Apple News User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience30.5% of reviews
Neutral12.6% of reviews
Negative experience56.9% of reviews

~ Based on 3,433 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Apple News Safe?

Apple News appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Apple News is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 1,632,261 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

90.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,632,261 App Store ratings for Apple News.

Is Apple News Legit?

Apple News appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Apple News is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Feeds me my koolaid

This is obviously driven by algorithms that are showing me more of the things that I’m interested in. To find alternative viewpoints, I have to plug in opposing keywords.

Einstein said the mark of intelligence is being able to hold opposing views in your mind at the same time … this app and our collective cognitive dissonance are not promoting intelligence.
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Report

I just wish it was free. But other than that it’s great

Ads are annoying

Random AI images. Ads are distracting.

App freezes

Ever since the new iPadOS 27 update, the crossword puzzles freeze the app.

Miss leading articles led to phishing

Poor vetting of publishers and articles leading to a flood of phishing messages and emails! Can’t block your favorites sad fluff articles.

Don’t trust any news source

All the news business does is stir chaos and never tell the honest truth and the same can be said about all the government of the world. They see chaos as way to make money by turning people against each other. And they literally have the power to bring peace to the world, but they don’t. Next time you read a newspaper or watch the news, always remember to check the facts before jumping to conclusions.
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Great news headlines!

I scan the Apple News headlines for National and local news to stay current. So many sources are pooled, excellent news!

One step to the Right

Apple thinks it is balancing News coverage by moving one step to the right in its click dance for Ratings. To your content producers their hair must be on fire from your shocking change. Most normal people laugh behind their hands at what you consider monumental movement. Your crew of woke children mirror what they were taught to spew and nothing more.
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Amazing

I like finding more information about what’s happening in the world

For me personally

Very liberal

The

The only way you

Teasing scam

So many of the stories are locked by pay walls that the question is- why claim that this is a news service? You should really be ashamed of your venality.

Glitchy & pushes subscription hard

Frequently displays "Poor internet connection" warning when my internet speed is 100Mb and all other apps are fine. If you don't plan to subscribe, you'll be pushed a lot of content that requires subscription.

Utter twodle

Limited meaningful news from authentic news services. Endless silly articles along the lines of “I am a X , these are the things you should never do/take/whatever”. The subscription version is no better than the free version

Terrible connection issues

It’s a very well thought and easy to use news solution. Unfortunately, it suffers from routine inability to ‘connect to the internet’. This causes you to have to open and close the app repeatedly. Or reboot your device. It a shame and should be an embarrassment to Apple who prides themselves on simplicity and reliability.
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Good but jumpy

Apple News does a nice job of accumulating and presenting articles, and the feature that prompts the last article being read before switching out of the app is very useful when returning to the app. However the app will jump around an article when the ads change within the article and land at a random spot. You’ll then need to backtrack to find the spot where you left off, if you can remember where that was. It’s annoying and unnecessary and happens frequently.
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Excellent reporting! Thank you

Thanks a lot ! Great articales

Free news only please

So annoying that you can’t turn off the news + stories from showing up in the quick view. Also even more annoying is that half the time the ‘news +’ notifier isn’t showing up on the story so I click it and nope, sorry, you can’t read this unless you want to pay a ridiculous amount each money. So dumb!!!
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News

I wonder if this are real or just AI generated news

Pay pay pay

All they want you to do is pay