# FOX 7 Austin: News & Alerts — user reviews > 74 indexed App Store user reviews of FOX 7 Austin by Fox Television Stations, Inc., rated 4.10/5 from 304 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fox-7-austin-news-and-alerts/id960019723/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fox-7-austin-news-and-alerts/id960019723.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 196 · 4★ 35 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 17 · 1★ 38 ## What do users think of FOX 7 Austin? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 📰 Reliable local news coverage for Austin area - 🌤️ Quality weather forecasts and radar - 👥 Likeable news personalities and anchors - 📱 User-friendly app design and layout - 🚀 Fast app performance - 📲 Convenient access to news updates - 🎥 Video content availability - ⚡ Real-time news alerts and notifications **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezing - ⚠️ App won't open or load properly - 📰 Stale news - stories not updated regularly - 🔄 Repetitive content and duplicate stories - 📢 Excessive and intrusive advertisements - 🎯 Notification links lead to wrong articles - 🎵 Bizarre background music during breaks - ⚙️ Server errors and technical glitches - 🎬 Video playback errors - 🌍 Irrelevant national/world news mixed in - 📝 Poor editing and spelling errors - 🎪 Misleading sponsored content labeled as stories - ⏱️ Slow news updates, especially on weekends - 🔌 Incompatibility with iOS 15+ **Commonly reported bugs** - App won't open on iOS 15 and later versions - Loading screen freezes indefinitely - App crashes when viewing extended weather forecast - Notification links redirect to unrelated articles - Server error messages appear frequently - Video playback fails with error messages - App disappears or closes unexpectedly - Black screen with 'Server Error' message - Ad plays audio that continues after ad disappears **Most requested features** - Local news filtering/settings to exclude national stories - Pollen count information in weather section - Lake level data in weather app - Direct article links from notifications - Better story organization and removal of old posts - Improved content moderation for ads - More frequent weekend news updates - Better app copy editing process ## Newest reviews (16 of 74) ### 3/5 — Background music during morning breaks is bizarre *2023-10-05, version 5.48.0* Stop the bizarre Zen background subliminal music! It’s not relaxing or stimulating. Just freaky! ### 2/5 — Needs work *2021-10-21, version 5.28.0* News updates are slow and so are the app uploads. ### 3/5 — Same news for many days *2021-07-06* There is the same old news for days with only one update. It is frustrating. ### 2/5 — App is glitchy *2020-09-09, version 5.18.1* Only works some of the time. I often get a black screen with message “Server Error: Try again later.” Should work better! ### 1/5 — Horrible *2020-08-17, version 5.17.0* Like reading a history book 👎 Suggest that you look at the KSAT app! ### 2/5 — average at best *2020-06-22* Sure, it’s doesn’t update news daily. and yeah, it’s filled with adds. But by far it is the most poorly edited news app I have ever witnessed. I don’t believe anyone reads these stories before they are published to the app. For example: “ A 13-year-old girl was killed and two other teens were wounded Saturday night in Austin on the West Side.”. Yet the story i was reading was about Chicago. Get it together! get a better app copy editor. ### 1/5 — video is broken *2020-05-21, version 5.14.0* This app is broken the videos keeps saying error something went wrong please try again fix it the problem ### 1/5 — Worst news app *2020-04-29, version 5.13* I have lived in several areas of the country. This is the worst Fox News app I have ever encountered. The news will stay the same for days with no update of top stories. On top of this, the network itself makes no attempt to even pretend they are unbiased. ### 2/5 — Week old news *2020-03-30, version 5.12.1* The same headline for 3 days now. I’m out. ### 2/5 — Not updated very often *2020-01-05, version 5.11.0* Same stories remain for weeks or longer. Maybe a couple new ones but majority are old. ### 1/5 — Same same *2019-12-22, version 5.11.0* This new version app is horrible. Why in the world would it always have the same dated stories first. I want current news not to read same news over and over or have to scroll thru the app to read what happened 2hrs ago. ### 2/5 — Same story repeated *2019-10-28, version 5.8.0* There’s plenty of news to report on, I don’t need to see the exact same story 4 times as I’m scrolling through, I only want to read it once. ### 2/5 — Old news *2019-10-07, version 5.6.2* App is no longer updating. I’m reading three day old news. ### 2/5 — Slow to update *2019-10-06, version 5.6.2* Leading stories remain on the home page for days, well beyond their relevance. ### 1/5 — Update and ads *2019-09-24, version 5.6.2* Can someone please explain to me why I just saw an ad for a junk service out of Los Angeles and a moped ad for India on an Austin local news app? Also why is there a need to repeat news stories over and over in the app?? This app used to somewhat informative not so much anymore. It’s a shame. ### 1/5 — Moviestarlegs *2019-09-22, version 5.6.2* I do not care for this new update I just went to see the local news I do not want to see the world news you should have some type of settings where I can only see Austin ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Useless ads *2023-02-17, version 5.42.0* Useless and too many ads ### 1/5 — Worst News app ever absolute garbage! *2022-11-08* Absolutely worst news app I’ve ever experienced. Story quality and summary articles of other national stories is less the middle school quality work. Staff writers journalistic credentials are from a bubble gum machine at Walmart. They couldn’t write a story for 3rd grade publication with a grade out come better than a D-. Stories are summations with few facts that are relevant to original national articles on the same story. Fire the Editor fire, the staff, delete this low quality new app or you will be misled by it. Austin’s ability to report quality broadcast or news articles is lower than except-able for city of this size. UT’s “Daily Texan” is the only half decent quality news organization in the city of Austin the Daily I’d give this App a -5 if I could! ### 1/5 — Will not open *2021-12-17, version 5.29.5* I am using iOS 15 updated and this app will not open, even after reloading it. What gives? ### 1/5 — App does not work *2021-12-07, version 5.29.5* This app does not work most of the time. It either never opens or it just disappears. ### 1/5 — Won’t load *2021-11-05* I’m using iOS v15.1 on an iPhone 11 and I just get the loading screen! I haven’t been able to use it for a couple of months now. I get the headlines in my notifications but the links takes me to the loading screen and no further… ### 1/5 — Worst “news” app ever *2021-08-30, version 5.26.9* Notifications pop up on phone/ iPad about a specific story. When you click on the notification that story is nowhere to be found on the Fox 7 page… deleting and going to another channel ### 1/5 — Alerts *2021-05-11, version 5.25.0* I have this app set up with alerts which come up frequently but when I tap the alerts story it takes me to the Fox 7 app and to a completely unrelated story and then I can even find the story I was alerted about! Deleting this app for this reason. ### 1/5 — Way too liberal *2021-03-10, version 5.23.0* Had to delete the app. Reporting is very liberal biased. The popups all had a strong left slant and couldn’t take it anymore. Hard to find unbiased news nowadays....oh well. ### 1/5 — Manipuladores de la información *2021-01-04, version 5.21.0* Son un canal que desinforma en vez de informar y cuando dicen una noticia les encanta sacar las palabras fuera de contexto por que en vez de tratar por cualquier medio de escribir mal de Trump no se encargan de hacer verdadero periodismo por ejemplo por que nunca dicen la verdad o por lo menos tratan de encontrar del por qué Facebook censura todo lo que le da la gana hagan periodismo verdadero la final son ustedes quienes están perdiendo ### 1/5 — Garbage *2020-11-11, version 5.19.2* They quit giving the news and started giving their leftist opinions on everything. Fortunately it’s (almost) still America, so I deleted it. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fox 7 News is the Best for so. Central TX *2020-08-25* I find good information on most of your stories, but in your “Sponsored Stories” they are not stories. They are miss leading ads. I’ve seen one that says there is beautiful apartments for the elderly. It shows a nice looking building. Also one of tonight’s “Sponsored Stories” you have one that shows hundreds of vehicles for sales also here in Florence. Both totally bogus. It’s lies. Nothing even close to your “sponsored Stories” exists here in Florence TX. Actually all those supposed stories are nothing but ads. Please be more responsible about how you show ads & not list them as stories. Disappointed. ### 5/5 — Good *2019-09-28, version 5.6.2* OMG SO COOL!! ### 5/5 — Amazing app for Austin news *2019-09-24, version 5.6.2* Trustworthy and reliable content. I love this app! ### 5/5 — This is amazing *2019-09-21* Thank you so much for coming up with this app. I rarely have time to watch TV , all I have to do now is check this app to keep up with all the news. I love some of the stories on here. Big thumbs up Fox 7 👍👍 ### 5/5 — EE *2019-08-14, version 4.3.5201* Great! ### 5/5 — Convenient *2019-07-29, version 4.3.5201* This app keeps me up to date all hours of the day. ### 5/5 — Tip top reporting *2019-07-10, version 4.3.5201* I rely on Fox 7 for weather reports; the best in town. ### 5/5 — Fox 7 in Austin, Texas *2019-07-09, version 4.3.5201* Love this news station! Zack, Chelsea, Amanda, Jane, Dave, Leslie! Their like family! Love waking up to them every morning! Keep up the good work! Love you guys and gals!♥️♥️ ### 5/5 — Good quality unbiased *2019-06-16, version 4.3.5201* Good quality ### 5/5 — FOX7 *2019-06-12, version 4.3.5201* I miss living in Austin. I still enjoy keeping up with what's going on with FOX7. --- *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 2026-06-10.*