FOX 8 News Reviews

by Scannin' Johnny

FOX8News used to be great. Now, basically when you select a story, you can read the first half of a paragraph of a story and then there is a button you have to press to continue. When pressed, either it takes you to a different story, it does nothing, it directs you to an ad, or it briefly pulls the story up which then disappears and your left with a blank screen! Why?! It’s so frustrating! I’ve checked with others to make sure it wasn’t my phone, but it’s the same for them.

by Ray An IT Guy

Awesome station awful app. So slooooooooooow. Why? The frozen screen as you futilely jab at the “continue reading “ button. Don’t waste your time the button doesn’t work until all of the ads load. Ads you will never see because any sane person gives up and Google’s the story and reads it from a source that hasn’t let their advertising department kill their app.

P.S. Who are you people that are providing the same comments in your reviews, and then giving a 3 or 4 star rating?

by Woman Loves The Ace Man!

I used to prefer fox 8 over other apps. FOX8News is now terrible. When you click on a story you get about one paragraph then you have to click a “continue reading” button. This rarely works and causes blank screen or freezing. If I did not want to read the entire story I would not have clicked on it in the first place. I have now loaded the other local news stations which do not have these frustrating issues. Don’t waste your time.

by Jsh2312

I used to love reading all the stories daily but whatever update was done is terrible and now I can’t even read any stories anymore..the “read more” to read the rest of the story normally makes the whole thing go haywire and I don’t get to read it or when you click read more it takes you to a completely different story that you didn’t even click on..so disappointed because I enjoyed reading the news but I just deleted FOX8News it was just taking up room in my phone. Only looking at the headlines on the homepage isn’t enough haha and when you try to read it you can’t..please fix!!!!

by Avonlady247

The new update is difficult to navigate. Have to pretty much jump through hoops to see all news stories. If you view more, click on a story, then page back it takes you back to start- not where you left off. I can never share stories easily, sometimes you can’t even share or save the story. Videos start playing when you click to read the stories. I prefer to read the news. Keep the ads and other stories out of the middle of the relevant news that’s being read- it’s confusing with irrelevant ads and links mixed throughout the news article.

by Atoetz

Someone at fox8 needs to lookup what “breaking news” really means. 90% of the breaking news alerts are BS. I have turned off every other option in the settings and still get bombarded by news alerts about meaningless stories. Even if one is important or interesting I can’t even get the story to load. It freezes repeatedly causing me
To click continue multiple
Times and often crashes. The stories repeat
Multiple times as you scroll. Overall I’m at my breaking point and will be deleting.

by Smurfy Time

New update?? I love Fox 8 for my news but FOX8News it terrible. When I open a story I want to read I have to another button to open the story after I already opened the story. They call it continue reading but I just opened it. It is the most inconvenient thing and over half the time it’s the reason FOX8News freezes and I can not open the story I wanted to read after opening the story I wanted to read. I was hoping with this new update the developers would have fixed the bugs and issues with FOX8News but I can not see any changes. More features? Great. Fix the ones you have. If it’s too much data that is slowing or causing to freeze try to not repeat the same stories over and over. It would free up data and make FOX8News run smoother.

by Aloysius Von Ludwig The 3rd

This is a wonderful app if you are a fan of being frustrated. The articles cause my screen to freeze. I’ll open an article to read (if it doesn’t freeze my screen up) and then I am asked to press a continue reading button that sometimes freezes up the screen. Here’s a hint for FOX8News , if I opened the article that means I want to read it. FOX8News also asks for our comments but when I press the send button I get an automatic reply that the email address doesn’t exist. So I’m guessing they don’t actually care about feedback.

by Mikellyinc

I think it’s absurd that I want to see the face of a violent sex offender loose in our neighborhood and the only picture you have is in a video. So now, just to see who this guy is, I am forced to click on a video and watch a 30 second car clip with dancing bears. I finally get to the end and the clip closes just to have to do it all over again. Priorities. I should have to watch 30 second of ads for a 5 second video. Priorities. Do you even look at the ads that are at the bottom of your articles? I thought you were better than that Fox 8. If you want to

by Very Bogus

If you only want to read a sentence of a news article this is FOX8News for you. Unfortunately for those of us who want to read more the ‘continue reading’ bar does not work when pressed.
In fact it can send you to another article all together. For a long time I thought my phone had a virus. Good news no virus bad news app is a mess. Very surprised it has not been fixed. Had been a very good source of news. Now okay if you only want a sentence or two.

by DC@0002

I don’t want to have to click on a button to continue reading the article I just clicked on to read. Most of the time I have to click on that button several times before the article will load OR there’s an ad or a link to another article close to the “continue reading” button and I get directed somewhere I did not want to go. The “continue reading” button seems a little redundant to me.

by Bikesarecool

I never had issues with FOX8News before the update. Now, it takes forever to load. I click on an article and have to hit “read more” a million times before it opens the whole thing and then half the time it all goes white and I have to back out and select the article again. It also will reload the page randomly while I’m reading and suddenly be a different article and i have to yet again back out and reselect.

by Lc413809

Fox 8 is my favorite local news station, but I get too many notifications. Too many “breaking news” badges and notifications. I would like to see local news, but not if it’s going to clog up my screen with every update that happens around the entire city.

Would be nice if we could personalize it beyond just sports and breaking news. Maybe there could be options like local sports, events, happenings, weather, and traffic....

by Beesssfff

FOX8News is almost impossible to use. You have to hit a continue story button to read the news articles. The button never works. I hit it several times and nothing happens. When it does work it takes you to the wrong story. The screens constantly jump around so if you do actually get to read a story it’s hard to get through it. 9 times out of ten I get frustrated with FOX8News and end up going to another channel for news. I’ve finally given up. Deleting FOX8News today for good. It’s not worth trying anymore. Major improvements are needed.

by Ytsrsfuhxfxgusf

I used to love FOX8News, but like what others are saying, it has a lot of issues now and I’m looking for another news app. Something changed and we have to click on ‘read more’ to read the start. Sometimes it works on the first or second time of tapping it and sometimes, not at all. It just freezes or opens another story. It’s very glitchy. I typically don’t get frustrated over apps but this one has to go if the bugs don’t get fixed.

by Dementionit

When you click on the story, it then goes to the story and then asks if you want to continue reading, with only giving you a few lines.... ummm if I clicked on the story of course I want to read. Why are you guys asking again to read it? Just to click again for it to load the rest of it? Such a dumb and frustrating app along with all the advertisements.

by Yamalady

FOX8News is my buddy when I am getting ready for work, but it is the most frustrating app ever. It is constantly stopping on its own...you constantly have to keep hitting the play button. I counted at least 30 times one morning. It will also shut down on its own and of course you have to endure the commercials every time you start back up. If there was another Cleveland station I would watch, I would, just so I wouldn’t have to start my day so annoyed. Please fix this!!!!

by William Price

If there’s one thing I really liked about FOX8News it was that I could highlight a paragraph or two of the article and I could choose from multiple options such as “copy”, “look up” and “speak” using my iPhone.
This allowed me to have the article read to me in a monotone voice while I worked on other things. The recent update however, took this accessibility option out. Why? It was one of the best functions of the entire app. I would appreciate if it was re-added in the next update And would certainly allow me to give us up at five.

by Livinthedream232145

I don’t know what kind of new update or advertising content has been used but I get MORE loud, sudden, unable to close ads on FOX8News than any other one on my phone. Be it the “Congrats Google User” bogus, the “your phone has a virus” pop op, or a sudden video playing somewhere in the background that makes my phone freeze until I close FOX8News completely.

Thousands of ways to get local news other than dealing with crappy apps. Your website is now more user friendly and convenient.

by Poohghfjj

I love FOX8News it lets me know things as soon as they know Such as amber alerts and weather changes and local shootings and what is happening in our area. I also watch Fox eight every morning I feel like the broadcasters are family.

by Pgedbby

I like this news stations, but I don’t need to know every single crime that is committed in the area. All I want to be alerted about is actual breaking news like if my life is in danger due to weather, terrorism, etc. or if a major highway has been shut down.

by Jdcd1966

Overall, I like the format of FOX8News much better than other Cleveland stations; however, two things are annoying. First, FOX8News closes on it’s own way too often. Second, the ads that are slid in to resemble news stories. I despise those.

by Terirose22

The news updates are overall pretty decent, but I absolutely cannot stand the blatant spamming and incessant ads. I honestly have gotten to the point where I just check out the notifications and find the actual news elsewhere.

by Natureshunter

Grey app, but in the “make a suggestion” at the bottom of the stories. It doesn’t let you do so. When I go in, I type out my suggestion. And then nothing.... I can’t input my email, or even go back. I have to close out FOX8News entirely. And it still won’t let me make a suggestion.

by RKSteach

I love the Fox News app but for the past few weeks, FOX8News will close and send me back to my home screen. It is very frustrating to have to scroll through previously read information, pick up where I left off only to have it happen again a few minutes later.

by Bob WT

Overall a good app however I had to turn my notifications off. I don’t need to know that somebody is being arrested in a city 50 miles away. Seriously, out of an average of 7 push notifications daily, 1 of them pertained to me.

by Gypsylady123

I love how it's not over crowded. It's so easy to find the stories I'm looking for. The weather is more accurate than the weather app that came with my phone!

by JRan09

We love this news station it offers everything. They go above and beyond to give us are information. I love the family atmosphere on the show . They really care about people . We love fox 8 .

by AJ Light

Love Fox8 a little disappointed because right now I can't watch on my TV because of the conflicted with Spectrum wishing they would settle it soon. On line is nice but I love my big TV when I'm home

by Niecy Mac

I love FOX8News, when I leave for work I continue to watch the morning show through FOX8News , and updates all day

by Kmj6273

Love FOX8News. Traffic view is awesome. Would like, however to have a way to get FOX8News to center your current location. Great App!

by Buttonsandbeau

As one of a group of animal abuse protesters,
I want to "thank you" for being there for us, when we need you!! We believe in "Goddards Law."
We need all the support we can get to punish these evil humans to the fullest extent of "Goddard's Law." God Bless You!!
DeeAnn Tokar