France 24 - World News 24/7 Reviews

by A._B.

There is no literally way to use France24 now.

I start up France24 and get a full screen ad. There’s no button available to dismiss it.

It doesn’t go away whether you wait 15 seconds or 15 minutes.

Clicking on the ad doesn’t get you France 24 content — it just takes you to an ad page. It doesn’t subsequently unlock France 24 content.

Clicking on the “App Support” link on France24 ’s App Store page? Takes you to a “404 - page not found” web page.

by 84873119

It seems in the us I can only watch the English and Spanish version. I think you guys missed the bar by restricting language the news is broadcasted in. It is available online on your site for free. Why in the world would you restrict in France24 ?
Languages supported list all 4 languages but only two are available to me in the USA. This is a little misleading. Would like to listen in French. Think about this for a second. I will come back if unlocked but I have too many alternatives in English already to keep France24

by JackGertz

France24 only appears in landscape, whereas most news apps provide either landscape or portrait depending on how you hold the tablet. The latest version of France24 presents landscape initially the correct way, then mysteriously inverts the landscape upside down forcing the user to flip the tablet around. Not a very friendly user interface.

by CurlBigQ

France 24 provides up to the hour news about France and Europe. It often has in depth stories about relatively under reported topics, notably African issues.

France24 and streaming are poorer quality than the content. The live video feed is often interrupted or fails completely. Some of this is intentional — the channel stops feeding live video to display a static splash page. A lot of it is just bad UX design.

Others have noted that France24 quality is poor and it has remained this way despite complaints — a typical Gallic shrug to viewers from this otherwise useful news source.

by Hpluche-hot

France24 requires you look at a piece of advertising for 5 seconds when you launch it. The ad does not go away even when pressing what appears to be a “close” button. So annoying

by Aaaaarrrrrggggg

France24 content is pretty good for international and European news. Over the last months these full screen ads we have to sit through have gotten ridiculous. The ones this week at over 30 seconds long, and that’s before I can even access content. I’m not sitting though that junk just to read the news. Goodbye this app for now.

by Gjimmel

This went from a easy to use app to a incomprehensible and difficult app. Start again with your redesign. The logic of finding where to watch the live news (the core of France 24) was difficult to make sense of.

by Atlasavalon

Don’t know what happened, I cannot have the news channel either in french or english. This was before and after updating France24 . And the new data protection gimmick is a real pain: it’s necessary to do it each time!!!

by GWH817

I really enjoy the news as presented in FRANCE 24. I just can’t abide France24 turning upside down or sideways on my iPads. The only device it works on is my iPhone. The whole experience is ruined by this kind of app behavior. What is even more troublesome is the inability of the technical people at FRANCE 24 to address the issue after several years of it.

by Soitsme

Have loved having France24.
But can’t filter notifications be subject. You get notified about everything. Even if you don’t cate.

by JunnyD

I do like France24 but starting about 7 months ago each time I open it, it immediately turns upside down. I have deleted it and then reinstalled it but it still does the same thing. Even after several updates, it is so annoying. I rarely open France24 anymore.

by Abdellahi

The last redesign update make this all useful again. I can finally use France24 on a daily basis. The only Annoying thing is the pop up ads which takes the full screen

by Furryfree

Great program, but they should really ensure equal representation of women in third experts and correspondence. Today’s show looked at Texas/women’s reproductive health and Afghanistan/women activists, with 4 men analysing. I have higher expectations of you, France 24.

by Paulcalcana

Ive been a deducated and appreciative watcher of this app for several years which I have always considered this the best news app available. . In the last year or so France24 crashes, freezes and will not restart. It will not run after having deleted France24 and downloaded it repeatedly from the Apple App store. This happens both on iphone12 and iPad. Are you aware of this problem? Thank you.

by Jack_McCoy

I use France24 often but it needs a design revamp. It’s clunky and cramped. The videos don’t play in the background when you minimize France24 . You also cannot play the videos in the background while looking at something else inside France24 .

Also: PLEASE update the news thread so it doesn’t snap back to the top of the thread every time you exit an article. So incredibly frustrating and annoying.

by NeptunasRex

I have followed this app since the Terrorist incidents several years ago. I’m impressed with their coverage and offer that second-look so many state side news agencies miss.

by Un Utilisateur De Béquille

France24 works especially well on my iPad Pro. We had to use screen mirror to watch on Apple TV. Otherwise, the broadcast presentation is timely, credible, solid and informative.

by LJRose07

The most important of this very good news app is the free opportunity to improve your French knowledge as you can switch the languages. France24 is very informative and covers a wide array of different subjects and areas.

by Normand Sj

I enjoy watching this station on Sunday morning when I feet up at 4:00 am and watch to world news and watching French movies etc

by Mike Hallman

I use this all the time for live streaming. I would love that option for Apple TV so I can watch my morning news on it. Any chance that will come soon?

by Je Vous Emmerde

I tried to get used to the new update but it is not as good has the previous version. Very confusing and way too many advertising.
Hard to figure out between advertising and news. And the IPad version sometimes does not go on landscape instead of portrait.
Not a good update

by Wsinct

According to France24’s programmers, the iPad Pro’s browser (Safari) doesn’t support full screen view.

It did until a few weeks ago and still does with other apps...

The lack of quality control is astounding.

by Mndance165

In this modern age one would think France24 would know how an iPad works....this one doesn’t rotate to the portrait view...like that is hard to do? All serious apps can rotate to all views when iPad is used in different positions...just an example of the lack of detail and care for the users ...not the best effort here...

by Bkyu

On the AppleTV app, why are the French and the Arabic settings blocked in the U.S.? On the iPad app and on the web I can watch this app in French, but for some reason the French station is blocked in the AppleTV app. Until that’s fixed, France24 has little value for me.

by Falu

So I’ve been using the this app app for years and love it. I watch the news via France24 every night. The last (Sep/Oct) update messed up France24 (on IPad Pro 12.9) and the format bad. Once its fixed, it’ll be my favorite app again!

by Marklanegan

Apple TV app please. I’m tired of having to airplay France 24 from my iPad.

by Verghese

Enjoy it every morning and on Apple TV. One minor issue in the last 6 months(?) was the lack of full screen on iPads.