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App increases division, irritability
I deleted Google News this morning after using it for nearly the entire time it’s been available on iPhone. My partner noticed that I got upset every time I used the app. The inferred interests feature is poorly implemented and makes me suspect lazy engineering. Searching for an entertainer in Google search once to understand who they are does not make me a fan or a follower. Nor does reading a single article in Google news in which the entertainer is mentioned. The political content I receive through Google News is increasingly radicalized (clickbait headlines, more editorial, less journalism). I guess you get what you pay for. Real journalism has value. Perhaps the days of trustworthy news content for free online are over.Show lessa_good_idea
Quick Free Source To Keep Up 2 Date
I was originally using Apple News but then I decided I didn’t really want to pay an extra ten bucks a month when I can get all my day 2 day news from this app for FREE! I love how I can pick and choose the topics that interest me and get news feeds on it in real time. Don’t get me wrong I liked the idea of using Apple News as my main goal is to integrate all my stuff over to Apples ecosystem but I feel that 10 bucks a month for News nowadays is just asking a bit too much when people have so many other avenues they can go down which are either cheaper or in this case completely free. I will stick with my Google News for the time being as it gets the job done and it does it in style plus when someone is looking for anything what’s the term they tend to use??? Oh yeah! That’s right! They say “let me Google that” lolShow less$ugar$hane89
Keeps updating while in the middle of looking at articles
Big problem is that in the middle of scrolling through news articles, the reader will jump to the top. So you lose your place in the articles. It should do what other readers have done. Take a snapshot of the articles. When an update occurs, provide a button to refresh. If I don’t press the button, I’m still reading through my snapshot. This snapshot should also apply, when I’m in the middle of reading an article. When I go back, it should be to my snapshot of articles, and NOT, some updated version. This is the reason, I stopped using USA Today reader. It would jump around, while I’m reading or scrollingShow lessPsucro
Constantly crashing
This used to be my go to app but now it constantly crashes or fails to load stories.D2002
Clunky and Frustrating
The content is fine but Google has nothing to do with that other than creepily spying on you and collecting your data to sell to the highest bidder. The app itself is irritating because you could be 20 headlines down, click on a story to read, then, when you back out of the story, the app sends you to the top of the feed again so you have to scroll back through dozens of headlines, some of which have changed or moved, to find your place. The feature of returning to the place you left off is so basic (e.g., in online shopping when you click on a product then return to the search page) that Google’s choice to irritate its users rather than implement a simple fix makes this app clunky and frustrating.Show lessjlabourr
Biased aggregator
Don’t think for a second that just because there’s multiple news outlets in the results, there’s multiple perspectives on a story. Google only ranks highly news that follows Google’s ideology. At times, three out of six news articles on a particular subject are all from the Guardian. That’s hardly a balanced perspective.
Even when you start blocking highly ideologically driven news sources like the Guardian, there’s not much left in the results.Show lessABay1
Great news app
This app works brilliantly and you can choose which news you get to your feed.
There were a hell of a lot of adverts which became very annoying and I was forced to use an ad blocker. At one Point there were so many ads there were more ads than news.
Works very well now.baldyManYOLO1
Purposefully deters you from using a browser
Google News wants you to view the content inside the app so that you view all the ads. Ads are fine, but many sources provide ads that are incredibly intrusive, destroying the page layout and making reading the article very difficult.
For this reason, I use an ad blocker with safari. In order to open a news article in safari you must use the share function, tap open in browser and then tap the browser button to open it fully in safari. That’s 3 clicks to open a page when it should be 1.Show lessmupet0000
FONT TOO SMALL Unreadable
It’s almost unreadable. App doesn’t offer a larger font setting or obey iOS default. Pinch and zoom doesn’t work and if you turn phone to landscape to zoom, it goes janky. Overall an unusable old fashioned app with no regard for basic accessibility PS just bookmark Google News (in Safari) to Home Screen for a MUCH better and more readable experience.Show lessSilkCharm
Overall it’s good
Although I like it, I’m not really enjoying the news they provide for me. It often provides those similar ones which I knew it’s based on our user experience, but sometimes they are too many duplicates and can be quite annoying:(Avoliz
