WFAA - News From North Texas Negative Reviews

WFAA - News from North Texas App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

WFAA - News from North Texas app received 21 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using WFAA - News from North Texas? Can you share your negative thoughts about wfaa - news from north texas?

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✓ Not bad, but plenty of room for improvementI would’ve put a button for the favorite topics on the bottom menu bar. Also, please add topics and content for local college sports teams (SMU, TCU, UNT, etc) The main news page should load all at once, instead of as you scroll. A couple moments up front to load for a better overall experience when you’re scrolling is worth it. Also, it shouldn’t reload every time you go to the homepage after reading a story. Too many times I’m trying to scroll and it takes me to a story instead. The scrolling on the old app was much smoother..Aus10fromHous10Version: 41.1.2

✓ App no longer works after update - 0 starsThe app no longer opens after the update. I’m on a supported iPhone iOS. I’ve rebooted the phone. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app. Nothing works. It flashes and then disappears. It hangs in the background but never fully opens. Even tho u can’t see it, it gives u the option to swipe up to close it. The UNENDING ads when you’re trying to check safety during severe weather was bad enuf...but now that u can’t even open the app, I’ll just go back to The Weather Channel. I’d give it 0 stars but the App Store forces u to give it at least 1..BuckchopsVersion: 43.9.3

✓ DisappointingI have watched WFAA since 2006 when I moved to Texas. I am now switching my alliance to channel 5. Greg Fields is awesome. a true gentleman. I thoroughly enjoyed the old team and Ron Corning kept me smiling. Cara is ok. Mark is a reason I was continuing to view. Demetria was opinionated and started my reason to leave. But you have reached a new low with the new traffic lady. She took Greg to task last week on air for not saying hello to her in the morning. Today she used a double negative and “ain’t”. Hhmmm what kind of role model are you portraying? Her use of the English language is atrocious. Plus she is more opinionated than Demetria. I will continue to watch WFAA in the evening and weekends . I will also watch ABC when the morning crew is not airing. Farewell Friends!.TchaikatskyVersion: 41.4.3

✓ Shockingly worse than the old oneThis app is just fancy graphics and thats it. The old app was not great, but at least a little easier to navigate. Can we not just have a list of articles to read? Why is that hard? Obviously multiple people had to sign off on this, but do they not use apps ever? How could this get a thumbs up? Also, any business that advertises on there is wasting their money. TBH, I am far less likely to patronize a business if your trash ad pops up while I’m trying to read..FireZiaVersion: 41.1.3

✓ Absolute trashLike other comments, previous app was better. We were under tornado warning the other night. I opened the old app but they aren’t supporting it, downloaded this sack of garbage, couldn’t find live radar, couldn’t find live weather reporting, could only find clips that were between 2 and 4 hours old. On top of that they bludgeon you with ads, want to scroll to find something? You’re going to have to fight as ads pop in and jump you around on the page. Shame on you for approving this travesty and shame on the developers who put this thing together. There are scroll bars in the middle of the screen while scrolling covering what little content there is!.TrevthewebdevVersion: 42.3.15

✓ ImpeachmentI’m so tired of Congress wasting our money and the news being so one sided. I’m a registered Democrat but I don’t want impeachment, there’s more important things that need to be addressed. Chanel 8 and other news media are giving them to much tv time. This started 4 years ago when the Democrats refused to acknowledge our president. Please media step up and represent the people, send our messages out there. What the Republicans said today at the house debate needs to be played over and over again to the public. This is the way a lot of people are feeling. Don’t be a one sided station.Dem-RepVersion: 42.13.38

✓ LOLAs most business do, WFAA clearly asked people(friends and family) to give 5 stars to drown out the bad reviews! After the launch they had like 2.6 stars with a page of bad reviews and now magically they are back up and there are a barrage of glowing reviews! IF IT AIN’T BROKE DON’T FIX IT!!!! The only problem with the old app was the lack of proofreading before posting stories. But I could live with that because the stories were easy to access and sorted by topic. Also the weather radars were better than some of the actual weather apps. This new version is a jumbled mess that I will be deleting..Any not already taken?Version: 41.1.3

✓ Not Impressed!I’m used to app redesigns and getting accustomed to new features, but this new WFAA app seems to lack any sense of organization or design, and I’m just left wanting the basics I depended on back, and something easy to navigate. I went to the WFAA app for a quick glance at news and weather, but now there’s nothing quick here. It almost feels like I’ve got a loading problem, leaving an awkward looking app minus any useful formatting or design! I know I’m not the only one, when one of the first “headlines” I see is directions to use the app. That’s a big FAIL in my opinion! I’ve probably accessed this app less than a quarter as much as usual since I downloaded it. I don’t see WFAA being my top news source unless drastic improvements are made fast..Annoyed@facebookVersion: 41.1.2

✓ Good but could use tweaksI’d love it the developers added the feature to be able to pinch zoom/enlarge an article on the fly. There’s no way to do that. So if you are having trouble reading it or the images contained (such as weather maps and such) too bad. Would also love to be able to tap an image and bring it up separately where it can enlarged. As it is, the weather report articles are completely useless because you can’t at all read maps and I’m on one of the larger iPhones. I downloaded the app specifically for the weather updates but find I’d like to read non-weather related articles but without zooming it is just annoying. Developers: please add this basic functionality!!!.FififauxfunVersion: 41.6.6

✓ Even these reviews are mostly ads!There are two types of reviews in this section. There are glowing five-star reviews about how great WFAA’s on-air news program is, which is true - best in D/FW. Then there are one- and two-star reviews about how horrible this redesigned app is, which is also true. Filter out the glowing praise for the live-tv news program, and you’ll see that the consensus is that the new app is simply news text from the teleprompter interspersed every few lines with three flashy horizontally-arrayed ads for toenail fungus cures, bad restaurants - you name it, it’s there with big color graphics. At least when I’m watching the news on live tv, I can make a quick restroom trip when the commercials start running. My #1 local news source is no longer my #1 online local news source..Lmundy1Version: 41.1.3

✓ Don’t like the new appSo how can I get the old app back? Way too much flash, less emphasis on content. Radars are slower and harder to navigate. Content previews are not as good. Going to give NBC and CBS apps a try for local news. I don’t need a 5 second animated motion graphic when I open it telling me good afternoon. When I read an article and go back, it loses my place and takes me back to the top. I have a hard time finding anything but the top 5 headlines. I’m moving on to a different news outlet. Will check back in a few months and see if this one has reverted. Money well spent WFAA........Single Deck 21Version: 41.1.3

✓ App reviewWhile I enjoy being able to see news stories, I use the app mainly for weather. I occasionally will eat a “live” or breaking news video to come up to date on the topic. My main complaint is that on these “live” breaking news stories, the videos always play an add before the live feed story starts, resulting in missing key information to the reason for streaming a live news video. This defeats the purpose of the breaking news update. This also happens with the live weather videos so a portion of the live steam is pre-emotes by the ads and you miss the information. Adds are okay on a pre-recorded video but not on a live video. Very frustrating and, again, counterproductive..Tx1064Version: 44.3

✓ Challenging appThe new app is not user friendly. Now I just avoid using it. Traffic reports aren’t easily accessible, so many pop-up ads and videos that it’s hard to read the story, can’t scroll left/right and must use the back arrow (hard to reach on larger phones. The menu at the bottom is not comprehensive. You have to click home and then scroll down to find the category you want. The only accessible category on the menu is weather. I expect much better from a main station in a market the size of DFW. Honestly, the old app was better, and the old WeatherCaster app was stellar..BecksladeVersion: 41.5.12

✓ Previous version betterThis new version of WFAA is harder to use. I have deleted the old version & downloaded the new version but it keeps popping up crap asking me to download the new version. There is an apparent flaw in your new version. I downloaded the old version when I got my phone earlier this year & no problems nor did it keep asking me to download it over & over. It knew I had already done that. Your new version apparently doesn’t recognize that I have downloaded it. I have followed(watched) WFAA since moving to Dallas area around 1973. I wish I had not downloaded the new app. I should have waited till y’all got the kinks out (like Apple’s iOS 13. I am waiting a while till Apple gets all the bugs & kinks out before I update to that messed up mess). I wish I had waited before I downloaded WFAA’s new app & read reviews on it first. Between 1 & 10, I gave the old version a 10. I give the new version a score of 2. I don’t like the new version. ☹️.Texas summer girlVersion: 42.4.12

✓ New app- new crapCongratulations for creating an app with the news squeezed in between the ads. Instead of a clear-to-follow home page, one can now scroll endlessly. I use the radar a lot,and this feels like a step backwards. Doesn’t seem to let me flip screen horizontally for better map, and some screens have so much garbage on the screen, the radar is covered. You must have tested this on 3 year olds who are happy to continually scroll through colorful images. Not an improvement. Way to go. On the search for radar that serves as more than an ad opportunity. Sad day..NativeBigDVersion: 41.1.2

✓ Old version was so much betterI haven’t had any problems with this app until recently it’s very glitchy and I hate how you can’t see the ten day or seven day forecast with a somewhat detailed description of what the weather is going to be. Every time I open the app it has some type of glitch and I really have come to strongly dislike it im very disappointed and would love for it to be fixed. Glitches include half the screen not showing up, the weather part not updating, and the video forecast that always plays the intro about five times before it actually works..3457575758Version: 42.5.36

✓ New Version is WorthlessI used to access this app every day for news and weather. The new update makes it essentially worthless. Hardly look at it at all now. Trying to scroll through stories only to have the UI drop you back on part of the page you have already scrolled through just to make sure you saw the advertisement that had not rendered yet is not my idea of great. I just tried to pull up the weather and it just spins. Never had these issues with the older version. I have no problem with change, unless it breaks something that works just fine..SugarsdaddyVersion: 41.4.3

✓ Unnecessary alerts frequentlyI liked the app at first. I only subscribed to get alerts for Local News, Breaking News, Emergency Weather Alerts, News on The Star and The Texas Rangers. Recently (since COVID started) I’ve been getting 3-4 notifications a day on fluff pieces that aren’t News and not what I subscribed to. In turned off alerts for everything but breaking emergency news and emergency weather reports and I still receive several notifications a day on junk like politics and fluff pieces I intentionally turned off the alerts too. I’m very disappointed how annoying this app got..NovaSHMCVersion: 42.5.36

✓ Unwanted NotificationsI had this problem before with a previous version, looks like this issue is back (don’t know how long it’s been back). Problem - I’m getting notifications about stuff I don’t care about. My notifications setting are set to only notify me about severe weather, so explain why I’m getting notified about “a great place to have a wedding at.” I’m real close to deleting the app, the issue is you guys are excellent about weather updates... Get this fixed then place create an app for the Apple TV.VmiyoshiVersion: 42.10.17

✓ Notifications need workI have unchecked all news notifications. I only want weather alerts. Unfortunately, I still consistently get other alerts no matter what, Cowboys win (don’t care), some crime or whatever report (again, don't care). Don’t give me an option to opt out of those alerts if you’re not going to actually silence those alerts. If this continues, I will just delete the app or shut off all notifications..CheruBenVersion: 44.3

✓ All about the addsBad weather “Get the channel 8 App and stay tuned”. To what? All of the adds that interrupt every story and anytime you try to get to radar? Don’t get me wrong, I love the Staff, reporters , anchors, and even Pete Delkus! There are way better outlets like dark sky that show you what is about to tear your barn up instead the latest ad Tenga is trying to force yo to watch before the tornado. The web site’s not much better. However, I love the news cast!!! Leave apps and websites to those of us who have been doing them since is was in the basement at UTD!.PickjmVersion: 43.9.7

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