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Commercial overload
Just downloaded this app to watch the Mary Trump/ George Stephanopolis interview. Found the interview in search and I still haven’t seen it. One commercial of 30 seconds first then the interview? No. It’s either frozen or damaged I see Mary’s face appear but immediately another 30 second commercial plays again, so I wait again. The ad is over Mary’s face appears frozen. Then another 30 second commercial comes on. I wait, Mary’s face... another commercial ...Mary’s face... another commercial. I saw 6 commercials and not one second of the video I came here for.
I know this app makes their money on commercials but this is ridiculous.
Goodbye ABC NEWS APP back to NBC NEWS App once again.Show lessfulatun
Great app but..
I hope the people behind this app see this and make a fix for it because it’s getting kind of annoying and makes me want to just delete the app all together. When I have the app closed and go to turn my volume up or down (when I’m listening to music or watching a video on another app) all of a sudden ‘ABC NEWS LIVE’ will start to play in the background without me even having the app open. It keeps going until I actually OPEN the app and FORCE it to shut off but closing the app. It’s the strangest thing and it’s just getting annoying so I’m hoping y’all come up with a solution but I don’t think I’m the only one.Show lessstoneysteph
So frustrating
This app has good push notifications with the latest headlines. But if you want to read the full headline or read the article, good luck. Clicking on the notification brings up the app and takes you to an article that’s ongoing.
So if you click on a headline that talks about a very specific topic relating to COVID-19, you have to scroll through months of crap to find that info, and the headline doesn’t match what was in the notification. I don’t care what happened in April. It’s June. Give me today’s news.Show lesspnwthewayiseeit
The articles are well-written, but...
The headline font size is too small. Too much clickbait. Some special interest stories are buried within the clickbait. The clickable images for the news often doesn’t match the information given. Maybe I need to pay to get better service? I understand organizations need to make money, but all the nickel and dime news information should be accessible to all. It’s too much with so many underemployed or unemployed to get up to date and accurate necessary information about their neighborhoods, community, country, and world.Show lessWhy can't nickname b same?
Disappointed
I have been watching this ABC News app daily for years. And I just switched to NBC because of whatever changes were made in the way it is viewed on my iPad. Now when I open I only see the streaming pod cast...not the breaking news with scrolling updates of other news and GMA news. It has been like this for about a month...I kept hoping it would change back...and it hasn’t and I can’t see the option anywhere to make that change. So...NBC news app it is. And I’m sorry...I have never written a poor review for anything like this..that’s how disappointed I am.Show lessValley-Nana
Bad glitch
There is a frightening glitch with this app where it will start playing audio on its own and cannot be stopped. It would start at any given moment and would say some terrifying things and really made me think my phone was hacked or possessed because it was never clear it was a news story...it would just be a narrator preaching, often about the word of God. It was after the 4th time when I heard the words “abc news” in its speech that I finally deleted the app. Be warned, you will think your phone has been taken over. It’s a real shame too since it’s one of the only trustworthy news sources.Show lesssamhadc
Randomly starts playing audio
ABC NEWS is great, but the app randomly starts playing audio when it is not open and my iPhone is locked. Apparently I’m not the only one with this problem, as googling turned up this review from a year ago, which describes the problem:
“I had to delete the app because there’s an extremely bizarre glitch it’s been having lately: it starts playing audio of a news feed, while the app is closed. And it’s nearly impossible to turn off. It actually drained my battery and used God only knows how much data because it was doing it for hours once before I finally realized it (my phone was on silent so I couldn’t actually hear it). It happens at least a couple of times a week.”
I deleted the app a few months ago, then re-installed, thinking surely they had fixed the problem, but no. So I’ll delete it again.
I have lots of news apps on my iPhone, including CBS NEWS and NBC NEWS. None of the others have this problem.Show lessNoguilt
FIX YOUR APP, ABC NEWS!
This app doesn’t work half the time. I can’t get the news to play, and sometimes it’s because of the ads lagging to load. Other times, it doesn’t matter how long you wait, it just won’t play the news segment at all. It’s gotten worse since the app added ads before each segment. I like ABC news, but this app is the worst! I’ll likely use other apps for news if it doesn’t improve with the next update. The order of segments for longer shows, like 20/20 make it impossible to watch, because you have to scroll down to segment 1 of 11 and by the time you get there, it’s frozen up because it can’t handle not playing all the ads. Pretty much useless. FIX YOUR APP, ABC NEWS!!!Show lessPT1999-2001
Sound still plays when app turned off
Every time I use this app and then exit it to go to another screen, everything seems fine. Then the next time I touch my volume button, I hear whatever news was on and it won’t go away until I fully shut down the app in the background. Sometimes it doesn’t even go off unless I fully restart my phone.Show lessTttellem
Randomly plays sound on my phone
Here’s the scenario: I won’t even be using the ABC app and all of a sudden I hear audio coming from my phone... typically at the most inconvenient times. I then freak out trying to understand where, why, and how my phone is updating me on the impeachment trial, so I ferociously start force closing my apps, one by one. Of course it stops after I close this app. I think my phone is playing videos on the homepage of the app (while I’m not even using the app!) I deleted this app awhile back because of the same issue. I reinstalled it hoping the issue was fixed but clearly not.Show lessshorti3413
