# 1NEWS — user reviews > 137 indexed App Store user reviews of 1NEWS by Television New Zealand Ltd, rated 3.20/5 from 12 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/1news/id329786380/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/1news/id329786380.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of 1NEWS? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📰 Fair and balanced news reporting - 🎨 Clean and improved UI design - 📱 User-friendly interface - 🚀 Quick news updates - 📺 Good video content quality - 🌙 Dark mode support - 📲 Helpful notifications - 🎯 Minimal ad clutter - 📖 Excellent long-form content - 🏆 Better than competitor apps **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes - 📰 Biased reporting - 🔋 High battery consumption - 🌡️ Device overheating issues - 📺 Videos frequently fail to load - ⚠️ Excessive advertisements - 🔗 Broken links and errors - 🔤 Spelling and grammar mistakes - 📱 Poor iPad optimization - 🔄 Stale news content - ⚡ Performance issues and freezing **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when scrolling articles - App crashes at same location repeatedly - Crashes with longer articles - Crashes on iPad with iPadOS 26.2 - Video player not working - Videos fail to load after ads - Landscape mode not functioning - Portrait mode forced on iPad - App freezes when opening links - Crashes when selecting articles - Error messages during scrolling - Full-screen video not supported - Unskippable ads with broken skip button - Connection errors - Splash screen crashes on startup **Most requested features** - Landscape mode support for iPad - Search functionality - Picture-in-Picture video mode - Accessibility features (text-to-speech) - Widget support - Content filtering options - Reading list feature - Improved video player controls - Full-screen video support - Ability to report bugs in-app - Longer article history - Better font size adjustment options ## Newest reviews (18 of 137) ### 2/5 — App crashes *2026-01-25, version 4.12.8* The app crashes on my iPhone while scrolling news items, but I can’t find a means to report it! ### 2/5 — Crashes unexpectedly *2026-01-25, version 4.12.8* Second time I’ve attempted to use this app as I like the reporting, but the app simply crashes and shuts down for no apparent reason. Frustrating. ### 2/5 — Crashes when reading articles *2026-01-19, version 4.12.8* Just get to the good bit in an article and the app crashes, restart app and it crashes in the same place again. ### 2/5 — App keeps crashing on some articles *2026-01-19, version 4.12.8* Very annoying when app keeps crashing as soon as you get to the same place on the article! ### 2/5 — Errors *2025-12-15, version 4.12.8* Lately this app has been crashing while scrolling and occasionally error messages when selecting articles. I am amazed at how many spelling and grammar mistakes are present. Do they not care? ### 2/5 — App keeps Crashing *2025-10-28, version 4.12.8* Not sure of the cause but on both my iPad and iPhone the app keeps shutting done in the middle of an article. Have tried updating, re-installing etc…really frustrating!!! ### 2/5 — Terrible *2025-03-30, version 4.12.7* What a terrible News app. All I get is notifications these days about Trump. And every single one has a negative slant. They never mention one positive thing he’s doing. Which there are plenty of. Talk about useless journalism. Think for yourselves people. I spend half my time in California so get the other side of the picture. ### 3/5 — Hot screen high power consumption *2025-02-12, version 4.12.7* Informative articles but the app drains the life from my phone battery. The screen is very warm to the touch, can you please fix this up? Thanks ### 2/5 — Crashes *2025-02-05, version 4.12.7* Regularly crashes and closes out for no reason. Videos on occasion crash or do not open especially when ads pop up. ### 4/5 — 1 News *2024-10-08, version 4.12.7* Love the app great to get news I can trust and kept up-to-date with. Notifications keep me informed with what's happening. Couldn't do with out it. :) ### 2/5 — Accessibility *2024-05-27, version 4.11.2* Please add the accessibility feature ‘Speak selected text’ on app so I can select the text within my chosen articles, stories and have my phone read them out loud. Living with visual impairment provides struggles consuming your content on my iPhone ### 4/5 — Better app than the competition *2024-01-20, version 4.8.4* Had to come here for my news as the apps for the other nz news outlets suck ### 4/5 — Much better *2024-01-16, version 4.8.4* This app has improved a lot in the past year, and dark mode and landscape view now work without any problems. The only thing it needs now is a widget. ### 1/5 — Freezes *2024-01-15, version 4.8.4* Open links and freezes ### 1/5 — Bring back the facts *2023-12-21, version 4.8.4* Totally biased and fill of half truths and far left wing opinion ### 3/5 — No landscape mode *2023-12-11, version 4.8.3* Landscape mode stopped working in the app a few weeks ago and hasn’t been fixed despite submitting feedback. Spoils the whole experience. ### 3/5 — Landscape please *2023-11-14, version 4.8.2* The only reason I use this app is for live delay news. Though now it’s not able to be played in landscape. Why not have the TVNZ on demand app able to be delayed then much better, could watch direct on TV as well. Cheers ### 2/5 — Update *2023-11-08, version 4.8.1* Again can’t watch videos full screen happening after every app update ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Biased news *2026-02-01, version 4.12.8* Terrible news app with biased reporting ### 1/5 — Often crashes *2026-01-26, version 4.12.8* The app often crashes when reading an article. You open up the app and scroll to where you were up to then it crashes again. Many articles you can never finish reading. ### 1/5 — Crashes *2026-01-13, version 4.12.8* The app keeps on crashing ### 1/5 — Not the app for latest news, and crashes frequently *2025-12-30, version 4.12.8* Used to be my go-to for the latest news, but sadly the 1News app plays catch-up news for some time now. Breaking news? Don’t count on it. Probably due to staff shortage after its restructure. The app crashes frequently, and repeatedly at the same ‘spot’ in an article when it crashed. Very frustrating when unable to finish reading an article. ### 1/5 — Keeps crashing *2025-12-17, version 4.12.8* Since updating to iPadOS 26.2, the app continually crashes, sometimes when opening, other times when halfway through an article. It is pretty much unusable now. ### 1/5 — Buggy crash ridden *2025-12-12, version 4.12.8* Whenever the story exceeds a certain length , the app crashes and has to be restarted. I’m switching to a different news app. ### 1/5 — Keeps crashing *2025-11-07, version 4.12.8* Impossible to use because it keeps crashing when I trying to read the articles ### 1/5 — App keep crashing *2025-10-14, version 4.12.8* The app keeps crashing, has been updated but continues to crash in the middle of the of reading articles. ### 1/5 — Do NOT UPDATE *2024-07-22, version 4.12.3* Every time I update this app the interface gets worse and harder to follow. And the ads that play before some videos have a skip button which comes up after 5 seconds, except you can’t press it! This is illegal! ### 1/5 — The most broken app I’ve ever used *2024-04-17, version 4.10.0* Crashes all the time, video player never works, useless ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Better than before *2024-05-05* I decided to try this app again after being really underwhelmed with it a few years ago. It’s much improved. I’d even say I prefer it over the other NZ news apps now. There’s minimal ad noise and the layout is nice and clean. Looks like the iPad version is actually made for iPad now too rather than just a tiny column in the middle of the screen like it used to be. ### 5/5 — Country’s best news service *2023-11-09, version 4.8.1* Quick to the point and great videos ### 5/5 — Hugely improved *2023-10-27, version 4.8.1* Like what you're doing in this digital space . Appreciate the new live blogging software and that site is now running lots of great explainers. Great go-to app ! ### 5/5 — This is one of my go-to news apps *2023-10-26, version 4.8.1* Great coverage of the big stories especially from New Zealand, with fair, balanced and accurate takes on big world stories too. The notifications are great- not too many not too few. Hard recommend! ### 5/5 — News app of choice *2023-10-20, version 4.8.0* It’s easy to choose TVNZ. Balanced, fair reporting and some excellent long form content. The app has been updated recently which makes it super user friendly. Prefer this over others like NZ Herald or Stuff that can’t seem to hide their political agendas. ### 5/5 — Greatly improved *2023-09-26, version 4.8.0* Wow! Really big jump in layout, UI and content. Well done! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 ### 5/5 — Like the update *2021-12-12, version 4.0.5* Love the new look app. So much clearer. ### 5/5 — The best all-round news App. *2011-04-22* Sensational !, without a doubt the best free news App. Fast, easy to use and updated quicker than any news App in Australia. You now just need to find a way to make some money for your efforts. Congratulations TVNZ. ### 5/5 — Best ever *2010-04-25* Real gud app ### 5/5 — Rubish.....not!!! *2010-03-04, version 0* One star...no!!! 5 lol --- *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 2026-09-01.*