# NBC 4 New York: News & Weather — user reviews > 105 indexed App Store user reviews of NBC 4 New York by NBCUniversal Media, LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 1,895 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nbc-4-new-york-news-and-weather/id331605976/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nbc-4-new-york-news-and-weather/id331605976.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,467 · 4★ 238 · 3★ 57 · 2★ 39 · 1★ 94 ## What do users think of NBC 4 New York? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🌟 Reliable weather forecasts and radar - 🌍 Keeps out-of-towners informed on NYC news - 📰 Comprehensive news coverage - ⚡ Instant breaking news alerts **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes - 🕸️ Cluttered and confusing UI design - 🔍 Difficulty finding desired content - 🔊 Intrusive and unnecessary notifications - 🕰️ Outdated or delayed weather/news information **Commonly reported bugs** - Weather radar not updating properly - Notifications not clearing after viewing - Incompatibility with newer iOS devices - Live stream functionality not working **Most requested features** - Customizable notification settings - Improved weather data visualization - Picture-in-picture video support - Dedicated traffic/transit updates ## Newest reviews (17 of 105) ### 3/5 — Radar problems *2026-06-22, version 8.8* The time no longer moves forward as I move the bar to the future. Did not fix with uninstall/reinstall. I may have to find another app if this doesn’t get fixed ### 2/5 — Wrong video *2025-04-06, version 8.2* Often when I start watching the video to a story I am interested in, the video that starts playing is not the story I am reading about, but a completely different video about a completely different story. Very frustrating! Why does this keep happening? Please fix. ### 3/5 — Abuses notifications *2025-03-20* I have this set to emergency notifications only, there are no ways to specify any further than that. Daily the app sends notifications for silly, inane news stories that are by no means emergencies or at all important. I need access to transit, weather, safety, and national news alerts. It’s ridiculous my only choice is no alerts or an “emergency” setting that includes alerts like “local chicken restaurant offers free drinks to customers willing to do this dance” **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback, Kacey. We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the notification settings. We appreciate your input and will consider it for future updates. Your experience is important to us, and we hope you'll continue to use our app. If you have any more details or suggestions, please feel free to share them with WNBCappfeedback@nbcuni.com. ### 4/5 — Message count *2025-03-16, version 8.1.1* App says I have 5,000 messages when i don’t pending lol ### 4/5 — Notifications Misnumbered *2025-03-13, version 8.1.1* Why does it say I have 4,762 notifications or 490 or some other high number when it should be 1 or 2? ### 4/5 — Forecast *2024-10-07, version 8.0.1* I love this app. But, at 6:45 AM I don’t want to decipher a morning weather forecast. I get how everyone is trying to be funny with puns. But, is it going to be warm or cold this week? Please just stop. ### 2/5 — No background airplay *2024-09-11, version 7.13.1* Why offer AirPlay if you’re not going to let it play when the device is asleep. It’s essential to the functionality and an easy setting when developing the app. Please fix it. ### 3/5 — No way to turn off auto play *2024-04-20, version 7.12.2* This app goes straight into the commercial previews and shuts off all music that you have playing in the background there’s no way to shut the auto preview off of the video / sound. Super annoying if you just want to read the article. ### 2/5 — Stop with the puns *2023-11-01, version 7.10.1* The morning weather puns are wildly irritating. I don’t have time to watch the news in the morning so I have the app to send me the info I need. Please stop sending weather updates with puns. Just tell us what the weather is. ### 1/5 — No PIP on iPad Pro *2023-10-28, version 7.10.1* What’s the point of using this app on iPad when there’s no PIP? You can do virtually nothing else while the app is open. Whoever is at fault, whether Apple or NBC, needs to fix this already. Without PIP, this app is pretty much unusable. ### 2/5 — What is up with the weather radar???? *2023-09-10, version 7.10* I used to love this app when it came to the weather. It was one of the most accurate apps with the little radar and it was very much the same as the actual tv weather report. Now, the radar doesn’t move!!! FIX THIS TEALLY GOOD APP!!! ### 3/5 — Problem with the weather *2023-08-31, version 7.10* Been using this app for a while with no issues, then last week the radar map stopped working. While I know radar isn’t 100% accurate, it’s good to know the possibilities for the day and be able to plan accordingly. Please fix it. ### 1/5 — Enough Maria PLEASE *2023-08-08, version 7.8.2* The person doing the social notifications for this app should be embarrassed with themselves, and fired. The morning forecasts are a joke. And not a funny kind either. They are excruciating to read and make no sense. Just tell us, is it going to rain? Snow? Hot? Cold? Boom done. Enough of the let me make these cutesy in case my five year old nephew reads them type of posts! Just give us the damned weather! ### 2/5 — July 4th Fireworks *2023-07-05, version 7.8.1* The fireworks show needs to be about the fireworks and not the entertaining- it is totally distracting. Keep the entertainers to before and after the fireworks!!! ### 2/5 — Maria’s borecast *2023-06-06, version 7.8.1* Maria’s AM forecast is so uninformative and pointless. It used to be a real forecast about the day. It’s so annoying to read I’m thinking I’ll have to disable notifications or delete the app ### 4/5 — Great but… *2023-05-20, version 7.8.1* I like the app but when I click on a Track symbol (hail, lightning, …) the description that shows is blocked by other information. I can’t find a way to move it so it can be read. What’s the point of having the information if it can’t be read? ### 3/5 — Tree Lighting Rockefeller Center *2022-12-02, version 7.7.1* Program was brassy Why did the mayor not light the tree? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Locator not working properly *2026-06-06, version 8.8* After many contacts with NBC app still not accurate. My Google map. Apple map and Waze can pinpoint my exact location this app no longer can ### 1/5 — Locator on radar map off and NBC has not fixed it yet. Contacted them a few times but NOTHING *2026-05-22, version 8.8* Like the app but NBC but they have an error on the locator. Tried to tell them but nothing happened in two weeks. Perhaps beyond their capabilities to fix At least they could tell me they attempted but could not figure out what was wrong Very sad ### 1/5 — Boomer Here *2026-01-25, version 8.6.1* Worthless. Found Ron Brickman online and at the end of his wonderful weather update he recommends staying tuned with the app. So, I get the app and what does it do? It simply links me to the online webpage, and, besides the hassles of getting the touch volume to work on the YouTube latest video, and waiting for the commercial to finish, I have to deal with pop ups. In sum, bells and whistles are not news, just aggravation. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2025-12-03, version 8.5.1* For a week now when I open the app it just idles. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2025-11-20, version 8.5.1* Biased and fake news. ### 1/5 — Janice Huff *2025-07-24, version 8.3.2* Inappropriate clothes today. What is she wearing. Looks like work out clothes. ### 1/5 — The definition of fake news *2024-10-24, version 8.0.4* NBC joins the list of leftist fake media like ABC, CNN, and CBS to continual distort the truth and support leftist lies. ### 1/5 — Live feed not working *2024-07-14, version 7.13.1* Live feed not working. Starts “loading” but never plays. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t load *2024-02-14, version 7.11.3* When are you going to fix this app? It seems you don’t care. It used to be a great app but now I go into the app. It takes a long time to upload and then it sends me a message to open in the app when I am in the app. Also, in the Weather part when you click on weather alerts, it brings you to a list of counties and then when you click on the counties, it brings you back to the list of counties. ### 1/5 — SOMEONE NEEDS TO STOP MARIA *2023-11-21, version 7.11.1* Whoever is writing the morning weather push notifications should be ashamed of themselves. They're not even funny or clever, they're just completely cringey. Plus, it's not clear enough what to expect with the weather and requires you to go watch the forecast to have any clue. I can't figure out if there's a way to unsubscribe from Maria's morning notifications, but there should be. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great coverage of the storm. *2026-02-23, version 8.6.1* You’ve been all over. Now that you’re in Staten Island, why not come to Bayonne? ### 5/5 — SandraJ *2024-10-14, version 8.0.1* 5 Stars … just loved what u did in the weather part of the app. 👏👏👏👏👏 ### 5/5 — Good *2023-08-18* This is a good app, but one bug I’ve noticed with it is that the badge number on the app icon keeps increasing each time I get a notification even though I’ve already cleared the alerts in the alerts section within the app. So for example, if in a day I get 3 notifications the app would display a badge with the number 3 and I’d go and clear out the alerts in the app and the badge number would disappear but then when another notification comes in, the badge would display the number 4 instead of 1. So it acts like I still haven’t cleared out the alerts even though I did. UPDATE: Latest update to the app fixes the inaccurate badge bug. ### 5/5 — THE BEST🏆🏆🏆🏆 *2022-11-11, version 7.7.1* Once again this app kept me safe and knowledgeable of everything 👏👏👏GREAT JOB!! ### 5/5 — What I like most! *2021-10-06, version 7.1.1* It loads quickly and doesn’t use a lot of the iPad power and resources. Logically laid out. Easy to read and navigate. ### 5/5 — Where’s the high temp for today? *2021-07-18* I love the app, and new interface. But in order to see what the high temp is for today, I have to scroll across the graph, find the highest number and see what the high temp will be from there. It shows the high for other days, just not the day I’m in. It used to show the high for today…what happened? ### 5/5 — I like it. *2021-06-26* We recently moved to our country home in Pennsylvania during the COVID 19 emergency and the app keeps us informed as to what’s happening in the city. Sadly we’re going to sta here because the cost of living and quality of life is a little better but we’ll continue to go back and forth to visit friends and family. ### 5/5 — NBC4NY *2021-06-08, version 6.18* I live in New Jersey…I love and use your app for the weather, the radar is sooo right on, then a can listen to the forecast which is great! And I like the alerts for the instant news of what’s happening in a short paragraph (which is all I need for today’s news)… SandraJ ### 5/5 — Stay Informed with NBC News 4 *2021-05-28, version 6.18* Downloaded this app and I’m so glad I did. It keeps me up to date and informed, especially with breaking news. I also enjoy having reliable weather forecasts at my fingertips. I depend upon it these days! ### 5/5 — Most reliable weather map/reports. *2021-05-25* I have used this app since it started- I find the weather radar map is the most accurate available. Particularly like to be able to see the future map in motion. The news is easy to navigate and see past news as well as well as being able to watch live news. Highly recommended! --- *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.*