ABC7 WJLA News User Reviews
Customer Experience
~ Based on 85 written reviews from the US App Store.
What users say
Summarized from real user reviews of ABC7 WJLA News. Based on 156 reviews and a 4.7/5 average, it highlights the 4 positives and 14 negatives reviewers mention most about this News app.
Positive things
- 🌤️Weather functionality useful
- 📰Local DC news coverage
- 🎨Clean UI design (when working)
- 📱Metro status information
Negative things
- 🐛App crashes and freezes frequently
- 🔊No audio on videos
- 📵Refresh functionality broken
- 📢Excessive and intrusive ads
- 🎯Notifications don't link to stories
- 📱Portrait mode only (no landscape)
- 🖼️Low resolution images and videos
- ⬅️Back button too small and hard to activate
- 🎬Video-only format (missing text articles)
- 📰Poor article quality and writing
- 🔄Inconsistent content updates
- ⚙️Clunky navigation and scrolling issues
- 🎮Unwanted games and non-news content
- 📊Removed traffic and metro features
Is ABC7 WJLA News Safe?
ABC7 WJLA News appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for ABC7 WJLA News is 92/100.
This assessment is based on 156 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.
Safety Analysis
~ Based on 156 App Store ratings for ABC7 WJLA News.
Is ABC7 WJLA News Legit?
ABC7 WJLA News appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for ABC7 WJLA News is 85/100.
Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.
Top reviews
Whether it’s through a notification or navigation in the app when I try to go to s story/link the page just cycles but never loads it. I tried to uninstall and reinstall but that didn’t fix the issue.
App does not refresh, just says return to top
Story titles don’t fit in the scrolling view. Now the top stories arent showing, one has to review each tab individually. Top stories tab just says “return to top” and does not refresh.
Articles and poorly written with limited reference material. Discussion about places with no maps. User interface for photos is bad. Must accept cookies to see photos. Advertisement pop-ups.
Please give a few more sentences of pertinent facts with each story.
A year ago I gave you one star. Now if I could give you zero I would. I don’t need stupid games! I want the news and NOT the Fox wanna be National Desk. Drop the games. Drop the National Desk and focus on the District, Maryland, and Virginia.
Poor and incomplete writing
Live feed never connected pure trash compared to other stations.
Why did you change it??? This has got to be the worst update. You don’t focus on real news, have items of no interest, and cut back on what you cover. Go back to your original format, please!!
Please go back to the old one. Why change it when it worked fine.
This app could us some updating. I read a number of local and national news sites, but this is the only one that only allows portrait mode. I prefer landscape, but maybe I’m in the minority.
The ads are extremely annoying and are driving me to a different news source. The problem is that the sensitivity on the ads is set extremely high and you are shot out of the ap if your finger simply grazes the ad as you scroll through the news stories. There are numerous ads interspersed with the stories meaning you get shot out of the app constantly while reviewing the day’s stories.
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It takes forever to get out of a story because the back button is in the upper left corner is very small. On a iPhone 12, you can barely get it to activate. Most of the time I have to close the app completely and go back in. Which is very annoying! Please increase the size of the “touchable” area to go “back” out of a news story. Plus, it would be nice if you had a feedback option in the app to report issues.
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All I want to do is see a video of a thief and all I get is a Toyota commercial.
No sound on my iPhone.
Audio is a great feature to have for videos. Unfortunately this app is missing just that. 🤷🏻♂️
Where is the Apple TV app???? Maybe I don’t want to watch this on my phone. Something to think about. Please make an Apple TV app.
As someone else said, you get a notification and it doesn’t take you to the story. I guess they think we’re staring st our phones waiting for the notifications. This station has gotten more lame in recent months in their reporting and it shows in what they decide to alert one to in the notifications. It would be nice if you could choose what you want to be alerted to instead of notifications about things that aren’t urgent and you could see on the news that night.
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No audio on iPhone when you play live tv
Why send me a notification and want to me read more only for it not to link to the actual story. Taking me to the main splash page of the app and forcing me to search for the story is not helpful.
