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Glitch drains battery
This has always been a frustrating and finicky app. Since the update, video crashes if you go out of the app and try to resume playing without either totally closing down and reopening or tapping home and then live again rather than just the intuitive play button on an already going feed.
Worst glitch: I like to fall asleep to The 11th Hour. I have my timer set to stop playing the video after 15 minutes. The app somehow prevents the lock screen from turning off and drains the battery all night so I wake up to a dead iPad that had close to 100% charge. No other video apps I’ve tested this with have that bug. Terrible performance. Not to mention airplay to Apple TV no longer works without closing the video as soon as the iOS device that is streaming goes to sleep.Show lessAA470
The good and the bad
My rating would be higher if I was considering only content as I avidly watch almost all of the MSNBC shows. I’d be willing to pay to avoid some of the ads that are repetitious, even sometimes in the same ad block, and never targeted to my demographic or interests. Freezing is a greater problem with this app than any other I use. Also the app does not remember where I left off watching when I return to a show when resuming the app. I know this is a free app but this feature, present in other apps, would really help the older user. Kudos to your show hosts who are very skilled and interesting to watch. I would appreciate a little bit more national and yes international news to temper my strong interest in all things Washington DC. Thank you making this content available and please keep addressing the freezing problem.Show lessI watch MSNBC often
MSNBC Live TV No Longer Works for IOS Users
Until a few weeks ago, I had no problem accessing live TV and podcasts on the MSNBC app, but suddenly the app stopped working. The problem is that an unresolvable error message now appears related to Location Services. The app says that Location Services must be enabled, but IOS 13 and its 13.1 and 13.2 updates do not allow toggling anymore between the “Ask” and “Allow When Using App” options. As soon as I click on the When Using the App option, it just keeps going back to Ask - rendering the MSNBC app useless.
I spent hours working with MSNBC TVE tech support trying to resolve the problem to no avail. Their instructions, however, did enable me to restore access on my iPhone 7 Plus to live TV on my CNN app.
I guess I will only be able to watch MSNBC (which I strongly prefer to CNN) on my TV until this glitch is fixed via an app update.Show lessChico21115
I'm so glad this app exists!
We spend much time in areas we can't get satellite, so we rely on streaming when we are in the RV. App support was very helpful when I couldn't watch live on my iPad, and they made it possible. My only complaint is how long it takes to get episodes up on the app. Since we are on the west coast, Morning Joe is over by the time we get up, so we can't watch live. We can stream on you tube, each hour is available almost as soon as it has finished playing. I'd love if MSNBC would break the program up into hour-long blocks and make all available on the app sooner. I don't know why the whole show isn't available, instead of just a fraction. I always (mostly) enjoy the variety of speakers in the program and you are short changing the viewers by not having the whole show availability. I'd much rather watch the whole thing on MSNBC than some random Chinese channel on you tube.Show lessMyGirlz#1Mom
Time to fix the channel
I don’t know who runs a MSNBC app but it is a junkie application. It keeps asking me for my location every hour or so and then stops. Then for all of us sudden I get the wheel of death on the screen. This is a problematic piece of garbage that they have designed. I have the latest iOS and it seems that either MSNBC doesn’t understand the inner workings of the Apple iOS system or iOS is far more advanced than the MSNBC app but somebody needs to do something to blow up the app and build a new one
If you don’t want these problems and you want to get MSNBC for free you can Google rock in a rooster MSNBC live and you will stumble across a relatively error-free European feed for MSNBC that does not have commercials.
I think I may wind up going there and dumping Comcast because either Comcast does not share my identity data properly or MSNBC is APM is polluted but somebody isn’t doing something proper and they should check it out because I see nothing but complaints about this appShow lessVoice of the customer
When it works, it’s great. When is the big variable.
It’s odd how an application can be so unpredictable on a daily basis. A few days ago, it was working quite well. It would stay on task for hours. Today, it chokes every time it’s loaded. I have a sneaking suspicion it’s Comcast’s insanely convoluted authorization protocol. After a successful sign-in many days ago, today I must slog through it again and again and again.
Addendum: the application works great now that we have fiber-to-home. The low upload speed with the previous dsl hindered the request channels so much it would choke.Show lessMaguid
My favorite channel
I am a teacher that works up to 12 hours a day so I often miss my favorite MS NBC shows but now I don’t have to worry about taking them I can just put the app on and enjoy them while I’m grading papers at home or at school. It’s a tossup between Nicole Wallace deadline White House Chris Matthews hardball or Rachel Maddow but now I get to watch them all the time. Makes me happy but nothing Can ever make me happier than to see Donald Trump being removed from the White House. Perhaps will be able to restore sanity, civility and the marker say to this country that I love so dearly. Anyway thanks for making this available 24 sevenShow lessfrannysgirl
In times like this when we have such a horrific ‘president’
This is the one place i can find news that the most horrific, lying, traitorous whitehose does not control. I do have to limit how much i watch as my dr is afraid i will have a heart attack. I already had heart surgery last june and my brother the following month had a quadruple bypass and we are neither old nor out of shape.
I am so repulsed by the way the republicans have rolled over and paved the way for trump to destroy our democracy.
I do not trust our elections anymore and obviously the checks and balances i was brought up to believe were in place, are not.
This is a horror show but you give me hope.
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It works usually but could use a lot of improvements
I have just started using the app on my iPhone recently. My two biggest recommendations are that I wish the recent shows were uploaded on a more timely basis. Although I just discovered that it’s possible to watch live shows too, in conjunction with the fact that it seems to automatically detect my cable (and internet) provider and that helps a lot.
The biggest improvement I’d like to see is the availability of watching the archives of previous episodes of my favorite shows, such as MTP and Lawrence O’Donnell, and Rachel, etc.
Make the app have similar functionality as you get with listening to podcasts from PBS!Show lessRick news addict
Working OK for me... Why??
All the excoriating negative reviews here left me confused, as I'm not experiencing any of the problems described. After giving this a bit of thought, I've come up with a couple ideas that might explain it.
1) Maybe my ISP is faster or more consistent than most. I'm going through Xfinity with a measured downstream in excess of 100Mbps. Don't remember what it's advertised as, but that's what I'm getting.
2) Maybe my TV provider (Dish) is better than most. Maybe their interface with MSNBC is better than most? I never even have to sign in at MSNBC anymore because the app remembers my Dish account and apparently verifies it in background. (Using the iPhone app.)
3) Speaking of which... Maybe the iPhone app was separately developed from the apps directed at other devices and is just better.
In short, I don't get crashes, freezes, logging in over and over... Just doesn't happen. So, if so many others are experiencing these things, but NOT with other networks' apps... that does kinda go to the idea that this app is maybe coded inefficiently or in some way poorly. You shouldn't have to have an A-list TV/internet setup to watch a news feed.
I hate to see MSNBC take these hits on their website; they're one of the few entities holding this country together against the rising tide of lies and deceit. They need to be worthy of our support.Show lessjavabean505
