BBC News User Reviews

BBC News - UK & World Stories
BBC News - UK & World Stories
BBC Media Applications Technologies Limited

Customer Experience

Positive experience42.6% of reviews
Neutral12.0% of reviews
Negative experience45.3% of reviews

~ Based on 591 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is BBC News Safe?

BBC News - UK & World Stories appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for BBC News is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 825,903 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Is BBC News Legit?

BBC News - UK & World Stories appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for BBC News is 100/100.

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

Top reviews

Bias

So so biased it’s untrue, get a life

Independent

It’s just a pity it’s a left wing political channel.

BBC News

BBC provide accurate informative news. All news presenters are very well presented and have knowledge to the highest standard

Easy to read the main points of the day and local news

The only bad points are that when scrolling down, a slight movement of your thumb left or right can move you to another article. Also, the app can struggle to load in poor reception areas.

Infuriating video player

Having your videos stop every time you try to scroll whilst reading the article when wanting to play in the background is infuriating. The issue is persistent even when in Picture in Picture mode. Who on earth decided this was a good idea?

BBC

Biased Bigoted Commentary

Repetition

I find this app very annoying because they have the same news stories on for many days repeat repeat repeat. Is this because they have no other news worthy stories to include.
I also am extremely disappointed with HYS. Some of the contributors write really nasty views on there and never get censored, I get refused 50% of the time due to telling the truth that the BBC don’t like to hear
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A licence for this??

I pay £180 a year for this biased, one sided, propaganda from the BBC. For years they have been telling us what to think and believe. Yet, they hide and protect those that have done harm. They told us our houses will loose value, if we voted for Brexit. Never happened. They give us humanitarian stories about illegal migration which are made up.
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Repeat, repeat, repeat!

Far too many repeated items! It’s like Teletubbies news. “Again, again!”

Politically biased

I can’t trust the BBC after such heavy woke and left wing bias. I only want the sports coverage but am being forced to pay for the BBC to attempt to indoctrinate me in all other areas. Shocking

Where are the photos.

I love the BBC news app as it strikes the right balance of interest, inform, inspire but I miss the photo articles - there were two at the end of the scroll. Bring them back please!

Krakatoa eruption

Great coverage of up to the minute news.

Biased

Biased and partisan

Edmund

I personally think this app is brilliant always up to date easy to use very informative

Totally biased channel

I believe the channel does not represent the vast majority of the British people views leaning too far to left with woke leftist broadcasters and interviewers.
The news is poor, with the editors telling the presenters what to say via their autocues.
Also your presenters are not aggressive enough with their soft approach techniques when interviewing politicians.
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BBC news

It’s not as easy to find stories as on the Pc and you don’t seem to cover things like Iran very well . I find Al Jazeera much better for world news , and the Mail for Uk news

Repeating news

Good honest reviews but the number of times the same story appears is very annoying. In addition, the headlines can be very misleading. For example, it appears Iran attacked the ships, if, indeed it was them, in retaliation to Americas violation of the agreement regarding sanctions.
Same review as before as nothing seems to have changed.
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Poor Update Validation

With the latest released I cannot view or read the description of the Verify Section on my IPhone 7 Plus. Do the programmers fail to be aware if they use new features from the latest technology it is likely they may not work on earlier versions of an IPhone. You only need to stop it updating if it is unlikely to work on older equipment. Phones are expensive, and who can afford to update every year at a cost of £1,000+.

Also I can no longer play the Weekly Quiz, it just will not load. No comment to say why, nothing happens. 😢
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Quick and to-the-point news

Up to date and precise information in well constructed packets.

Inflexible software

News quality pretty good overall but the typeface for a tablet reader cannot be enlarged. This needs sorting out.