# WHIO News — user reviews > 174 indexed App Store user reviews of WHIO News by Cox Media Group, rated 4.60/5 from 21,141 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/whio-news/id728497462/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/whio-news/id728497462.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 16,512 · 4★ 2,609 · 3★ 858 · 2★ 376 · 1★ 786 ## What do users think of WHIO News? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🌟 Excellent news coverage - 🌟 Reliable weather information - 🌟 Trustworthy and impartial reporting **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes - 🔍 Outdated and repetitive news content - 📢 Excessive ads and pop-ups - 🔍 Poor proofreading and grammar issues - 🔍 Inconsistent user experience **Commonly reported bugs** - Notifications not working as expected - Inability to find specific news stories - Landscape mode not functioning properly **Most requested features** - Improved navigation and back button functionality - Option to disable auto-playing videos - Ability to customize news feed and notifications - More positive and uplifting news coverage ## Newest reviews (17 of 174) ### 2/5 — Review *2026-09-05, version 8.9.8* To many pop up ads and redirects. Make it simple ### 2/5 — Frozen *2026-08-14, version 8.9.8* It freezes up too often ### 2/5 — Poor rating reason *2026-07-23, version 8.9.8* My sub stellar review is due to the inconsistency in information posted. Some stories stay up for months. Many important local matters are not posted at all. News from many counties away are posted as “local” and real local stories are ignored. The Right wing takeover of CBS has definitely shown itself in the stories posted. ### 3/5 — Slow to load and often doesn’t *2026-07-20, version 8.9.8* I wish this app was better and not so slow. All my other apps are super fast to load and never fail to load. Come on WHIO, fix this mess. ### 4/5 — No Coverage *2026-06-14, version 8.9.8* June 4 Medicare Fraud Meeting in Columbus. FBI, State Attorney present. $50 Million illegal funding discovered in Medicare payments in Ohio! ### 2/5 — Worst weather forecast *2026-05-17, version 8.9.8* Britley called for 3 inches, but we didn’t get 3 tenths. ### 4/5 — Ok *2026-04-16, version 8.9.8* I only have one problem with app I get alert about something and then when I go to it it’s not there ### 4/5 — Update *2026-03-22, version 8.9.8* Often you run stories that are old. Same with the weather. I suggest you update more often. Thank you. ### 3/5 — Average performance app *2026-03-21, version 8.9.8* The app often paints the screen in a stuttering manner, loading some elements, then stalling out, then loading more text and photos, if it doesn’t freeze entirely. It makes you wonder if it’s loaded with all sorts of background scripts, trackers, etc. ### 3/5 — Advertising *2026-03-08, version 8.9.7* To advertising ads when trying to look at site ### 3/5 — It has developed some bugs *2026-02-26, version 8.9.7* It used to be great, but now, I can’t forward any articles on the app to anyone, and the videos don’t work half the time. ### 4/5 — Closings *2026-01-25, version 8.9.7* Not sure I care for the new way the closings are listed ### 4/5 — Love Coverage - App Wonky *2026-01-04, version 8.9.7* I love the news content. But once I click the Live story at the top, it’s difficult to navigate to other stories on your App. ### 1/5 — The truth *2025-12-22, version 8.9.7* Need more stories new, sooner. . Needs to update sooner. Then show more local. More Ohio and the major nations news and local state sports major events. ### 1/5 — Too Many Ads *2025-11-29, version 8.9.7* Sad that you have to sit through minutes of ads before you can actually get a weather forecast. I never actually got through the ads to see my forecast. Seek weather info elsewhere. ### 1/5 — Boooo 👎🏻 *2025-11-25, version 8.9.7* App always says to check for connection ### 1/5 — Bloated with advertisements *2025-11-11, version 8.9.7* Content is good. However, so bloated with advertising that it’s unusable on my iPhone. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Bias News *2026-08-15, version 8.9.8* Always baiting people with horrible titles. Only see one side of things and it’s the side you try to indoctrinate people with. Your news is too long. Your puff stories to justify being on the air so long comes across as if your viewers are dumb and they need to be talked to like children. ### 1/5 — Too Many Ads *2026-07-25, version 8.9.8* The content is good. However, the app is so burdened with poorly developed ads that my iPhone locks up every time I try to use it. Dayton Now performs much better. ### 1/5 — App freezes or completely shuts the app *2026-07-24, version 8.9.8* Always glitching and freezing and shutting me out. ### 1/5 — Worst news app ever *2026-07-09, version 8.9.8* I’ve never seen a worse app on any platform. It’s nothing but ads that block what you try to see, stutter, stop you reading a story, and just generally get in the way of anything you want to do. Whio used to be my go-to. Not anymore. ### 1/5 — Horrible UI/UX and News Coverage *2026-06-21, version 8.9.8* As a mobile developer I can attest to many of the comments on the user experience front. You receive a notification, tap on it, you are brought to the app but not the story, instead ads are everywhere takes forever to load and the auto playing of unrelated content is absolutely horrible. Good luck finding the arrival of the deep link isn’t valid. Don’t waste your time if you want a functional user interface, or you want a smooth user experience. The news platform is ridiculous, days late on news from around the nation if it’s relevant, click bait style notifications, vague content descriptions, something like “Country music star files for divorce after 10 years” incredible click bait. Just say who it is, being cryptic is absurd. Oh yeah, don’t worry you received that notification today, you’ll get it again in 4-5 days incredibly annoying but let’s not forget this specific notification already happened days ago. ### 1/5 — Do better *2026-06-15, version 8.9.8* Not impressed with your news reporting techniques and skills these days. ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2026-06-11, version 8.9.8* The WHIO app is awful. The news is old and no one seems to know how to proofread! The lack of coverage on sports has been nonexistent. There should be an easy and in your face way to access WHIO of news in real time and it is difficult to find. It seems to be easier to upload storm/weather photos than it is to report accidents etc. ### 1/5 — Awful *2026-05-23, version 8.9.8* Pretty much just a terrible app. Loaded with adds posing as news stories. Videos play automatically, even after turning off that feature. Alerts of news stories pop up as banners, but when you click the banner, half the time, there is no such news story. If you want to know about school and business closure mentioned on the app... You need to download their weather app that is also basically useless except for checking delays and closures in the winter. ### 1/5 — Too many videos *2026-03-27, version 8.9.8* Clicking on a story results in being sent to a video link, which takes even more time to load and view. This method is not the best fit for use on a phone- at least place the text of the story along with video for quicker access to the content ### 1/5 — Weather temperature reading for Dayton.., *2026-02-06, version 8.9.7* …grossly inaccurate. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great info *2026-05-27, version 8.9.8* Love Todd So I watch all of whip ### 5/5 — I love this app *2026-04-15, version 8.9.8* Even if I can't watch the news it will still let me listen I like that feature and I love all the channels you can watch on the app. ### 5/5 — News Notion *2026-02-23, version 8.9.7* Great coverage on a daily basis. ### 5/5 — Love the app & videos *2025-07-11, version 8.9.6* The hubby & I rarely watch the show unless there’s a major weather event otherwise we use the app. ### 5/5 — Dayton Ohio News. *2025-04-11* I really like the app. It keeps me informed and what’s going on in Montgomery County Ohio and the surrounding Miami Valley area. It has up to the minute news along with local traffic updates. If I could make a suggestion. When I tap on the video I have to watch a 30 to 45 second commercial where I want to get to the story much quicker. I know you need advertising dollars to keep the app going, but is there anything you can do about that either shorten the videos or have a paid $1.99 so we don’t have to watch the same commercial over and over again. That’s my only suggestion for you. ### 5/5 — WHIO-TVi enjoy reading the news! *2025-04-08, version 8.9.5* Get the new before we see it on tv and the weather any time! Thanks for allowing us to read it here! ### 5/5 — Weather & News *2025-03-15, version 8.9.5* I watch all of WHIO 7 because you are funny at times but with fantastic composure & professionalism. Thank you care of others.♥️ ### 5/5 — WHIO *2024-12-12, version 8.9.4* I love using this app to get the local news in the Montgomery County and surrounding areas. It’s easy to use and with no glitches. I recommend this app to anybody that wants the news in Montgomery County and surrounding counties. WHIO is one a few stations that will give you the news in the surrounding areas. ### 5/5 — New Center seven a lifetime *2024-07-24, version 8.8.12* I’ve watched news sitter seven back when it was on channel 13 and that was 62 years ago I believe, but I like the way they report the local news very thoroughly and take time to investigate situations that are unfair to consumers. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Covering the tornados last night *2024-05-08, version 8.8.12* I am glad you was there to let us know where the tornadoes were I just had a hard time hearing because it was a lot of you talking at the same time instead of separately but I could still hear but it was difficult separating the chat --- *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 2026-09-09.*