Terrible App with lots of ADS
I used to enjoy using the KOIN 6 News app, but over the past few months the experience has gone downhill…..
There are far too many ads. Every article seems to have ad after ad, and many of them automatically play videos and some are just PSA common sense. On top of that, you have to sit through a video ad before playing the video.
The clickbait ads at the bottom of the article are silly but older people fall for it. One of the biggest issues is that I can’t listen to my own music or podcasts while browsing because the app constantly pauses my audio.
Deleting the app, this is way too much ads to be reading daily news.
There are far too many ads. Every article seems to have ad after ad, and many of them automatically play videos and some are just PSA common sense. On top of that, you have to sit through a video ad before playing the video.
The clickbait ads at the bottom of the article are silly but older people fall for it. One of the biggest issues is that I can’t listen to my own music or podcasts while browsing because the app constantly pauses my audio.
Deleting the app, this is way too much ads to be reading daily news.
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Great news source, bad app
I’ve used this app for years as a way to stay informed on Portland news. The reporting from KOIN 6 is the best in the area. Unfortunately, the company that created their app needs help.
The ads that they have in the app often freeze or crash the whole app, requiring closing the app and restarting. On iOS, they haven’t implemented common gestures, like the ability to swipe backward to the main screen. And they don’t offer a paid upgrade for an ad-free experience. I’ve even contacted the KOIN leadership team to ask for a paid, ad-free subscription option, but they declined.
Today, the app is almost unusable. The ads or video stream are stalled and again freezing or locking the app. Attempting to scroll down instead taps into one of the stories.
Please fix this app!
The ads that they have in the app often freeze or crash the whole app, requiring closing the app and restarting. On iOS, they haven’t implemented common gestures, like the ability to swipe backward to the main screen. And they don’t offer a paid upgrade for an ad-free experience. I’ve even contacted the KOIN leadership team to ask for a paid, ad-free subscription option, but they declined.
Today, the app is almost unusable. The ads or video stream are stalled and again freezing or locking the app. Attempting to scroll down instead taps into one of the stories.
Please fix this app!
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deleted Nexstar
Good app, great local news team but deleted app on the same day Nexstar CEO Perry Sook acquiesced free speech to dictator wanna-be Trump. Replaced with news app from OPB and Willamette Week. If Sook runs Tegna in the merger, will delete KGW app too.
Bad link
Doesn’t open
Settings don’t work
I’ve deleted the app because I can’t turn off weather updates. Getting way too many alerts. It’s going to rain in 15 minutes. Really? I live in Oregon.
Full of ads
This app won’t even take you to the article you clicked on.
Seriously?!
A Drop Tower, When The Previous Drop Tower Had Malfunctioned?!
Why Not Something Safer?
Report Homeless Camps in the Orchard of David’s Hill!
What’s next after the Robot Dog? A Vacuuming Robotic Duck that cleans up your human made messes?
Why Not Something Safer?
Report Homeless Camps in the Orchard of David’s Hill!
What’s next after the Robot Dog? A Vacuuming Robotic Duck that cleans up your human made messes?
Poor App!
Every single time I go in to the app, I have to go to weather and then go back to the home page to see the latest news. Your app does not automatically refresh and I see the old news from when I last opened for app. This could be days old news. You need to fix your app!
The audio doesn’t work.
Also the audio doesn’t work.
Can’t read stories that have videos
I used to be able to choose to read the stories instead of watching videos on my iPad. I wrote in about a week ago telling them that there was a problem. I haven’t heard anything back nor has the problem been rectified. So, I’ll be deleting this app and finding another way to get news. It won’t be from KOIN since I can only conclude they don’t care if their customers can access their product. That means I won’t be seeing their advertisements, either.
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App is broken
Seriously, this used to be my go-to app for local news. Now, it’s unusable. I can’t even swipe up to bypass the ad that shows up when I open it. I guess I’ll go back to using KGW’s app, which is terrible, but at least it works.
Incompatible w iOS 17
Granted iOS 17 is a piece of craznap, but still. Fix it, KOIN! Otherwise I’ll have to get 100% of my local news from the Portland subreddits. (Currently I get about 90% of my local news from those.)
Crashes at startup
Did anyone test before releasing to the App Store?
App refuses to open
App was working fine until latest update a couple days ago. It simply will not load.
Iphone 15 plus ios 17.3
Iphone 15 plus ios 17.3
Non functioning app
All of a sudden- this app will not work. Weather link kicks you off the app. ???
Crashes when tapping the Weather button
Weather screen fails to load due to the app crashing when the Weather button is tapped.
Also, video ads are even more intrusive on news story screens, making it more difficult to read news stories. Is this a news app or an advertising platform?
Also, video ads are even more intrusive on news story screens, making it more difficult to read news stories. Is this a news app or an advertising platform?
Alert should show the right story
When I click on an alert from an app, I expect to see the story in the alert.
Invariably, when the KOIN News app gives me an alert, and I click on it, I am shown something completely irrelevant and usually not interesting.
Today, I saw an alert for an updated NOAA forecast. I clicked. I was disappointed.
I saw a story for an incident that happened six months ago, had nothing to do with NOAA, its forecast, or weather at all.
I should not have to search for a link to a story I clicked on from an alert for the same app.
I have no expectations that this will be fixed. It’s been this way for years. Other apps are more than capable of linking the correct story.
Because of this, I will be turning off notifications in this app.
Invariably, when the KOIN News app gives me an alert, and I click on it, I am shown something completely irrelevant and usually not interesting.
Today, I saw an alert for an updated NOAA forecast. I clicked. I was disappointed.
I saw a story for an incident that happened six months ago, had nothing to do with NOAA, its forecast, or weather at all.
I should not have to search for a link to a story I clicked on from an alert for the same app.
I have no expectations that this will be fixed. It’s been this way for years. Other apps are more than capable of linking the correct story.
Because of this, I will be turning off notifications in this app.
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Painful to look at
As you scroll, it jump. Needs to be more smooth before using.
Screen reader
This app used to allow blind and visually impaired users access information. In the last few months, it has stopped doing so for latest news. If you use a screen reader, you can no longer access those headlines along with pictures in order to access News. Have to go to another new site although this used to be my favorite.
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Inefficient app
I don’t like that after reading a “latest news” story, the app the jumps to another section. After reading a story, I want to go back to the list of stories where I was rather than having to scroll back. I read fewer stories than I would due to this inefficiency and annoyance.
