NBC News: Breaking & US News Reviews

by Nathan Wind

I watch this on the Apple TV and I am pretty irritated with their update… It’s been A while now and I wanted to check in on the news for the 2nd impeachment… I stopped using NBCNews because they changed the way it deals with playlists… I wanted to check out msnbc highlights and I can’t skip around anymore… I am willing to watch ads, do not get me wrong, but I hate being locked into a playlist without being able to skip around… I’m willing to watch Ads! It’s a very frustrating experience… NBCNews used to be better it feels like they did this to make sure I watched ads… squeezing out every nickel at the cost of user experience

by Jkeeton

NBCNews has had the broken widgets since April of 2021. I’ve even downloaded all the new apps and for my new 13 Pro and the widgets still have not updated since April. Particularly “This week in photos”! So I have a revolving stack that just keeps showing the same thing since April 2021! It’s the same 10 images and the widget is called “This Week in photos” so it supposed to update weekly, but nope! Still seeing the same photos all summer, fall, and looks like it’s going to winter! Please fix! This is super annoying! I want them to change so bad, but the only option is to remove the widget from my phone or unless NBCNews . I’m gonna do both if it isn’t fixed because NBC should have it where when you click on developer options, or report, it goes directly to an online form to report the problem. It cannot be fixed if we cannot report it. So I gave it one star, hoping someone will just happen to see this review, because there is no way to report this information to the developers!

by LongTimeTennisLover

NBCNews has one really annoying glitch. When I'm trying to read through the headlnes on the main news page, NBCNews suddenly jumps, completely on its own, to somewhere else on the page. It may be up or down, but the headline I was looking at just disappears and the screen is centered in a new, random, place on the page. Then I have guess whether to scroll up or down to get back to where I was. If this is because the page was refreshed, please give us a button to do the refresh when the user wants it refreshed - don't aggravate the user by jumping away from what they were trying to read! Otherwise, the coverage seems to be very good. I just can't stand the way NBCNews annoys me. If it didn't do that, I'd give it 5 stars.

by Broad R. Each

As an adult, I have watched the NBC Nightly News for more than three decades. In recent years i have enjoyed podcasts s as well. Why? Like you, because my parents watched it and I followed suit.
The doctoring of the Columbus police shooting of an armed and assaultive person has caused me to pause and wonder, what is NBC’s role in this non-stop attack against law enforcement? Then I remember, ratings, it is all about ratings, not character of employees or reporting abilities. If that were true, Savannah Guthrie and Brian Williams, come to mind as individuals who should be unemployed. It breaks me that my news source has lost any semblance of reality, but to doctor reporting…that is INTENT, intent to lie and mislead to sell a story. I hope your sponsors abandon you, as you have abandoned your viewers. Good bye.

by Rex Hrothgar

I see reviews here that are up to two years old that address my issues. NOTHING has been done to address NBCNews ’s “automatic refresh” boondoggle. This apparent “brain fart” of an idea is, in my opinion, screamingly frustrating! Literally every time I go to take in my daily diet of your news options on my iPad, I get automatically catapulted to an awfully rearranged menu. So many times I’ve been just about to make a selection and then “POOF” it’s gone! At which point I proceed to look for the item unsuccessfully and give up. I give up because of the other problem I have with it, “lousy search options”. Seriously??? NBCNews is from the NBC that I’ve always loved and respected? As per usual, the content etc. are in line with how I’ve come to expect from you folks, top of the line. But these problems I’ve listed are what I’d expect from rank amateurs. (I’m not going into the bugs I’ve experienced, I don’t want to split hairs.) I love you guys. (Loved you better when news was a public service and not a corporate venture.) But even now you are the one I turn to. The best thing going. Please fix this weirdness? I think, by now the public knows how to push a “Refresh” button when THEY WANT.

by Joe Lee 2814

I like NBCNews , and when it works it’s great, I like to listen to the streaming simulcast at work. Seriously good app, but the msnbc streaming is down a lot. In fact for three days now whenever I try to listen I get the same error message. “Unable to load audio. We’re sorry there seems to be a network error. Check your network connection and try again.” It’s not my connection, there is nothing wrong with my connection. I can stream everything else from audio to movie streaming apps. And until three days ago I could stream msnbc through NBCNews, even if it would go out frequently, it was usually only out for a few minutes. This time it’s been several days.

by TheBestBoot

There’s a lot of little things that are annoying. I have this on mobile, and it gets annoying. I can’t figure out how to search, so I can’t see anything but the past two days of news. It gets really annoying! I want to see stuff from the past, almost every other news app has this! It would also be nice to have subtitles on the videos. I don’t always have headphones with me, so it’s difficult to look at certain stories on the go. It would also make everything difficult for deaf people. Most everything else is great, the ads get annoying but it’s fine, gotta make money somehow I guess. Overall it’s an alright app, but these things start to get to you after a while.

by Ken H In San Francisco, CA

The content of NBC News’ app might be of value, however one would be hard pressed to fully know. While the user peruses the headline stream, NBCNews page will inadvertently jump to an alternate section, leaving the user … hanging. The user is then left to scroll and hunt for the original article, only to have the page once again jump to another section?!? At this point the user might simply close the NBC news app and open CNN or NPR or ABC News or CBS News or Politico or FOX News or Huff Post or The Hill or the Associated Press or any of the hundreds of other news App choices available without this ridiculous and wonky glitch.

by Astutress

This is regarding the iPhone app. I use NBCNews by skimming down the home page and just choosing to read certain articles that interest me. Ugh, every time I read an article and return to the main page I’m not in the same spot where I was, or for a split second I am but then the page content jumps, and I don’t know if the spot I left off is above or below where I am now. This seems due to ads randomly appearing or disappearing. SO ANNOYING. Also, there doesn’t seem to be any logical organization anymore. This has been my go-to national news app for years and I am just irritated trying to use it. Considering deleting.

by Jamielawrence42

I use NBCNews on my Apple TV and my iPhone. Since early April 2021 it’s been glitchy on both devices. On the phone images fail to load and frequently it tells me I’m offline (I’m not). On Apple TV it freezes, pixelates, then restarts the story. I’ve troubleshot my network, quit NBCNews , restarted devices, deleted and redownloaded NBCNews on both devices and even restored the phone... never resolves issue. Internet speeds are 115 mbps down and 10.5 up, using Ethernet or WiFi on Apple TV, or WiFi only on the iOS device.

by TrekFan359

The push notification options for NBCNews appear to be “all or none”. There is one option in settings for “Breaking news”, another for “Quiet mode”. The problem is, I get tons of notifications for things that aren’t breaking news at all. Some are editorials (notification title starts with “OPINION:...”), others are non-breaking news stories: “Toddler's family grapples with 'unfathomable' loss after her fall from cruise ship”. NBCNews needs a *real* “Breaking news only” push notification option. Until it does I’m about to turn off NBCNews ’s notifications because I get far too many non-breaking news notifications.

by Kdbull

I really like this NBC news app. It’s just the right amount of news without the overwhelming and completely depressing, overblown, polarised information of other news apps. I want to be updated with the latest important news; not bludgeoned with gruesome murders, US vs YOU political crap and a TMI style of app reporting that complies a bunch of other nonsense making me feel that human beings are the worst idea ever created! That being said, I have a couple of technical issues; why does it jolt you off the section you are reading ( I assume more stories are being added? ) it is incredibly frustrating to be reading a headline and suddenly your 3 or 4 stories down and have to scroll back to what you were originally looking at. Also, while I love that the content is limited, which makes for a clear straight forward news feed, some of the stories at the bottom seem to never change, so really you end up reading just the upper portion...how about moving those older stories along. More stars when small issues are fixed😉 Thanks for doing the news right!

by Toby (the Girl)

It’s a nice way to get news and it’s free. But there NEEDS to be a way to search for articles. I frequently will have clicked on a notification to read an article and some problem causes me to go back to the home page of NBCNews (sometimes I didn’t finish reading the article before spending an extended period of time with NBCNews minimized, or sometimes when I click a notification it doesn’t actually take me to the article) but if the article isn’t on the home page and I don’t know where to find it in the explore tab, there’s no way for me to get back to it. This is less pressing, but it would also be nice if clicking links inside an article that lead to another NBC article would open up that article inside NBCNews rather than in my browser.

by No Way Tip Enter

Even when I was a kid my family always depended on NBC and the Today Show in the morning and evening for our news coverage. I also do watch news on CBS and their coverage is also excellent. It’s a comfort to see the same ppl delivering the news and knowing their names makes them a real part of our family. So I’m giving NBC an 5 star rating.

by MPL_40675

Among many reasons to choose where you get your news from, it is always best to choose cites that showcase everything. The good, the bad, the ugly. You don’t want a news app that’s biased or caters to those who choose to be willfully ignorant. That’s why I love NBC among a few others. Because I know I’ll be getting accurate news information on current issues. Thankful that there’s still good news apps out there.

by Meebo57

The only thing abt NBCNews that could be improved is the left-to-right gesture to go to the previous page. In the current version a finger has to be placed completely off-screen then swiped to cause NBCNews to respond to the gesture (iOS). Because of protective cases, that is difficult. Allowing the left-to-right gesture to begin anywhere on the screen would be more practical.

by Suesette

I trust NBC and MSNBC to deliver the news in a timely, accurate manner. They have the best journalists and reporters who are willing to put their own lives at risk to bring viewers the real story.
I have depended on NBC news for decades, but particularly over the past 5 years as real journalism is under attack on a daily basis by our President and his cronies in the right wing media.
I am thankful to NBC and MSNBC journalists and reporters for providing their viewers with the real news during these turbulent times.

by EarlGreyNoCup

If you’re on the fence about NBCNews, look at how consistent the developers are at responding to each of our technical complaints. They addressed my issue. As far as ads go, it’s a free app offered by commercial network channel. Someone has to pay for it. I’d rather read, listen to, or watch ads while on NBCNews than sacrifice my personal device’s autonomy when I’m off NBCNews . Here’s my previous review: Was among my favorite news apps until today. They now force users to accept notifications. That’s ridiculous. Hate to see it go but it’s deleted now. I’ll revisit in the future - hoping they see the light. Because I will miss it. But not enough to accept nonsensical notifications.

by IFoneReviewz

One of the very best news apps. I prefer reading the news to watching it-- NBCNews allows both, and does both well. The widget provides constantly updating headlines when other apps, like the New York Times, have totally abandoned their iOS headline widgets. You can read top stories, including excellent coverage of issues of specific importance to LGBTQ and ethnic minority communities, watch video clips or the entire NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. Richard Engel's coverage of international news, especially Syria and Ukraine, is unparalleled. There are ads, but they're not intrusive at all, unlike so many other news sites and apps that have become unusable, and there's no paywall. In this era of fake news and alternative facts, NBCNews is a bastion of quality journalism.

by Kyphillips

I am a women of love, I love my fellow man, women and child globally. Breaks my heart reading or hearing some of the news reports in my day. I known the world and my country are/is a complicated mess and sometime wonderful place.
Spent a lot years working (sometimes 2 to 3 jobs)
And raising 3 kids. The time I spent learning the news around me was at minimum. Most news came from my fellow workers. Now that I gave time, I’ve jumped in with both feet and heart. Thank You NBC, MSNBC, Today and apps for your great reporting. 🙏🤞💙💙💙💙

by Lantana, FL

All apps that purportedly show the evening news have the same problem, even after NBC updates the apps to fix bugs and improve performance like it just did. The ad at the beginning plays just fine but when you expect to see Lester Holt, you see nothing except that whirling dervish. If you wait long enough (and I’m talking 5-10 minutes), Lester finally appears-for maybe 2 minutes and then it’s back to the whirling dervish. I don’t have 2 hours or the patience for this. Much as I like Lester Holt, I’m switching to CBS.

by 99centsgames

I installed NBCNews a few months ago to watch the debates. Initially it worked fine; however more recently it comes up with an extremely annoying popup box within minutes of turning it on. The box has no mechanism to turn it off and you can’t scroll to dismiss. The only way to get rid of it is to delete and reinstall. If this continues I will delete it permanently.

by KateTeddybear

Review
1. Would like option of either audio of news or news in print.
2. Anyway to respond to an article or to vote ie. YES good idea or NO ridiculous, not necessary and waste of taxpayers money idea. For example I want to scream at the asinine idea of Trump inserting himself into “The Capital 4th.” I will not watch if he has any part in the celebration. Use my tax payer $ to help feed, clothe, provide health care and a safe place for those without.
Kate Gardner Koontz

by Hface119

Love having MSNBC live stream accessible on Apple TV! Only reason I use NBCNews . However every couple of weeks NBCNews doesn’t display the stream and instead “User Authentication Token Not Available” displays. Sign in, sign out, no difference. Few days later it fixes itself and then happens again. Why can CNN build a flawless app but NBC can’t figure it out?

by Jerrelynn

You consistently have The Best news coverage

You have The Best Newscasters;
With Great personalities, integrity & factual
...You all deserve a raise this year..!

Your coverage Gets to The Heart of the Matter
And you seem to always wear the “White Hat”,
(As in you model those on the side of Justice,
Solution oriented, Helping - Not hindering)

THANK YOU for your dedication over the decades.
Through various landscapes; from crisis, celebrations, shockwaves, weather anomalies and victories, you’re with us all the way.

It’s a pleasure being on this journey with you ~

Blessings, as the holidays approach, and this tumultuous year of 2019 comes to a close.
May Love and Peace prevail in the coming months and new year. 💃🎄😉🇺🇸🙏

Warmly,

Jerrelynn Fling

by Bronxred

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate receiving audio ads made to blend in with the audio news feed itself (please not the same ones over and over however), and that I can fire up NBCNews by saying Hey Siri play MSNBC. So good! Way better than fiddling with video, and very smartly thought through.

by Cival1776

Many articles require waiting 15 seconds for an ad to run before the news video. If I wanted an ad to run every time I would just google “show me ads”. I want the news. And the ad seems to be the same for every news story. Other news outlets seem to get their news up faster so I usually start with CNN which is just as bad with video ads.

by Winky McBean

I used to check CBS online but I hate that they started offering mostly video clips instead of stories. But I can read faster than the video, don’t use speakers in public places, and don’t have a lot of time. Thanks, NBC, for keeping the easy dual-option. Great reporting, too.

by Watching From A Distance

Thank you for your news. I like reading your stories and insights. I do Primary read NBC news to try to understand the news written from the lefts point of view. I’m intrigued with your selection of what and is not considered important for the American people to know.

by D-Nett

I watch NBC all the time local news and national news, also I love some of the night shows. Thanks

I used to be a big ABC fan but I don’t like them cutting down our President, President Trump. He is doing a fantastic job. If they would just leave him do is job....