We analyzed 466 negative reviews of Google News from the App Store. Here's what users are saying.
Frequent app crashes and overwhelming ads
"Crashes constantly, making it unusable."
"Ads make it nearly impossible to use."
Please allow us to sort news by most recent! I dislike that month old articles are sometimes at the top and articles from 1-2 days ago or same day are placed in the middle.
This is a great app if you like looking at the headlines and not being able to actually read the articles. Today every article I tried was behind the paywall. App deleted.
In the middle of an article. Error message displays an unexpected error has occurred.
Horrible stay far far away from this trash
The widget wasn’t updating, so I removed it and replaced it and now it’s just a black square. It updates with new news when I open it, but the widget isn’t working properly.
Reading a story and it goes black with an error “something went wrong “ on most stories. It happens the most on ones with the highest number of unwanted adds. Advertisement after advertisement. Screen jumps up and down as new adds are popping up and makes it hard to read an article. The tiny x to ...
Constant “Error displaying content” messages on any article longer than a couple of pages. On every iPhone I’ve owned. In every OS. I find it hard to believe that no one else sees this and still gives this PoS a positive review.
The spammy ads are too much to handle. Can’t get through a complete news article.
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