# RTÉ News — user reviews > 139 indexed App Store user reviews of RTÉ News by RTÉ, rated 4.30/5 from 209 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rte-news/id355836123/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rte-news/id355836123.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 140 · 4★ 32 · 3★ 11 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 15 ## What do users think of RTÉ News? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🌍 Broad news coverage - 📰 Comprehensive reporting - 🏠 Keeps expats connected to home - 📊 Balanced and unbiased news - 🏆 High-quality journalism **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🔍 Navigation and organization issues - 🔊 Lack of audio/video support - 🔄 Update loop and compatibility problems - 📢 Intrusive and annoying ads **Commonly reported bugs** - Videos not playing or missing audio - Crashes on launch or after updates - Stuck in an endless update loop - News articles and content not loading - Incompatibility with newer devices **Most requested features** - Dark mode option - Customizable news feed - Better video player controls - Improved notifications system - Support for older devices ## Newest reviews (15 of 139) ### 2/5 — Ok app but make images clickable *2026-08-06* Since the new app came out, images can’t be clicked on anymore which means you can’t make them bigger where needed. This is bad, please fix it. ### 3/5 — Change the refresh settings please *2026-05-25* Why does the app fully reset/refresh every time I reopen it? Could be a case of me checking a message for 10s, then jumping back into the app and I’m on the homepage again. This has to be a configuration thing because no other news apps I have do this. Really hope it can be fixed. For my sake but also for views for the app: it’s not worth my time finding the article, then also finding where I was, never mind casting my mind back to the subject - I just give up and look at something else. ### 2/5 — Hire a proofreader!! (And put back functionality on "Contact us" in feed settings *2026-04-25, version 6.0.84* Recipes missing ingredients. Recipes for "loaf cake" calling for 3 8" pans. Over and over and over and over, God forbid anyone at RTÉ actually PROOFREADS what's published. Also, you've blocked a funtioning contact button - well done, if we can't contact you, it all must be perfect! /s ### 3/5 — Fine, just buggy *2026-02-21* App is fine, but buggy when it comes to video playing. But the most annoying thing, every update notification preferences in the app resets. I turn off sports notifications so I don’t get spoiled if I can’t see certain matches live, and the amount of times a match gets spoiled for me because the app has recently updated is infuriating. If the fix notifs resetting it would get 4* ### 4/5 — Swipe from right to bring main menu *2024-02-06* This is an ask that has been going on for years. The app does not follow iOS gestures. Can you please implement the swipe from left to get to main menu rather than each swipe goes to previous story. This has been around for years. So simple and will be incredibly useful. ### 1/5 — Won’t load after 6.0.55 update *2023-12-13* I use this app many times per day, so it’s unacceptable that an obligatory simple version update makes it unavailable on my iPad. Also the help email address will not respond. Please address this urgently ### 4/5 — No Dark Mode *2023-04-04* Great news service - but no dark mode leaves this app a bit behind the times. Any chance of a dark mode update? ### 1/5 — Won’t work *2022-10-08, version 6.0.39* What is wrong ?Old Reviews saying this app doesn’t work properly on iPhones and still doesn’t. Need notifications flash up but click on it and the app doesn’t work. Come on fix it!!!! ### 3/5 — Great but 1 big annoyance *2022-09-30* Love the content, good notification but it’s a bit frustrating that the app goes back to the homepage when you jump to another app and the back again. Please make last page persist ### 1/5 — Autoplaying video ads *2022-08-01* Half a dozen times now I’ve had the same video ad spontaneously hijack my whole screen. I never interacted with it, it launched itself as i scrolled down the main page. Unreasonable to have this level of spam in a public service app. I just deleted the app and reinstalled it, but it did the same thing again. Won’t be reinstalling it this time. ### 1/5 — I don’t want a pixel 6 *2022-08-01* This app has unfortunately been rendered close to unusable because the ad for a Google pixel 6 keeps randomly maximising and taking over the screen. Not just on my phone but on my wife’s phone too. Until this craic began the app was fine. ### 4/5 — Great *2021-12-05* Nice for getting news from back home while abroad. Remember to switch your VPN over to Irish servers if accessing from outside of Ireland. Content won’t load otherwise. ### 1/5 — State run media. *2021-03-21* Not trustworthy and completely biased. ### 2/5 — White screen and app blows up *2020-12-14* This started happening in the last week: I try to look at the news, I get the header lines but the rest of the content area is white, and after a few seconds the application blows up. If I try to press on one of the options in the header lines before it blows up there is no response. ### 1/5 — Ver. 6.0.22 Crash on Load *2020-12-14* Crash on Load for iPad3 OS 9.3.6 Ver. 6.0.19 was OK BUT Ver. 6.0.22 crash on startup ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — It’s a big downgrade *2026-07-18* Dreadful that can no longer zoom in on photos in articles and that can’t change font size. Why have best practices of other news apps not been considered - this is a very restive expert- go back to old app please ### 1/5 — The videos don’t work *2026-07-05, version 10.0.1 (429)* Since they changed the app ,the videos won’t play and cannot enlarge the photos ### 1/5 — Hire a proofreader!! (And put back functionality on "Contact us" in feed settings *2026-06-30* Recipes missing ingredients. Recipes for "loaf cake" calling for 3 8" pans. Over and over and over and over, God forbid anyone at RTÉ actually PROOFREADS what's published. Also, you've blocked a funtioning contact button - well done, if we can't contact you, it all must be perfect! /s ### 1/5 — What is wrong with developers these days… *2026-06-13* This updated app is appalling… It’s all over the place… Every topic is mixed in with other topics. Previously I could organise my feed in a simple straightforward way that was easy to navigate and read. Now I have to create an account and even then the feed is in alphabetical order so I have to scroll past business to get to the main news.. So many apps have went the same way as this so I blame the developers who think they know it all and are totally out of touch with the real world and what users actually want. I’ll be getting my news from somewhere else now…woeful. ### 1/5 — Worst update I have ever seen *2026-06-08, version 10.0.1 (429)* The latest update to the RTE news app is possibly the worst I have ever seen. It makes it unreadable and v difficult to navigate to the sections you want to view. Very much a case of if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it ### 1/5 — Non user friendly *2026-01-25* App refreshes every single time. Can’t read an article easily. ### 1/5 — Videos don’t Play *2025-06-03, version 6.0.77* For the last few months the videos have stopped playing, just a black unresponsive rectangle! The App Support link is a jolly 404. ### 1/5 — App still doesn’t load!! *2025-02-16, version 6.0.72* @RTE - what’s going on? Updated my iPhone to latest software but your App opens and then closes itself having not loaded any content. Like others tried the delete & fresh download and it doesn’t work, very frustrating!! ### 1/5 — Fake news *2024-09-29* Worst app ever ### 1/5 — What Happened? *2024-06-17* The app always worked on any iPhone I’ve had until recently. It won’t load any content and it doesn’t matter how many times I delete and redownload it. I see old reviews with seemingly the same issue. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Like the new look but *2026-07-25* look and feel of updated News app is welcome. But why remove all the nice features it used to have from every article. For example: 1) can no longer click on and open images in order to zoom in, etc. Images are inaccessible now. 2) Can no long click on text, then select to cop or do web search. Text is inaccessible now. Surely features like these are not copywrite issues. ### 5/5 — Best free news app for Ireland *2026-01-29* Excellent news coverage and usually quick with breaking stories. I use it every day on phone, pc & iPad. Analysis from correspondents worth reading. ### 5/5 — Without American or British bias *2025-03-21* I’m an American. I follow RTÉ for an additional viewpoint not beholden to the interests of the British or American ruling class. This is especially important re Palestine. ### 5/5 — Vary good *2024-12-14, version 6.0.72* Very good ### 5/5 — YES! It's working again *2020-12-17* Ipad fix, now working perfectly again. Now all we need is a fix for COVID 💚 ### 5/5 — Shuts Down *2020-12-12* Is there something wrong with the app. When I try to open, it just shuts down. I have deleted the app and reinstalled from the App Store. Normally it’s great. I love getting all the news from home. ### 5/5 — Broad news outlet *2019-07-18* Good sourcing of reports. My wish list would be a sophisticated search means for deeper material research about articles. ### 5/5 — Keeps me informed *2018-11-18, version 5.1.28* Great News and informative. ### 5/5 — RTÉ news *2018-10-03, version 5.1.28* Living here in England I love RTÉ news keeps me up to date with things back home ### 5/5 — Good app *2018-09-19, version 5.1.27* But.... it would be great if people could provide feedback on some topics. --- *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 2026-09-12.*