Idaho News From KTVB Negative Reviews

Idaho News from KTVB App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Idaho News from KTVB app received 19 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Idaho News from KTVB? Can you share your negative thoughts about idaho news from ktvb?

Idaho News from KTVB for Negative User Reviews

✓ Violates Apple do not track policyYou are intentionally violating Apples new do not track policy. You present a screen that appears to offer the ability turn tracking off however it is on by default and CAN NOT be selected to not track. Confirmed on 3 different iPhones so not a glitch! Also, you are told you can come back but there is no way in any settings in the app to change it. Luckily, the user should be able to adjust this globally on each phone. The final straw is your “do not track” notification is custom. Apple doesn’t allow that. You must use their system designed one. This is done so app developers can’t do exactly what you have done. All of this on top of the glitches with each update. The late/old stories, all this appears as though KTVB doesn’t care about local journalism. I think the truth is the people at the station care but the corporate entity doesn’t..MacnewsVersion: 43.5.19

✓ Not user friendlyI have always enjoyed KTVB as a news station. They’re not only good as a local station, but they can sometimes give national stations a run for their money! That being said, the app is horrible. They need to fire the developer, scrap it, and start over. It’s not user friendly in the least, and it’s just plain frustrating to navigate. I just want to click on a category and see news reports. I don’t want to have to select favorites and navigate my way through them in order to find a story..CheesedeezVersion: 42.3.15

✓ Hasn't worked properly since overhaulApp crashes often when trying to read a story. Constant loading of ads means the story text (when the app doesn't crash) shifts down the page repeatedly, so when I'm trying to scroll down, sometimes the place where I've placed my thumb suddenly becomes the middle of an ad and now I'm opening a new window because I've inadvertently clicked into an ad window. The organization of the menus is frustrating and "back" doesn't take me back into the list I was in, but back to the top of home every time. Not terribly user friendly or efficient and clearly pretty buggy..HunterjenVersion: 6.1.37

✓ Broken NotificationsThis app is great for getting local news and weather, but insane to obnoxious with notifications. It completely ignores your topic settings and continues to deliver notifications on stories I couldn’t care less about. All I want are weather alerts and the occasional local story. Instead, I get the news notification equivalent of spam. For now, I have disabled notifications entirely for this app until this issue is fixed..EvilanimatorVersion: 42.2.11

✓ To much marketing/click bait all over the placeI really value the news and local stories on the Website and and App for my phone. That said, I really wish the news content was separated from the ads and all the click bait material. Even if you were able to able relegate it a specific area on the page. The way it is now, it is very disruptive to reading the news and local stories. Thanks for considering my comments.Top--fightVersion: 43.1.57

✓ CBS 2 is BetterI have been using this app for years and have always been frustrated with it (it was good a few years back). The same old stories stay on the newsfeed for weeks, searching is impossible, and where is the traffic?! Layout is overall awful. Love KTVB but the app is just not good. Just downloaded the cbs 2 app and it seems to be way more user friendly..NeilandSaraVersion: 45.20.1

✓ “UPDATING”/CHANGING APP TOO MUCHI actually removed the app about a year ago, because of the constant changes. I just recently reinstalled it again ➖Everyone deserves a 2nd chance. If KTVB had been a better information source for the latest news, I could have overlooked the constant changes to the app. I was hoping that when I reinstalled the app, the latest news issue had gotten better. It has not. I cannot rely on KTVB to get important info that I’ve heard about “through the grapevine”. BTW, I do not have cable or satellite service. So I have to get information online. I think if KTVB put as much time into updating the latest news, instead of updating the app, this app would be the greatest..The Grammy of 5Version: 42.13.38

✓ Difficult to useThe new app has limited stories on the first page, scroll past those and click on anything and try to go back it brings you all the way to the beginning. Scrolling through is a time waster and frustrating. It’s also difficult to find the different categories of stories. Using the app is cumbersome which then just leads me to going elsewhere to read news. Not to mention there is more advertising than actual news..BrandonJWrightVersion: 6.2.5

✓ Biased news coverageI have been reading the articles on KTVB for a number of years now. While there has always some left-leaning bias, it has become very obvious that they strongly support Democrats and the like. I turn to the news for objective information but the stories on KTVB have become increasingly subjective. I’ll be deleting the app and looking for a news cast that can give a more objective approach to sharing the news..Ashj07Version: 43.5.19

✓ News is newsI have had the KTVB app for many years. I stopped watching it when Dee Sarton retired. Dee’s professionalism couldn’t go unnoticed. When news about Covid-19, and other political news wouldn’t tell the truth, I had enough. When people’s opinions about President Trump became more important than telling the whole truth, I quit watching it on my tv. I’ll check out the app for any local news but I don’t watch it much..BadAssMama60Version: 44.3

✓ Only use it for notificationsNotifications from this app are good. Don’t bother opening it though, because it’s an ad-infested hot mess. Scroll bars go up and down in the middle of the articles...that simple issue on its own took over a year to fix. Want to search for an article, topic, or anything at all? Nope. Not here. It’s just a janky format overall. If I was this news channel, I would breach my contract with this dev and search for something better or make my own because this is not a good look for KTVB. Plus, that would allow me to focus on other things, such as the constant misspellings and grammatical errors in the articles. Anyone ever heard of spellcheck or Grammarly?? Good thing that Edward R. Murrow award doesn’t rely on decent grammar..Caedo12Version: 42.8.26

✓ Great content, mediocre app.App used to be better. The ads take over my screen more and more. The app likes to freeze if you click on a banner notification and try to jump from the linked article back to home. If I click out for one second, then come back it resets to top. I will keep using it anyway, but it functions worse than any other app I have or use..Zman ZVersion: 43.1.57

✓ App no longer operationalI have used this app for years with no problems. Recently every time I open the app I get a screen that says the next screen will ask my permission to personalize ads. That would be fine but the next screen never appears. I can’t access the news or give my permission for personalized ads. The app has become useless. I uninstalled it and downloaded it again but get the same results..11111111221222344Version: 43.3.17

✓ I though the app couldn’t get worse but here we areWhen KTVB switched the app over to their current news obfuscating, click-farming format, it was bad enough. Now you can’t read an article without flashing news ads bracketing the top and bottom of every paragraph of every article—it’s become unreadable. I use this mildly infuriating app 20% of the time I that used to spend on it. It’s a shame that a formally reputable valley news station has quickly turned into a bad joke without a punchline..Ratester01Version: 42.1.16

✓ Very disappointedThe old app was a bit glitchy and crashy for me and when this one came out I was excited for no more crashes or slow loading. But man am I disappointed in the app. This morning I opened it only to find that it won’t load. I can’t see the weather, articles won’t load for me, and the layout of everything is just frustrating! So KTVB do us all a favor and hire a local and professional app developer to fix this and give the community a quality WORKING app instead of hiring some tech giant that just wants your money..Swim2abbyVersion: 6.1.34

✓ Serious Issues with loadingThis app is great for news around the Panhandle State of Idaho. I put can customize the stories you’re most interested in. However, the app has had serious issues lately loading. It will work for a day and then the next it won’t load anything. It just spins and never loads, even at the highest internet speeds. Consider fixing these bugs soon..XxTitan911xxVersion: 43.5.21

✓ It’s a swing and a miss.Back to the drawing board, people. I only downloaded it because you disabled your previous app. By the way, not cool. I’m very disappointed in the replacement that you have put out. It freezes constantly and is completely unusable. I don’t have time to deal with that so I will be looking for an app from one of your competitors that will allow me to actually read LOCAL news articles. In the meantime, I really do hope you get this fix and functioning properly..Jake-Jake18Version: 6.1.34

✓ Typical local “news”I’m not a fan of the new app layout, I just want all the headlines for the day laid out in a row like the old app. Having to pick a topic to find the stories is a bit annoying. Also a little less BSU and a little more actual area news from the station in general would be welcome. We don’t all live in Boise and we don’t all care in any way what the college teams are doing (it’s hard for me to stress these two points without swearing)..Native idahoianVersion: 6.2.5

✓ 2 things would make it better1; Way too many ads. Hard to actually read any story, because the ad will change the position of the story, and you’ll have to scroll to find it. Every time. 2; Despite our local region being far more conservative than not, I’m seeing way too many liberal slant stories that have no place here. That’s the networks fault. Whomever works on the app needs to fix the format..Vampire in the HillsVersion: 43.8.21

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