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NewsFlash™ App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Video articles not available.No matter which articke you go into, the links for video articles you try to enter on are dead and lead you no where..Version: 3.2
✓ Security riskApplication unnecessarily reads clipboard on start.Version: 4.5
✓ Very Straight ForwardAh yes a very straight forward news app that in it simplicity lulls the reader into thinking this is all very unbiased. Nothing could be further from the truth, most stories come direct from the NYT, New York Times..Version: 4.3
✓ MehThere are better apps for news..Version: 3.5
✓ Ever since iOS8 updates app crashes when trying to shareCan't share on social media. Useless to me until then. Loved it previously and paid to remove the ads but now it just crashes every time I try to share an article..Version: 3.4
✓ Lose place after leaving and re-entering appSo your app is awesome in terms of simple design and usability! My beef with you guys is that when I leave your app my place is lost and I'm brought back to the main feed. As you can imagine this is quite annoying after going deep into a category and then having to go find it again. I want to promote you to my iPhone wielding friends. Can you let me know on twitter (@Chris_NWA) about the road map to fix this? Thanks.Version: 1.3
✓ Great Breaking News replacement, but needs a way to prevent spoilersThis is a great replacement for Breaking News, but there’s no way to filter for spoilers (sports, entertainment, etc). 5 stars if they sort this out..Version: 4.3
✓ Okay, but needs improvementGenerally a good app for reading news RSS feeds. Great that you can add your own RSS feeds. However, it is a real pain that you can't delete the feeds that come preloaded. You can go through them in settings and turn them off, but it would be better if you could completely delete them the same way you can delete feeds you add yourself. Ability to add or rename categories would also be good..Version: 2.2
✓ Internet problemsOne of the best news apps I've found- but if I switch from 3G to wifi, all of the sections show up blank, when previously there were hundreds of stories at my fingertips!.Version: 3.2
✓ Excellent on initial face value, but too many glitchesThe interface and workings of the app are, on the face of it, very comprehensive and user friendly. However it crashes far too often and takes far too long to load up pages. Ultimately frustrating.Version: 3.1
✓ Spyware?The App keeps pasting the contents of your clipboard without you giving them permission to do so. This means if you copied something to your clipboard to use in another application, and then opened NewsFlash, a warning will come on screen telling you it pasted those contents to NewsFlash. This seems dangerous..Version: 4.5
✓ Bizarre lack of notificationsHow can you call yourself "flash" when you don't have a notifications function?.Version: 2.1
✓ Needs workWhat if I only what the top 3 articles from a feed? It would be nice to be able to pick how many articles you want from each feed. How about adding my own sections? For instance, I want one called Economics. Adding feeds is a major chore. Also when I read an article, I want to use safari's reader or something as good as that. Also, how about some offline casheing of articles. Keep working on it. With those features I'd pay $10..Version: 1.3
✓ NO PUSH NOTIFICATIONS?Why not? Push notifications will differentiate this app above all similar apps like News360, Feedly. It will replace my Breaking News app by Vijay Anand..Version: 4.1
✓ DONEAfter being a loyal user of this app for over FIVE years I’m officially deleting it. The developers pulled one of the lowest, most disgusting moves I think I’ve ever seen in. You may no longer manipulate videos (pause, FF, RW, see length) because they’ve so gracefully placed a mini rectangular unremovable ad box across the bottom of the screen. It’s beyond annoying and the only way to remove it is to dish out money for news you can literally get for free anywhere else, with just a click. To the developers: You guys are the literal definition of dirtbags. Enjoy your downfall..Version: 4.3
✓ Extremely frustrating.I only need a few local news feeds, it is frustrating in the extreme to have to hide each one individually. It took 30 minutes to turn off all the U.S. feeds and there is no obvious way to do it simply, by having a switch for each country. Now uninstalled, but I will keep an eye open for new versions..Version: 4.4
✓ Newsflash. Too unstable.I was very pleased with this app initially however after a short while it became quite unstable. I have tried to be patient however I now find it very frustrating because it regularly fails. It has become far too unstable for me to bother with..Version: 3.1
✓ IrritatingIf you don't have an active sub with the news sources then don't bother. You can pick through and deselect the Oz etc but you can't just say no to a source once. You have to search through whole list etc. stick with Google. Rob.Version: 2.0
✓ Stop it crashing so much.... please!It's a great app but so unreliable I have to use an alternative. It crashes on my two phones and both my iPads regularly, can't be just me? Really hoping it gets resolved soon..Version: 3.1
✓ MailGood app but way too heavy on contributions from the Daily Mail, which isn't really my bag. There must be a way to block certain news providers, but I couldn't figure out how..Version: 2.2
✓ Could be so much betterThis is a 5-star App ruined by its awful Mail Online bias (esp in News); even worse during UK 2015 Election run-up. Why do it? Who do they think they are fooling? Or is run by a rival!.Version: 3.5
✓ Crashes far to muchThis is a good looking app that does a great job, but it crashes every time I use it. I have used for several months waiting for a bug fix but none has come along to address the fundamental problems in the software. I am on the verge of deleting it. I cannot recommend it as it is frustrating to use and poorly maintained by the creator..Version: 3.1
✓ Best app -- but...Great app, easily a 5, but frequently crashes, some on UPI and often on NBC articles. I'm running the latest OS for IPad. The crashes are annoying because after restart, I have to search for the article I was on from the top of the list. Fix this and you'll be back on top where no other app can touch you..Version: 3.1
✓ No push notificationsI like the app but.... why on earth are there no push notifications?? Please let us customize push notifications from custom sources and I'll happily pay for it..Version: 4.1
✓ Always crashingWas a good news app until it started loading subscription only articles and crashing midway through reading what little articles I could find to read..Version: 3.1
✓ Broken versionThe latest update appears to have broken the app. Articles update but when you tap on them they go nowhere. Only tapping on the safari icon lets you access the article. But you're going out of the app to do so..Version: 4.1
✓ Constant CrashesFinally removed this from my iPad due to constant crashes. Now it won't even load!.Version: 3.5
✓ Not balancedDoesn't seem to have a good representation of different news sources. Getting tired of seeing a lot of posts by the extremely biased Huffington Post..Version: 3.6
✓ Paywall articlesA good app, but very irritating because it persists in showing paywalled articles from sites such as Winnipeg Free Press, which you can't read unless you pay for them..Version: 3.5
✓ Crashing timeIt was a good news app. Adaptable and quick. I had it on my iPad and iPhone. I've deleted it from both now as the app won't open, and just crashes. Hard to find a good UK news app too. Guess the search goes on..Version: 3.6
✓ One star till photos and videos workGreat news app if videos and photos worked. This app does not play videos or show the photos in photo tab. It has been this way for some time and I get the impression the developer does not seem to care about correcting it. 5 stars if it gets corrected..Version: 3.6
✓ Too much American news for UKProne to crashing in my experience. On the face of it, this is an up-to-the-minute news app that updates with all the latest headlines including the first sentence to give you an idea of the item. Click on the headline and you go straight to the source's full story. A great way to keep in touch with what's happening in the world when away from the infernal TV- after all, how on earth did we manage when we had to make do with a mere two half-hour bulletins in the evenings? Unfortunately, there's way too much news from America for my liking. The options of choosing which news feeds are shown is a long and convoluted affair, and despite my attempts to whittle away the US feeds, it still seems to want to tell me all about current trials in America and the woes of Martha Stewart! Will most probably give up on this one and try another- I'm fickle like that! Update 2 weeks after the review above- crashes every time I open a news feed. Deleting in exasperation!.Version: 3.1
✓ Bad updateSince recent update have not been able to open a once good app.Version: 4.2
✓ NewsFlash = NewsCrashWas a good app initially, providing an interesting summary of news items from a variety of sources. Now though, it's just too frustrating to use. Many of the summary items provide no detail as when clicked on they reveal their source is a subscription-only service... But, more significantly, the service now crashes constantly... Just not worth using anymore....Version: 3.1
✓ DisappointedI once, keenly used this app but it has sold out to subscription news providers. If you don’t pay a subscription you don’t get the news. Mark.Version: 4.4
✓ This app no longer worksSince 9 June 2021, any news story you open flashes up briefly on screen and is then replaced by message ‘a problem repeatedly occurred with page...[page link]’..Version: 4.5
✓ RidiculousThe app works very well. Loads of headlines and stories. Problem: I'm in Canada and the "local news" (ie not global) is set to the UK. I've turned off every British news feed and enabled every Canadian one. No dice. Pity, but I've tried for a week and will be uninstalling..Version: 3.1
✓ Privacy nightmareThis app copies data from your clipboard every time you open the app. Developer refuses to stop harvesting personal data..Version: 4.5
✓ Titles missplacedOften click headlines only to find the body of the article belongs to another unrelated headline. Headlines lead to nonexistent articles. Your editing leaves a lot to be desired..Version: 4.3
✓ It doesn't work very wellSites like the DM appear and when a person clicks on the story it constantly reloads the page?!.......so it is impossible to read ! there is no way to report errors apart from here in the review so it doesn't improve infuriating uninstalling.Version: 4.1
✓ Flash is the right word!As a news app this one is a disaster! Only virulent ‘left wing’ papers run with next to no reloads, all the rest just reload and reload ad nauseam - always have and, it seems, always will! Is there no one on your developers team with the computor skill to correct this?.Version: 4.5
✓ Works well for the most partAs far as newsreaders go this one works well but i have run into two issues. One, you pretty much have to disable safari reader mode otherwise you're attempting multiple times to load a news article before it loads completely and even then some content is being stripped. Second, the functionality of removing feed sources doesnt seem to work all the time. I can't remove national post it seems. I use this feature to remove those irrritating sources that only allow x numbers of views before creating an account etc..Version: 4.1
✓ Please FIX constant crashing!This use to be my fav go to news app; now, it just drives me mad enuf to delete it. Long time—no fix..Version: 4.1
✓ PoorGet half way into an article to be told to read the rest you have to subscribe to provider if you can't put the full news page on without being asked for money don't put it on il stick to google news much better, indirect way of putting in app purchases RIP OFF !!!!.Version: 2.1
✓ AthunusiaIt disappoints me that there is so many reports on sport! Not everyone is interested. I would much rather a special section for sport like the Science area or Lifestyle. That way it doesn't interfere with important news updates but does offer sport lovers their own category. Other wise this app is a good way to check general news..Version: 3.6
✓ Not what I was looking forGreat if you favour the Daily Mail and co, not so great if you don't..Version: 4.1
✓ UNSTABLEYou need to fix this FAST. Since OS update 13.1.2 this app has become almost unusable..... flickers..... jumps ..... more than a week later STILL unstable !!.Version: 4.4
✓ Too many teasersFlooded recently with subscriber only article news sources..Version: 4.3
✓ New futuresI wasn't able to watch videos!! It needs a 'read articles' future. Sources just clutter the app as i can find 5 articles from different sources all talking about the same. Great interface but find my self overlooking the same things..Version: 1.3
✓ Adds....This was a great app that I used all the time but adds started to pop up that were way to annoying to use. Huge.....Don't bother with it..Version: 3.1
✓ No good for iPad1Slow to load news stories, and using any link to a provider's site causes the app to crash. Also, some providers only allow 20 articles to be accessed, and then no longer work. Overall good news coverage, but irritating..Version: 2.2
✓ DeletedIt used to work okay but the last two upgrades seem to have broken it on my iPhone (ios 9.3.) The app cycles back and forth between reader view and web view - spending 1/2 the time on a blank white screen while it reloads, every 15 seconds or so, back and forth in a loop. Impossible to read and frustrating. It used to be great, but now it's GONE!.Version: 4.2
✓ Crashes upon openingHasn't been updated for almost a year..Version: 3.5
✓ MehThere are better out there. There is a specific news feed I don't care for and I don't like that I had to go into each of the categories (top news, sports, health, etc) to manually turn off that specific feed just to continue finding it on the homepage. Maybe a bug that needs to be fixed. Other than that, it's just an average news app. I do like the grouping which gave it the second star on my rating..Version: 2.2
✓ Not too badHalf decent news app, although the swipe action to switch countries doesn't work well which is very irritating. iPad app has a tendency to crash when attempting to forward a news link to someone..Version: 3.4
✓ OK but...Quite a good app, but I wish they didn't waste time linking to news sites that give you one sentence and expect you to log in. We'll just get the story elsewhere assuming it's worth reading. Get used to it newspapers - your reign is over - we are not paying any more..Version: 2.2
✓ Uk news problemWhen clicking on uk news it works for about two seconds then reverts back to the main page again. Otherwise this app has potential..Version: 3.1
✓ Fix the bug and your on a winner..!Overall this news gathering app is an excellent idea and it's easy of use, how ever there is a fly-in-the-ointment with the current version... It crashes with frustratingly regularity when one opens a news item and then crashes soon after reverting to its icon app of the screen. There's obviously a serious bug - fix this bug (urgently) and you'll win both the current buyers/users and pending new buyers on you app and win many new sales and accolades, it is a brilliant idea. River Aqvile.Version: 3.1
✓ App is great...kindaI love this app to quickly catch up on canadian news and major headlines worldwide. However, I'm really disappointed that a lot of the stories are from the Sun newspapers and after you've read ten stories, you get cut off and you have to buy access to more. I read ten sun stories in a day sometimes, and the him forced to look elsewhere for the story..Version: 3.2
✓ E-Mail link not workingJust got this app and I like it but when I try to forward an article using email there is no send button and then the DONE BUTTON DOES NOT WORK. I end up locked on the email page and have to reboot my iPad to get back. Please fix !.Version: 4.1
✓ Was greatLike the others I too think this is/was a great news app, until last release, now crashes whilst reading most articles. Get that little bug fixed and we are all happy again!.Version: 3.1
✓ Good reader, with bugsI'd be much more pleased with it if it didn't crash almost every time I used it.Version: 3.5
✓ Old news from CBS is dumped into feedAll of a sudden there is a plethora of CBS news dumped into the feed and it’s from months ago. You need to fix this glitch. You aren’t a great newsfeed, but you’re succinct and usually have varied news sources listed. Get it together, guys..Version: 4.5
✓ Stop crashingThis use to be a great app. Since the last update it crashes all the time. Please hurry up and fix the problem..Version: 3.1
✓ Needs a fixBetter than most and a almost good replacement for the now gone BreakingNews app. But I have to keep changing my settings every time I use it. When I close the app the settings keep changing back to the default..Version: 4.1
✓ Crashes all the timeUnfortunately this app is unstable now. It consistently crashes with the most recent iPhone (5S) and the most recent operating systems anyway. OS 7.1.2. (It was also crashing under 7.1.1 and 7.1.0). It's a shame, because it renders the app pretty useless, and it used to be quite a nice newsreading application this one..Version: 3.1
✓ Juste pour les anglais.Très très dommage. Mauvaise publicité Je ne savais pas que la France était un pays anglais. Il suffirait d ajouter la langue française..Version: 2.2
✓ Loved this, now ads. YukAds. Yuk.Version: 4.2
✓ What’s with the “paste”?I used to really love the convenience of this app, however with the updates in ios14, I’m curious as to why I get a notification every time I open the app that it’s automatically pasted whatever was last on my clipboard. Dodgy dodgy dodgy. I’m out..Version: 4.5
✓ Clipboard snoopingIt would be a 5* otherwise. App deleted..Version: 4.5
✓ Not bad.This app is a good idea and it's both well laid out and the news is well sourced but the app keeps crashing when stories are opened. I'd does on an iPad 2 anyway..Version: 3.1
✓ Constant reloadingSince the last update once you click on a story it reloads about every 30 seconds, so you have to wait for it to reload.... Then scroll down to where you were reading.... Read one sentence & it reloads again..... & you scroll down to where you were reading... read next sentence & it reloads again.... Not fit for purpose at the moment, fix it with an update please, before it was brilliant!.Version: 4.1
✓ Great idea but buggyWhen you drill into the articles it not unusual for the app to crash. Paying to remove ads on the ipad does not do the same on your iPhone. Grouping similar articles, the biggest draw for me, works about 85% of the time. Solid start but frustrating. I'd like to see more / better user controlled filtering and grouping..Version: 3.3
✓ CKThis was a decent site but now they pull articles that dead end on subscription sites & most annoying is the ton of pop up ads that they will remove for a fee.Version: 4.3
✓ Now won't workThis was my fav app until this morning now it just shuts down at the title screen. No amount for uninstalling and reinstalling helps. Just glad I didn't waste any money on it. Time to move on to something that works..Version: 1.4
✓ Great appGreat app but why are we getting so much non-tech articles in the tech feed that are in the news and world news sections. Need more filtering in that section..Version: 3.4
✓ Good BUT...Great app BUT it always shuts off when I click on a photo! So annoying :( Tried updating, restarting..Version: 3.1
✓ CrashesWas good until a few months ago. Often while reading an article it crashes. Very frustrating..Version: 3.3
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