KHON2 News User Reviews

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Buggy and stops working

When I click on watch now or livestream or watch living808 it stops playing randomly and asks to reload page. It just ends up playing the same ads over and over and you never get to see the content.

Junk

Now you need to sign up for Nexstar to view live broadcast. It gotten worst!

This station censors free speech

this station only airs the political views approved by the government, they will not air Jimmy Kimmel.

Community Going’s On

i’m looking for events in Honolulu or Big Island free or otherwise like bondsnces and community. Maybe a community bulletin board. week ends, walks, rummage sales, donation of households.Not

Ad after ad after ad

It’s an ad clickbait!

Terrible

Says that we can keep up to date with news, but can’t watch live news casts until 2 hours after broadcast so what’s the point

LIVE broadcast news is a lie!

KHON was my favorite when I had cable TV and one day I realized I’m paying $80 a month just to watch the news so got rid of cable. From the app where they claim there’s a live news stream it’s always at least an hour behind. This renders it completely useless if you’re trying to use it to check live traffic. HNN app actually is live news and loads a lot quicker.
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Too many ads

So many ads. Navigation is not easy and having to dismiss all the ads and pop ups is not enjoyable. I understand ads pay for the services but ads shouldn’t be more than news stories.

Worst app ever

0 stars

App doesn’t open on iPhone 14 iOS 16

I recently purchased an iPhone 14 Pro Max iOS 16 and installed KHON2 news app, but it won’t allow me to open and view content. It only shows the KHON2 logo. Please fix this app, because I always want to keep up to date with the latest news, weather, sports, and traffic.

Couldn’t get it to start

After selecting what type of notifications I want to see from the app, the app stays stuck on a loading screen.

Disappointing

I would like to click on the push messages and breaking news notifications and go straight to the story to read it. Has not happened yet. Could be much more user friendly.

Ads make app dysfunctional

So many ads... most of the time, you “swipe up” to close the ad and end up closing the whole app.

Alerts

This app alerts the user of breaking news. When you open the app to view the news alert it doesn't let you view it. Its Frustrating.

Worthless, I deleted.

The notification on the the phone are ridiculous and frustrating. You click on it and it send you to watch advertising, after you watch it, still the news on the notification is no where to be found, as you search for it, you are welcome with more advertising.

Hello! Developer, your app is very unfriendly user. Fix that.
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Less Ads, Please!

I enjoy this app + use the push notifications to track breaking news for the island. But I find it nearly impossible to read stories or browse because of the immense amount of ads on each page. These are the same garbage ads on misc sites - clean out your ear wax, fix your saggy arms - and IMO they don’t have any place on a local news app. Not professional when you have an ad in between each paragraph. I understand the need for profit to help sustain the app development, I just wish there were less, or an option to remove them entirely via a one-time fee. The Apple TV app is the same, except sometimes it will ONLY play ads and won’t play the videos.
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Freezing app

This app freezes frequently in the middle of scrolling due to the amount of video adds

Notifications do not take you to the story

Thee most irritating thing about this app is that the notifications take you to a page showing the KHON2 TV schedule rather than the story itself. This app has great notifications and is generally 1st in notifying me about current events which makes this issue even more infuriating. Use the Hawaii News Now app until this is fixed.
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Takes forever to reach your story because of ads. Deleting the ap

Not a good ap

Need to update

Open the app and it freezes.