# KWCH 12 News — user reviews > 93 indexed App Store user reviews of KWCH 12 News by Gray Television Group, Inc., rated 2.60/5 from 323 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kwch-12-news/id1102846121/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kwch-12-news/id1102846121.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 84 · 4★ 25 · 3★ 29 · 2★ 43 · 1★ 142 ## What do users think of KWCH 12 News? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📰 Reliable local news source for rural areas - 🌤️ Accurate weather information and forecasts - 🔔 Timely breaking news notifications - 📱 Quick access to local information on-the-go **Cons** - 📺 Excessive and intrusive advertisements - 🎬 Forced auto-playing videos with sound - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezing - ⚪ Blank/grey screens preventing content access - 📝 Numerous spelling and grammatical errors - 🎨 Poor UI/UX design and navigation - ⚙️ App instability and unreliability - 🔊 Auto-playing audio interrupting user's music - 📰 Stale and outdated content - 🎯 Irrelevant alerts and notifications - 🔍 Difficulty finding stories from notifications - 📱 Incompatible with iOS settings (dark mode, font size) - ⏱️ Long 30-second unskippable ads - 🔗 Misleading links and broken functionality **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on launch or when opening stories - Blank white/grey screen after ad dismissal - Videos not playing or loading correctly - Notifications not working or not received - App freezes randomly during use - Contact support link returns blank screen - Forwarding feature stopped working - App loads in Spanish and freezes - Notifications show but stories cannot be accessed - Weather graphics display outdated information - Ads overlap and cover article content - Live stream shows rebroadcasts instead of current content - App doesn't respect iOS system settings - Push notifications trigger but link to wrong content - Sports alerts appear despite being disabled **Most requested features** - Option to disable auto-playing videos - Ability to customize notification preferences by location - Dark mode support - Adjustable font size settings - Ad-free premium subscription option - Discussion/comments section for stories - Content filtering to block unwanted topics - Improved contact/support functionality - Better story organization and search - Option to go back to previous app version - Ability to clear old notifications easily - Mute button for auto-playing ads ## Newest reviews (19 of 93) ### 2/5 — Not Great *2026-03-17, version 3.0.2* Too many ads. Also, there is no way that I can find to prevent videos from automatically playing when I click on a story. I want to read the story not watch a video with ads. ### 2/5 — Terrible app *2026-03-11, version 3.0.1* This is not a user friendly app, apparently AI controlled, can’t clear alerts , like the old app much better ### 1/5 — New updates make me want to delete *2026-03-09, version 3.0.1* This app was fine, but a new update where every video auto plays is going to get me to delete the app. ### 1/5 — Dislike the updated app *2026-03-06, version 3.0.1* When opening story, the advertisement auto play and play sound without a mute function. Also the Hutchinson college ad reappears after exiting a story. The swipe to next story was convenient. Now it is more clicks to get to the next story and have to deal with the college add. ### 1/5 — Alert flag always present *2026-03-06, version 3.0.1* I'll get used to the changes but the ALERT waiting indicator on phone home page is really annoying. ### 1/5 — Forced ad watching *2025-10-28, version 2.0.17* Each time I click on the app to get the latest news I have to watch an ad first. If this continues I will find another local news app. ### 1/5 — Terrible app *2025-06-12, version 2.0.17* This is so saturated with ads that it’s near unusable. Immediate ad when opening, tap a story notification and get a forced video ad, banners litter the screen. Immediate uninstall ### 1/5 — Pathetic *2025-05-06, version 2.0.17* This app just doesn’t work. As many others have said, it goes to a blank screen after showing you the advertisement. It does nothing else. Great job KWCH! How difficult in this day and age to have a working app? ### 2/5 — Go back to school (elementary, not college) *2025-04-10, version 2.0.17* Spelling and grammatical errors are a constant thing in the stories they post on the app. It’s annoying. On a side note, you tag a picture of an IOWA license plate on a story for potential new KANSAS plates? SMH ### 1/5 — Long ads *2025-02-27, version 2.0.17* Sick and tired of having to watch ads just to open any article In this app. ### 1/5 — WTHeck?! *2025-02-24, version 2.0.17* Why does the app keep going to a blank white page when I’m trying to read the news stories? This is a fairly recent development, as it didn’t use to do this. It makes it impossible to read the news stories.Strange that it isn’t continuous, but rather happens at random times. ### 2/5 — Ridiculous vitriol from mainstream media *2024-11-06, version 2.0.16* I like getting weather and some local info, but your ridiculous mainstream media virtue that paints anybody who’s not a liberal as some kind of crazed enemy is ridiculous. The associated press is your most common reference source for national news and they are a ridiculous organization. Journalists and news outlets were supposed to be the voice of the people, all the people, not just a select group. Why don’t you do some real reporting and find some real facts and keep your feelings out of it or report from organizations that do that. Your article today on Trump‘s victory is absolute rubbish. Surely you have a journalist there that can report the information without all the bias and name-calling that has led to the division in this country over the last 10-15 years. The media has done far more damage to the relations and unity of this country than any politician or any other organization in the world. You have a tremendous responsibility so do better with it. ### 1/5 — Always pauses audio when opened *2024-05-21, version 2.0.15* The app works fine with push notifications of breaking news, but constantly pauses whatever audio you’re listening to when you open it. It’s insanely annoying. Emailed the developers and still not fixed. ### 1/5 — App doesn’t. Work *2024-04-12, version 2.0.15* Every time I get a notification and try to open it I get a blank screen. Also when I go directly into the app to open a story most of the time I get the same blank screen. Went to contact 12 and click on the contact link and again a blank screen ### 1/5 — Too many alerts *2024-03-21, version 2.0.15* I don’t need an alert for every story and a reminder to watch the news. If you want me to open the app make the story impactful. ### 1/5 — Can’t read the news *2024-03-13, version 2.0.15* I can see the adds when I open the app but when I click on a news story I only see a grey screen. Only see a grey screen when I try and contact support. I live in a rural area so no local news for me. ### 1/5 — App failure *2024-01-06, version 2.0.15* After opening app and getting full screen add for temu, x out of it and get a grey blank screen, and nothing happens. ### 1/5 — Not working, poor quality application! *2023-09-04, version 2.0.12* The app hasn’t worked correctly in several months. I noticed it starting to have issues when they added the paid ads when it loaded up. I understand the need to generate revenue, but come on put them in another way that doesn’t cause the application to crash or not function properly. It might be time to switch to a new local news source. ### 1/5 — Screen turns grey when app opens. Started early 2023 *2023-08-05, version 2.0.11* Title says it all. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No stars is what I really want to rate it *2026-08-26, version 3.0.7* KWCH new app doesn’t work. No soundtrack on video. I like the printed version to go with since I can’t always listen to the audio. The old app was much more user friendly. I’m ready to delete this app if it stays the way it is now. ### 1/5 — KWCH 12 News *2026-05-25, version 3.0.4* Do Not Want Ads !!!! ### 1/5 — TV Screen Shutdown *2026-04-03, version 3.0.2* Whatever it takes to fix this, please do it quickly. We have no other source for live-local news/weather, in the farm counties, without cable and too far for antennas. Your ads are pitiful, sleazy, trolls that show up every 20 seconds. I would gladly pay $5 a month if you just provide a useful product. ### 1/5 — Too much Junk *2026-04-01, version 3.0.2* Way too many ads and junk scam based information that flood and disguise the real news in the app please fix this !!! ### 1/5 — Hating the new app *2026-03-26, version 3.0.2* Sometimes change is not a good thing… please give option to go back to previous app ### 1/5 — Nobody *2026-03-24, version 3.0.2* The forwarding feature stopped working ### 1/5 — Stop Auto Start Videos *2026-03-24, version 3.0.2* Can you please make it so video doesn’t auto play when clicking into a story? If I’m trying to read an article in a public place and don’t have my sound down it just start blaring whether I have my phone on silent or not. ### 1/5 — What happened?? *2026-03-22, version 3.0.2* This used to be my “go to” app for news in KS. The content structure was streamlined and super easy to read. The recent update to the 12 app now has me looking at what the other 2 stations have. The font is microscopic, the format is clunky, and the 30 seconds ads are way too long. This new format feels like a summer intern project. ### 1/5 — Redesigned app is junk and this is not journalism *2026-03-10, version 3.0.1* Hate that an ad pops up each time I open the app now. The feed is now more ads than news, and the quality of the news writing has been in a downward spiral for the last few years. The writing is often disjointed and incomplete. This is no longer a trusted source for journalism. So disappointing. ### 1/5 — Crashes in Wichita *2026-03-09, version 3.0.1* Really doesn’t tell the story, only tells parts. Let’s ask some questions , like how many tickets have been written by police dept each of the past five years. Break it out by year. Most of the increase in deaths and accidents are due to lack of enforcement by the WPD. The WPD has turned in to a reaction based dept similar to some other cities, they moved away from being proactive 2 years ago. And it is quite easy to see the results if you do your homework. Instead of writing a fluff piece based on a WPD official. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great app *2017-12-11, version 1.1.4* This is a great app, always on the go and I keep well informed on almost every front! ### 5/5 — Most Accurate News and Weather *2017-06-12, version 1.1.4* I totally depend on KWCH Channel 12 for the most accurate news and weather. Thanks channel 12 KWCH, y'all are the best. ### 5/5 — GREAT APP *2017-03-07, version 1.1.4* Has all your need and always up to date ### 4/5 — App won’t work! *2022-06-10, version 1.4.15* The app won’t open to stories. Why won’t it open? ### 3/5 — Old notices *2026-03-07, version 3.0.1* Too hard to get rid of old of old notices. Unless I don’t know how to do it anymore. ### 3/5 — Discussion missing *2020-07-01, version 1.3.0* Why don’t you have discussion on the APP? Someone might have something to say about the news. Any discussions should be civil and not vulgar. ### 3/5 — PROOF READ *2020-01-31* I love KWCH News. With that said your people that are posting stories online are not proofreading the stories. The last I checked just about everyone of you has a college education, so when you have a non-college educated schmuck telling you to PROOFREAD your articles that should tell you something. Lately most of your postings have a glaring error in the first few sentences. P.S. having a computer spell check your work is not PROOFREADING. ### 3/5 — Used to be 4 * *2019-04-12, version 1.2.1* I don’t understand how long it can take to fix the ads that cover up content, nor why weather graphics appear that are several days old. ### 3/5 — Need fixed *2019-02-26, version 1.2.1* The advertising is showing up in the content of the article and making it impossible to read. This has happened after the update. Please fix this. It’s very frustrating to only get to read part of a news story. ### 3/5 — Too many alerts for things that are not news *2019-01-21* Daily alerts about football scores etc. alerts need to be about news that counts; the missing found, weather happening in the next 1 to 2 hours, emergency reporting started....an alert isn’t the fact that the Chiefs Kicked off their game --- *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 2026-08-28.*