Google News & Weather App Reviews

This app now ALWAYS crashes when you try to open a Spotlight article. Also, recently almost half of the articles are from the Washington Post or the New York Times, so after you read the few articles free to non-subscribers at the beginning of the month, you are SOL on many of the biggest news stories of the day. I understand and support a news source using a pay wall, and Google News need to fix this bug, particularly when we want to keep up with news about a certain Nutjob American politician.

This is my go to news app and has been for years. Since the last update it constantly freezes. Please fix!

Latest updates to app and phone but app freezes. Looking for another app to get my news fix

I used to love this app. Lately, it seems the primary news sources are the NYT and the WP, which only allow 5 articles per month, before you have to pay to read the articles. If I wanted to do that, I would just get the NYT and WP apps.

I got stuck on a new york times paywall while using google news. No back arrow, no way out. Closed app and returned later and app was still on the paywall! Maybe intentional. iPhone 7.

I personally sit right in the middle of American politics. I find great arguments on both sides of issues. But there is a ridiculous left leaning bias in the headline portion of this app. I find way too many articles that I can easily tell are pushing faked stats and misinformation. For this reason I am deleting this app and looking for a more balanced news app.

Often crashes or locks up. Will lock entire phone until app can be swiped away. It’s shocking that google would make such a bad app.

App causes iPhone to lock up. App is unusable.

How do you block cnn fake news

If you like to gamble, this is your news app. Sometimes your story will open, sometimes it wont. Sometimes, if it opens, you can read more than the first line. Sometimes, it will ask you to pay to read it. So...place your bet. And, click on a story.

I can’t imagine how Google let this app get so broken. Clicking on certain stores causes the app to crash. While I can’t predict which stories will do this, it is repeatable. If I restart the app and click the same story it will crash again. C’mon Google. Repeatable bugs are the easy ones to fix. The app also often hangs, forcing me to force-quit it. I used this app for years without any problems until recently.

It’s a functional app that does its job as news aggregator, though it’s not something that would wow you. I read news on google news daily and it’s reliably. That said, I wish I could have more control over the news sources I want and don’t want. You could argue that it would exacerbate echo chamber, but I don’t want sensational news from tabloids or alt-right or dumb trending topics. I want hard news and investigative reportings. That’s what news is about.

Not only does sharing not work, now buggy buggy buggy. Tap on a headline and get bounced back to the home page. Essentially useless.

I’m finally sick enough of the crashes to write a review. 1. Crashes frequently, freezing iPhone. Did this on iOS 10.2 and still does it through iOS 11.x.x 2. Headline sources are often biased. If more than 20% of the top articles are from the same source (for instance Washington Post) then either Google’s algorithm needs work or it’s intentional. 3. Feeds with old news are common, some with articles days or even weeks old. ThT is NOT news. 4. Sharing by mail feature sometimes put ... in the mail body as the article description. Useless.

Many of the articles in the spotlight section crash the app when clicked. This has been happening for months.

Constantly freezing on iPhone X. Basically every time I open the app the whole phone freezes for a good 15 seconds. Usually have to force quit the app and open again

Keeps “jumping” to the front app page when going “back” from webpage. Useless.

Background activity is killing my iPhone 7 battery. Background refresh is disabled.

Latest update has made it an awful experience. Crashes more often than not, or won’t let me click on anything. I’ve been a google news user for years, but this update is frustrating.

Please fix it ASAP.