# KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco: News — user reviews > 100 indexed App Store user reviews of KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco by Fox Television Stations, Inc., rated 4.31/5 from 2,740 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ktvu-fox-2-san-francisco-news/id337606352/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ktvu-fox-2-san-francisco-news/id337606352.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,879 · 4★ 374 · 3★ 155 · 2★ 110 · 1★ 221 ## What do users think of KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Great local news coverage - 🚀 Convenient live stream access - 💯 Longtime trusted news source - 🌟 Excellent news anchors and reporters **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes - 💤 Outdated or stale news content - 🔊 Intrusive and repetitive advertisements - 🧭 Difficulty navigating to specific news stories - 🔌 High battery drain from app usage **Commonly reported bugs** - Notifications do not open to the correct news story - Live stream playback frequently stops or fails to load - App home page does not consistently display up-to-date content **Most requested features** - Allow customization of news feed by location - Implement picture-in-picture video playback - Improve notification system to directly open related articles - Add search functionality to easily find news stories ## Newest reviews (16 of 100) ### 3/5 — It’s great, but…. *2024-11-09* This app is great. It keeps you up-to-date on what’s going on in the Bay Area and it’s super user friendly. , The only thing that I don’t like about this app is that I can’t change; or at least I haven’t figured out how to yet, change it to a specific city that I want to see what the weather is doing in. The only city I can see the actual weather for is San Francisco and we all know San Francisco is not like the rest of the area weather wise. If anyone knows how to change the city, please let me know. . ### 3/5 — Where is the real time survey??? *2024-08-06, version 5.52.0* Can’t find it. ### 2/5 — KTVU *2024-07-07, version 5.52.0* Good for news .. but the ads that they promote are sketchy or downright deceptive.. you need to do better to protect yourself and others from the lawsuits that may arise from your ads… ### 2/5 — Love the new station, but the app.. *2024-03-25, version 5.51.0* Video does not support PiP and also stops casting if the phone times out or is manually locked. Basically useless unless I want to exclusively use my phone to watch the app and do NOTHING else with my phone. Please update this. ### 3/5 — Deceptive ad inserts *2024-03-05, version 5.51.0* My one complaint with KTVU, among some of the other news apps, is the allowing of clearly deceptive ad inserts with misleading headlines mimicking legitimate news stories. There appears to be no filter at all. ### 4/5 — Issue with App *2023-11-06, version 5.49.0* Rhythmic clicking noise in app. Hear is at soon as I open the app. Hear it while I view the livestream. ### 2/5 — Too many ads that are poorly targeted *2023-09-20, version 5.48.0* Way too many ads that are targeted for someone living in Tennessee when I live in Castro Valley, CA. ### 3/5 — Too many ads *2023-08-27, version 5.47.0* The app has too many ads in between the news. If the app was designed more like the ABC 7 news Bay Area app, I’d give it 5 stars. ### 2/5 — Ever hear of “micro-climates”? *2023-08-21, version 5.47.0* I don’t need San Francisco’s weather forecast. I need Walnut Creek’s weather forecast. Think there’s an input/button for that? Think again. ### 2/5 — Average *2023-08-20, version 5.47.0* Articles do not update often, I can’t remove the new advertisement tracking that pops up, many of the pictures don't load. ### 2/5 — Too many notifications *2023-08-03, version 5.47.0* I don’t need to be alerted a Philz Coffee location is shutting down. ### 4/5 — Great online news but a 30 min infomercial to watch? *2023-07-20* I’ve watch KTVU news on my iPad every morning for years. Living through the repetition of the same commercials over and over. Little did I know that is preferable to what happened this morning where I don’t get any news unless I watch a 30 minute infomercial. Really? I’m not watching more than 45 minutes total. Apparently KTVU is trying to get rid of all the customers. Please fix this. ### 2/5 — Picture in Picture *2023-07-12, version 5.46.0* I can’t get Picture in Picture to work on my iPhone 11 Pro I don’t watch this channel as much because I can’t use another app at the same time. ### 3/5 — Notifications *2023-06-16, version 5.45.0* Unimportant, dated news is used for notifications I only want notifications for my area I do not want to hear what happened yesterday or out of the area ### 3/5 — Not working *2023-06-05, version 5.44.0* Yep, for some unknown reason will not allow me to read their articles. This is most annoying as this is reported as a new service ### 2/5 — Incomplete news. *2023-05-10, version 5.44.0* Was my go to news app., but seems like they are selective in their coverage. Not even enough news on what’s really going on. Crisis at the border, Hunter Biden scandal and how it ties to the President, etc. very slanted. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not great *2025-01-02, version 5.52.0* The number of misspelled words is embarrassing. ### 1/5 — Bias *2024-11-17, version 5.52.0* Very left leaning biased news ### 1/5 — Still advertising galore. *2024-07-01, version 5.52.0* As I read an article about a slain family I need to dodge the advertisements and clickbait garbage that covers nearly 50% of the article. It continues to make my news experience strewn with trash. The news itself is ok. Spell check and fact checking has left the media. To get the article out is all that’s important. I doubt this will improve either. ### 1/5 — Unstoppable commercials *2024-04-21, version 5.52.0* Unstoppable commercials immediately begin to play while I’m reading a news article, so I deleted the app. No more unstoppable commercials will obtrusively play while I’m reading a news article! ### 1/5 — It’s ok *2024-04-07, version 5.52.0* Showing news from 2/3 months ago and the app never update itself. Check the news in the morning and 5pm and it’s still showing the exact same thing. ### 1/5 — No longer using app due to hijacking my audio *2024-03-09, version 5.51.0* When listening to music or any other audio, it stops when I scroll down your new app. ### 1/5 — Loud music on app *2023-12-05, version 5.50.0* Noisy music is now playing on the app, and no way to mute it! It’s very annoying! The loud music is still playing when I sign onto the app to check the news! Please fix it! ### 1/5 — KTVU Fox CHANNEL 2 app *2023-11-16, version 5.49.0* Weak, stale, not worth reading. ### 1/5 — Abusive pop-up ads *2023-10-24, version 5.49.0* 10-24-2023 - App deleted! I'm done with the popups Latest trend is abusive ads, hit the reader by surprise before they know what hit them Stop these ads or I'm gone for good I'll switch to KRON or even other apps with ffaster updated local news. Believe me, I will! Give you 1 week! ### 1/5 — STOP TAKEOVER ADS *2023-10-08, version 5.48.0* Stop the ads that take over the entire screen and don’t have a way to close them. It’s just plain annoying and will rapidly drive away viewers. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Long Time Viewer *2024-01-17, version 5.50.0* I grew up in San Lorenzo in the ‘60’s and 70’s, and have been a Bay Area native for all of my 50+ years. KTVU has been my staple for local news. It’s amazing to me in this day and age to see the longevity of all of the anchors staying on at a job for the number of years they do. They bring my neighborhoods to my open conscious every day. ### 5/5 — Love KTVU *2024-01-05, version 5.50.0* The cast is what makes watching KTVU incredible! ### 5/5 — KTVU news *2023-10-18, version 5.49.0* I have been watching this news channel since its inception in 1958, this is one of the most consice news channels in the bay area. ### 5/5 — Like it or not *2023-10-17, version 5.49.0* Love this new segment! ### 5/5 — Cannot see in full screen mode on iPhone 14pro *2023-04-25, version 5.43.0* Please fix the software Watch live cannot be seen in full screen on iPhone 14 pro It used to work in in iPhone 13 ### 5/5 — This app *2023-03-09, version 5.42.1* KTVU brings it all to you***** ### 5/5 — Live in Mexico *2023-01-11* How do you spend winters in southern Baja but I miss the bay area. I also need to know what is going on in the news so that I can be up-to-date with my tenants who still live there. It’s super helpful to be able to get live streams of my favorite Bay Area newscast down here. I cannot even stream CNN down here but I can get KTVU. I have been a loyal viewer for years, the team is wonderful and it makes me feel at home to be able to watch it in the morning down here keep up the great work. ### 5/5 — Could be better *2020-11-12, version 5.19.2* It is REALLY annoying that I get news alerts and when I click on the alert and the app opens it is never to that story nor a page with said story on it. The news is awesome and the alerts are awesome but they aren’t working in real time together. ### 5/5 — Review New App *2019-10-20, version 5.6.6* I always use this app. New version of app, however, doesn’t have feature that allows me to reduce its viewing size so I can simultaneously review my email and listen/watch 2 News. Any way to add that feature? Thanks for your great work delivering local news. ### 5/5 — Great App for Quick Local News *2019-09-28* The best part is watching the live TV feed morning news, with traffic reports and weather from Sal and Steve, together with the regular news team, right on my phone as I get ready in the morning. Follow that with the new Mornings at Nine (I think it's called), with longer news coverage and fewer ads. News stories are updated thru the day, too. --- *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.*