KING 5 News For Seattle/Tacoma Negative Reviews

KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma app received 22 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma? Can you share your negative thoughts about king 5 news for seattle/tacoma?

KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma for Negative User Reviews

✓ National newsNational news on this app is 90% sports and most of the time they miss important news stories? The sports on this app has 6 stories why there is room for a lot of other sports stories not only Local but KIRO news lets the National news fall to the way side not important at all!! KIRO News app should change KIRO sports app ? They fail on news.DfafefVersion: 45.20.1

✓ Misleading notificationsThis app sends so many notifications a day and it presents ads for things like phone protection app as news. When selecting a story from the headline in the notification I often can’t find the story of interest. Headlines are written to be alarming or scary but that is like everywhere now. I miss the days where facts were presented and news was news - not unconfirmed rumor..DbinbsVersion: 43.6.36

✓ Too many ads and crashesEvery time I try to full screen the video the app crashes! So then I relaunch it and do again only to have to watch the 30 sec ad over again! Which brings up the next question: How many ad placements do you need?? There’s an ad bar on the top and bottom of the news list and story. In addition you have to watch an 30 sec ad every time you start a video! Come on let’s focus on customer experience vs making $$$. Won’t be using it until they improve..HangGLIDERVersion: 41.6.6

✓ Not user friendlyThe feed is too short. When I go to the topics I want read and finish them, the app forces me back to the top of the home page and I have go back to the middle and scroll through the topics again. The pictures are TOO large and make you scroll MORE to get to an article you want to read. In short-too much scrolling and not enough content. It’s as if they are over compensating. Continues to crash on a daily basis. Also miss the old Traffic app, it had camera views and this new version does not..Hold me backVersion: 41.4.3

✓ Rough, glitchy, inefficient, not accessibleOrganization is inefficient for optimal reading. Why can I just have a flat scrolling list of articles with icons/videos next to them? Other news apps do this well, and the old King5 app did it too. Enough with trying to invent some new hip way to navigated articles, stick with what works. The app is unresponsive while new content is loading. Scrolling stutters, app is unresponsive for first ~20 seconds. Lots of overlapping text when using a larger text size on my iPhone. The developers clearly didn’t even test in this scenario. Bummed I don’t get the live video previews next to each article that were in the last version. Liked those. Ads at the top of the screen cause the content to dynamically resize right in the middle of reading. Going to stick with last version until these issues are cleaned up. This version is beta-quality..Rat CatVersion: 6.1.37

✓ Bloated with adsLoved the last generation of the King 5 app. This one crashes 35-50% of the time likely because almost every story has a video associated with it and seems to slow down the story loading. Also every stories video has a 30 second ad! Come on King 5 (broadcast company X) how greedy do you need to be? You’re on-air personalities don't really contribute that much to society as they feel they do. They just speak and read a teleprompter, not actually fight the fires or help clear an accident scene. Get over yourselves. An app should be a quick and EASY, convenient option from a website. Most of the time this app isn't..OlcroweVersion: 6.2.5

✓ Graphics are nice, and it runs, but......I can’t access a feed of articles like the old app. I used to scroll through the top stories, then on to nation/world. Now I get a few local stories and, after scrolling down past several ads and oddly highlighted sections, I finally can ‘view more’ nation/world articles. Except, I can’t really, because it loads the entire story and then follows with an unrelated article from several months past!! Please integrate with old app’s functionality! I’ll have to go with one of the other local stations for now..SagerchatterVersion: 6.1.37

✓ Poor experienceThis “new” app lacks native iOS features. First, the font size is permanently too small for the list of news. It doesn’t support your desired font size on device. So be prepared to squint. Scrolling has stutters even on a fast modern iPhone. The app doesn’t always understand its on a mobile device, as it cuts off its own app messages such as after you favorite some topics. There’s also so much junk in the weather tab that it’s pointless to try to use it to quickly see any real weather info. Also, switching from weather tab to home tab can put me into an progress spinner blank screen that can take a full minute or more to resolve (even while on a fast wifi network). It shows there’s little to no local caching of news stories. Most of the app feels like just a web browser - and worse than that as the app likes to clear and re-present the page a lot, causing flashy behavior. The ads often appear well after the story appears, causing further flash and annoyance. In sum, avoid this headache of an app until they rewrite it yet again someday..Smart catVersion: 6.2.5

✓ Too Many AdsThis app used to be amazing and one of the only ways I got my news on my phone. Unfortunately after many updates they changed their interface and incorporated many many ads on their new platform. You can’t scroll through the app without seeing some disgusting ad about earwax or something similar. I hate trying to read a story and seeing a giant piece of earwax scroll by. I will be deleting this app..JonKillinVersion: 42.3.15

✓ I refuse to use this app anymoreI find it annoying to have to scroll back to where i was every time I get done reading an article. When I tap to read the full story from the selection of all other articles and once I’m done reading, it always takes me back to the first news article causing me to have to scroll through it again to find where I left off. This is my 4th time using this app, forgetting the reason why I stopped using it, annoyed me enough to write a review about it. Hopefully it will get fixed..Ok we'll seeVersion: 41.6.6

✓ What happened?!All I want to do is read the day’s or recent news like on the website or the old app. Poor usability means it forces you to scroll through the same 4 articles that are bordered by useless buttons and ads. Scrolling is slow. I can’t easily do a search for a recent article. Hunting around for an article even 3 days before is difficult. The graphics are better, but that’s about it..Kitty540Version: 6.2.5

✓ Use it daily but needs improvementGood for weather and news. Search function is lacking... quite often I’ll get a notification about a news story and then be unable to find it using search within the app. Opening the story directly from the notification will direct you to it, but search often won’t find the same story..ReaditandmeepVersion: 42.13.38

✓ Reliable News but Unusable AppGreat news by the King 5 news team. The news is timely and accurate. However, the app is glitchy due to the high number of ads served as you read. You will reading an article and it will shift the words on the screen as ads start appearing. Ideally, ads should display and not affect the end users ability to read or watch the news. Cant rate higher without a solution..WappawVersion: 43.1.57

✓ Ads for all!I get they make their money from ads but god dang man. There is ads then the monstrosity of this app. It’s more pushy and in your face than those annoying guys who try to sell you their janky tap CDs outside of conventions. I feel like if the app could reach out and grab us, it would just slam our face into the screen and show us hours of stupid ads as we beg for help..AnthlenvVersion: 43.9.3

✓ Problems plus murder adsThis app will test your patience and civility. First, the stream randomly breaks. Often. Even in good coverage areas where other streaming video does not. Being video, the screen must be opened and unlocked to continue listening. Fine, not their fault. But this leaves it susceptible to any and every unintentional button press on a screen chock full of links. Didn’t mean to leave the live stream? Fine, you can now sit through a minute of extra, bonus commercials just for doing something modern, like streaming, before you can rejoin the actual broadcast. Also for your trouble of streaming, you will get DOUBLE commercials of creepy ads for the murder network, including bloody hands running a chainsaw, and a psychotic, garrote-snapping villain, EVERY 5 MINUTES! It at least does encourage most of us to turn it off due to all these, unless this stuff is your kink..WaSalmonVersion: 43.9.3

✓ Great app suffocating under all those adsKing5 is a great source of all news, especially good for local news, weather and traffic. Unfortunately you can be really interested in their content but won’t be able to get through their layers and layers of ads that attempt to play at the beginning of videos and often glitch and eventually block you from watching the content they produce. Honestly surprised that I could not watch a single piece of content today since everything was blocked with broken ad content.NWBobStuVersion: 42.10.17

✓ Terrible video experienceI like the local news content, it’s relevant to my area. The news oftentimes lack simple news basics though, like e.g. showing a map with location or town of a reported event. The video experience is generally bad. The ads are very repetitive which is a downer by itself, and sometimes an ad (again, usually the same one) plays again just upon trying to rotate and enlarge a video, which is a standard task on a phone. Both rotation and enlarging are also manual, it should be automatic (turning the device sideways should instantly rotate and enlarge the video, that is standard everywhere else). At the end of a video I’ve often experienced an unwanted repeat of the ad already seen a minute ago, followed by playing the next news video I never wanted to see..ApfelmaennchenVersion: 42.2.11

✓ CrashesThis new app is constantly crashing. I never used to have to open it and wait to scroll or look at something. Now I have to open it and wait because if all the ads don’t load and you start to scroll it will crash. Even when I think it’s ok, I click on something sometimes while half way done reading a story it crashes. Absolute junk I want the old app back. This one may be pretty and layers out nicer, but it’s just not stable..J Tuttle ArtVersion: 41.4.3

✓ So much potential…The smart TV in my Airbnb has few local news options so I installed the app. It was fine for 2 days but since then I’ve only seen the the “circling ball of death” for most of the day. The options to see video clips from earlier has disappeared as well. I have deleted and uninstalled already so may have to try another channel..2Dum4meeVersion: 43.8.21

✓ Posting news WAY later than mostThis app is literally the last local news source to post breaking news. I’ve been a King5 supporter and follower for decades but have been feeling so let down by the lack of information and speed. I understand the need to verify sources etc, but there is no excuse when I hear from many, many other outlets about news that matters to my family. Stories posted to the app also seem to not be refreshed very often and I’ve been looking at new sources to get addition information. The last straw was the very slow reporting and lack of information given about the schools closing due to the Coronavirus. Goodbye King5.Dissappointedinkirkla sVersion: 42.3.15

✓ Adding Steps...backwardNot sure why they would take a nice app with a solid, user friendly interface and replace (not upgrade) with a worse app and interface. Now you have multiple steps to see topics, must hit a small pull down on the left (vs all being large butttons etc). Used to be “news at your fingertips” and easy to navigate, now it feels like I’m going to a website that isn’t optimized for mobile. Might have to go to another news station here in Seattle, this is terrible. Hoping this isn’t a TEGNA standard and they ditch it. Anyone on here giving this thing 5 stars never used the past app..Wil162726Version: 6.1.37

✓ Please go back!The previous set-up was so much easier to navigate. I could easily find the stories I wanted to read and there was more variety related to local, national, and world news. Now it seems I can only see a few hand-picked stories or it takes me forever to find a story. It seems like you have removed content and clarity to make it look prettier. For example, you used to have a section for sports, with then access to the individual sport categories—NFL, MLB, etc. now it’s gone and I can see maybe 2 sport stories. Can’t access any high school sport scores—or at least can’t find them. I would like to go back to using this app for news, but I guess I will try to find a better one..CrackaBookVersion: 41.4.3

KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or contact KING 5 News for Seattle/Tacoma.