# WISN 12 News - Milwaukee — user reviews > 96 indexed App Store user reviews of WISN 12 News by Hearst Television, rated 4.53/5 from 4,338 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wisn-12-news-milwaukee/id505514957/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wisn-12-news-milwaukee/id505514957.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,052 · 4★ 631 · 3★ 215 · 2★ 113 · 1★ 140 ## What do users think of WISN 12 News? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Warm and friendly news reports/weather people - 🚀 Comprehensive and accurate weather forecast - 👍 Newsworthy station - 👍 Top Notch! **Cons** - 🐛 Not updated often - 🔍 Too many ads - 🔍 Ads block articles - 🐛 Impossible to read an article - 🐛 Notifications no longer work - 🐛 Buggy Update - 🐛 Technical problems - 🔍 Bias - 🔍 Poorly Put Together and Written - 🐛 Articles are cut off - 🐛 Videos dont play - 🐛 Keeps sending notifications even when off **Commonly reported bugs** - Login screen freezes - Incompatible with older devices - App crashes 3 seconds after opening **Most requested features** - More updates needed - Dark mode option - Less push notifications - Automatic weather map loading ## Newest reviews (12 of 96) ### 2/5 — Nothing new *2026-06-30, version 5.15.2202* Too many notifications which don’t highlight anything new. The news looks the same to me. ### 2/5 — Cancel Culture *2025-09-18, version 5.15.1840* I can’t support a company who cancels a show because Trump didn’t like what the show said about him. ### 2/5 — Ad Nauseum *2025-06-17, version 5.15.1772* Every story has to open with an ad. Seems like a higher than normal amount compared to other news outlets. ### 2/5 — To many adds *2025-02-17, version 5.15.1618* Frustrating, every time I decide to read or watch anything sent to my attention. I must wait for advertisement to end. Really tired of Jobs dot com adds. To the point I won’t even look them up. Should consider perhaps every third story or something. Thinking of just deleting the app. ### 2/5 — Frustrated *2024-08-18, version 5.15.1476* Great local coverage of news and weather. BUT impossible to read an entire article before it jumps back to the login screen. This has been a problem for a long time. ### 3/5 — Notifications no longer work *2023-10-31, version 5.15.1250* I have had the Channel 12 app for years. I admit sometimes I got a little annoyed at the volume of notifications they sent out, especially if it was something silly like a human interest story that had been airing all week. I guess I got my wish for fewer notifications when they just stopped altogether. I can’t get weather or news. I tried reinstalling the app, nothing. The settings are set to weather, local and national news. Absolutely nothing. I had to download Channel 4’s app to get notifications and now use theirs more often. I can’t figure out what went wrong. ### 3/5 — Good news bad app *2023-09-16, version 5.15.1208* I like channel 12 but the app crashes too much ### 1/5 — Keeps sending notifications even when off *2023-08-15, version 5.15.1184* Even though the only notification I have turned on is Weather, I am constantly getting notifications on other topics, including what they call breaking news. You can’t report the problem to them directly either. It takes you to their webpage where you need to call them or email them. It’s easier if I just uninstall it. The length and continuous bombardment of commercials is ridiculous. Nothing to see here. Time to move on to one of the competitors. ### 1/5 — Buggy Update *2023-02-01, version 5.15.981* Unable to read more than the first two lines of a story. Fortunately the ads are unaffected and that is, after all, what really matters. ### 4/5 — Channel 12 *2022-09-04, version 5.15.928* Many times my Channel 12 app will not open on my phone. Just keeps buffering. ### 1/5 — Latest upgrade *2022-08-03, version 5.15.908* Have not been able to use since latest upgrade, I get the wisn screen, and it does not finish loading. Some upgrade??? ### 4/5 — More updates needed *2021-10-27, version 5.15.698* It seems that the exact same stories are on four 10 or more hours. In addition, the focus of news is limited to the Milwaukee area. It would be nice if WISN coverage could be expanded to include more news from Small communities in SE Wisconsin and refresh with more frequent updates or new stories. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — WHY? *2026-06-12, version 5.15.2175* I can’t believe how useless this app has become in the last few months!! Ads and promos take forever and zip in before ANY information that was just clicked on - I cannot even get to current and URGENT weather information without waiting through the station promos which are repeated OVER AND OVER - just total BS these days!! I used to count on ‘12’ for traffic news in the am and up-to-the minute weather during storms; now all i get is ads. What a WASTE! ### 1/5 — Lindsey *2026-03-16, version 5.15.2086* Due to her departure we are no longer watching the broadcast in the am or possibly in the evening. ### 1/5 — Not updated often *2025-09-28, version 5.15.1840* It seems like it’s not updated very often, I see the same stories all weekend long . Why bother to have an App if it’s not up to date? ### 1/5 — Click Bait *2025-02-16, version 5.15.1618* Used to be a good app, now it publishes push notifications for highly interacted stores days, weeks or even years in the past all in the hopes you click the notification and drive their ad revenue no doubt. News sources are supposed to be better than this. Uninstalled app, WISN will have to work very hard to earn a new download from me. ### 1/5 — Ads *2024-12-19, version 5.15.1549* Too many ads and items that look like stories end up being ads ### 1/5 — Impossible to Read an Article *2024-08-21, version 5.15.1476* When I click on an article to read it the page goes back to the Home Screen. Impossible to read an article. I tried deleting and reinstalling the app and the problem continues. ### 1/5 — Can’t read stories *2024-08-16, version 5.15.1476* Every time I open a story on the app, it closes and goes back to the home page. ### 1/5 — I *2024-07-16, version 5.15.1456* Your reporter on the police shooting at 14th and Vliet is disgusting and way beyond “reporting”. The reporter “Nick” remarking that the police intimidated the suspect and that the suspect did not drop the knife because he may not have heard the cops. The reporter was not there for the confrontation so how can he make these accusatory remarks? What would he do if two angry men came at him with knives? Police are always being tried and convicted by local news without the benefit of gathering the facts. When a suspect fires at cops the reporters always refer to him as the alleged shooter. One side inflammatory reporting only adds to the difficulty of thes situations. ### 1/5 — Videos dont play. *2024-04-24, version 5.15.1381* Videos dont play. ### 1/5 — Really bad news highlights *2024-04-24, version 5.15.1381* I like to check up on the LOCAL news when I miss the broadcast. But their app is filled with so much junk and nonsense stories. Why add the all sponsored content, advertising stories? It’s a headache to navigate. I actually get my news now from the other two stations websites, cause this app is just is so unappealing. And I can get all the local news from them. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — WISN *2026-05-15, version 5.15.2125* Has always been my favorite station, ABC my favorite network! ### 5/5 — Very Professional *2024-12-18, version 5.15.1549* I feel WISN 12 News is on top of the breaking news and all the Weather People are very Professional and well informed on the subject of the weather conditions ### 5/5 — Best local production *2024-07-25, version 5.15.1462* Come for the weather and stay hooked to their unbiased local news.Thank you for keeping me informed. The only channel we watched at my residence. ### 5/5 — WISN news/ weather forecast *2023-04-19, version 5.15.1082* First thing I check out every morning 👍🏼 ### 5/5 — Amazing *2022-12-29, version 5.15.968* My FAVOURITE ### 5/5 — Imagination *2022-01-19, version 5.15.776* Your coverage of most of the news is one sided and biased. Not so much local but when it comes to the dems and repubs you are most certainly extremely biased. Your job is to truthfully report the news to us. Don’t spin it, don’t ad your commentary just give us the news. Don’t try to push us to feel one way or the other. Just report the news and let us the readers/viewers decide on our own what we should take away from it. ### 5/5 — Chanel 12 *2021-09-04, version 5.15.650* So far it's proves to Be good no technical problems while viewing . Thanks and News coverage is Good! And the weather, so Far! Thanks .Thanks !!! I am very thankful for for Chanel 12 I never new it was so very Good!!! Thank you!!! Keep it up!!! ### 5/5 — Newsworthy station *2021-04-28, version 5.15.474* Been listening to your station for many years have tried other news stations but your is the most informative we love it!!!! ### 5/5 — Warm and friendly news reports/weather people *2020-12-07, version 5.15.93* They make me smile : ) ### 5/5 — Outstanding *2020-11-15, version 5.15.93* You have a outstanding crew on channel 12.i have been watching your station for over 46 years --- *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.*