# WANE 15 - News and Weather — user reviews > 76 indexed App Store user reviews of WANE 15 by LIN Television Corporation, rated 4.60/5 from 6,904 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wane-15-news-and-weather/id488222080/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wane-15-news-and-weather/id488222080.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 5,329 · 4★ 962 · 3★ 322 · 2★ 93 · 1★ 198 ## What do users think of WANE 15? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 💯 Best local news coverage - 📺 Great news and weather team - 🔔 Useful notifications **Cons** - 🤖 Excessive ads and pop-ups - 🐌 Frequent app freezes and crashes - 🙈 Perceived political bias in reporting - 🤯 Annoying video autoplay **Commonly reported bugs** - App freezes at location screen - Incorrect temperature display - Choppy article scrolling after update **Most requested features** - More detailed weather information - Improve app stability and performance - Reduce intrusive advertising ## Newest reviews (19 of 76) ### 2/5 — Crashing. Again… *2026-07-11, version 509.0.0* Love having access to local news. Hate the app. When it works, it’s great. It doesn’t always work. Has been this way for a long time, but I guess I’ll survive. Fix it if you can… ### 2/5 — Politically bias *2024-10-03, version 500.5.0* I like Wane for the local news. But OMG enough with the political bias! We get it. You’re anti anything Trump. WE. GET. IT. Ok? Now if you don’t mind spilling the truth rather than propaganda, it’s greatly appreciated. ### 4/5 — Excessive ads *2024-03-12* I’m tired of being bombarded with ads. Wane 15 is sooooo bad. 30 second ads before each video. A 10 second video. Then you can’t skip and are forced to watch it over and over and over. I’m OVER ads ### 2/5 — Preferred NEWS Provider// accept multiple ADS *2023-06-21, version 41.20.0* I’m so disappointed to repeatedly be bothered by MULTIPLE ADS with pop up pages websites(I’ve lost count). I don’t use App as often —because horrible experience!! Being harassed by multiple Ads disappoint & create a negative experience. ### 2/5 — Great to Have but Doesn’t Work Well *2023-02-22, version 41.17.1* It’s great to have the news in an app. However, this app has some major issues! Reading the news this morning, a pop up add (which opens up in a web browser) was initiated four times when trying to click the back button. Also, clicking back in some other areas brings you back to the top of the page so you have to scroll back down again and again to get to through all the news. I have never reviewed an app before but this one is so annoying to use that I felt it necessary. It’s better to just use the webpage instead of the app for Wane TV. ### 3/5 — Weather problem *2023-02-14, version 41.17.1* WANE 15 weather morning and noon weather casts. On the tv screen, during the forecasts, there is a small box in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. This box says WANE 15 with the current(?) temperature and the current time…as expected the time is always current and correct. On the other hand, the “so-called” current temperature is NEVER CORRECT‼️🙃For instance, the on-air picture and meteorologist said 50* and the box continued to say 47*‼️Why can’t these two be compatible ❓❓This bugs me every day. Ed Collins ### 3/5 — Re President review *2022-07-16, version 41.11.0* What we don’t need is more pro-Trump propaganda. ### 3/5 — Ads ruined this app for me. *2022-06-04, version 41.10.0* This is the best local news, but the ads made me delete the app. Any time I would click on an article, using the app on my phone, I would instantly be taken to a Safari webpage of a spam ad tracker page. Safari notified me it prevented 58 trackers from profiling me. I started getting a lot of spam after that. I deleted your app, reinstalled and same problem. I tried using your website instead, same problem. I don’t have this issue with other local news apps or websites. I really hope you can get better ads and not these bad ones that track your viewers and create spam. ### 3/5 — Stop freezing!!! *2021-10-04, version 41.6.0* I love the WANE app WHEN IT WORKS!!! I’ll try to click on a notification and it freezes instantly, I try to shut down the app and go straight through the app it freezes. I can’t look at anything, and it drives me insane. Please fix it ### 4/5 — What does Trump have to do with Wane? *2021-09-24, version 41.5.0* I understand that you’re in love with a Cheeto, but leave your political views to social media, not on a review of a news app. It’s not appropriate and quite frankly it’s totally Kindergarten. As far as the app, I would love to give it five stars, but it glitches out too often and who ever has the responsibility for proofreading what gets posted does a horrible job and the misspelling or grammatical errors make you appear very unprofessional. Other than that, I appreciate the local view of events around us, and feel that political bias is not a subject matter that I would pin on WANE. ### 2/5 — New App Update 👎🏻 *2021-09-07, version 41.4.0* The new update (August 2021) is not good. When a news story is clicked on, the article scrolls in a choppy manner, making it difficult to read. It’s very annoying. It did not do that before the update. ### 1/5 — Totally Undependable *2021-06-29, version 41.2.1* The worst app on my phone. Never know if it will open. Have to delete it and reload continually...at least once every two weeks; sometimes every other day; occasionally multiple times in one day. This is the only app out of 100+ that has this problem so I know it’s not my phone. Add this to the live broadcast problems with Wane TV and the conclusion is simple. They have one of the best broadcast teams, but are stuck with a very mediocre tech department. ### 1/5 — Review of WANE 15 *2021-05-21, version 41.1.0* Your coverage is very apparently liberal, left and progressive. I only look at your local stories and read those with an understanding of your bias! At the moment, the weather and sports seem ok! It is sad true journalism is dead by suicide. ### 3/5 — Freezes up *2021-05-01, version 41.1.0* App has a tendency to freeze up once in awhile ### 1/5 — Click bait *2021-04-17, version 41.0.3* Too much click bait. It’s irritating to navigate the app in an attempt to NOT click on some irrelevant click bait add. ### 1/5 — Excessive Ads *2021-04-14, version 41.0.3* The reporting is great. However, way to many ads. I decided to download another news station’s app. ### 1/5 — New WANE site more adds than news *2021-04-03, version 41.0.3* Loved the old version, this recently updated and now has multiple adds and is hard to navigate. ### 2/5 — 3/21 Update Downgrade *2021-03-08, version 41.0.2* It still gives you the news, but with a lame new format plus four times the advertisements! ### 3/5 — Go back to other layout! *2021-03-07, version 41.0.2* Not liking the layout since the latest update! Want it the way it was before! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Problems w/app itself. *2026-06-24, version 508.0.0* Too many pop ups. App will freeze and lock up phone. You can’t read articles without something else popping up. Videos are even worse. ### 1/5 — Close ad to start with *2026-03-16, version 505.0.0* Sketchy layout and hit with ads first thing. Could be better if they put in some Siri suggestions to access certain parts quick. Don’t think I’d recommend. ### 1/5 — Surrender *2025-11-22, version 502.0.2* This app could not be worse even if you tried. Surrender, it’s time to start over and build a new app from the ground up. Look at your competitors 21 & 55 and try to do better than them. After you complete your effort, have real people try it out before you release another app that is an embarrassment to the professional on air teams creating the product. ### 1/5 — Cannot access news *2024-02-05, version 500.1.1* Since last update app freezes at finding location screen. Both my wife’s and my iPhone doing same thing. ### 1/5 — Ads open with only the slightest touch *2023-06-25, version 41.20.0* The app itself isn’t bad, but if you even so much as touch their sponsored ads, the ad opens in your default browser immediately. May not be a problem for some, but it drives me batsh1t crazy. Won’t be long before I delete it permanently. ### 1/5 — Too many pop ups *2022-05-16, version 41.9.0* This app used to be great to catch up on local news and weather. Recently every time i tried to read a story it opened the App Store more than 4 times! I understand that the app is supported by ad revenue, but I feel that’s a bit excessive. ### 1/5 — Nothing but Ads…No Real Substance *2021-12-28, version 41.7.1* I have deleted this before and reenacted it before and deleted it again and again and again. This is a very poor news site. Just a bunch of advertisements. You can’t really get what is truly live news.It’s all about capitalism with ads and cute YouTube type stories. Apparently, that’s what people want right now? ### 1/5 — App Constantly Freezes *2021-11-09, version 41.6.0* You open an article, try to scroll down and it is frozen and times out. Tried deleting and downloading again, same thing. ### 1/5 — The stability of this app is not good *2021-10-13, version 41.6.0* I tried to open it this morning and all you see is the splash screen with the line “coverage you can count on”. Apparently the the app you can’t count on working. Disappointing ### 1/5 — This app is trash *2021-09-25, version 41.5.0* The app was good but the new video at the top of the story is trash. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Ms Nancy *2023-07-08, version 41.20.0* I love your news n weather! But I would love to know how much rain falls over nite or daytime. Or tell me where to find that data, please. ### 5/5 — Best Online News *2021-01-11, version 40.35.570056957* Love the weekend team! Really enjoys the weekend sports! Never miss it! ### 5/5 — Why I watch WANE TV *2020-10-23, version 40.35.570056957* I love the news and esp the weather. Greg is my fav. Along with Tera & Dirk evenings. Pat for daytime The news includes Huntington. Sometimes I feel that the bias against our President Trump. Otherwise my DVR stays on channel 15 ### 5/5 — News Team Rock! *2020-10-14, version 40.35.570056957* I am amazed at the incredible team that is a part of Wane TV. I find them to be personable, humorous, and serious when speaking to the heart when appropriate. True professionals. I love the diversity on the team as well. ### 5/5 — WANE IS GREAT! *2020-04-09, version 40.35.290053024* Nothing better than WANE TV!! CBS ### 5/5 — Love *2020-01-23, version 40.34.260049989* I get to know what’s happening in area where my relatives reside. But would like more news from Peru Indiana also ### 5/5 — President *2019-10-15* I don’t see much written about accomplishments of PresidentTrump. This point In my life I am making more money. Going into retirement very financially stable. All my children are working and have a good future. Under President Obama there was no future. We are much better off today. Stop printing The negative narrative. “Be Positive” in your reporting! ### 5/5 — News *2019-08-19, version 40.33.530045679* This is where we always go to get our news! ### 5/5 — Enjoy *2019-06-11, version 40.33.400044885* Like having notifications on my cell phone. ### 5/5 — New ads causing glitches *2019-02-17* This app has been working great until they introduced ad “articles” in-line with the news. Now it reloads while scrolling so you can only see 5 or 6 articles, then right back to the top. --- *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 2026-08-26.*