# CBS Chicago — user reviews > 22 indexed App Store user reviews of CBS Chicago by CBS Local, rated 2.60/5 from 49 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cbs-chicago/id1511233839/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cbs-chicago/id1511233839.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 12 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 21 ## Newest reviews (5 of 22) ### 1/5 — Freezes and Overheats my iPhone *2020-08-03, version 1.0.16* This app is garbage! Every time I open it it freezes as soon as I open it! Also, it overheats my iPhone even when just running in the background! Once my iPhone even showed the cool down thermometer because of this stupid app! This app is GARBAGE and I am deleting it! Get the ABC 7 or NBC 5 app instead! ### 1/5 — Freezes and poor performance *2020-07-05, version 1.0.16* The app continually freezes. Why must someone keep hitting More News. I get locked in it each time. Not usable. Bring back old app or fix ### 1/5 — Unhappy with the new app *2020-07-01, version 1.0.16* I have an iPad, you changed the setup to the long way. It’s odd to have to turn my pad to read my news. I like the other format. ### 1/5 — For iPad *2020-06-30, version 1.0.16* Why isn’t there a version for iPad. Landscape and full page view. Liked old App better. On channel 7 Chicago App you can just scroll through the stories! This app needs some work! ### 1/5 — Stories *2020-06-28, version 1.0.16* Hello. Why do I have to constantly hit the more news button after 3 news stories. Kinda annoying. Lol. Anyway leave out the more stories button and let us just keep scrolling down to see more stories. Thank you. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Terrible *2024-02-01* Push notifications for stories are never linked to actual story. Opens broadcast playing story unrelated to push. ### 1/5 — Weather map *2023-03-25* Will I be able to search the whole world and use radar in anywhere I select as I can do now? ### 1/5 — South Side Irish Parade *2023-03-12* Where is the Parade? If this is best “coverage” Ch 2 can do, they should not have bothered. No actual Parade coverage - just screaming children on sidelines! ### 1/5 — Too many ads per story *2022-08-28, version 1.5.0* One should be enough ### 1/5 — Horrible app! *2021-11-20, version 1.3.0* Please remove all of the sponsored content ### 1/5 — Needs an iPad app *2021-09-24, version 1.3.0* Needs an iPad app (that works in landscape mode)! ### 1/5 — News should not be fear mongering *2021-08-19, version 1.3.0* CBS notification. “Woman attacked downtown. Hear her story.” Meanwhile I get a notification about a major recall of a product used by millions of people on NBC. Bye CBS. ### 1/5 — Too much work *2021-03-25, version 1.3.0* What a let down. Ap doesn’t fill entire screen and your forced to hold the iPad vertically as the ap is not designed to work while holding the iPad horizontally. Too much work scrolling through all the advertisements to find actual news content. The headlines are incomplete and cut off in mid sentence. So disappointed in your ap. ### 1/5 — Tired of getting faked out.... *2020-09-15, version 1.1.0* I’ll receive a notification on my phone about an interesting story. I touch the notification which opens the app but the story is nowhere to be found. Fooled me twice, shame on me. Fooled me three times, nope! Not falling for that again. ### 1/5 — Not user friendly *2020-08-11, version 1.1.0* Less user friendly than the app it replaced. ## Most praised reviews (7 highest-rated) ### 3/5 — The push notifications could be good *2024-03-27* I appreciate the reporting of CBS Chicago, you have many great people working there. The push notifications I get from this app are informative and timely, but if you want more Info on something that the app notifies you about, clicking the notification will not help you 90% of the time. At this point I just google whatever yall mention and find the story somewhere else. This app would be my #1 source for news if the push notifications worked right ### 3/5 — Not finding the newest info *2021-06-28, version 1.3.0* So I am watching the program live on my tv and they just mentioned something that I wanted more info on, so I go to the app but I don’t see anything about that topic. Also I get notifications on my iPhone and when I select the notification, it takes me to the app but not to the news alert that I just got the notification for, and it’s not even in any of the top ten articles/links. I’m very disappointed that what is being reported isn’t showing in the app. I don’t need to watch it live on my phone, I want to read the article or get more information about what they just mentioned. And I’m pretty sure it’s not the first time it’s aired either, since most of the news repeats from morning to night. ### 3/5 — Good start but needs work *2021-01-13, version 1.1.0* My biggest complaint is that if you do an alert on a story we expect the video on the page you go to to be about that story not whatever happens to be on the live feed at the moment. Yes. It’s nice if there’s a photo with the text, but if there’s a video link about a person arrested for whatever we expect the video link to go to that not weather, or puppies, etc. If the video is to the live stream it should be labeled that. Thanks for this start though. ### 2/5 — Not very useful *2023-08-02* Where to start.. simply put, the headlines are poorly written much like click bait; the links in notifications take you to the main app page where the story you wanted to read is nowhere to be found. Search is terrible. I’m done uninstalling. Not useful ### 2/5 — Poor Notification Activity *2022-10-19, version 1.5.0* Would be nice if the push notifications lit up the phone like my other apps and if it sent it to my Apple Watch like my other apps. App really needs some work on getting the notifications to work properly. ### 2/5 — No iPad version? *2022-04-11, version 1.5.0* I'm using an iPad Pro but I'm stuck with a mobile (phone) version? Can you please offer an iPad version? ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2020-09-05, version 1.1.0* Too many ads and no option out. Deleting. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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