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WGN News - Chicago App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ App updateI prefer the old WGN app because it would play the news once I hit play. Now when I try to play the news it is muted. I am totally blind and I use a screen reader on my Iphone called voiceover. I am not unable to unmute the broadcast now without sighted assistance. Please go back to how the app use to be..Version: 41.1.0
✓ OkI like the streaming aspect, however it literally drives me crazy that it doesn’t show you what time it is! When you watch it on cable on the bottom right it tells you the time. But not when using the app..Version: 41.16.0
✓ Not happy with latest update to appSince I switched to streaming for my TV, I have been using the app to get my WGN morning news on my iPad. In the old version you could shrink the screen and continue to watch in a small or very small version or even move it off screen to continue to listen. In this new version I am not finding this option which is extremely a big bummer for me and will limit my time with WGN. 😥. I love the morning team but may have to find a new morning favorite. Please bring back this feature!.Version: 41.0.3
✓ WGN new appFor apple, this version seems rushed with so many issues, it will not run live for more than 3 to 5 minutes without crashing, starts with volume off but is stubborn to adjust, sorry this app is not an upgrade it is a definite downgrade for apple. I do not recommend it for any one using apple..Version: 41.0.3
✓ Fix AirPlay!For an app designed for my phone it works good. The problem starts when I try to use the AirPlay function. Can’t navigate away from the app or stream stops on the television. Can’t set the phone down while using AirPlay because if I don’t tap the screen every 8 seconds the stream will stop if the screen on my phone goes to sleep. STUPID! Can you guys PLEASE just create an AppleTV app already? Or at the very least get it right with the airplay function. I want to be able to multitask while streaming the show to my Apple TV. That’s the whole point of AirPlay! To allow me to use the screen on my phone to do other things while watching the show on the bigger TV screen. Other streaming apps do this just fine, what’s the problem WGN? I cut cable almost 2 years ago. I miss my WGN with my morning coffee but at this point its becoming obvious you guys don’t care to make an AppleTV app. Deleting this app, it was a nice 30 year run WGN maybe someday you guys will discover AppleTV and make us an app for it. You know, like literally every single other network on the planet has..Version: 5.14
✓ Good stuff, but not all notifications are breaking news!!I dig this app. I like access to local news stories, and appreciate the Breaking News updates that are actual breaking news. But I’m getting frustrated lately with the updates in advance of every single televised, and virtual, and Spanish newscast. That’s not breaking news!! As a result, I’m inclined to cancel all updates unless there’s a way to turn them off that I don’t know about..Version: 41.1.0
✓ Chicago’s Very Own BugsWith the last update, for me at least the radar does not show precipitation or future, whether looping or future settings are enabled or not (both the phone and pad apps, running 14.4). And don’t expect journalism: rather than who, what, where, when, why, how, WGN app pretty much is lucky to report where and when, scarcely what, because WGN doesn’t employ reporters who know how to ask and follow up no matter how useless, ignorant or nonsensical the stuff interviewees spout..Version: 6.10.3
✓ Could be betterIt’s not a bad app for getting local news. There are better options for national and world news though. The only reason I’m writing this review is because they ask you in app how you like the app. There are two options, a) could be better, and b) love it, and the could be better button does nothing! Lol talk about cheeky. One other silly thing they do is list the same story two and occasionally three times. Once is enough for most news apps but not here. So, my answer to their question is, could be better..Version: 6.10.3
✓ Too glitchy to bother anymoreI’ve had the app for a long time. Even if the way it’s set up was never great, at least it worked smoothly and I was able to see more local news than the other Chicago news apps. But now it’s gotten to be impossible to use. It constantly crashes. And when I can actually click on a news story, it’s slow to open and then freezes so you can’t see more than the first few lines and the Continue Reading can’t be selected because, of course, it’s frozen. So the app is now useless. I end up having to use the abc7chicago app to see news..Version: 6.10.2
✓ Notifications difficult to manageOverall the app works well, but they need to be more specific about notification categories. I have only “Breaking News” selected but get many entertainment and celebrity stories pushed as notifications, which I don’t consider breaking news..Version: 41.15.0
✓ App Has Only Gotten WorseThis app has only gotten worse over time. Clicking a news notification almost never pulls up the actual story. Breaking news and videos play ads before the stream starts and then usually there’s a problem. And almost EVERY SINGLE TIME the video finally does play, there’s no audio. NOTHING I do fixes it. Turning my mute switch off doesn’t help. I have no Bluetooth, AirPlay, AirPods, or any other audio device connected. Quitting the app just results in another ad and no audio. What is the point to even having an app if it’s going to be this terrible?.Version: 41.7.1
✓ And fix your app so that it works where it supposed to or not where it’s not supposed toWGN app is now over writing other apps on my phone. When for example I try to use my Kindle app WGN comes up instead I don’t know how to make it stop interfering to meet with my other apps and I can’t find it on your website pleasePlease fix this problem so it works properly. I can’t have an interfering with my other apps.Version: 41.7.1
✓ Unable to navigateThis is not a beef about WGN so much but this app is just not good. Directs you straight to video and then endless commercials, will not let you navigate through the news articles. Just a bad design and barely gets any use for me for that reason..Version: 41.9.0
✓ What app is everyone reviewingUpdate: I’m reducing my rating from two to one star because the app now has pop up adds. So annoying. I don’t know what everyone is thinking but they can’t be reviewing this app which is average at best. The top stories are repeated. They’re at the top of Top Stories and then again after several inches of adds. The content is very limited considering how large the news organization is. And the stories are not refreshed as often as I would expect. There are many misspellings and grammatical errors..Version: 6.5.1
✓ Not a good appIt crashes all the time and freezes and when you want to watch live news stream and make it full screen it has advertisement and you will almost every time click on it on accident it sends you to google chrome..very frustrating just to watch the news..Version: 41.6.0
✓ Too many adsI’ve been using the WGN app for a while now, and I frequently visit the website (with my ad blocker off for WGN so I can support my local news). But the app has become far too heavy on the apps, it’s almost impossible to read the news stories with all the ads covering everything up. I’m close to deleting the app because it’s not really usable. (Also in the app it says “enjoying the app? Yes or not so much” and tapping the “not so much” does nothing 🤔).Version: 6.10.3
✓ This new app doesn’t work with our Apple TVWe love WGN! We love live-streaming WGN News at Nine! We are so disappointed that we updated to this latest version today & now are Not Able to watch the nine o’clock news on our tv by live-streaming it & air playing it from my phone or iPad as we always have before this frustrating update!!! Please help!!.Version: 41.0.3
✓ WGN is great but ...There’s a glitch in the app. When I get a notification of news that just broke, I click on the tab that pops up, and it takes me to the main page. I don’t want to have to scroll and find what I just read on my notifications screen..Version: 41.1.0
✓ Live video stutters/repeats after updateLive video is buggy. After updating the app, the Live feed now stutters & will replay a sentence un-syncing the voice/video. Gets worse the longer it plays. Annoying having to reboot the app and sit through that same stupid Tile Outlet ad each time. Wish I hadn’t updated the app. This happened when I updated last year too and it was MONTHS before it was fixed..Version: 5.13.2
✓ ProblemsWell ever since the last app update when I play a video in the app it will not close! I have tried everything to get it to close but it won’t. I hope u can fix that. I’m using a iPhone 12 with the latest updates. Thank you.Version: 41.1.0
✓ Updated WGN app is awful.They loaded it up with so many imbedded commercials, that it takes forever to load on your device. Additionally, the weather radar is now just a thin strip and almost impossible to read, instead of a full page like it was before. Finally it crashes more then a Boeing 737 Max..Version: 41.0.3
✓ Please fixUsed to like it just fine. For the last few days a video ad for Windstar Cruises keeps popping up over and over even if I do not touch any ad related link. It is getting frustrating to have to close this video repeatedly while trying to read the news!.Version: 5.14
✓ News with little detail and lots of dead dogsSo- I don’t know how to process this. I respond to the wgn request for feedback on their site and each time I respond that I would like to see fewer dead dog stories, but each day, more appear. Not more news about the people who have created this environment of hate and, well, dead dogs. I understand that I might be the only one telling them this but really. I don’t open up the news to find out how a dog dies today. I already donate to animal shelters, etc. I can’t believe that a local news feed just happens upon a story of a dog getting tossed out of a car in all ports of America, put in an oven etc. they must be seeking this garbage out. I deleted the app. It’s not news, it’s that worst person you know in the lunchroom who is forever talking about horrific things that no one wants to here. I am walking out of that room. Walking out of the WGN ‘news room.’ They can tell their horror stories to whomever, it’s not going to be me. I’ll be reading news from now on. Give money to organizations that help abused animals, do not give to WGN by signing into their app..Version: 5.13.2
✓ App update is frustratingI am a faithful WGN viewer and loved being able to watch on the go. This update makes it very difficult to do so. There’s no chance to rewind or fast forward, even for a few seconds, which is frustrating as it allows me to really listen for all the headlines as well as jokes. You also can’t have the app play on Picture in Picture like you used to, and there’s an ad every time the app closes (so if I get a text message that interrupts the broadcast, I have to watch an ad again). Plus, Pat’s sports segments are muted. It used to be that you could listen to him without highlights, but you can’t even hear him. It’s devastating. Please fix, WGN. You are our bright light in this tough time - and this is just awful..Version: 41.0.3
✓ Fix the app!As stated in the previous review the app works ok on the phone. But if you use the app with an Apple TV it doesn’t work well, and drops off after syncing after a few minutes. You have to go into your phone settings and set the display to always on which is going to run your phone battery down quickly. But if you use Safari on your iPhone you can connect easily to Wgn Tv live streaming and it works fine! So it appears the app has a software issue and you need to get it fixed!.Version: 5.16.1
✓ Glitchy app, even after delete and reinstallI Want to LOVE this app... when it works, which is rarely. If the app decides to open, it tends to crash within 10 seconds of being open. Reading an amazing article??? Just wait until it freezes on you, then crashes. Then multiple attempts at opening the article to Finish a good read.... only result in further crashes; ironically at or around the same part of that article. Did you actually read an entire article with no glitches?? Wonderful!! But good luck trying to share it with someone.... the sharing option buttons work when they want to; sometimes they appear, and something they don’t. The above has proven true on older version on my iPhone 8+, and my iPhone 11 Pro as well as my iPad. The only reliable detail of this app are the notifications they send for various news alerts. I.Version: 6.9.2
✓ News can be OLD not updatedNews articles are not removed when outdated in a timely fashion, they add new ones but don’t review what’s already there. Another issue is duplicate stories... the same article can appear multiple times. The app is very slow to load stories because of massive amounts af advertisements on each page. Overall not professionally done and a pain to use. It is better than the ridiculously biased bull on the majors or CNN types but still painful to use. Should be better..Version: 6.10.3
✓ Bring back the last versionYou used to be able to play this app in the background while you did other things on your tablet or iPhone, but now if you open an app it closes out WGN, so you can’t watch the news while you read your email anymore. I’m a little disappointed that they called this an upgrade..Version: 41.0.3
✓ Love the news hate the appI love WGN news and I look at the app everyday to get my news. But, the app is constantly freezing up. I constantly have to close it and reopen it to get it to work. I gets really annoying and makes me want to jump over to one of my other news apps that doesn’t freeze up..Version: 6.10.3
✓ Okay, at best. Notifications don’t work.There is no background play. It’s not 2010 anymore. Which is annoying when the phone auto-locks or you respond to a notification. And worse, going back, means another ad. My main reason for deleting the app is because Notifications are broken. Regardless of the alerts I select, I seem to get them all. The app is of exceptionally poor quality. It was definitely a checkbox on someone’s yearly objectives and no one actually cares about it. I used to think highly of WGN. Not anymore..Version: 41.10.0
✓ Buffers way too muchI’ve had this app for a very long time and it is the only one of my streaming apps that consistently buffers so I wind up missing news stories. This is on all of my devices-iPhone, iPad, two different televisions with automatic updates on. I do not have problems with any other streaming apps. So frustrating! Please fix!.Version: 41.11.0
✓ Frustrating AppTrying to watch my favorite live morning news on this app is an effort in futility. Try to open it and it just freezes again and again, and I live in Chicago. I have to tap again and again for the sound to come on. When it blocks out sports it just shuts down. Pretty much the only things that seem to come through with no issues are the commercials. I will especially miss the morning news crews, but I think it’s time to try CBS or NBC:.Version: 41.6.0
✓ What is this?This app is terrible, worse that terrible on the iPad Pro. will delete it if it’s not fixed. It’s nothing but blinding white borders and the tiny type of seemingly random stories. Fix it! Take a look at other news apps, like Fox News. Notice the larger font on a dark background that makes stories actually readable! Fix this app, please..Version: 41.0.3
✓ Glitchy & doesn’t work more often than it doesThe app spins, goes in and out. It’s very glitchy many issues with getting it to simply function. Works a couple mins then crashes out or just spins and spins and does not respond. I have uninstalled and reinstalled -get the same results. I was excited to finally see WGN with an app but It’s the worst news app. None of the other news streaming apps function this way. Make it work I’d like to actually use it..Version: 41.9.0
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