New layout
I do not like the most recent update which changed the look of the page. Too crowded and busy. I do not needto see the faces of the anchor team across the bottom. Also takes more thought and extra tap to get to my world news. Much less user friendly. If it had looked like this initially I w have chosen another news source
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Notification Spam
This app will send “breaking news” notifications that tells you what’s coming up on the next broadcast no matter how mundane the topic may be. They have different categories for their push notifications but ignore the settings and send irrelevant notifications daily. The app also ignores iOS standards.
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Jonathan
Jonathan
Ads and more ads
Everytime app launch, you have an ad! And everytime it asks to set or confirm cookies! Every column to read has more ads than actual content to read and annoying that you don’t know if it’s belongs to the issue you are reading or propaganda! Deleting the app till something would change!
Too biased, doesn’t represent community
This station dominates the air waves in this area but leans way too far to the left and is full of biases. It doesn’t represent the real population of this area. Can’t be trusted. Also avoids important issues that is harmful to the real population.
Too many ads
Too many ads
WRAL News fails viewers through its lack of objectivity…
Their lack of objectivity along with their leftist agenda while supporting the status quo does not serve the best interests of NC’s citizenry. The NBC affiliate has reported numerous stories concerning the swarms of teenagers and young adults talking over certain areas of Raleigh that suddenly turn violent, as they should report. The one thing they turn a blind eye to is calling out the leadership of Wake County. Particularly the Raleigh Police Department and the Wake County Sheriff’s Department. Seemingly oblivious to the recent trends involving a frightening number of young men creating havoc in predetermined areas of Raleigh. These two law enforcement agencies do a poor job monitoring social media and find themselves consistently reacting, rather than an increasingly proactive approach. Will WRAL call out the leadership of these “tarnished” law enforcement departments? Will they take it a step further by asking the tough questions of Raleigh’s elected leadership? We already know the answer.
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Fix the tracking
Why do I have to “customize” my choices every time I load an article??? I save my choices every time!!!
Notification Spam
This app will send “breaking news” notifications that tells you what’s coming up on the next broadcast no matter how mundane the topic may be. They have different categories for their push notifications but ignore the settings and send irrelevant notifications daily
Lottery
My NC lottery has not updated since May 27. Is there a problem?
Impossible to change video settings
Cuts my sound off on other apps and automatically plays videos - very frustrating.
Click jacking
If you are unfamiliar with the term this app is an excellent example of it.
Auto plays videos randomly
Still have never addresses the most annoying thing in the world. I just want to open the app and scroll news stories while listening to Apple Music, Sirius XM, etc. and this thing totally hijacks my audio and starts playing news stories I haven’t clicked on. And yes, I have it set to NOT automatically play videos in settings for the app.
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Auto plays videos randomly
Oat the most inopportune time this app starts to auto play video clips. Just the first second or so. Very annoying.
New app
WRAL app is too busy, too many duplicate stories show. Should have left it alone. Go back to old app
Poor user experience
It’s really frustrating that there are constant push notifications for stories but when you click on the notification it does not take you to the story you want to read and most of the time that story isn’t even on the homepage and you have to dig for it it’s just a poor user experience. Also frustrating when there is breaking news or time sensitive weather alerts where every second counts we are forced to watch ads first. Totally get needing ads to support but like maybe not when there’s a tornado warning
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Broken autoplay setting
I would rather send you feedback directly but since that doesn’t seem to be a thing… I hope you read the reviews. I have autoplay turned off in the settings, it auto plays anyway.
Ads
I click to get weather updates, not ads after every time I look it up. Stop w the ads please
Intrusive and obnoxious
I had to delete this app. Every time I would open it, was meet with large whole screen-sized ads. After closing those it would automatically play a live stream, which has the smallest button possible to close that. Then even after closing, every news article I read would override any music, phone call, even apple car play with whatever video regarding that, after of course more ads.
If that wasn’t enough, the Wral video banner sticks around on my phone and takes up my ENITRE close screen for HOURS, until I manually force close the app. I’ve never had an app so desperate to force you to watch their streams.
Not to mention every article has so many random, sketchy click baity ads, I feel like I’m reading a random tabloid site.
This is NOT what I expect for a respected news station that serves a large area.
If that wasn’t enough, the Wral video banner sticks around on my phone and takes up my ENITRE close screen for HOURS, until I manually force close the app. I’ve never had an app so desperate to force you to watch their streams.
Not to mention every article has so many random, sketchy click baity ads, I feel like I’m reading a random tabloid site.
This is NOT what I expect for a respected news station that serves a large area.
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Ok - to much advertising
I love WRAL - however way too much advertising just to get into the app or read about a story.
