Google News & Weather App Reviews

Until recently Google News was a good place to check out leading news stories, but sadly it now appears to only be a money grubbing front for subscription seeking publications. Most of the “stories” listed under Headlines now are from publishers like the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post that once you click you find are only available for paid subscribers. Even the diminishing number of articles still available for free have more and more very obtrusive ads and pop-ups that can only be stopped by force quitting the entire app. This is one customer who therefore will now be permanently deleting the Google News app from my iPhone 7+.

FOUR TIMES IN A ROW this POS crApp has jacked up a share while I was writing a comment on it, wasting my time and effort. Screw it up one more time, Google, and this crApp will be OFF MY PHONE FOREVER.

Make no mistake about it Google News is the premier news aggregator. Complete customization of topics of interest. Hopefully updates in the future will be more frequent.

I used to love this app. Now, the phone just circles trying to load the data. It actually freezes the whole phone for a period. It’s almost useless.

Terrible. Every few times you run it the entire app and then the phone freezes. Months without an update. This should be removed from the App Store.

Não é crível que uma empresa séria como Google dê espaço para Blogs de partidos políticos, como o Blog do ‘Brasil 247’, uma fábrica de ódio e de Fake News.

I switched to this app in an effort to get away from curated news feeds. No luck. Almost every headline is from the New York Times or the Washington Post (paywall). I have found no way to modify the feed. That being said, it is a free app and that means we (the users) are the commodity. I will be deleting the app.

App works properly when it’s freshly opened. However, the app freezes when returning to it after awhile. Requires a force close, and even then it hangs while it finishes attempting to force close. Been like this for a week. iPhone 8 running the latest iOS version. Unacceptable for a major app from an industry titan.

I’ve used this app daily for years and it has historically been reliable. Now it hangs and must be killed and restarted at least once a day if not more. Time to look elsewhere.

As others have stated, this app has become unusable due poor performance and freezing my phone. I thought Google hat higher standards. Im not sure what algorithm they use to select articles, but news doesnt seem to refresh, and feels like an echo chamber (a la Facebook).

This app crashes constantly and therefore is a complete waste of time.

Every time I open the app, my phone freezes. Previous versions have been great. Please make an update!

I enjoyed this app for a while, but lately the amount of freezing and crashing has become unbearable. Deleted today - will pick another news app as my go-to.

The constant flickering and screen dropdowns and strange goings-on is a total pain. I tried it for 30 minutes and then deleted the app. I thought google is better than this mess.

Google will show you what it wants you to see. They will try to control you and you research. They know where you go and they see you went you’ve been good or bad. Just as Santa, google is there. To know everything about you, and sell it.

Half of the news links immediately crash the app every time they are depressed. Disappointing. This should have been found during release testing. Using the latest IOS on an iPad Pro.

The latest app version running on the latest iOS version will cause your iPhone (I’m using iPhone 7 Plus) to freeze anytime you attempt to re-open the app. I cannot even submit feedback in the app to request Google to fix it. I hope this is fixed soon!

i don’t know why in last month or so I can only read one paragraph from any major news publication... before then 4+

Besides the noticeably slow refresh the number of prescription news services is annoying. Don’t show headlines from articles I can’t read. I expect more from google then this app delivers. App constantly closes/crashes when trying to open article to read.

Loved this app for a long time. Lately frequently crashes. Also preferentially displays articles that require you to pay to read... wonder if google gets $ for this. horrible.