# FOX 5 San Diego & KUSI News — user reviews > 76 indexed App Store user reviews of FOX 5 San Diego & KUSI News by Tribune Broadcasting Company, rated 4.60/5 from 1,382 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fox-5-san-diego-and-kusi-news/id586932831/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fox-5-san-diego-and-kusi-news/id586932831.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,123 · 4★ 149 · 3★ 25 · 2★ 24 · 1★ 61 ## What do users think of FOX 5 San Diego & KUSI News? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Friendly and dependable - 🚀 Timely reporting - 💡 Great balance in reporting - 🚀 Best app for local San Diego news - 👍 Excellent app **Cons** - 🐛 Website treats you better than the App - 🐛 Poorly designed for real news and video - 🐛 Live stream is 2 hours old - 🐛 Too many ads - 🐛 Glitchy app - 🐛 Crashes frequently - 🐛 Jumps while scrolling - 🐛 Freezes while playing live stream **Commonly reported bugs** - Live stream disappears from app - App resets often when switching apps - Unresponsive 'Continue Reading' buttons - Ads cover the entire screen - App locks up frequently **Most requested features** - Bring back full screen live stream - Minimize app without exiting - Improve notification link behavior - Allow casting to other devices ## Newest reviews (19 of 76) ### 2/5 — Stop the nalaxone commercial *2026-04-18, version 505.0.0* So annoying. For the love of god stop playing that nalaxone commercial over and over ever commercial break ### 1/5 — “Live” stream is 2 hours old *2024-10-14, version 500.5.0* No other apps are delayed on their online stream. If you want to watch 6 AM news you can’t catch it until 8 AM. Weird!! y’all need to renegotiate that contract limitation ### 1/5 — Eh *2024-09-27, version 500.5.0* Can’t seem to watch live and advertisements are more abundant then the actual news. ### 1/5 — Live News is Limited to 6 am Replay *2024-09-24, version 500.5.0* The opportunity to watch the local KUSI live news broadcast ended on the corporate merge of Fox 5 and KUSI. KUSI news is far superior to the immature silly morning Fox 5 news. ### 1/5 — Unusable on iPad *2024-04-14, version 500.3.0* Full page advertisement that exceeds screen borders obscures the entire app on startup. Can’t shrink or move or dismiss the ad image. Once I can get past the ad (don’t know what taps make this possible, but I eventually succeed), all articles present text in a font so large as to be barely readable. ### 1/5 — Too many Ads *2024-03-07, version 500.1.4* I wish it would be live like the OLD KUSI streaming app. I miss being ablento watch it on my phone every morning. Now this app only lets you watch the broadcast before and then interrupts it to show ads. I feel like I am watching more ads than the actual news. Smh deleting now. ### 1/5 — App is not working properly in iPhone *2024-02-14* Ever since your last upgrade of this app, I am not able to get into it because it is not accessible from my iPhone. You have to scroll and hit continue from the first page, and then hit allow on the next page but unfortunately the second page doesn’t let you scroll to get down to “allow” and it’s not coming up in my full screen so I can’t get into the app at all. I am very bummed because it was working perfectly before your last update. ### 1/5 — Hate it!!! *2024-02-07, version 500.1.3* Can’t watch live!!! I don’t want to watch 2 hours earlier!! Can’t stream!!! My favorite news used to be KUSI. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work anymore *2024-02-03* Since adding KUSI to the Fox5 app, it’s glitchy and I cannot get past the weather setup page. (That’s page 2 of setup) It freezes and doesn’t do anything. Can’t see news, updates, weather, etc. There is no way to exit to home page except to delete the app and start again. Disappointing. ### 1/5 — No more live news. *2024-02-01, version 500.1.1* No more reason for the app. If you can’t watch live news what’s the point. This is now useless to me. I guess I’ll switch back to am radio. ### 3/5 — Disappointed Every Day *2024-01-03* I look forward to the news every morning. They used to stream live every morning, but in this past year, there is a two hour delay and no explanation why. It’s almost like a punishment for online streaming. I know it’s a easy as the flip of a switch because the news WAS live the first weeks of school. Why not all the time? I love the fox local news. I love the anchors in the morning, but find myself streaming other news stations for live news. Please bring back live streaming! ### 1/5 — Poor Interface *2023-08-22* I’ve been using this app for several years and the developers continue to ignore a fundamental shortcoming. You turn on notifications and receive them. However, when you click the notification, the link does not take you to the item - it simply dumps you in the app somewhere, usually on a random story. Terrible interface. What’s the point in notifications if you can’t see the article? Additionally, if you hit Watch Now you will be entertained by commercials over and over again. Select another subject and you get to watch the commercials all over AGAIN! Do not download this app. Russ ### 1/5 — Poor *2023-07-26, version 41.20.0* Why can’t we watch the morning news live anymore ? Messed up my whole morning rotation ### 1/5 — What happened to live news?!? *2023-01-20* When trying to catch the scheduled live news streaming, the app doesn’t let you watch live broadcast anymore. It just replays previously aired news and not the live broadcast. App used to be good but with no more live streaming I might as well switch to another local news app. ### 1/5 — Watch now should say, watch previous report. *2023-01-18* Watch now is no longer the current new on air. When choosing “watch now” in the am, the previous night news is being shown. I was told to meet contractually obligations they can not post the current news until 2 hours after it is aired. I typically caught news, weather and traffic in the am. 2 hrs later I am dressed and at work, not helpful. Will be changing new channels. Sorry morning crew, I’ll miss waking up with you. ### 1/5 — Website treats you better than the App *2022-09-16, version 41.12.0* The App is poorly designed for real news, and video. The live video is handled better by the website. Before you give up on Fox5, give the web a chance again. I think the people that write the code for the App, don’t even use it. ### 2/5 — Way To Many Ads, Almost Unusable *2022-08-18* They pack way to many ads into the copy and the videos in the news stories. Half the time the page will freeze, you tap somewhere you didn’t mean to due to the clunkiness of the app and you have to go back into the app and watch another ad. ### 1/5 — Worst app *2021-11-19* Love the morning news watch it every day! At least I try to cause the App repeatedly bumps me off of the live news cause the other options are sooo large you pretty much can’t be holding your phone or even move it while watching. Then I have to re buffer to switch back and then when I do the sound is muted so I have to press the tiny un mute multiple times for it to work. The user interface is garbage pls update yourself and I would gladly change my review but at this time I’m very unsatisfied with your app ### 2/5 — Stop the ad *2021-10-19, version 41.6.0* Can you stop with the Jerome’s ad? Seriously. I’m sure you don’t need the money and it’s annoying. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — App on Apple TV is horrible *2026-06-10, version 508.0.0* As soon as you open the app you’re hit with a loud advertisiment. Then the broadcast comes on and you can barely hear it. They need to fix the huge difference in volume between. Then you get the same advertisements repeated back to back over and over. ### 1/5 — Website treats you better than the App *2025-11-28, version 502.0.2* They have not updated the weather in 7 days. It’s like they want the app to die. Try NBC 7 San Diego. ### 1/5 — Website treats you better than the App *2025-10-31, version 502.0.0* The App is poorly designed for real news, and video. The live video is handled better by the website. Before you give up on Fox5, give the web a chance again. I think the people that write the code for the App, don’t even use it. Still true today, after all the “updates”, you now need to create a login in the app so you can watch “live”, and still watch commercials before you even know if the news is what you wanted to watch. Again, the developers do not use the app. ### 1/5 — Fox5 SD live now *2025-10-29, version 502.0.0* Fox5SD live now has completely disappeared from the APP. ### 1/5 — Glitchy App Lately *2025-07-15, version 500.9.0* Corporate app should be top notch but for the past few months it’s been awful! Live feed was great, then would only show a black loading screen. Was fixed for a few days and now it just shows a “We’ll be right back” screen. Deleted the app for now… ### 1/5 — Continues to Downgrade *2025-06-24* Once a great app with quick access to top local stories and live news feed. And when live news wasn’t on you could watch replay of the last live broadcast. Now, the live screen is a black screen. A couple years ago the live news was gone with just old replays of the live stream. Miss all the great broadcasters. ### 1/5 — One Sided *2025-06-19, version 500.8.0* This feedback is for the AppleTV app. It’s all KUSI, even though it implies that Fox 5 San Diego is part of it. Anytime I want to watch the morning or evening news I can only watch KUSI. ### 1/5 — Too many commercials *2025-06-06, version 500.8.0* I watched ten minutes of commercials and did NOT see any news? 😖 ### 1/5 — Problems with this App *2025-05-07, version 500.8.0* No Live stream like other San Diego streams it’s either a day late news a repeat stream up date this app into the (Now-Timing ### 1/5 — Not even close *2024-11-20, version 500.6.0* When you click on “watch live” it takes you to a rerun of 2 hrs ago. This is the only way I can watch the news in the morning. I go to work at 7 AM and it’s showing me traffic from 5 AM. Please fix! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Recent Upgrade 👍🏼 *2025-07-07* Had to delete the app and reinstall to get the new benefits. This app is amazing now. Can now watch live broadcasts. Love the broadcasters and variety of local and world news. Top stories are easy and quick to scroll through. Thanks for the excellent upgrade. ### 5/5 — Friendly and dependable. *2020-09-10* I can always count on fox 5 app for all the info and big happenings in San Diego and the world. Traffic, weather, things to do, everything! Thank you so much for being part of my family. ### 5/5 — Super impressed *2020-06-01* I love my fox 5 app, it keeps me updated on all and anything big or small and it actually gives me the current situation live!! I can turn it on whenever I am and it is current and I’ve never had any glitches. ### 5/5 — The Best ! *2020-04-10* Thank You so much for keeping us informed in all the Good News 😀and unfortunately in Bad ones too 😥. You Guy’s are awesome ! Thanks again for everything you do. ### 5/5 — Best app for local San Diego news *2020-03-27, version 6.5.3* Best TV news station in San Diego too! ### 5/5 — Great balance in reporting! *2019-12-11, version 6.5.1* Thank you for focusing on the good people do as well as the challenges that we face! ### 5/5 — Great San Diego News Source! *2019-11-15, version 6.5.1* Very timely in their reporting. ### 5/5 — AMAZING reports on the fox 5 app I recommend this app *2019-10-28* Gives reports daily and u can even watch live. Also gives weather report and everyone is family friendly. WOULD REALLY RECOMMEND. ### 5/5 — Love it *2019-09-03, version 6.5.1* Excellent app ### 5/5 — My morningger *2019-03-11, version 6.3.0* Fox five morning news is my cup of coffee, The laughter and the joy they give me is my morning rush... Goooo FOX5news --- *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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