Love the variety
This app is so good, lots of variety in genres. Great to hear songs that I haven’t heard for a long time. However on a few occasions I have found the songs to jump and go around in circles. As there is no one monitoring the stations it can be playing like this for a long time, one time it was going around in circles for over 20 mins. Also a few times I have noticed that songs have been repeated within 2 hours. Other than the above, I love this app. I listen to iHeartRadio over the mainstream radio stations.
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I love it but I can't remove stations I don't want
my name is tiffy i'm totally blind and I love iHeartRadio however if I add stations to my favourites you won't allow me to remove what I don't want any more! I could do this once before however you know longer let me! you are taking away my right to remove what I don't want and it's not good enough! Bring this feature back because it worked well with voice-over which is a screen reader for The blind! I won't except your response such as thank you for your feedback we want to look into this for you however a response like that is nothing but robotic and I won't tolerate it so I suggest you stop updating iHeartRadio and leave it alone
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Response from developer
Hello Tiffy, thanks so much for being an iHeartRadio loyal user and for the compliments on our accessibility - we try really hard to keep it a great experience. We believe the issue with being unable to remove Your Stations should be fixed now by tapping on the pencil icon. Please give it a try and let us know if it's still not working for your screen reader by emailing ios@iheartradio.com We're eager to make it perfect!
Good app but has some issues
I generally really like the idea of this app. Love being able to listen to the radio when I’m walking, or just at home through the speaker. There are some issues though that make it really frustrating to use:
1. When opening app and going to play a station, I press play, it buffers for a few seconds, then nothing, have to keep pressing the play button multiple times to get it to actually play.
2. Frequently drops out while listening. Really really irritating as I often have to stop what I’m doing to sort it out.
3. If I use anything else on my phone that has noise, ie. scrolling past Instagram stories, the radio stops, have to then go into the app and try and restart it as opposed to it just continually playing.
1. When opening app and going to play a station, I press play, it buffers for a few seconds, then nothing, have to keep pressing the play button multiple times to get it to actually play.
2. Frequently drops out while listening. Really really irritating as I often have to stop what I’m doing to sort it out.
3. If I use anything else on my phone that has noise, ie. scrolling past Instagram stories, the radio stops, have to then go into the app and try and restart it as opposed to it just continually playing.
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Response from developer
Hi, we're sorry to hear about the issues that you have experienced. To best address your concern, it would be incredibly helpful to know a little more about your experience. Could you email ios-nz@iheartradio.com and give our team a little more feedback?
No respect, app is OK
App is great but they have no respect for their listeners as far as radio stations go. None. Stations change format in the middle of the night, when listeners ask “Why” on Facebook or Twitter they’re deleted instantly. That’s how much respect iHeartradio has for their listeners. Zero. The radio stations get more generic and boring every year.
The amount of time they spend playing commercials promoting this app could be literally used for something else more useful (Like real commercials that make real money or maybe a weather forecast)
Beyond the bad radio stations, the app is pretty decent. Been using it since it came out around 2008 or so. Some of the other stations on this app are OK. Music streaming is nothing special. It has grown into a pretty decent Podcast platform in the last couple of years. There’s plenty to listen to. I do not believe they are “#1 for Podcasts” as they say on the radio over and over but I do believe they have a lot of them, which for people who listen to Podcasts (I rarely do) is a good thing.
The amount of time they spend playing commercials promoting this app could be literally used for something else more useful (Like real commercials that make real money or maybe a weather forecast)
Beyond the bad radio stations, the app is pretty decent. Been using it since it came out around 2008 or so. Some of the other stations on this app are OK. Music streaming is nothing special. It has grown into a pretty decent Podcast platform in the last couple of years. There’s plenty to listen to. I do not believe they are “#1 for Podcasts” as they say on the radio over and over but I do believe they have a lot of them, which for people who listen to Podcasts (I rarely do) is a good thing.
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Please do this
Please add dark mode
Response from developer
You ask and you shall receive! We aim to please! Hey Sundae, open up the app with your device set to Dark Mode, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised :)
Sucks
I’m gonna find something else that doesn’t play a tons of long ads before listening to a song or changing stations. I used to like this app a lot.
Most frustrating radio app!!!
This is an absolutely terrible app! It’s so annoying to have to download or update the app almost every time i turn it on when I just wanna listen to my fav radio station..... when do I need to use internet radio ? When I’m out of town or out of the country obviously BUT when I’m in the US I’m locked out of listening to my fav IHeartRadio stations back In CANADA .... The ads are intrusive and annoying as well AND I don’t wanna be a freakin member.... TuneIn and Simple Radio are vastly better !!! Not sure why I’m even giving it one star maybe just for existing....
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If your Canadian you can’t listen
Driving through USA we listen to Christian radio stations advertising for iHeart Radio app, so I downloaded the app (at a cost), when I tried to sign up, it only takes a US zip code, not a Canadian one, so it was a waste of a purchase.
Used to be great.
I’ve been having problems with the app as of recently. Radio stations work great but when listening to podcast, that’s where the problems start. First the playback order, I prefer to listen from old to newer ones just in case of two part episodes. Second after each episode I have to reopen the app to play the next episode since the app shuts down after ending an episode. And last the ads, it’s understandable why ads are needed but when you hear the same 30 second ad for 3 minutes straight and then again for another 1 or 2 when another episode starts. It gets really annoying. I have contacted them and got the general response of thanks for bringing it to their attention. This has been going on for almost 2 months. So now I’m stuck listening to out of order stories not understanding what is going on. Also the discontinuation of the watch app. It was better than using the native play to control the stations being played.
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Frustrating ads
Instead of hearing ads relevant to the station I am listening to, I get repetitive and annoying advertisements. I feel like writing to the real advertisers (that advertise on the real live radio) & telling them that their radio station is allowing iHeart radio to play other advertisements over theirs. Turning the app off then back on only makes it worse, as the ads just start again.
What really annoyed me today was having the ads start when the radio announcer started talking about something I had been waiting to hear.
I would rather pay a subscription than keep getting harassed by irrelevant ads!
What really annoyed me today was having the ads start when the radio announcer started talking about something I had been waiting to hear.
I would rather pay a subscription than keep getting harassed by irrelevant ads!
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