Good
This is a good app, but one bug I’ve noticed with it is that the badge number on the app icon keeps increasing each time I get a notification even though I’ve already cleared the alerts in the alerts section within the app. So for example, if in a day I get 3 notifications the app would display a badge with the number 3 and I’d go and clear out the alerts in the app and the badge number would disappear but then when another notification comes in, the badge would display the number 4 instead of 1. So it acts like I still haven’t cleared out the alerts even though I did.
UPDATE: Latest update to the app fixes the inaccurate badge bug.
UPDATE: Latest update to the app fixes the inaccurate badge bug.
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3 strikes you’re out
After my last review I received a developer’s response saying they updated the issues I had outlined and should be fixed. Nope!
I still get useless notifications like “rain will begin in 27 minutes”. Really? Been raining for hours but hey thanks! Or It will tell me every 20 minutes or so rain is coming and nothing happens at all. Or during storms that have been raging for a while, it will send that something is about to start. Rain/wind/snow doesn’t matter. And there is no way to turn that off. If I get a rare notification I may actually want to see and click on it, it takes me to a totally different part of the app. The old app pre-updated version in 2021 was great. Then they decided to make it new. Since then it has been a disaster. Have been hesitant to delete it outright as storm season is coming up and did give it one more chance but I cannot take the insane inaccuracy of these notifications anymore. The hesitation is now gone.
I still get useless notifications like “rain will begin in 27 minutes”. Really? Been raining for hours but hey thanks! Or It will tell me every 20 minutes or so rain is coming and nothing happens at all. Or during storms that have been raging for a while, it will send that something is about to start. Rain/wind/snow doesn’t matter. And there is no way to turn that off. If I get a rare notification I may actually want to see and click on it, it takes me to a totally different part of the app. The old app pre-updated version in 2021 was great. Then they decided to make it new. Since then it has been a disaster. Have been hesitant to delete it outright as storm season is coming up and did give it one more chance but I cannot take the insane inaccuracy of these notifications anymore. The hesitation is now gone.
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Response from developer
Thank you Farley213 for your feedback. We’re sorry you’ve experienced issues with our app. We just released a new version, which includes fixes for the problems you’ve flagged. We hope you will update the app and continue to use it. Thanks again.
Inaccurate badge number
This is a good app, but one bug I’ve noticed with it is that the badge number on the app icon keeps increasing each time I get a notification even though I’ve already cleared the alerts in the alerts section within the app. So for example, if in a day I get 3 notifications the app would display a badge with the number 3 and I’d go and clear out the alerts in the app and the badge number would disappear but then when another notification comes in, the badge would display the number 4 instead of 1. So it acts like I still haven’t cleared out the alerts even though I did.
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Needs bugs worked out
I’ve been using this app for quite a while and been happy with it, but the last few weeks it’s been having issues. The weather section won’t load and freezes the whole app. I have had to go the App Store and reload it several times. But today even that won’t work. It is still stuck in weather trying to load the radar map.
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Handy app! BUT…
I really wish I could turn off all notifications for sports. I Sports is not a option in the “News Alerts” tab and while Olympics is, I *still* get notifications for it. It’s pretty frustrating to get sports and olympics notifications when I really could not care less. I can’t turn off notifications for the app because I *do* care about getting notifications for NYC news stories because I actually care about those. Good app, otherwise.
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New version has a lot of problems
I used to love this app and went to it all the time for the weather. A few weeks ago it was updated and since then, there have been a lot of problems. There are times when I got into the app and I cannot access the weather or the news at the bottom of the screen. I’m not sure if it’s a programming issue or what. I really liked the app prior to the update but now I hate it.
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New version not great
I’ve used this app several times a day, every day for weather. This new version has way too much white space and the typeface is light gray - can barely see it. When you click to current day and move to weather by hour the time turns from gray to black but that’s it the cloud showing rain or lightening stays light gray. Plenty of empty space - make the numbers bigger and darker. Boomers are using your weather app - we need bigger, darker numbers!!
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Recent updates made weather section ineffective
They updated this app recently and I don’t like the format of the weather section. If you have it showing the temperature for the day, you can’t see if it is supposed to rain. There is also no general outlook for the current day’s weather. I hope they change the format back.
Not a fan of recent changes
I have used this app for years and I really loved it for news and weather, but I really don’t like the latest changes. The news part is okay, but the changes to the weather portion make it very hard to see/read. I thInk it’s because it just looks like a lot of tiny gray print. Nothing stands out. It’s a huge step down, IMHO.
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Bring back the version before this latest update…
I do enjoy the latest app update to the app itself but the weather on my pull down screen totally disappeared. It was my go to instead of having to swipe to a different page , folder and app. Too many steps. I’ll just have to use the iOS weather app as that is in my pull down.
