# CBS 17 News — user reviews > 71 indexed App Store user reviews of CBS 17 News by Media General, rated 4.60/5 from 2,143 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cbs-17-news/id425414520/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cbs-17-news/id425414520.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,682 · 4★ 297 · 3★ 84 · 2★ 24 · 1★ 56 ## What do users think of CBS 17 News? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - ⭐ Concise and precise news coverage - ⭐ Great weather reporting and coverage - ⭐ Dependable and up-to-date news source - ⭐ Easy to use and navigate **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy app with frequent crashes - 🔍 Difficult to navigate between news sections - 🔋 High battery consumption - 📺 Invasive and disruptive video ads - 🔍 Poorly designed user interface **Commonly reported bugs** - App not opening or loading properly after updates - Notifications not working as expected - Freezing and crashing issues - Incompatibility with newer iOS versions **Most requested features** - Search functionality for news articles - Live TV streaming within the app - Customizable notification settings - Improved radar and weather map features ## Newest reviews (13 of 71) ### 3/5 — Search on App *2025-05-04, version 500.8.0* This would be a really good news app if you had a search box or button. ### 4/5 — Please develop an app for Roku *2022-05-04, version 41.9.0* Great station but need a Roku app for live broadcasts of noon and 6 and 11. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2021-03-16, version 41.0.3* I travel around the state a lot and even into the neighboring states. I like your old app to let me know where the weather was going on. I now find it to be cumbersome and will be switching to something else. ### 1/5 — Earlier version was much better *2021-03-10, version 41.0.3* Overall, don’t like the new app. Only used this new app for the last ten minutes, already miss the old app which had a much nicer, BIGGER radar map display. Liked the old layout for the weather forecast. Now the old app doesn’t work, and I’m stuck with this one. ### 3/5 — Unsmooth *2021-01-23, version 40.35.570057542* Hard to navigate between news sections. Clunky. ### 3/5 — Love your news but *2020-09-27, version 40.35.470055402* Love reading the news on the app but there are a lot of issues. App freezes or either shuts down while reading. ### 1/5 — App crashes *2020-08-29, version 40.35.470055402* This is the best of the local stations for reporting news. Unfortunately the app has a lot of glitches. On my iPhone, it crashes every single time I open it. It is impossible to play videos from, and the ads seem to be the only thing that work. ### 3/5 — Freezing up *2020-08-24, version 40.35.470055402* We are having problems with 17s app freezing up. Scroll doesn’t work, and if you try to go back to main page the app just drops. ### 2/5 — Bugs *2020-07-28, version 40.35.420054799* App gets stuck frequently and crashes. Also videos start when not authorized. ### 1/5 — Got an Update today *2020-06-30, version 40.35.400054641* Now it won’t open. 6/30/2020 ### 1/5 — No longer works *2020-06-30, version 40.35.400054641* I have used an iPhone SE for the past few years and previously I liked the app. With the latest update the app no longer works and hangs up saying it can’t find a network and to retry. No other news app (or any app) I have has this issue. I have deleted it and will get my news from the competing news stations. I’d contact the web developer through the CBS17 app but it can’t be done if it can’t even be opened. ### 2/5 — Local news *2020-04-23, version 40.35.290053050* But interrupts the governor's live broadcast for a hulu commercial. Deleted. ### 1/5 — Buggy and outdated *2020-01-24, version 40.34.260050023* Turned all notifications off in app settings and app still delivers notifications. I had to disable notifications from phone settings ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Even *2026-08-26, version 510.0.1* Good day ### 1/5 — Was good… *2026-03-13, version 505.0.0* Give me a break. Why is it every time this app needs an update I can’t reach my local weather page until I update. This time, after updating, still can’t reach the page for local weather. Only Raleigh and surrounding towns pop up. Was the local page removed? ### 1/5 — Update? *2025-11-05, version 502.0.2* App starts to load and then goes black since the update yesterday. I’ve deleted and reloaded- still same. Fix or it goes permanently ### 1/5 — Was good… *2025-08-05* This was my go to app for weather. Was. Apparently in the last few days they’ve redesigned the weather page. Now it’s totally garbage. Poorly thought out and designed as far as I’m concerned. App is going in my trash bin. Maybe I’ll look at it sometime in the future to see if these mistakes are reversed..but I doubt it. WRAL, whoever is responsible, did the same thing to their app. Was good. Also garbage, especially their weather radar. That’s about the only good thing that wasn’t changed in this app, but still, not wasting my time ### 1/5 — Fixed bug *2024-02-24, version 500.1.1* Would like to have the old 17 app back. After whatever fix you fixed now I have giant letters and etc that your app has no settings for size. This only happened after the fix . Never had a prior problem before. I did prefer 17 over WRAL 5 app but now I use WRAL 5 that doesn’t have big giant letters, numbers etc especially on the bottom of 17 has letters on top of each other like blocks. ### 1/5 — Buggy app *2024-02-20, version 500.1.1* Enjoy watching CBS17 and used to enjoy the mobile app. Seems there is a conflict between the appa d iOS17.x - it keeps asking for initial data and regardless of how many times I enter said data, the app loops back to the initial data entry screen. Deleting it for now… ### 1/5 — 17 *2024-02-09* Used to be good. Now it is fixed ? Didn’t have a problem before now I do with everything is in extra large mode. Btw I used to like 17 app for news now I deleted 17 and use WRAL app. WRAL news app works fine no super size letters that are unreadable. And I really liked17 app better up till about a few days ago. ### 1/5 — What happened? *2024-02-06, version 500.1.1* When the app was updated three days ago, it broke on my iphone 15S. I deleted it off my iphone and then downloaded again. It opens and then automatically closes and I can’t get it to work. Any ideas of what to try? ### 1/5 — App won’t open *2024-02-05, version 500.1.1* App won’t open to news since update. Only goes to notification page. ### 1/5 — 3 Tornado Warnings and I'm watching a 30s ad *2022-05-23, version 41.9.0* My area is in three tornado warnings and every single time I leave and return to the app for live coverage, I have to watch a 30 second ad. Will be looking for a different news app. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Invasive Videos *2024-11-25, version 500.6.0* Open the app and a news video automatically opens and remains on your desktop even after you close the app. Very annoying! I deleted the app. ### 5/5 — Local news cbs 17 *2021-02-07, version 40.35.570057542* Great news I really enjoyed the topics of the story ### 5/5 — Needed4ParktonNC *2021-01-01, version 40.35.570057542* This is more than a Review, it’s a Plea too. One night during a terrible storm, Bill was on. We have to get our news from WBTW but we in NC are second class citizens when it comes to our NC news. If we get a small breeze or fog we loose signal. Bill was there and included Robeson County in his broadcast. You sold me that night. I wish you all would cover this state line to line and beyond. Folks on satellite can’t tell you who the Governor is in NC. MCMASTER is doing great things. And Sports. Hands down the best. You are top of the line on sports. News desk. Your great too. Just wish you were down here more. Wishing all of you a Wonderful and Happy New Year. God Bless You!!! ### 5/5 — Concise and Precise *2020-09-16, version 40.35.470055402* It ### 5/5 — CBS 17 app *2020-08-29, version 40.35.470055402* Very slow opening app. The only thing that loads fast and continue is the advertisements on the bottom of page. I use another news app for my area and have no problems with loading of the news. 17 seems to have given high priority to advertisers then loading the actual news. No problem seeing advertisements. Should have given it two stars or less. Frustrating. ### 5/5 — Channel 17 *2020-05-26, version 40.35.340053453* Quick and complete coverage. ### 5/5 — 💃Rockandrollauthority💃 *2020-03-13, version 40.35.220051956* 🌈⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌈👍 ### 5/5 — Too many pages *2019-12-05, version 40.34.260050023* To hard to get on live news programs ### 5/5 — The Best *2019-07-25, version 40.33.530045713* 17 News is the best in the area and I don’t know why You are not on Direct TV. I am getting ready to drop Direct TV because you are not longer on Direct TV. Hope you stay on Spectrum ! Love all your people. Jerry ### 5/5 — Weather *2019-07-08, version 40.33.400044661* Your weather reporting is superb and the news is not bad either. --- *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 2026-09-03.*