# NBC 5 Chicago: News & Weather — user reviews > 107 indexed App Store user reviews of NBC 5 Chicago by NBCUniversal Media, LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 2,003 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nbc-5-chicago-news-and-weather/id331802255/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nbc-5-chicago-news-and-weather/id331802255.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,471 · 4★ 284 · 3★ 79 · 2★ 56 · 1★ 113 ## What do users think of NBC 5 Chicago? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🌟 Excellent weather information - 📰 Comprehensive news coverage - 🔴 Reliable live updates - 📺 Convenient live TV access **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes - ⚠️ Inaccurate weather forecasts - 🔍 Difficult to navigate - 📢 Too many notifications - 🔌 High battery consumption **Commonly reported bugs** - Weather data not updating correctly - Live radar not functioning properly - Hourly forecast displaying incorrect information - Push notifications not working as expected **Most requested features** - More customizable weather alerts - Improved video player experience - Ability to save articles for later - Streamlined app navigation ## Newest reviews (18 of 107) ### 2/5 — Radar doesn’t work - doesn’t update time of day *2026-06-21, version 8.8* Ok ### 3/5 — Video starts automatically *2026-06-12* 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. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback. We appreciate your suggestion about video playback and understand how it can be inconvenient. Your input is valuable to us, and we'll consider it for future improvements. ### 3/5 — Too Many Alerts for weather *2026-03-28, version 8.6.1* 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. ### 3/5 — Love but could be better *2025-10-11, version 8.4* 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! ### 4/5 — Request *2025-07-10, version 8.3* 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 ### 4/5 — Video starts automatically *2025-07-04, version 8.3* 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. ### 2/5 — fair weathered news site *2025-06-08, version 8.3* 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. ### 4/5 — More weather alert settings for the app *2025-04-14, version 8.2* 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 ### 4/5 — Features requests for weather , *2025-02-06, version 8.1.1* 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 ### 2/5 — Video issue *2025-01-06, version 8.1* 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 ### 4/5 — Forecast glitch *2024-12-17, version 8.0.5* 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? ### 2/5 — Decent App *2024-05-29, version 7.13* The radar isnt very accurate. There will be times it’ll be pouring rain and clouds dont even show up on the app. The future cast is never right. I’ll probably remove this app soon because it sends out too many notification, sometimes the same alert 3 or 4 times. ### 3/5 — Weather issues *2024-05-26, version 7.12.5* Recently, the default location isn’t recognized. The time isn’t updated and the graph will be hours old and inaccurate. Live radar works only sporadically. During this time of frequent severe weather, the app is no help. Please fix my go to app. ### 1/5 — Can’t listen to music while using. *2024-03-20, version 7.12* It mutes music when you click on some stories. So it’s unusable. ### 4/5 — Weather app stopped working *2024-03-16, version 7.11.3* I depend on this app for weather and local news but for past several days the weather radar is broken. Looks like severe weather and unable to find where to submit feedback. Removed app and reinstalled - did not improve. ### 1/5 — NBC 5 CHICAGO APP PROBLEM *2023-11-07, version 7.10.1* For the last week I have been getting notice of New Videos on your APP. I CANNOT DELETE THEM NOR CAN I FIND VIDEOS THAT DISPLAY A NEW VIDEO YET YOUR APP KEEPS TELLING ME I HAVE MULTIPLE NEW VIDEOS. This morning it alerted me to 10 NEW Videos…I COULD NOT FIND ANY VIDEOS THAT WE NEW….THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR NEARLY A WEEK. FIX THIS ISSUE NOW! ### 2/5 — Radar glitchy *2023-09-27, version 7.10* Can’t seem to get the radar to work. It’ll flicker and then disappear leaving me wondering if I’ll make it through my run dry or not lol. ### 4/5 — Hourly forecast is broken *2023-07-06, version 7.8.1* When I pull up the hourly forecast to see stuff like temperature and precipitation, it shows “now” as several hours in the future. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Play *2025-11-13, version 8.4* The app will not load to my play live news , just buffers. ### 1/5 — 250,000 no kings in chicago *2025-10-20, version 8.4* 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. ### 1/5 — Propaganda *2025-01-21, version 8.1* Edited out musks salute on their YouTube. Done with them for sanewashing this admin ### 1/5 — Earthquakes gone *2024-12-24, version 8.1* They took out the earthquake map so I’ll be deleting the app. ### 1/5 — Push notifications *2024-08-21, version 7.13.1* 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. ### 1/5 — FIX YOUR APP ALREADY!! *2024-07-02, version 7.13.1* 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… ### 1/5 — FIX YOUR APP ALREADY!! *2024-06-07* 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! ### 1/5 — Severe thunderstorm, warning every one minute *2024-05-24, version 7.12.5* Please fix the constant same Alerts I wish I could post a screenshot ### 1/5 — Weather alerts *2024-05-07, version 7.12.5* Get ready for a million weather alerts!! ### 1/5 — Ads too many and too large *2024-03-30* I get news notifications. When I tap on one, it opens in the app which is extremely tiresome to use/read on because there are way too many ads which are also very big. I have to do more scrolling than news reading. Too many ads also make the app way too slow to read the news because the adds are all graphics and video. It’s much quick to read the news by just going to Safari, typing a few keywords and reading the news on other sites. If there’s an NBC search result on Safari, when I tap on it, it still opens in the NBC app. There’s no way to choose to open in Safari. Annoying NBC. **Developer response:** Sorry to hear about your experience. We appreciate your feedback and will take it into consideration for future updates. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Ted’s a Chicago Suburban listener for over 60 years *2025-07-02, version 8.3* Awesome for my local and international perspectives…DA … ### 5/5 — Excellent update *2025-03-16, version 8.1.1* 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! ### 5/5 — NBC app *2022-02-08* Love it. Always “my go to”. The only issue is when you are viewing an alert and reading it and you want to delete it, the “x” to delete it is so small that when you tap on it, it opens up the alert again. It’s a pain. Can you make the “X” bigger or create a swipe to the left feature to delete it easier. Thanks! ### 5/5 — Perfect App! *2021-10-29, version 7.1* The settings for alerts is a little hard to find but other than that this is a perfect app! ### 5/5 — NBC *2021-07-23* This is the best app. I get everything from them. Weather updates ( and believe me if it is bad weather near by you will know). News and sports. Now the games in Tokyo and the Olympics. I can take it anywhere. Thank you NBC News weather and sports. God Bless you all for keeping us safe. Download their app it will be the best thing you can do for your family. Stay safe with NBC! ### 5/5 — Still good. *2021-07-05, version 6.18* I used to watch channel 5 the most, but over the years I changed, however, I really like this app because it has a great layout and good notifications. I like that I can select what notifications I get. ### 5/5 — Great information on weather. *2021-06-24, version 6.17* It’s always good to know where the storms are at and the direction they’re going. As a retired pilot I want to know where the storms are at. I also have Radar Pro on my phone but NBC5 gives me more information. Stay safe everyone, storms can pack a punch. ### 5/5 — Notifications *2021-03-14, version 6.17* I love the notifications of the current news. I often don’t have the time to read whole articles but I can still keep up with what is going on in the city, country and the world. ### 5/5 — Good weather app for bad weather *2021-02-13, version 6.17* I use only the weather part of the app, but the radar is fantastic. Shows you your location, and lets you "play" the radar forecast for the next several hours. It's a lifesaver in severe weather to predict when the severe weather will pass, and to verify that the storm has passed. I don't know what I ever did without it. ### 5/5 — Catching up on the news *2021-01-27, version 6.17* I like being able to be brought up to date on the latest news in small doses throughout the day. Thank you! I appreciate the coverage of the Governor’s and Mayor’s press conferences, keep us up to date on all news, especially regarding Covid-19. --- *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 2026-09-07.*