WINK News Negative Reviews

WINK News App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

WINK News app received 22 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using WINK News? Can you share your negative thoughts about wink news?

WINK News for Negative User Reviews

✓ Banner links and Saving storiesLike the app to keep in touch with what is going on in the local news. Would be nice if we could save the articles to show others like in the Apple news. Do not like the way banner headlines are set up. I click on the link to read the article or watch the video and I get no article and no video but a watch live and I get get nothing of what I wanted to read. Plus the banner is gone and I forgot what the headline was and when I do remember it is almost impossible to find when looking through all the news. Key words for a search is not helpful..Anta89Version: 4000.35.570058044

✓ Left wing biasThis morning you never reported that President Trump was at the real Texas border discussing the crisis. You were too busy talking about the Trump Organization being charged by the left wing N.Y. attorney on charges that are all political. Unfortunately I had to listen to your bias waiting for the weather. You do get that right as that is the only reason I turn your channel on. You are not “ trusted.” But you are no worse than any other lying main stream media.SrunkerVersion: 4000.35.570058044

✓ Won’t scrollStarted using new update this week. Not any better than before. Sometimes I get a menu bar, sometimes I do not. When I scroll trough headlines the app takes me back to top and reloaded the page. Can’t get passed the first 5 headlines. Works this way on iPhone and iPad. 😕.MTyreVersion: 3.1.1

✓ WINK NEWSI am a news hound. I look at news feeds several times a day. You don’t update your stories frequently enough. To have stories that are from a day or so ago isn’t current For example when looking for vaccine information when things change rapidly your story might be 19 hours old. Don’t even get me started about Sunday’s. I think you take that day off completely. I laugh when your commercial says you provide the most current, up to date news. My other complaint is that you do not always answer-who, what, when or where. There might have been a crime and you tell us in Cape Coral. Well where in Cape Coral? In my neighborhood? I do enjoy your tv broadcasts but you app really needs help..ZyvwlVersion: 4000.35.570058044

✓ Not working at allThis app has stopped working. Any ideas?.CapeboaterVersion: 3.1.1

✓ Glitchy App - Keeps resetting scrollingThis app is glitchy and keeps resetting the news feed to the very top when scrolling through the news stories. It seems that users have complained about this glitch (from nearly a year ago) and it is still not fixed. App Developers seem to have failed in fixing this..Fair 'n BalancedVersion: 4000.35.730059447

✓ Audio IssuesWe love WINK News and watch it regularly via our cable provider. But, for a few months have been living in a rental property with only internet and Smart TV’s. That is when we recognized the serious audio issues when using the app, which are are only magnified when connected to a TV via AirPlay. I have removed the app and reloaded. We do not have any audio issues with any other apps used to watch TV (e.g., ESPN, NBC, CBS, Fox News, Paramount, etc). It is even more noticeable during Commercial Breaks. Please fix!!.Patrician CaptainVersion: 4000.35.730059447

✓ No live newsNews on wink is great. The only problem with this app is they don’t always show live news. You turn the app on in the morning and it shows you last nights news, very disappointing.Darts r usVersion: 4000.35.570058044

✓ Stop starting over from the beginningAs I get through maybe 10 stories the app goes back to the beginning. Some I’ve seen or are old. As I get farther into new stories going back to the beginning gets real old till I finally give up and find other news sources.Florida0202Version: 4000.35.730059447

✓ Used to workMy app no longer works...except I DO get invites to go to the map. But it's "temporarily out of service" .....for the past month! So if you want to watch the news you'll have to find a different app from a different station (that works). I'll keep checking back...but whoever is in charge of making certain the app is even working might consider this one of your heads up..Marian LorieVersion: 2.0.4

✓ No way to filter alertsThe app could be good if you could choose which type of notifications you want to get. For example I might want breaking news but not traffic or weather but not news. I only see the option to pick notifications on or off with no granularity..ChristianRileyVersion: 4000.35.720059264

✓ Love it, but frustrating!I love the app from a content standpoint, but it’s very frustrating that you can’t scroll past the top few stories in the “more headline news” list without it constantly resetting back to the top. My app is the latest version and so it my iOS. To get through the list of stories I have to jump from one article to the next while reading the articles. If you can fix the scrolling issue, you will get 5 stars..Launch ifVersion: 4000.35.730059447

✓ GSUser unfriendly, a nightmare to navigate.GrahamthegolferVersion: 4000.35.220052008

✓ APP Keeps Jumping Back to the TopWhen using the WINK News app on my iPhone, I will be scrolling down through all of the articles and the app keeps jumping way back to the top. This causes me to have to scroll through all of the articles again to get to where I was. I’m wondering if they could fix this error. Also, the ads with the vain reporters are a bit annoying. After every two articles to see the same pictures of the same vain reporters. Quite annoying..EddieConcurIsBadVersion: 4000.35.570058044

✓ TrafficPut back the local traffic map. It was great having that available when I left my house so I could see where heavy traffic was. Now I have to scroll through a bunch of old stories and still can’t find that traffic map. Why did you mess up this app? Put it back the way it was..ZswfhmVersion: 4003.0.0

✓ Weather is the only true news on this appGood App for weather only, where it’s very easy to test and verify! TV version has some made up & spliced clips with the weather at times, like their reporter reporting there is no one on the beach when surfers and people walk behind the newscaster & are captured walking on the beach. Fl local broadcasts are as fake as their affiliates, enjoy your vacation by turning them all off!.UWillBSadUDidItVersion: 4000.35.730059447

✓ Where is the search bar?I downloaded the app because I only caught the tail end of a story. The news anchor said a link to follow the person they were featuring would be found in the app. I have scrolled and scrolled and cannot find the news piece in the app..IlovemygordoVersion: 4000.35.570058044

✓ Where’s the sound?I have been using the Wink News app for over a year. I loved it, until this latest update. Now I can’t get any sound! For some reason it opens in mute and the mute button in the upper right corner will not unmute. I’ve tried my finger & stylus. When the button disappears I have to tap the bottom of the screen to get it back to keep toying to tap it. I have never had playback issues until now, hence the 1 star rating. Once this bug is fixed I will update this review..Allura RomelVersion: 4000.35.570058044

✓ Too often!I like this app but will eventually either delete it or turn off all notifications. I don’t need or want to be notified every time an article is posted. I’m keeping it so I know when vaccine appointments are opening up. It would be nice if I could elect what news I want or don’t want to be notified about.Bankroller1Version: 4000.35.570058044

✓ Use the competitions news app insteadI’m a WINK news fan, however this app could cause loyalty to fade. It’s been over a month since the upgrade was installed on my phone. It has yet to work properly. When I click on a news article the only thing I see is the progress ball spinning. I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling multiple times, only to have the same errors occur. Don’t expect much more than frustrations..FrankInSWFlaVersion: 3.1.1

✓ InformativeBut way to many, missing how the FBI blew another opportunity to stop the assault on the Capital by keeping it to themselves. I could go on with past and present failures by this terrible investigative group. Most police departments are far better than them they just have the $$$$$$.JohnGlowVersion: 4000.35.570058044

✓ Notification Links Don’t linkWink sends out a lot of push notifications, but when you click on the notif, Wink does not take you to the associated story. Instead, you have to DIG to find that story (which makes having notifications from Wink completely useless). If I wanted to dig through the app I could just open it myself. I keep hoping for an update, but it hasn’t happened yet. So, I will disable yet again until maybe you guys push an update that fixes this..Marco67RedVersion: 4000.33.550047226

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