# NBC 7 San Diego News & Weather — user reviews > 96 indexed App Store user reviews of NBC 7 San Diego News & Weather by NBCUniversal Media, LLC, rated 4.40/5 from 721 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nbc-7-san-diego-news-and-weather/id331809469/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nbc-7-san-diego-news-and-weather/id331809469.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 530 · 4★ 91 · 3★ 25 · 2★ 26 · 1★ 49 ## What do users think of NBC 7 San Diego News & Weather? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📰 Up-to-date local news - 🌤️ Accurate weather forecasts - 🔔 Helpful alerts and notifications - 📺 Convenient live streaming - 🗺️ Useful traffic information **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes - 🔍 Cluttered and confusing layout - 🔊 Audio issues and inconsistent volume - 📽️ Obtrusive and intrusive ads - 🔍 Difficulty navigating and finding content **Commonly reported bugs** - App randomly jumps to border traffic camera feed - News stories get stuck when scrolling in portrait mode - Advertisements trigger unintended actions and redirects - Inconsistent behavior when opening news notifications - Weather forecast information often inaccurate or outdated **Most requested features** - Improve portrait mode support on tablets - Add option to disable auto-playing border traffic videos - Enhance weather widget and forecasting capabilities - Improve overall app stability and performance - Provide more customization options for users ## Newest reviews (18 of 96) ### 2/5 — So biased *2025-08-19, version 8.3.2* I’m stunned that you just reported 1/2 truths about ab495. You completely left out that that bill applies to ALL students not just children of deported parents. You should actually read legislation you report on and be balanced on your news. Unreal. Shame on you ### 2/5 — Fred *2025-08-12, version 8.3.2* Horrible website. ### 2/5 — Too much weather minutae *2025-02-14* I found and turned off all but “severe weather alerts from NWS” in your app - but I got 5 notices yesterday, and 8 today, saying “rain will begin in the next x minutes in your area, and continue for several hours”. This is NOT a severe weather alert, and it’s annoying because it was supposed to rain - and has been raining - most of the last 2 days. Time to delete the app for annoyingly frequent stupid weather messages - unless you fix the overkill and understand what “severe weather” means (flooding freeways, high winds would have been a helpful warning tonight - and ONLY that.) ### 2/5 — Frustrating *2025-01-30* Overall a decent app but a few things are making me want to delete it. This app keeps telling me there are alerts to be viewed when there aren’t any alerts in the app. What it’s really trying to get you to do is watch their 24/7 live news feed. When you watch the live news the alerts go away. Then immediately return when you leave the live feed. Older stories don’t always get refreshed with current ones and they have a section in Spanish without english versions. English speakers would like to know what is going on in Mexico and in the community too. ### 4/5 — Your App *2024-10-07, version 6.10.3* Everyday your app is the first one I read. Super informative and the events in the news are very well categorized. Thank you for keeping this human and many others informed👍🏼 ### 3/5 — Fix portrait mode *2024-03-20* Update***it seemed the issue was resolved yesterday with the app update however today it’s back to being stuck scrolling in portrait mode when it gets down to the border traffic vehicle wait times section. Can you remove that section permanently so this stops happening? This never happens on the iPhone (no border traffic section) just the iPad. Please make all of the news stories viewable in portrait mode for iPad mini. The ticker on the right side works fine. It’s the news stories on the left hand side. Once you scroll down to about the border traffic vehicle wait times it always freezes so you have to switch to landscape mode to scroll down and see all of the stories. It’s very annoying. It works fine on my iPhone so shouldn’t it work on iPads as well? ### 3/5 — Fix portrait mode *2024-03-17* Please make all of the news stories viewable in portrait mode for iPad mini. The ticker on the right side works fine. It’s the news stories on the left hand side. Once you scroll down to about the border traffic vehicle wait times it always freezes so you have to switch to landscape mode to scroll down and see all of the stories. It’s very annoying. It works fine on my iPhone so shouldn’t it work on iPads as well? ### 2/5 — Good content, inconsistent presentation *2021-11-26* NBC7 is my go-to San Diego news source, but this app is wildly inconsistent with technical issues. Audio levels are all over the place between live broadcasts (low), commercials (loud), and stringer video (really loud). No one seems to pay attention to the Weather page, which frequently has wrong dates in the sidebar forecasts. Today is Thursday Nov 25th, but they have it listed as Nov 24 (this happens frequently) and in fact the entire 10-day list of days and dates is wrong, off by one day. Videos sometimes take forever to load. I love the content, but the attention to detail is frustrating. Thank god it’s free! ### 2/5 — obtrusive full-screen border crossing pop-ups *2021-09-16, version 7.0* Okay for local news, but the app is cluttered, the ads before videos can be very long, and worst of all, the pop-up full-screen border crossing live cams. Extremely obtrusive. I’ve been hoping/waiting for an update to fix this issue because I can’t imagine for a single second that this was an intentional design feature. ### 2/5 — Recent bugs make unusable *2021-09-14, version 7.0* This used to be a good app, but then started freezing a few seconds after opening. That went on for about a month. The new version fixed this for a while, but for the last several weeks, shortly after opening, it irreversibly jumps to a border traffic camera image. Does anyone ever test this app for functionality on an iPad?! ### 2/5 — Had to uninstall *2021-09-08, version 7.0* The new update made me uninstall. Painful to use. While scrolling it would randomly send you at the browser for an ad. Would also randomly pop up with multiple border camera video feeds that you would have to close before getting back to the articles. Shame because this used to be the best news feed for San Diego. ### 1/5 — Did not improve for the better *2021-09-07, version 7.0* The layout is now too cluttered. Every time I open it lately, it almost immediately switches to showing a video of what I believe is the bordering crossing at TJ. Clicking the X doesn’t close it. There is no way to get rid of except to restart the app. I’ve pretty much quit using this app. ### 1/5 — What a mess. *2021-09-07, version 7.0* This used to be a good app but now it’s kind of a mess. ### 3/5 — App is buggy *2021-09-04, version 7.0* This app dumps you in the middle of video playing, needs fix Thanks ### 1/5 — What an awful redesign *2021-08-27, version 7.0* So busy, so cluttered, so hard to read. I have switched back to the mobile website, at least there I can do basic items like change the text size, and read the news. I know most people may not want to do that, they may like the flashy new app that is shiny and unusable. ### 1/5 — New app is too cluttered. *2021-08-02, version 7.0* Less simple and confusing format. I deleted it. Bring back the old format. ### 1/5 — Terrible… *2021-07-26, version 7.0* The old version was better. I only cared for the local news. It feels like there is a bunch of crap and ads in the way. ### 1/5 — Hate the new version *2021-07-23, version 7.0* Please go back! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Terrible performance *2025-11-22, version 8.5.1* When you try to watch a video (news) other videos with commercials overlap. You can’t hear the news. Too many commercials! I’m deleting this app from my phone. ### 1/5 — Won’t load *2025-01-27, version 8.1* Stopped loading, does not work anymore ### 1/5 — Bugs *2024-11-07, version 8.0.4* A new notification comes in about some story, I click on it, instead of what was advertised there is some random stuff playing and to add to that there is another video in the background and both audio tracks playing… ### 1/5 — New App is Dreadful *2024-08-03, version 7.13.1* Local news is full of everything but local news. Live streaming the local news broadcast seems to work, but there’s no longer a way to tell when it’s going to be on since it’s constantly pre-empted. Very disappointing upgrade. ### 1/5 — Fix portrait mode *2024-05-22* *** UPDATE Portrait mode still gets stuck at the Border traffic section. Why can’t you fix this? *** *** When are you going to fix the portrait mode issue of news stories stalling at the border traffic section on the iPad? *** Update***it seemed the issue was resolved yesterday with the app update however today it’s back to being stuck scrolling in portrait mode when it gets down to the border traffic vehicle wait times section. Can you remove that section permanently so this stops happening? This never happens on the iPhone (no border traffic section) just the iPad. Please make all of the news stories viewable in portrait mode for iPad mini. The ticker on the right side works fine. It’s the news stories on the left hand side. Once you scroll down to about the border traffic vehicle wait times it always freezes so you have to switch to landscape mode to scroll down and see all of the stories. It’s very annoying. It works fine on my iPhone so shouldn’t it work on iPads as well? ### 1/5 — Fix portrait mode *2024-03-29* *** When are you going to fix the portrait mode issue of news stories stalling at the border traffic section on the iPad? *** Update***it seemed the issue was resolved yesterday with the app update however today it’s back to being stuck scrolling in portrait mode when it gets down to the border traffic vehicle wait times section. Can you remove that section permanently so this stops happening? This never happens on the iPhone (no border traffic section) just the iPad. Please make all of the news stories viewable in portrait mode for iPad mini. The ticker on the right side works fine. It’s the news stories on the left hand side. Once you scroll down to about the border traffic vehicle wait times it always freezes so you have to switch to landscape mode to scroll down and see all of the stories. It’s very annoying. It works fine on my iPhone so shouldn’t it work on iPads as well? ### 1/5 — Tired of traffic video *2021-09-22, version 7.1* Tis obvious no one at the station looks at or monitors the app. For several weeks now, app jumps to what appears to be border traffic video. Has made this app unusable? ### 1/5 — Advertising area too sensitive!!! *2021-09-14, version 7.0* This was my number news app for SD news 🥺… redesign makes the advertising area so sensitive that if you even scroll by an advert it immediately opens a new web browser or launches the App Store 😡. Extremely annoying and makes the news app useless 👎🏼. Please fix it 🙏🏼 ### 1/5 — Stop auto playing the border traffic videos *2021-09-14, version 7.0* STOP AUTO PLAYING THE BORDER TRAFFIC VIDEOS!!!!!!! If I wanted to watch them, than I would click on them! ### 1/5 — Cant get past traffic live stream *2021-09-12, version 7.0* I’ve used this app for my local news for several years but switched today to CBS. While scrolling through the main page the live stream traffic opens and there’s no way to turn it off. So I just close the app. I’ve been hoping it would be fixed for a couple weeks. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fix portrait mode *2024-06-11* *** UPDATE it seems the below issue has FINALLY been resolved. It’s been working correctly for a couple of weeks now….hope it continues thx! *** UPDATE Portrait mode still gets stuck at the Border traffic section. Why can’t you fix this? *** *** When are you going to fix the portrait mode issue of news stories stalling at the border traffic section on the iPad? *** Update***it seemed the issue was resolved yesterday with the app update however today it’s back to being stuck scrolling in portrait mode when it gets down to the border traffic vehicle wait times section. Can you remove that section permanently so this stops happening? This never happens on the iPhone (no border traffic section) just the iPad. Please make all of the news stories viewable in portrait mode for iPad mini. The ticker on the right side works fine. It’s the news stories on the left hand side. Once you scroll down to about the border traffic vehicle wait times it always freezes so you have to switch to landscape mode to scroll down and see all of the stories. It’s very annoying. It works fine on my iPhone so shouldn’t it work on iPads as well? **Developer response:** Thanks for your patience and feedback, Elsbells21! We're glad the issue with portrait mode has been resolved. Your experience helps us improve. If anything else comes up, let us know! ### 5/5 — Great app! *2022-01-30, version 6.10.3* I have older iPads and can't update the iOS versions above 11 which inhibits my use of many apps. This app allows me to get all the news and information I need, thank you! ### 5/5 — Great App *2021-06-29, version 6.18* The fastest way to be informed of local news ! Very good ! ### 5/5 — News *2021-06-22, version 6.18* This app keeps me informed of the most current events in San Diego area. ### 5/5 — Great free app *2021-06-11, version 6.18* Get all your SD news with out having to wade thru all the news you don’t want to watch. I use it daily. ### 5/5 — Snapchat said..”” *2021-06-05, version 6.18* Can Y’all news journalists go to Chris’s studio at the presidio? He needs more again!🎥📸📺 ### 5/5 — Awesome News *2021-06-04, version 6.18* Very thorough information, useful to have. ### 5/5 — Easy, up to date News *2021-04-28* When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is turn on my IPad and get into your website. I can see how to dress for the day, find out what has happened on the east coast, and what to expect throughout the day. Quick, easy, accurate! ### 5/5 — Review *2021-03-19, version 6.17* Great app n news!!!! ### 5/5 — Must have app *2021-03-15, version 6.17* Great place to get up to date news and weather while I’m at work --- *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 2026-09-08.*