# CBC News: Breaking & Local — user reviews > 464 indexed App Store user reviews of CBC News by CBC, rated 4.60/5 from 2,187 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cbc-news-breaking-and-local/id417988800/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cbc-news-breaking-and-local/id417988800.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,659 · 4★ 377 · 3★ 64 · 2★ 20 · 1★ 67 ## What do users think of CBC News? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Good news coverage - 🇨🇦 Reliable Canadian news source - 📰 Thorough reporting - 🌍 Provides international perspective **Cons** - 🔍 Difficult to find specific stories - 🔄 Frequent sign-out issues - 📺 Too many ads disrupting reading - 🌐 Blocks access for users outside Canada - 🔢 Mandatory account creation - 🔍 Cluttered layout **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on startup - Scrolling issues causing content to jump - Video playback problems - Incompatibility with older devices **Most requested features** - Add comment section for articles - Implement dark mode - Improve sorting and filtering options - Allow offline reading of saved articles - Provide more granular control over notifications ## Newest reviews (19 of 464) ### 2/5 — Why lock us out. *2026-08-23, version 5.13.0* Not everyone has new tablets or iPhones. My tablet, an iPad, works just fine for surfing the Internet, watching Netflix or many other things that require video. Somehow, magically, the CBC news app will no longer let me access it unless I have iOS 16. I do not and I’m not buying a new iPad to watch free CDC. If Netflix can make it work Shirley CBC can. I can see all the previews on my screen but it won’t let me open until I upgrade my app and I can’t do that without upgrading my system. My tablet is too old to operate. Please, CBC isFunded by taxpayers so please don’t phase out older systems. ### 2/5 — Good but, come on! *2026-08-23, version 8.13.0* This app has had its share of issues over the years. It was really annoying to have to repeatedly sign in again after every update they made, though that seems to have been resolved. It works be nice if I wasn’t repeatedly redirected to advertising when trying to scroll articles though. Seriously, in one article, an involuntary ad touch should not take me out if the app more than once. Five times in one article makes me want to delete the thing entirely. Please fix this! ### 3/5 — Pretty good *2026-08-23, version 8.13.0* This is a pretty good news app. My one beef with it is that you can get pretty far down the list of articles and read one. Then when you go back to the main page, it takes you back to the top instead of where you left off in the list. And if you’ve gone pretty deep, you have to go and find where you were to resume looking at articles. I find it at some point I just give up and don’t go down the list again. ### 3/5 — Not too bad *2026-08-18, version 8.12.0* I like the news coverage. Cbc is obsessed with using the terms 'Ottawa' to refer to the federal government actions. Plus the same for other government cities. Confusing and weird. ### 3/5 — Needs filters *2026-08-17, version 8.12.0* Wish I could filter by date. Older stories hang around for too long. Wish I could select “no repeats” so stories don’t show up in more than one section. ### 1/5 — Useless app *2026-08-04, version 8.11.0* Today can’t sign in, can’t skip, can’t create an account. Can get to CBC. Guess I’ll have to stick with CTV ### 1/5 — App is broken *2026-07-27, version 8.11.0* You have to sign in everytime you open the app so it's not even usable ### 1/5 — Advertisements that kill your joy at attempting to read the news *2026-07-23, version 8.11.0* Previously it was the full device screen ads that you often had to open the ad you were not interested in to get the screen to scroll. That has been fixed. Now there are these ads that you scroll up to the point you are reading and the add keeps creeping you text lower and lower — talking about buzzkill for wanting to actually use the app. Also, the delayed start, that is usually when it’s a video, it plays the ads a couple of seconds into the start of the video so a minutes worth of video and you’ve lost those first few words … why can’t they get this right? Play the commercials BEFORE the video starts … please! ### 1/5 — Cannot avoid clicking ads *2026-07-12, version 8.11.0* The app design is such that when scrolling CBC News on my phone, the scrolling launches the ads automatically even when I try assiduously to never touch them. I presume this is because the links extend beyond the borders of the visible ad image. I am so annoyed at having Expedia, in particular, repeatedly launch whenever I tried to read the news. This is unacceptable for one of the only free reputable news sources available to Canadian taxpayers. This business practice feels underhanded. ### 1/5 — Impossible to scroll *2026-07-11, version 8.11.0* Can touch an add while scrolling without getting bumped out of the app, makes reading a story extremely frustrating. ### 2/5 — Stop asking if I want your cookies *2026-07-05, version 8.10.0* I am asked to accept cookies virtually every time I open the app. ### 2/5 — Annoying Preferences *2026-07-04, version 8.10.0* Fix the darn app! Even when signed in, most every time I open the app the preferences confirmation screen pops up first. ### 1/5 — Freezes *2026-06-27, version 8.9.0* This app was my every morning coffee and news go to but since the latest update I’ve noticed my iPad getting fairly warm and starting to freeze. Full page ads, the ways ads are presented are starting to look like the same method used by the CTV news app, causing frequent slowdowns and freezing so bad it takes repeated attempts to get out of the app. Now, I have to read the news at my computer instead, not exactly convenient for me. Wish I could roll back the update so I could enjoy reading the news with my morning coffee again. ### 1/5 — Account? *2026-06-26, version 8.9.0* Need an account to access news. No thanks ### 2/5 — They fix one thing and more thing crumble *2026-06-25, version 8.9.0* So they fixed the annoyance that the main video started for a bit then came the commercials then the rest of the video minus the but at the beginning. Now it’s the whole screen ads that if you’re not careful might accidentally select and then that begets months of ads everywhere which you are not interested in anyway. Then there’s the late loading of ads which can screw up your place in the article because now suddenly your a page or more into the news article. I just quit the app and go somewhere else. ### 1/5 — CBC ENDED HNIC *2026-06-19, version 8.9.0* WE WANT HNIC- SCREW YOU CBC. ### 1/5 — Very difficult to search *2026-06-17, version 8.9.0* I am a senior and I find this app very disappointing ### 2/5 — Buggy *2026-06-17, version 8.9.0* This app has coding bugs that result in video clips previously viewed re-opening, and no feature or button will put it away again. App must be closed and re-opened to recover. Insufficient testing before release. ### 2/5 — Ads make the article jump around *2026-06-13, version 8.8.0* This app is terrible. When you’re reading an article ads show up that make it shift up and down the screen and you lose your place of what you’re reading. It is maddening. All they have to do is put in placeholders for any size ad that they have so that the article doesn’t jump around. Just another poorly designed app. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Mandatory subscription *2026-08-24, version 8.13.0* Why lock people out of this app without a subscription. As buggy and unstable as this app is, I have no intention in sharing my data with it. ### 1/5 — Equivalent to Fox News *2026-08-24, version 8.13.0* Definitely skews the news against the liberal party and supports Polieve. Also, I’m done with all of the advertisements riddled within this app. It’s better to open up in a privacy browser, restricting the advertisements and actually reading the news. ### 1/5 — Can’t load and won’t allow me to open *2026-08-23, version 6.8.0* Typical IT issue… ### 1/5 — Annoying Undesired Ad Launches *2026-08-21, version 8.13.0* I cannot get through one single article without launching one or more sponsor apps (usually Amazon or Expedia) even when the page is still scrolling. It is impossible to scroll through an article without triggering the redirects. Fix this supremely annoying issue. ### 1/5 — Latest F/O moment in the app *2026-08-17, version 8.12.0* First of all, finding out extreme critique reviews are being deleted from review chain. So freakin shameful that cbc’s tech partner has stopped to this type of model. Now for the latest F/O moment using the app, stop making your ads pause my music while I’m reading your stories. ### 1/5 — Scrolling redirects *2026-08-11, version 8.11.0* I have average sized fingers for a man, and I find it impossible to scroll through the news stories on the app without constantly being redirected to advertiser websites. This is in addition to being redirected to specific ‘regions’ when I try to scroll the main news page with my left hand, and inadvertently make contact with the tiny region hyperlinks. It’s annoying and frustrating to use this app. ### 1/5 — Broken *2026-08-10, version 8.11.0* App update broke usability. And now I have to create an account? They lost me - deleted. ### 1/5 — DOA *2026-08-07, version 8.11.0* Updated to 8.11 to fix the “Oops” error on an older version, and now it claims I have no internet connection, when I clearly do. ### 1/5 — App not working *2026-08-07, version 8.11.0* App stopped working so I deleted and redownloaded and now can’t sign in. Just spins and it doesn’t let you view anything without signing in now. Fix the app and stop with the sign in requirement when it’s all free ### 1/5 — App gone downhill *2026-08-07, version 8.11.0* App has gone downhill since requiring an account to read the news. The log in process is slow and doesn’t work 100% ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — great news! *2026-06-12, version 8.8.0* like the app ### 5/5 — New Font *2026-06-01, version 8.8.0* A while ago this app changed the font and for people like me who are vision impaired has been the greatest improvement! I can read the news now! Without magnifying it . Thank you!! Can you tell me the name of the font so I can use it on my devices? ### 5/5 — ? *2026-05-14* Well, that was a quick fixing!!! Well done! 🙂 ### 5/5 — very good news *2026-02-20, version 6.8.0* Breaking news in time. ### 5/5 — Best place to get your news from *2026-02-18, version 8.2.1* I find cbc isn’t as biased as other news outlines who are owned by companies like Rogers and bell ### 5/5 — Latest update is a failure *2026-02-14, version 6.8.0* This recent update means I can no longer use this app on my iPad. Thanks a lot CBC. ### 5/5 — Olympic Opening Ceremony *2026-02-06, version 8.2.0* We are so disappointed to see ads interrupting the ceremony!! ### 5/5 — Comments?? *2025-11-09, version 6.16.0* Great app, but users cant participate in discussions on the news; no comments are allowed to post on the news page. ### 5/5 — Reliable news from a Canadian perspective *2025-09-17, version 6.12.0* Thanks CBC News for being a reliable news source for Canadians. The app’s not bad either especially now that ‘Sign in with Apple’ has been fixed. ### 5/5 — I love the CBC!! *2025-07-08, version 6.9.0* It's awesome --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-08.*