Now she will not only lose her pet, be charged on several counts..but you had to stoop so low that now she will have that PUBLIC video to deal with. I’m sure you have all done something you would not want posted on the internet for people to make fun of or to judge you. You could tell the story without showing her takedown or her pleading for her dog. Shame on you. ### 1/5 — Greed has won over *2025-06-05, version 7.0.16* This app used to be great now it’s so full of ads and pop up ads that you can barely even get to the actual news. ### 1/5 — Would like you to fix your News for iPhone *2025-04-17, version 7.0.16* For last two months, I’ve been trying to download your app. It won’t let me get past the initial screen, not letting me to the point where I can pick to get beyond it. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Useless *2026-06-23, version 8.0.6* Terrible, not able to read anything, go back to old app, deleted ### 1/5 — To hard to navigate *2026-05-04, version 8.0.3* Can’t delete old alerts anything you touch add pops up ### 1/5 — What have you done? *2026-04-09, version 8.0.3* If 13 Action News thinks this is an improvement to their online news service it is NOT. I have found it to be all advertising and difficult to navigate. I am sorry to say that you have lost me as a reader. ### 1/5 — Missing notifications *2026-04-01, version 8.0.2* Notification symbol shows on home page but when I open app there is no notification present to read. ### 1/5 — Too many ads now *2026-03-29, version 8.0.2* I used to love your app, but the amount of ads woven through the actual news content is ridiculous. You don’t know if you’re clicking on actual news or an ad. Just a horrible app now. ### 1/5 — New app not user-friendly! *2026-03-19* Have to watch commercials before every single 30 minute news clip, half the time I click on a news story I want to hear about it's not even what I was looking for and a completely different story! Very displeased with the new app to the point where I'm gonna be checking out channel 11. ### 1/5 — No privacy and too many ads *2026-03-13* A recent update has eliminated the ability opt out of personalized data tracking which is completely unacceptable for me. Additionally, the app requires you to watch a video ad to open the app and another video ad when you open a story. I will be deleting the app and watching WTOL instead. ### 1/5 — Opening screen ads now? *2026-03-13, version 8.0.2* As if it wasn’t bad enough that all of your articles are flooded with advertisements, now we have to sit through opening advertisements when we open the app too? Time to get rid of this gawd aweful app Not even smart enough to have a paid version to get of the junk spam Looked at three of their spam ads and it was the same older gentleman with his mouth open and in different AI generated clothes One was a Marine uniform Way to audit your information ### 1/5 — Bring back the old app *2026-03-10, version 8.0.1* I do not like this app, I will be deleting it. Sorry 13ABC - you dropped the ball on this one. ### 1/5 — New version is junk *2026-03-10, version 8.0.1* No option to stop auto play, layout is sloppy ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — SHEfflElD *2024-02-27, version 7.0.13* شكرا برنامج رائع ### 5/5 — Doesn’t play nice with Airplay *2023-09-18* When I stream through Airplay, the video freezes after a commercial. I have to quit the app, start again, and try to pick the right spot on the progress bar to pick up where I left off. Usually, I can only watch the first segment as the play button goes to pause almost immediately. ### 5/5 — Settle the writer @ *2023-09-17, version 7.0.11* The reason Showa be they ### 5/5 — Check washing *2022-09-30, version 6.4.15* Call police Department make a report, call bank and Post Office. Use Uni-Ball 207 Gel Pen according to PO. Our church in Oregon comprised also. Police said it is rampant in this area. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2020-10-31* I really like this app! It shows you everything what is going on and it always gives you notifications about things to! I would really recommend getting this app! ### 5/5 — Best of the best *2018-08-01, version 6.1.8* They give me the weather and breaking news I need to know I love this app ### 3/5 — J. Mykol *2024-05-29, version 7.0.13* FAR TOO MANY COMMERCIALS!!! I need to hear current news! NOT hear(and when we come back) so you can try to sell me something I don’t want or need! There’s far too much Chinese Junk being sold in our country!!! ### 3/5 — I agree that we need channel 11 WTOL weather Toledo, Ohio *2023-12-23, version 7.0.13* We need channel 11 weather back ### 3/5 — Missing notifications *2022-03-05* Notification symbol shows on home page but when I open app there is no notification present to read. ### 3/5 — Needs updated *2022-01-30, version 6.4.9* Precise location sharing/tracking doesn’t work, at least for the weather section that I’ve noticed so far. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-09.*