# First Alert 7 — user reviews

> 11 indexed App Store user reviews of First Alert 7 by Gray Television Group, Inc., rated 4.70/5 from 2,106 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/first-alert-7/id511037078/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/first-alert-7/id511037078.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,784 · 4★ 203 · 3★ 63 · 2★ 19 · 1★ 37

## What do users think of First Alert 7?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🚀 Good warning
- 👍 Good weather
- 👍 Dependable

**Cons**

- 🤬 Waste of space
- 🤔 Not liking it so far
- 🤔 New Weather App for CBS7 First Alert
- 😡 Stop alerting like it's a warning daily at ungodly hours with routine weather!

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Can't get app to show direction of rain clouds
- Was great until two days ago when I updated- now can get nothing???

**Most requested features**

- White background for radar map
- Weather almanac with historic highs and lows

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Waste of space

*2023-05-02, version 5.7.403*

Should of just left it on the original CBS 7 app. Why do I need an app just for their weather page. Stupid….🤬

### 1/5 — Not liking it so far

*2023-02-04, version 5.7.202*

I liked the interactive radar you previously had. This one I can’t find out how to get the app to show the direction the rain clouds are moving. If it will show you the direction the rain clouds move, where do I find this on this new app. Why always changing things.

### 1/5 — Stop alerting like it’s a warning daily at ungodly hours with routine weather!

*2022-07-11, version 5.4.910*

I wanted to leave notifications on so I could get notified of storms and such like with other news weather apps but with this one I am woken up with “weather alerts” that are actually just the regular weather forecast every single day at way earlier than most people wake up to start the day. I am honestly not sure if it’s the same time every single morning but the way the alert comes in I wake up every single time (I can ignore certain things but the way they say weather alert like it’s something serious you pop awake!) this morning I know for sure it came in at 4:30am and after many, many mornings of just going back to sleep after jolting awake to a weather alert I finally played around with my phone to figure out my notifications (wasn’t able to think clearly at 4:30am and was trying not to allow my brain to fully wake so I could fall back asleep).
I appreciate being suddenly woken at 4:30am if there is a tornado, I can understand being woken for other warnings even if I would rather sleep through them but to be jolted awake like there is a severe weather event only to be told the daily forecast?!? Nope, I’ll wait till I am awake thank you and look at the forecast for myself. I’ll download another station’s weather app for severe weather. My daughter uses newswest9’s weather app and that’s the one I will now be using because this is crazy.

### 1/5 — Sick big

*2015-11-09, version 2.8.103*

Was great until two days ago when I updated- now can get nothing???

### 2/5 — New Weather App for CBS7 First Alert

*2023-02-03, version 5.7.202*

Don’t like the dark brown background on the radar map. Makes it hard to see the pale colored precipitation images. A white background would enhance visibility. Would be nice to have a weather almanac that shows the historic high and low temps for the date.  Liked the old weather maps and format better.

### 4/5 — Good warning

*2024-06-11, version 5.15.402*

Good warning. June 10 th storm would have surprised me without it.

### 4/5 — Get rid of the add when loading app

*2023-11-25, version 5.12.701*

Just stop it!

### 5/5 — Good weather

*2023-05-23, version 5.7.403*

Thank you for giving us weather information thank you

### 5/5 — Dependable

*2021-04-04, version 5.2.303*

They are always on top of our other stations because the have highly experienced meteorologist.

### 5/5 — Hi

*2014-10-13, version 2.7.12*

It's good

## Most praised reviews (1 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Good app!!

*2012-08-19, version 2.0.4*

Great app for local weather and weather updates.

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