# Yahoo Sports: Scores and News — user reviews > 622 indexed App Store user reviews of Yahoo Sports by Yahoo, rated 4.60/5 from 70,161 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yahoo-sports-scores-and-news/id286058814/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yahoo-sports-scores-and-news/id286058814.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 55,142 · 4★ 8,767 · 3★ 2,443 · 2★ 1,141 · 1★ 2,668 ## What do users think of Yahoo Sports? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Incredible app for sports enthusiasts - 🚀 Delivers real-time scores, news, and personalized updates - 👍 Clean and intuitive design - 🚀 Live-streaming options and expert analysis - 👍 Best sports app, with great features like pick tracker **Cons** - 🐛 Awful, messed up after recent update - 🐛 Terrible new layout, less user-friendly - 🐛 Notifications are out of control - 🐛 Scores and data are not up-to-date - 🐛 Buggy, crashes frequently - 🐛 Intrusive ads and poor video playback **Commonly reported bugs** - Fantasy league categories moved to poor location - Unable to select/unselect sports of interest - Schedules not loading properly - Notifications not working correctly - Video playback issues, especially with casting **Most requested features** - Add PWHL hockey coverage - Allow customization of sports/leagues shown - Add dynamic island scoreboard like Apple Sports app - Improve player stats and injury reporting - Add split stats for NBA players (starter vs sub) ## Newest reviews (20 of 622) ### 2/5 — Get rid of that banner *2026-09-02, version 12.22.1* The banner you added to the bottom of scores saying stuff like “milestone hit! Tap to view”. Nobody asked for that. It’s stupid and on smaller devices it really crowds the screen. ### 2/5 — Don't use it to follow golf. *2026-08-30, version 12.22.0* I'm a golf fan and this app sucks for that. They often bury golf behind WMBA and a bunch of soccer leagues. Even if the golf is a major tournament with big ratings. They also don't sort 2 player team events, they just put it willy nilly as they do with regular events, instead of grouping them by tee times before they tee off. ### 4/5 — Soccer out the Wazoo *2026-08-30, version 12.22.0* Is there any way to get rid of the endless soccer leagues on the listing of scores? I could care less but Yahoo rams those down my throat. (Yet they don’t even offer NCAA baseball) ### 4/5 — WNBA *2026-08-23, version 12.21.0* Can you please put the WNBA standings in league view for playoff standings?? ### 4/5 — Decent app, but the writers shouldn’t pretend they know about sports that they don’t *2026-08-06, version 12.19.0* This app would look better if they just gave up attempting to pretend like they know about soccer. It’s embarrassing that suddenly US sports writers think that they have a clue when they really don’t. Same goes for baseball. Writers watch three games and think they’re experts. Deleted this uninformed infotainment ### 2/5 — WWE is not a sport *2026-08-03, version 12.18.1* I get they are athletes, but WWE matches are scripted with predetermined outcomes. Quit pushing it as a sport or create a button that says “I want nothing to do with a sweaty soap opera.” ### 3/5 — Keeps saying notifications are disabled, but they’re not *2026-08-01, version 12.18.1* The app doesn’t even show up in the notification settings menu with the other apps, and there’s no notification settings available to turn on on the individual app settings either. Obviously some sort of glitch that needs to be fixed. ### 4/5 — WNBA standings *2026-07-20, version 12.18.0* Since east/west don’t matter in the wnba standings it would be nice to be able to view the full standings rather than having to go to another app to see this. Currently ATL and INDY are tied for 5th at 16-10, but this is not easily apparent from the yahoo standings which shows them tied for 1st in the east. Thanks! ### 4/5 — Scores and Features *2026-07-11, version 12.16.1* Please add college baseball scores and teams. Also, I would like to be able to see TV network listed for each game, especially if it’s a national broadcast for MLB, NCAAF, and NCAA basketball. ### 4/5 — Good but could be better *2026-07-05, version 12.16.1* I like it about the same if not a bit more than TheScore. Yahoo Sports introduced an indicator for a win/lose streak for each team. Problem with this is that there’s no visual indicator for whether it’s a win streak or a lose streak. So while I know that the dodgers are on a win streak, I look at the Mets and think that they’ve done the impossible and not been a complete embarrassment. Obviously this is not the case but there should be some level of visual indication just for clarification and to avoid confusion. Maybe the little fire icon could be a water droplet shape or something or change the color but that’s my main gripe even if it’s nitpicky. Another thing is that the send feedback button in settings doesn’t actually take me anywhere, just loads before giving me a retry message. Final bit is that it is a bit laggy and slow at times, sometimes I’ll try looking at an MLB game for live scores and nothing shows on screen at all. Unsure if that’s because of my device or not but I feel even if I don’t have the latest iPhone it should still run at decent speeds. ### 2/5 — Add Funds Not Working *2026-07-02, version 12.16.1* I’m trying to pay for my Fantasy Football League and every time I fill out my information and click continue nothing happens. I’ve tried on the app and Safari and it doesn’t work, I even deleted the app and nothing. I tried to do it through the wallet instead of purchase team and still nothing like come on bro every year or every update it’s something. ### 4/5 — World Cup Start Times *2026-07-01, version 12.16.1* Yahoo having trouble getting the start times right for the biggest event of the year. Mexico Ecuador shown as 9 pm edt for last four days. At 906, it’s updated to 10 pm edt. Not the first time either. Seems like an important detail to get right. ### 3/5 — Poorly optimized for screen *2026-06-29, version 12.16.0* The latest update reduced the usable screen area to less than a third, with large empty bars on each side, making the actual content small and difficult to read. ### 1/5 — No broadcaster published *2026-06-26, version 12.16.0* When you pick a scores tab/game , like tonight Boston/ Yankees Am I missing it, or could you list in the ‘more info’ section at the bottom , who is broadcasting the game ### 4/5 — FIFA Table standings! *2026-06-23, version 12.16.0* England & Ghana are currently at halftime, playing in their 2nd match. Yet once the 0-0 score is posted, the table standings take the result as final. Another example, once the first team of any match scores, the table standings treat this result as final and show a win for the team that scores first. Finally to write this review I had to erase the review I wrote last year, so looks like we can only have one review submitted at a time. ### 3/5 — Great app but too much betting focus *2026-06-23, version 12.15.3* This has been my favorite sports app since before yahoo even owned it (I think it was called sportacular or something like that?) and it’s easily the best one on the App Store in terms of UI. But over time they have added more and more focus on sports betting which is a real shame. They should at the very least provide the option to remove the betting ads from view. I don’t need to know “how tempting it is to take the under” on the World Cup games, etc., I use this app for scores and stats. Stop turning a great sports app into a betting app, nobody wants that. ### 4/5 — great but sometimes freezes *2026-06-22, version 12.15.3* I've been using it for years as it's great for tracking many sports. Only problem I have is that it freezes up on a regular basis when I come back to it. I have to close the app and reopen it. ### 1/5 — Too Far Left *2026-06-15, version 12.15.1* You can tell who reads and writes these articles. If you’re here for sports, move on, clearly politics are the only thing on peoples minds nowadays. Nasty people on here. ### 3/5 — WNBA Live Activities *2026-06-14, version 12.15.1* Good app but how is there no ability to enable live score updates for WNBA teams? I keep checking the settings and you can enable notifications for a whole bunch of things for the W teams but not score updates via live activities. ### 2/5 — Tired of it ignoring settings *2026-06-13, version 12.15.1* Why does it change my notification settings update. It won’t even let me change them back without uninstalling and reinstalling it—it seems like EVERYONE single update ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Dark Mode is Bricked *2026-09-03, version 12.23.0* Latest update bricked dark mode on my device. Only ads and headlines are visible. ### 1/5 — Milestones? *2026-09-01, version 12.22.1* Time to find a new app to catch up on sports. Every time an app update came out the last few years, some silly notification got enabled that I didn’t ask for. The “Milestones” was the last straw. Bye bye Yahoo. ### 1/5 — Sloppy Reporting *2026-08-30, version 12.22.0* Getting the start times for games wrong are forgivable mistakes. Getting the date wrong when accurate information is readily available is typical of today’s media that doesn’t use due diligence in getting it right. Am I cynical, or is Yahoo another careless conglomerate? ### 1/5 — Do NOT update *2026-08-24, version 12.21.0* The latest update broke the ability to read stories. A box covers it and never loads. ### 1/5 — Uninstalled app because *2026-08-15, version 12.20.0* I do NOT want to be asked EVERY single time if I want to do fantasy sports. It was way better experience to just go to website. ### 1/5 — Player Search *2026-08-14, version 12.20.0* Why why why would you replace the player search with news articles I have no interest in? I want to look at stats, I don’t care about slop yahoo sports articles. ### 1/5 — Nonstop scam pharma ads *2026-07-26, version 12.18.0* It is decent for seeing my scores, but it has nonstop ads trying to sell snake oil to old people. Also, if you use live activities which is somewhat useful, you cannot turn off vibration on live updates. ### 1/5 — Yahoo sports *2026-07-10, version 12.16.1* App sucks… can’t go in scores without seeing a dating app about nude women, I’m a female that doesn’t want to see that and neither does/will my husband…will delete app because it refuses to stop ads when we want them stopped! ### 1/5 — Stop the score banners! *2026-07-05, version 12.16.1* Deleting this app because I’m constantly getting live score updates on top banner of my Home Screen even when locked, for teams I don’t even follow. All notifications and haptics are turned off and they still show up. ### 1/5 — Annoying ads *2026-07-04, version 12.16.1* The ads are beyond annoying. There is nothing that makes sense with them and just get in the way. Please at least make them sports related at the minimum ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best app for quick scores *2026-06-12, version 12.15.1* Had to delete CBS sports app because they finally broke me. This has simple scores if thats all you want, doesn't add sports you dgaf about (soccer, wnba). You can go to favorite leagues and look at only that league's news. No other sports app lets you control content to this degree. ### 5/5 — ya … HOO *2026-06-05, version 12.15.0* Great app loved seeing Aj brown get traded and don’t care about those people who watch ncaa baseball and softball, jst watch the mlb ### 5/5 — Log In Issues Fixed *2026-05-16, version 12.13.4* *Updated Review: They have fixed their log in issues* Old Review: The app is not allowing log in for the comment sections despite being logged in for live feeds and general reference. This has been going on for weeks. ### 5/5 — Missing Scores *2026-05-15, version 12.13.4* i love this app. My issue is when you select the tab "Scores" along the bottom, it shows you upcoming games of the leagues you follow. for example, i see upcoming games for NHL and MLB, because i follow NHL and MLB - however, i also follow NBA, but i don't see the upcoming NBA games on the same screen like i do others even though i follow NBA. please help. ### 5/5 — College baseball *2026-03-03, version 12.10.1* Please add college baseball!!!! ### 5/5 — Complicated 🤔 *2026-02-11, version 12.8.0* Nothing complicated,easy😎👍 ### 5/5 — Good Stuff *2026-02-10, version 12.8.0* Regardless of any “poor” ratings, this app provides easy info on a broad spectrum of sports. Not sure what transformational are deemed necessary. A good product. ### 5/5 — Make Yahoo Sports 13+ *2026-02-09, version 12.7.3* I want to use Yahoo Sports but I can’t because I am not 17+, I liked Yahoo Sports when I could use it because I could have analytics on games but now I can’t. Please make the age requirement younger. ### 5/5 — Word of mouth *2026-02-04, version 12.7.2* Got my son on yahoo sports & he got a buddy of his into it now. App is packed w/ all kinds of sport info. Tipping my hat to you. 😎 ### 5/5 — Great sports app! Almost perfect. *2025-12-20* I recently stumbled across this app and was very surprised to find almost everything in one place. For me it’s the most complete sports app I’ve found. The first improvement to make it perfect would be to clean up the scores section. It would be nice to change ‘favorites’ section to ‘followed’ so I can quickly add a specific game to my feed rather than to follow a team then unfollow after the game. Also an option to quickly add a game to my calendar would be amazing and would allow me to delete all other sports app off my phone and iPad. --- *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 2026-09-08.*