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KATU News Mobile App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
KATU News Mobile app received 35 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using KATU News Mobile? Can you share your negative thoughts about katu news mobile?
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KATU News Mobile for Negative User Reviews
✓ Unusable appAdds keep opening constantly when trying to read a news article. Can't even get past first article as adds overtake app. In the years I have loved KATU, their IT team shows little to no regard to fixing this piece of garbage app. Why do I keep using it?.Version: 6.11.6
✓ I don't know how to read weather in SpanishNew app format and layout is nicer than old one for sure, but verbose weather forecast is in Spanish, which makes it not very user friendly..Version: 7.0.0
✓ WORST APP FOR PORTLAND AREA!!What used to be a great app and my personal favorite now sadly isn't even worth the download as it's the worst app I'd say now out of all the Portland news stations. No landscape when it sort of worked. I deleted it then thought I give it another try but It just keeps telling me to touch here, touch the heart, swipe right to add content and doesn't do anything. I've tried multiple times it's just not worth it. I'm going back to other Portland news apps which are much better designed and easier to get around in. Whoever designed this did not make it user friendly at all ..Version: 6.7.0
✓ Update app and websiteThis app was almost as bad as watching the news online. If my phone moved the slightest, the entire story starts again. And with all the commercials, you would think they could afford to fix these issues..Version: 7.34.0
✓ A step backwardThe new version of the app is a step backwards in both speed and ease of use. There are more graphics which translates to less information on the screen and more scrolling. It also lags a lot more than the older version and frequently freezes for a few seconds There are also more ads injected in between the stories which while expected is still annoying. The app is a necessary evil if one wishes to read the katu version of the news..Version: 3.0.3
✓ Sheesh.You would hope a large ABC affiliate would know basic spelling at least… I’ve seen too many typos on this app to care anymore. It always seems like the app is managed by an unsupervised intern who wishes they worked for Vice or Buzzfeed..Version: 8.6.3
✓ Really poor updateThe biggest defect is that it often shows you tutorial screens with no obvious way to get out of them and into the news articles. Please fix this ASAP. For some reason they refuse to fix this, a real pity, I really hate them. Fix your lousy app. I see that you Aholes have not fixed the app yet, do you test it on the ipad?.Version: 6.11.6
✓ Added Bugs, AGAIN!!!This is an update to a review posted more than a year ago... Why, oh why do companies rely on outsiders who do not test what they create, and then promote it as having “big fixes?” This app now acts like an iPhone app only displaying on my iPad Air in portrait mode, and runs noticeably slower. Repost the previous version under anew rev number so we can “update” to the previous working version. It is also to be noted that rather than showing local news items as it did several years ago, the KATU new app now is mostly generic national news. USELESS!.Version: 6.8.0
✓ The last update did broke this app!The update made this app so using it will not go past the white logo page. Unless you use wi-fi connection . At this point you might as well use your tv to watch the news or video. The whole point to have this app on your mobile devices is to have on the go and your Wi-Fi doesn’t follow you everywhere you go..Version: 8.5.1
✓ Totally uselessQuite some time ago, the Katu app worked ok and provided info in a reasonable format. Unfortunately a number of months ago the format was changed and this app has become painful to use. The way the information is presented, the options to scroll and sort through, all of it has been really frustrating to the point that I have now deleted the app and loaded a competitors app that seems much more user friendly..Version: 6.7.0
✓ Takes you to App Store and won't let you use appAs soon as you open the app you get stuck in a continue loop of being routed to the App Store nonstop for various apps. As soon as you click to go back to the KATU app it routes you back to the App Store for a different app. Useless!! 😡.Version: 6.11.6
✓ Difficult Newsfeed pageI’m disappointed in the updated main Newsfeed page. Rather than headlines, it shows a large photo with its headline, so I have to scroll down and down and down through all photos/headlines. While the Local selection, for example, is easy to use and I’m able to select what story I want to read, I don’t see a way to select that format for the main Newsfeed page. I’d like to see headlines for local/nation/world available on the main page rather than large photos..Version: 7.2.0
✓ A disaster!Text appears vertical instead of normally horizontal. Makes reading impossible. I guess this is a bug that needs to be fixed ASAP if you do not want to be flooded with negative feedback. Luckily I had not deleted my old Katu news app, so for now I will keep using that one until this new app is fixed. I can not believe that with a bug like that it gets through Apple's review..Version: 1.2.0
✓ Terrible!I'm giving it one star because zero stars is not a choice. After having the Katu app for years, I'm deleting it because this version is that bad. Slow to load, too many graphics, difficult to navigate. They ruined a good thing. :(.Version: 3.0.3
✓ Hire a professionalDid you use interns or a co-worker's high school kid to develop the update to this app? You are supposed to be a news organization - do some research on usability before dumping this garbage on your audience. You are better than this, and we deserve better from you..Version: 3.0.3
✓ Used to like app- deleting itI really liked this app before the change. Weather halfway comes up- the weather part is harder to navigate. Too much news feed with no organization to it. Not worth space on my phone..Version: 3.0.3
✓ Sinclair Broadcasting = Trump TVSinclair is Trump TV. If that’s what your into, then this is the place for you. BTW... You don’t have to worry about “Fake News” on Sinclair Stations, as they pride themselves on being the only local news stations that can navigate you through the fake news waters..Version: 7.3.0
✓ Alert issuesAlerts are nice but clicking on them takes you to their main page where it is difficult if not impossible in some cases to find the associated article. KGW app is better..Version: 6.12.0
✓ Won’t open!Crashes immediately when trying to open & is, therefore, useless!.Version: 8.5.1
✓ This App Does Not Work on IPadsWhen I open this app on my iPad - it defaults to the first time use instructions. When I swipe through the six pages of instructions - I do not get the "list icon" to display so I can use the app. The app also will only display in portrait mode and will not resize into landscape mode when I turn my iPad..Version: 6.11.6
✓ New version useless now on iPadWhere did support for landscape mode go? I just installed another update and still no landscape support. Never use it at all now. Impossible to use with constant moving of the articles around ads..Version: 6.12.0
✓ HorribleThis app used to somewhat workable. Now as you scroll, the articles jump all around as they try and stick ads in between every 5-6 articles. Just so frustrating, scrolling back and forth to find the article you just saw and wanted to read..Version: 6.12.0
✓ Is there a way to give ZERO stars?This is one of the most useless TVcontent apps that I’ve ever encountered..Version: 8.5.1
✓ KATU NEWS MOBILEThis app has not worked for months on my Ipad3. Have tried to load the updates but nothing is working, with the exception of the instruction pages, which can only be swiped to read. It used to work quite well. My husband has the New IPad and his KATU APP stopped working after he loaded your update time before last..Version: 6.7.0
✓ New version has issuesEver since the new version app has been crashing every time I open up a story. I liked old version better. It was user friendly and easy to get to other news stories.Version: 1.5.0
✓ Completely worthlessAutomatically redirects to App Store for games and other paid apps when you click on a news story. This app will show you the day's headlines, but you can't ready any of the stories. Try the KGW app for your Portland news..Version: 6.11.6
✓ You are fake newsThis app is junk. There is a lot of inconsistency in the content shown in the main feed. Articles with different publication dates are mixed up, old mixed with new. The videos don't work properly, and the layout hasn't been updated for iPhone 6 and up (that came out in 2014). The quality of content is going down the crapper too..Version: 6.12.0
✓ Latest Update Broke the AppThe most recent update last week broke the app. It no longer loads past the white logo screen..Version: 8.4.2
✓ Bad versionI had dumped the previous version because it didn't work. Thought maybe they'd fixed it. Seems not as I can't get out of the tutorial screen to see actual stories. I'll try again later..Version: 6.11.6
✓ Useless appI have the same issue as other reviewers. Starting this app almost immediately takes you to the App Store to download some game being advertised on the news app. Nothing you do gets you out of the loop and you can't even read any of the news articles. I will be going elsewhere for my news. Bad job KATU. Great way to lose your customer base.Version: 6.11.6
✓ FrustratingWhen I open the app there is a “commercial advertisement” that takes over whatever I am trying to link to and just keeps looping and no matter how many times I click it to make it disappear it reactivates and starts looping again. I can’t get to any stories..Version: 7.12.0
✓ Bad format, last update made it worseI don't use the app much lately. The format isn't very good on mobile and lately I try to read an article but as I scroll down only ads are there. Chunks where maybe an article would be are just black rectangles with no text in them..Version: 7.27.0
✓ Great until a few weeks agoThis app was a great app for local and world news until a few weeks ago when they simply stopped updating the content in almost all of the categories. Now I will have to get my news elsewhere..Version: 1.12.0
✓ Update disabled access to view news feedAfter latest update I accidentally touched something while trying to use first time & I can no longer see any news feeds. I've use this app for several years to read the news, at least I used to. Hate latest update, might as well delete as it no longer allows me to view news feed..Version: 6.3.0
✓ Bad updateAfter the most recent update I can’t open the weather forecast, it just crashes the app..Version: 7.30.0
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