Apple News 12+

This is the first time I’ve been asked for a review without a donation. As a long-term Democrat that is a mistake. I gave small amounts consistently before the election, but I don’t believe the Democrats are doing enough so I have turned my investment in public policy towards the Free press. At 75. I do work every day, and I give to my world the best of who I am in bringing together society as collaborators for the benefit of all. I work as in both state government and society and is prominent I gave you this background because I do read the news., Always have and always will. I mostly now read articles that to me bring Hope and even in being selective there are many to find.. Trump is decimating our economy, and there is nothing I can personally do beyond contributing the best of who I am to my world. Thank you for the legions of good Press covering the good works of others that I find to read about. And thanks for asking for my opinion without asking for money…

Keep up the good work! Sincerely, Rebekah Christensen

The fact taht this is the native news app and had this many problems is very concerning for me. Apple had touted their user experience and software a direct result of that. Over the past 5 years that could not be farther form the truth and now especially Apple News. I found it strange that the news app would ahve such a deal for news+ so I tried and im glad i did because I now know to never use Apple News for a whole host of reason. The first being that the App Store kept telling me that I need to redownload the app despite using it for the past month it still says I need to redownload the app. I can acces from the app and widget but that brings me to another concern of mine. If you would like to access stories from the widgets, it takes you to a screen about 1/10 the size of the entire screen of the iPad. That’s also not to mention the fact that you can’t make this story full screen anyway or anyhow, it’ll only take you to the channel or close the window if he tried to do anything else.. This is incredibly concerning considering my phone has all of my personal data on it and yet I can’t even supply some of the simplest of tasks to me. I have now canceled my subscription to news plus I will never ever use news plus again and also in consideration is whether I will continue to even use my Apple products I have considered switching to Samsung and I think now is the time. Sincerely an incredibly disgruntled and disappointed customer.

Update.

I know Apple states you may get blocked topics if they're "editor picks" or whatever they call it. But now if I block an obscure news source, like GPFans, it shows up even more. The same story has been in Top Stories for days from this blocked news source. There's no way GPFans, an auto racing National Enquirer type publication, is an editor pick for the same story three days in a row. Even worse, this review is probably useless. I doubt Apple even reads reviews.

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I love Apple and Apple News, but for use in the widgets area or for trying to view anything in Top Stories, it's dang near useless. You can't stop certain stories from appearing in Top Stories, even if they are topics you have blocked, and you can't stop News+ from showing up, even if you don't subscribe. There are five spots in Top Stories, or six if you count the podcast story at the bottom, which I don't use and can't get rid of. Out of these limited spots, two are usually blocked topics (what's the point of giving me that option?) and one or two are News+ so I can't even see them. If I go into the News app, about every third story is News+, or I get whole sections of stories I can't access. It didn't used to be like this, and I don't know what changed but I'm done now. It's finally pushed me to just start using Google news instead.