App REVIEWS
I love the News 9 app. News 9 is the only local news and weather that I can depend on. They are accurate and not biased with their news. News 9 weather is THE BEST! You can depend on them!! Very happy!!
Complete garbage app . Shows commercials during emergencies. Time frame is always lagging. Consistent failure to load . App laggs, freezes , locked up or shuts down. April 19th I had 3 minutes to get to shelter because David Payne wouldn't shut and listen to his chasers . Someone is going to die because of this app
I downloaded the app last night before the storms because I trusy news 9. My phone was charged and I was ready for the storms. My power went out, so glad my phone started out charged! This app really drained my battery!!! I have had the same issue before, that and the fact that there are way too many ads is why I uninstalled before. It is sad but I am uninstalling the app again for the same reasons as above. I have tried turning off all notifications but this is not an easy thing to do. I still
I had tornado sirens going off at 5am. So I opened this app to get the live weather. The only thing that I got to play were ads. I downloaded KFORs app and used it to look at the live weather feed. Thank God it wasn't real close to me. Definitely not a good app for emergencies.
I used to use this app any time I needed weather updates, no more.. the app now forces you to give it permissions to get your location at all times. The app worked just fine before the update when you could set it to only allow access when the app was being used. Uninstalling.
Majority of the push videos do not load, and I have to reinstall the app every 2 weeks for it to work. I use 3 other news apps because news 9 needs to upgrade. Very relevant content, but frustrating for the user. Please get your tech guys to fix it.
I'm sick of getting push notifications constantly and not being able to see the story. Every time I click on the notification, it takes you to the app but doesnt show the story. This has been going on for months and is ridiculous.
Terrible. Constant push notifications lead to nothing related to the title. Everytime I launch the app I'm greeted by a casino ad. If you want local news look somewhere else. The app has really gone downhill over the last year.
Ok. Got this for weather alerts, tornados, and such. The ability to watch live, from my phone... well and good. I dont like to watch the news alerts, because i mind data, etc.... but the links work... however, none of the headline, breaking news, article type links work. I just get the home page, and can never find the story the alert was telling me about. Its highly frustrating. Dont put out an alert, without a landing page for it.
Everytime I try to click on a notification about traffic or really anything it gives me an ad video and then sends me to something that's completely unrelated. To make it worse the News homepage once you actually open the app only has a few stories and won't load anymore. I prefer to get my news from News 9 but you have the worst app out there.
Read the other bad reviews. The notifications dont always take you to the proper story and also I can't read the whole notification. The old version was much better. When it sends the notification, there's only like 4 words of the title. I tried to search for the details on an active shooting and when I clicked on it, it didn't take me anywhere. I feel like it shouldn't be that hard to find details on such a huge story. This app DOES NOT KEEP YOU INFORMED!
It is very annoying that when an alert is received that you can't read the full text. Especially when a storm timeline is sent by an alert you can only know what the first couple of cities are and when you click on the alert it just shows the radar. And as for breaking news alerts they are pointless if the story can't be found on the app when you click on the alert. Please fix this and I'll be glad to change my review.
Please fix two things. 1. I need control over the alerts I receive. I can't turn them off or limit them in any way. I want weather and breaking news, but I get a zillion alerts that just don't matter to me. 2. I cannot watch videos all day, but can quickly scan an article. seems the majority of alerts I click are videos.
I would give more than one star on this, but it really angers me to have to watch many commercials, before I'm even allowed to watch the news video. I think this is unacceptable for mobile users. It eats up my data when I must sit and watch all those commercials. I can see viewing one commercial, before the news story, but several is excessive. Please consider fixing this, and I will give a higher rating, if not, then I will need to delete this app, as it's not useful to me this way.
New app jumps around as I'm reading due to pop up's and ads loading making it difficult to read news. It's basically not a simple app anymore. Also, I can no longer share a story with a simple link. The app requires full 3rd party access to my contacts which I won't allow for obvious privacy reasons. I like news 9 but I'll probably be moving away from this app until it become easy to use again.
Wow! The update rolled out March 11, 2018 is a vast improvement. I appreciate the CHOICE of watching videos or reading stories (prefer to read). The "current weather" page is strikingly beautiful and very informative. This version looks like a keeper.
Love this news channel and its coverage. However, after turning off notifications for the app I continue to get blown up with what seems like about 50 notifications every day. unfortunately until this is resolved I am going to have to delete the app. Hope to be back soon though.
The recent update is terrible. The font is way too large. When you go into settings and try to fix the issue, it doesn't change. Also, opted out of news alerts and still getting alerts! This update has too many bugs. Please fix.
New app design is horrible! Everything is cluttered and appears like a 5yr old designed the new UI. Plus, with all the local news stories that could be put on the app, why recycle older national news? Uninstalling. Remember the old saying: If it ain't broke, don't fix it! See ya'!
This use to be a good app. We used the weather info and their ESP Radar regularly. something has changed in the past 30 days, because it won't load the ESP Radar, and random other things. their service stinks. We've messaged them 3 times to ask for feedback and help. we have gotten no response. it has been 3 weeks. We have began using a different news station's app.