# The Dayton Daily News — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of The Dayton Daily News by Ohio Newspapers, Inc, rated 4.47/5 from 2,161 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-dayton-daily-news/id414518561/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-dayton-daily-news/id414518561.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,504 · 4★ 329 · 3★ 139 · 2★ 53 · 1★ 88 ## What do users think of The Dayton Daily News? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Clean and organized interface - 🚀 Good speed and reliability - 💡 Multiple ways to read the paper **Cons** - 🐛 Constant screen refreshing and jumping back to the top - 🐛 Glitches and crashes - 🐛 Ads too sensitive, opening links accidentally - 🐛 Unreliable back button functionality - 🐛 Stories not loading properly **Commonly reported bugs** - Screen jumping and refreshing while scrolling - App crashing and freezing - Ads opening links accidentally - Back button not working reliably - Stories not loading completely **Most requested features** - Improve scrolling experience and prevent jumping back to top - Fix glitches and crashes - Improve ad placement and sensitivity - Enhance back button functionality - Ensure all stories load properly ## Newest reviews (18 of 50) ### 3/5 — The screen jumps around. Hard to scroll *2022-08-28, version 40.35.900059765* Difficult to find what you are looking for ### 2/5 — Fix The Refresh! *2022-08-17, version 40.35.900059765* The app is clean and organized but the refresh is constantly jumping the page back to the top. You can never scroll to the stories further down the page! This makes the app almost useless. ### 2/5 — Disappointment *2022-08-01, version 40.35.900059765* Am a subscriber but site requires log in most times. Also no longer receive e paper notifications. ### 2/5 — Flickers on iPhone *2022-07-24, version 40.35.900059765* Content is ok, but the app jumps and flickers in IOS which is annoying. ### 2/5 — Very hard to use because… *2022-07-20, version 40.35.900059765* Conbills DDN but this is an aggravation. ### 3/5 — Glitches a lot *2022-07-19, version 40.35.900059765* I’ve used this app for the past year. Over the last couple of months, the app has a glitch that automatically pulls you back to the top headline. It happens frequently in the app. It would be great if someone worked on correcting this glitch. Other than that, the app provides good information. ### 3/5 — Screen refresh while scrolling *2022-03-18, version 40.35.720059196* Scrolling through the screens continues to be a problem. While scrolling, the screen is herky-jerky and constantly returns to either the top of the page or several nrws articles above it. This has been a behavior that has been going on for over one year. ### 2/5 — Delivery *2021-08-02, version 40.35.570057594* Since printing has been moved out of the Dayton area, It’s not the Dayton daily news anymore because we usually get the paper between eight and 11 o’clock in the morning. It’s also a Day late news and then getting it at 11 o’clock in the morning it is a day and a half news. In the last month we have not got the paper at all and we’re promised Sunday’s paper along with Monday paper on Monday but didn’t get Sunday’s paper. I think it is now printed in Indiana and that is the delay. Other neighbors and people that I’ve talk to feel the same way. We do not know our paper delivery person‘s name or phone number or email address and my wife is handicapped and the paper is delivered at the street and it is very difficult for her to get it after I have gone to work and that also is a problem. Why advertise Dayton daily news when it is day and 1/2 old news? ### 2/5 — Sunday paper *2021-06-20, version 40.35.570057594* Servic has improved after several complaints ### 3/5 — Delivery of paper *2021-02-10, version 40.35.570057594* My level of displeasure of the delivery of the DNN accelerates in bad weather be it rain, ice or snow. If you check your telephone call list you will see I have called MANY times and each time the DNN person tries to give me the SAME story the paper deliverer ONLY has to make sure the paper is on the property—meaning at the curb!!!! My house is on a hill and I am 85 years old and walking down and up the hill on icy or snowy days is difficult for me. My goal is NOT to fall and break a bone or worst. Have explained this to ALL the DNN people. Mike is the only one who convincingly said I CAN HELP you. However, he too failed, My neighbor at 5092 Jameswood has HER PAPER delivered at her front door EVERY DAY. Our two driveways are adjoining. I have asked YOUR PROBLEM SOLVERS why the delivery person can’t drive further up the drive and deliver MY PAPER at the side door???? SO FAR no one can somehow ask the delivery person to perform the easy task of driving further up to my side door!!!! Additionally you can note that our street has MANY unhappy calls to the paper about WHERE their paper is thrown. One of the neighbors fell and broke her arm during a ice storm. She was younger and each morning she went to three OTHER neighbors driveways to pick up their paper from the bottom of their hilly driveway and put it at their doorsteps!! She lost over six weeks of work while her wrist and hand healed. I am sure the DDN did not compensate this person!!! So you asked if I was satisfied with my paper, NO, NOT UNTIL YOU CAN DELIVER IT TO MY SIDE DOOR!!! Delivery is a major part of the paper for me and many other senior citizens. What can YOU DO to remedy this MAJOR PROBLEM???? I am anxious to hear from you, CUSTOMER SERVICE IS A MAJOR PART OF THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS. FYI the sports section is the first section I read. HATE having to read about the UD basketball games two days after the game!! ### 4/5 — Good app, one problem *2021-01-05, version 40.35.570057594* Nice clean interface, excellent speed and reliability and steady source of news. The only thing I dislike is the refresh when scrolling a long list of stories. The refresh put the list back to the top every 30 seconds or so. It’s very annoying. My other news apps don’t do this, so I hope it’s fixable. ### 4/5 — Not impressed with new app. Old one was much better. *2020-07-18, version 40.35.42* I find the new app not as good as the old one. Cumbersome to use which is not user friendly. Upgrades are suppose to enhance and not make a produce more difficult to use. ‘If it’s not broke don’t fix it’ applies in this app case. Thanks for soliciting my honest feedback. ### 2/5 — No Cartoons *2019-04-21, version 7.0.3* No cartoons, no op-ed, no good. ### 2/5 — Previous version was easier to naviagate *2017-10-20, version 6.3.0* Updates aren’t always better. I also wonder why there are so many spelling errors/typos. Looking forward to the next change though because I never cared much for the most-recent version. I have an iPhone 6 Plus and man times I can read a headline without being able to read the entire story. This used to be my go-to app for Dayton news but now I use others. ### 1/5 — App update not user friendly *2017-04-10, version 6.2.1* Not loving the latest app update. I used to check news headlines multiple times per day. I'm rarely seeing new headlines now, and many times headlines are appearing 4-6 times in my feed (all in a row as I scroll). Extremely frustrating as I'm only getting half the headlines to click on now. ### 3/5 — New update keeps on crashing... *2017-04-01, version 6.2.0* Really good and updated content. A little frustrating to see the latest version constantly crashing. ### 1/5 — Fix the notifications. *2017-03-22, version 6.1.3* No matter how much a configured the settings, I still got notifications for every little thing. Just wanted weather notifications, but still got everything else. Way too many notifications. Deleting app. ### 2/5 — Back button? *2016-04-25, version 6.0.1* Tap on a story. Read it. Then try to tap on the back button in the top left corner. Tap, tap, tap: nothing happens. Sometimes it brings up the side menu, sometimes it takes you back to the news listing you were on before, but it's unreliable and unresponsive. Also double tapping the top status bar does nothing (it should scroll back to the top). Frustrating. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — DDN Doesn’t Want You to Read the DDN *2022-08-20, version 40.35.900059765* Why would a news organization release an app that prevents you from reading their articles?? App constantly refreshes screen when scrolling, which throws you back to the top of the list and/or article. It’s an exercise in frustration - one that I avoid intentionally. ### 1/5 — DDN articles are so predictable Webpage bounces on iPad *2022-07-27, version 40.35.900059765* webpage ### 1/5 — Free but buggy *2022-07-21, version 40.35.900059765* Running iOS 15.5 on an iPhone 13 Pro Max and the app continually scrolls to the top of the story list - all by itself. Happens on other iPhone versions and iOS also. Very annoying! ### 1/5 — Ok *2022-07-19, version 40.35.900059765* App constantly skips ### 1/5 — Keeps jumping *2022-04-13, version 40.35.720059196* Cannot scroll down more than 5 entries before the app jumps back to the top making you re-scroll down to where you were to maybe see two more entries before jumping back up again. Deleted and done with this app. ### 1/5 — Hi *2022-03-12, version 40.35.720059196* Ngh ### 1/5 — Why do I have to pay to learn about health and violence that can affect *2021-09-24, version 40.35.720059196* You want paid for this yet can leave your trash, ads, at end of driveway or more frequently in the street ### 1/5 — Adds *2021-02-19, version 40.35.570057594* The adds are way to sensitive in the new app. If you barely touch one of the advertisements, it opens a link for it. This is extremely frustrating. Articles never really change and are always late to report. There are a lot better news choices. ### 1/5 — Dayton Liberal News *2019-07-15, version 7.2.0* We hear enough hate coming from the left, but DDN is very biased and usually only shows one side. They hate Trump. Half of us don’t. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work well *2018-05-29, version 7.0.3* Scroll works well in top level, but doesn’t work in individual stories. Sometimes stories do not load up Almost worthless app. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Pam *2020-08-21, version 40.35.42* I enjoy the DDN app and use it daily. ### 5/5 — Hate *2017-11-24, version 6.3.0* Hate the latest upgrade Want my newspaper back! ### 5/5 — Vast improvement *2016-04-17, version 6.0.1* Great new design. Chronological stories, most recent first, & in a user friendly feed. Not complicated or busy like the previous version. Great job! ### 5/5 — More Responsive Than Previous Version *2016-04-12, version 6.0.1* In this version, this app has been significantly redesigned to be responsive to user input. Compared to that earlier version, the response from the app to input is nearly instant. This makes this app significantly more usable than before. This is a must upgrade. ### 5/5 — DDN App/ electronic version *2015-09-24, version 5.1.2* Appreciate there are multiple ways to read the paper on a tablet or a phone. Took me a couple of times to figure out which way works best for me. Once I figured it out it was easy to use, easy to read, and look at pictures, etc. ### 5/5 — Like New Version, But... *2015-07-16, version 5.1.2* I like the new version. It seems like I'm getting more news than before. I understand that what you see is based on and updatable by your own choices. My issue is with wading through all previous news after choosing "Read More Stories." Seems like the app should forward me through what I have read instead of taking me back to the top. After all, current news can be interspersed among more historical news so it is necessary to read more stories. Please fix this... So much for fixing it... ### 5/5 — App review *2015-06-17, version 5.1.1* Terrible. Not user friendly. Go back to old way. Will be looking elsewhere for local news and sports unless changes are made. When I want sports that is all I want to see. Same as with news. This is a CLUSTER😩 ### 5/5 — Revised app *2015-06-12, version 5.1.1* Bad bad bad !! Gives you the options what you want to see then makes you scroll thru everything u don't want to get to your selected options. That is just for starters---- ### 5/5 — Great app *2015-06-08, version 5.1.1* Love the app. Gives me the news at a glance. The layout is nice. Don't know what all the complaints is all about. Great job DDN. ### 5/5 — Hard to traverse *2015-06-04, version 5.1.1* Seems like a lot of wasted space in the presentation. Worst part is, upon reading a story, hitting the back arrow takes you back to the top of the story list. It should return you to the title of the story just read. If you read more than one or two stories, this constant return to the top is tedious. --- *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 2026-06-10.*