WHO 13 Reviews

The main page of WHO13 is a vomit of local news, national news and a LOT of paid advertising. I got WHO13 with the idea that I would have up to date/pertinent news information from my state first and foremost....then accurate up to date national and breaking news. This looks like somebody took random handfuls and news and just sprinkle them wherever they wanted to. Very annoying to the point where I will be removing this out from my device.

I love the fact that 13 news has a free app to watch live news! This is my favorite Iowa News station for the 20 years that I’ve been in Iowa. Hate that it takes 2 hrs for me to watch a 30 minute or less news program! WHO13 constantly freezes and plays more of the ad well instead of the actual news!!! Plz! Plz! Fix this issue cause WHO13 will Be Awesome and Get a 5 ⭐️ rating!

It’s wonderful to have news on my phone when we have no power at our farm.

I don’t know what they did recently in an update, but WHO13 freezes up now while waiting for ads to load. So, app freezes, ad never loads, reader is frustrated by getting mid-story and having to force quit WHO13 . Please, look into this. It’s too bad to not be able to get my local news from you guys.

I love WHO13 - I have switched from another local news outlet

I would give WHO13 less stars but that is not possible. I live in central Iowa and have strong wi-go connection. The live version of the news cuts out in the middle of almost every story. It is maddening to try to watch. I would not recommend WHO13 if you want to watch live news on a mobile device.

This is a must for any Des Moines resident!

If like me you would like to be able to watch news and weather through WHO13, I recommend you find another. The live stream crashes constantly and is unusable. I recommend trying another network app.

Tried to watch a video where there were multiple videos for the same story and 2 or 3 commercials started playing and I never got to watch the video I wanted to see.

I like the new set up needs Apple TV app

It would be nice to see WHO13 take full advantage of what iOS 11 has tI offer. I wish it supported smart invert colors.

After this last update, streaming won't start. Oh, of course I can see the commercials, but live-sreaming won't work. Don't update to this version!!!!! I wish I could go back.

UPDATE: Four days later, I am happy to report the live-streaming is back up. With the new features added in, this is a solid news app.

If I could rate WHO13 zero stars I would.. horrible, horrible app. Live video player is a joke and rarely works well. Why can't news channels actually pay for someone to develop good websites and apps???

Can’t pause video or watch full screen video in latest version!

Sometimes, WHO13 crashes when I tap “Watch Live”.

Not optimized for 2018 iPad Pro. iPhone version is fairly good.

Just like CNN, NSNBC, and China media.

I really like WHO13. You can do about everything here that you can in their website. That includes seeing the top stories, and watching the live streaming broadcasts.
The problem now is when you go to watch the stream, there are big black sections inserted above and below the actual video, so it can be distracting, and difficult to be able to make it full screen. This is really bad on an iPhone, and moderately bad on an iPad mini. This has been for the last few months, I thought it might get fixed, but not yet...

When using news apps in the Des Moines in Cedar Rapids area this is the worst I've seen for accessibility with voiceover the bottom tabs are not labeled buttons are not labeled nothing is done correctly to accessibility standards WHO13 developer local LLC should be ashamed of themselves and excluding a community of users who would love to use your app seriously how can you not include about oh 50,000 Islands in your app usage yeah that's a lot of blind people you're excluding the iPhone is very popular with blank people because the voiceover and you're excluding them from your application you should be ashamed

Still don't like the navigation. It isn't obvious that you can click on the 3 lines and scroll through a menu to go to weather or sports, etc. I usually just stay on the headlines screen.

In the past month, when I click on a story to read it, it starts playing the video even though I have not clicked on the picture. This is super annoying!!!

I like the blogs and would like to see more of them, but they frequently refer to a picture or video that is supposedly posted with the blog, but it isn't there.