NBC 5 Chicago User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience46.7% of reviews
Neutral15.9% of reviews
Negative experience37.4% of reviews

~ Based on 107 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is NBC 5 Chicago Safe?

NBC 5 Chicago: News & Weather appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for NBC 5 Chicago is 89/100.

This assessment is based on 1,992 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

87.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,987 App Store ratings for NBC 5 Chicago.

Is NBC 5 Chicago Legit?

NBC 5 Chicago: News & Weather appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for NBC 5 Chicago is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Radar doesn’t work - doesn’t update time of day

Ok

Video starts automatically

Love this ap but video is annoying. I prefer to quickly scan the content of a story and rarely watch video. When I do want the video it usually is playing what they are streaming on the news and not the story advertised. Case in point, tonight a video of man rescued from streator tornado house collapse. I press play and got a video playing on live stream about the vatican. It has been like this for years. somebody fix it.
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Too Many Alerts for weather

We so not need to know every time it rains etc or its windy or its sunny..we need to know severe alerts or warnings! At least give us the option to choose exactly what we want and even what sound we want.

Play

The app will not load to my play live news , just buffers.

250,000 no kings in chicago

I don’t know where you get your information, but there were 250,000 participants in the no kings rally. You’d never know that from your dreadful coverage. And closing with a statement about Pritzker being at fault was misleading journalism. Shame on you.

Love but could be better

Love the weather app but why don’t I see marine or other NoAA warnings.
Also WHY does the hourly not tell me what day I’m looking at. If I scroll I have no idea what day I’m looking at!

Request

Hi
This app needs update and overhaul.
We need more push notifications like Tornado watch and tornado warnings thunderstorms watches and warnings
Right now it’s just general .
and raiďer got bugs
Patrick O’Came

Video starts automatically

Love this ap but video is annoying. I prefer to quickly scan the content of a story and rarely watch video. When I do want the video it usually is the live video and not the story. Also, video starts automatically on opening the story which is super annoying. Let me queue it please.

Ted’s a Chicago Suburban listener for over 60 years

Awesome for my local and international perspectives…DA



fair weathered news site

average site with biased opinions and stories. Funny part is if you want to know how Chicago area sports teams did, if they won there will be an article. If they lost, there will not be an article.

More weather alert settings for the app

Hi
We need more severe weather alert like Tornado watch’s and tornado warnings toggles and everything. It very basic right now >
I like to have severe weather outlooks and everything .
Can you make those changes. I will going to really appreciate it .
Thanks
Patrick O’Came

Excellent update

I can see temperatures without a magnifying glass! The last overhaul yielded a bad user experience and was inferior to the one before it. This is the best one yet, very easy to see and navigate. Thank you!

Features requests for weather ,

Hi NBC 5,

I am requesting app should have more severe weather toggles like Tornado watch’s Tornado warning severe thunderstorm warnings toggles and push notifications too for iPad and iPhone .
Right now it looks very general right

Patrick O’Came

Propaganda

Edited out musks salute on their YouTube. Done with them for sanewashing this admin

Video issue

Bait n switch - click on weather and either end up w/ multi videos playing sound thus not able to hear weather

Or

Click the weather video and unrelated video plays and not being able to locate weather video that got me to click

App deleted

Earthquakes gone

They took out the earthquake map so I’ll be deleting the app.

Forecast glitch

My preferred app, but why does it kick back to apps screen when I want to highlight a particular day in the 10 day forecast?

Push notifications

I originally picked you as my source for news, but the amount of push notifications is ridiculous. I don’t care who is speaking at the DNC or when the next Olympic event is taking place. Keep it to the important news & weather when it comes to push notifications please.

FIX YOUR APP ALREADY!!

This app USED TO be my go to weather app… However, it has more problems than I can even address in this review. Not like you guys read your reviews anyways… It’s VERY evident that you guys don’t care whatsoever whether or not your app functions properly, or not. Considering the majority of these laundry list of issues has been going on for upwards of 6 months now, and not a single patch has come out to address ANY OF THEM! I really stinks that I know have to find a new weather app that actually works properly…
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FIX YOUR APP ALREADY!!

Are you kidding me?!? Your app (yes… It is YOUR app! Not me… Not my phone… Not user error… etc…) has not been displayed correct times, temperature, or really any data for MONTHS NOW!! I have confirmed this with multiple other friends and family members, and they are all having the same issue as well! It will say “your location” 8pm and 70 degrees when it’s 1am and 58 degrees out. Then slide to the next location on my list (the city I live in/should be my location as well) and it gives a completely different time and temperature like 2pm and 82 degrees outside. And yes… It does the same thing with neighboring cities as well… It’s literally all sorts out of whack! Get someone on patching this issue already, will you?? This is ridiculous that I haven’t been able to use my go to weather app anymore for literal months now because no data is syncing and/or is displaying correctly!
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