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WLWT News 5 - Cincinnati, Ohio Negative Reviews

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WLWT News 5 - Cincinnati, Ohio App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

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Auto play video is infuriatingVideo auto plays with no option to pause or mute until after the ad. Some of these preroll ads are two minutes long. I immediately close the app and find my news somewhere else every time I accidentally open a push alert to WLWT and am greeted by a blaring, obnoxious commercial..Version: 5.13.934

Too much videoThose of us who have slow internet have to wait too long for the stories to load because of the video. Take a look at WCPO’s website that separates the video from the print. Otherwise you have informative and accurate coverage..Version: 5.13.252

Does not keep the news freshThis app has different sections such as Local News, National News, etc. In each of these sections they only run 5-6 news stories. Then they will keep the same story posted for a couple of days. You mean to tell me there aren’t 5-6 new news stories out there each day. This has been like this for years. With their recent app update to the graphics, it only makes things run slower. I’ve had enough. I’m deleting the app..Version: 5.13.180

Battery drain and frozen screenI used to love this app for local radar and staying up-to-date on local news. But my battery started to drain and traced it back to this app. After deleting, my battery still has about 70% charge at the end of the day. Before it barely made it a full day. The app also locks up all the time. You have to completely close it once locked to get it working again. And finally, someone else mentioned the 6hr Doppler radar loop makes no sense. The default should be an hour with an option to change it or a link to the website if they want more history or options. It’s painful waiting for the 6hr loop to load. I’ll download again in a month or two and hopefully at least the battery drain and frozen screen issues are fixed..Version: 5.13.996

Most Accurate Weather?Nobody’s better than the ‘on-air’ team of Weather Talent at Channel 5. But when it comes to this app (for hearing their LATEST forecast) it’s a disappointment. Posting half day old video content (after having to sit thru commercial content) is a real deterrent for making this a go-to source for a meteorologist’s insight..Version: 5.13.47

Lacking in the News DepartmentNormally I have good things to say about the WLWT news team. However, the app is frustrating. Apart from the numerous adds that pose as news stories, the alerts are misleading. If you are going to send an alert to my phone, then I should be taken to a story that is related to the alert when I click on it. Unfortunately, the alerts do not represent actual stories or even information that can be found on the newsfeed. Seems like a strange way of reporting news..Version: 5.13.722

Horrible AppThis app is horrible. When you get an alert about a news story you might be interested in and click on it, it just takes you to the app and whatever the top story of the moment is. Not the story you wanted to read. Then it’s nothing but ads while you try and find the story you wanted. I am deleting this app..Version: 5.15.883

Used to be great, but…I liked using the app to keep an eye on local news throughout the day. It used to be very informative, but lately the notifications have gotten very “clickbait-y.” It’s clearly not a character limitation because what needs to be said can be said in fewer characters than “open the app to see where.” It’s really turned me off. I get that clicks = ad dollars, but I will likely be looking for local news through other sources that don’t waste my time..Version: 5.15.883

Stop Race Baiting GarbageSick and tired of wanting to read real news, both locally and abroad, without inclusion/racism/LGBTQ+++/anti capitalism/Trump hating/COVID-19 lies about meds that really do work but because you hate Trump you won’t tell the truth & COVID-19 rules for me but not for thee/cop hating propaganda. When will you, Apple News, and all news outlets learn people of all colors, ages, genders or lack there of, are really tired of it all. It’s forcing people to look elsewhere for news like Twitter & RT. Think of something your parents tried shoving down your throat when you were a kid. What happened? You rebelled and were most likely disgusted by it. That’s how a lot of people feel right now. It’s nonstop 24/7 racist divisive garbage. Please just give the news. A sports team kneeling before a game is NOT news..Version: 5.13.996

Stories in Push Notifications Impossible to FindI really want to like this app. My primary issue is that stories in push notifications are nowhere to be found in the app. If I get the notification on my Apple Watch, the banner clears from my phone. I will still see the red notification badge on the app, but when I open the app without clicking on the push notification, 90%+ of the time I cannot easily find the corresponding story. If something is important enough to send a push notification, I should be able to find it on the app!.Version: 5.15.474

DisappointedSometimes breaking news is not really “breaking “ as it has already been broken by another station. I really dislike the idea that they have of leaving the main part of an announcement off so you have to open the article. Annoying and makes me use my Fox19 App in order to see the headline without even having to open it. Sometimes I know by the headline if I even want to read the article. Weekend updates of weather are not always punctual in the early morning hours. I do like the news anchors and the weather team though, which is why I still use the app..Version: 5.13.498

You have to dig through piles of advertisingI’m very disappointed in the wlwt news 5 app. I think many of the positive reviews must have come from employees of the station. 70% or more of the app is advertising and commercials. Every video you try to watch makes you dit through the same commercial for 15 seconds. In between articles are loads of advertisements making it unbearable to dig through and try to read. Terrible!.Version: 5.13.934

Developers need to fix this appI have nothing against news 5 but whoever made this app needs to fix it. You can tap on a story to read and it may never load. Most frustrating however is when I receive a notification that takes me to nothing. I would like to get more information on a story when I get a notification about it but once you tap the notification the story never loads in the app and half the time you can’t even find it in the main list. I just don’t understand how the main goal is to get news in front of people and the app actually prevents that. Terrible user experience..Version: 5.13.868

Great content annoyingly surrounded by click bait adsTake this app to higher level by placing the ads at the bottom or somewhere other than within the individual articles. Too tired of “accidentally” leaving the app for my browser to open because I touched the screen where a clickbait ad hadn’t even loaded yet..Version: 5.15.474

Hate auto played videoI tend to catch up on the news either as I lay dune at bedtime (only to open an article to read, waking my husband because it starts involuntarily playing the article video??) I never click on the videos as I am trying g to quietly read the articles while others are sleeping. I hate when you click on an article to read it, and blasting commercials then articles play. I have to completely turn off any volume before opening a every single article on your site. Often I forget to turn it back on. Frustrating..Version: 5.15.428

Messed up!I watch your app in the morning while I’m getting ready for work and lately it has been freezing a lot, as well as repeating what was just said. It also plays the sound for one commercial while showing the video of a different one!! I hope you can get it straightened out quickly!.Version: 5.13.223

App broken?I use this app on 2 phones. I have issues with article loading on both phones. When I click an article often it will just load a white screen. And then if I try to back out of the article it won’t function. Sometimes the app then shuts down. Otherwise, I have to close the app manually..Version: 5.13.926

Too BusyI love WLWT as far as a news team but the app is just too busy. There’s so much crammed into small space. It shouldn’t navigate like a web site with all these CTA buttons jumping you all over the same page. Then with all the ads it’s just super busy. Clean it up, streamline the navigation and get rid of all (or a lot of) the ads- you’ll have a first rate app that matches the first rate news team..Version: 5.13.127

Not breaking newsWhen I receive a breaking news alert, the link is never on the app at that exact moment. I have to wait at least 5-10 minutes after I receive the notification for it to appear on the app..Version: 5.13.242

Share function broken in appDecent enough to stay up to date on local news but the share button doesn’t work in the app. Whenever I try to share an article it just copies the headline with no link. Or it will copy the link in a broken format that I have to edit before it will work. Seems to be something you would want fixed since it is directly limiting traffic to your website via shares..Version: 5.13.868

Worst Weather PredictionsLiterally your weather predictions are always ‘I don’t know’. I have no idea how you keep getting rated most accurate with weather because you never predict it correctly. I’ve cancelled something important twice now and both times because it was supposed to rain but didn’t. Now your forecasts always say ‘we don’t know but there’s a chance but there’s also not a chance so choose your poison.’ Worst weather predictors ever..Version: 5.15.596

Get rid of the stupid COVID bannerIt was good for a while and I didn’t mind it because if you wanted to view the “updates” then all you had to do was scroll to the top and click on the banner. NOW they banner is almost if not more annoying as the “pandemic” itself. Trying to read headlines and scrolling up only makes the banner take up over half the screen. Get your wannabe updates about COVID off the screen and allow the people to be able to read the news without you shoving this overrated COVID crap in their face..Version: 5.15.226

Worst traffic app everThis continues to get worse daily. You receive a notification of traffic problems near you and when you click on it you get a map of issues not at all relevant to your search. I have kids on the road and want to know what’s going on where I search. Whoever controls the traffic app needs to switch to something more befitting their experience..Version: 5.15.950


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