WLOS ABC13 Reviews

by Ashevillechick

Not loading live broadcast

by Sallygabe

One of the worst apps I have ever downloaded. You can never get it to open.

by Bo Bo Brazil

Fairly decent app, but too many issues to name. Biggest problem is no way to delete read articles. They just stay there for weeks, taking up valuable space. Put in a way to delete articles.
Still waiting for a way to delete articles that take up so much space. I guess the best way, since you don’t listen to readers, is to delete WLOSABC13 . One more strike and you are deleted.

by Ecodiesel 2014

WLOSABC13 needs a serious overhaul! Pictures are blank, scrolling is very glitchy and freezes. Way to many advertisements.
Whoever writes these news articles needs to learn how to spell and proof read before publishing, I mean come on now WLOS and you call yourselves #1 news leader in WNC?

by Kathey528

When I am running WLOSABC13 on my iPad Pro and my iPhone 6S using latest iOS, my alarm no longer sounds. I often wake up early and turn on WLOS live news, the sound turns off when it is time for my alarm, so I have no WLOS nor alarm sound. (Like the spinning wheel when is is buffering)

by Skinny Before

Closings and delays section is now full of ads making it tedious when you need information quickly. The layout is not user friendly and I never get my text alerts about closings and delays.

by I4Life

Local news station, great. Alerts and notifications, great. Click on notification to a news alert, end up on who knows what with no way to find the event you were interested in = fail...

by AvlMom2

You have to watch an ad for each and every news video you want to see... there is no limit on how many they will show. Time waster!

by Jrhino

Tried to watch Trump arrival in WNC today. Site difficult to navigate and live coverage is a joke. If WLOS is serious, they would scrap this website and start over from scratch.

by Gatorette1978

I recently updated the latest version on my iPhone 11Promax and none of the articles display. They are just black boxes. Terrible.

by AjdMommy

I'd rate it a 0 if I could have. It is a waste of space on my phone memory.I been using WLOSABC13 for months and never been truly been happy with it: slow to load, updates are more like old news by the time it's posted. But it work but now it hasn't updated in nearly a week!! I reinstalled WLOSABC13 several times and it didn't fix the problem.
Maybe someone at Sinclair HQ would like to know about this. I hope the developers actually read these new reviews, but my bet is they won't for days or weeks. I really want this to work. So either fix it or remove it!!!!

by 235bec

Too many ads within the news story. Every few lines, an ad appears - not just a still ad but a moving one. And the ads are huge and take up a lot of the screen. One SHORT news story had FIVE ads. Would not have had to scroll at all to read that one if it had not had all those ads. Also many repeats of same ad within the story. Many, many. many, many repeats of a vape store ad.

by TKazNC

It would be nice to have new stories or updates to stories a couple times a day. Currently the stories seem to be updated after the evening news each day which seems useless since the stories are simply regurgitated from the broadcast. Mobile devices are perfect to make available the latest news as it happens. Embrace the tech, WLOS.

by Jwaltb

Have to delete and reload almost every day. I want local news but it’s a challenge.

by Cj3d

Honestly the new menu is nice but there are issues.

The traffic info has been removed. Not that it was that helpful in the first place but should be improved upon, not removed.

The news category is now poorly formatted. The old size and format were better. I imagine older folks had a hard time viewing the title and thumbnails on the old version which may have prompted the change but now it looks sloppy. Also, you can't scroll down to view more stories. It hangs up and for whatever reason the "more" button was removed. Now you have to choose one of the other categories like weather at the bottom of the screen and then go back to news to be able to scroll down to see more stories. This has to be repeated everytime you are finished reading a story as well.

by R67picard

I wish WLOSABC13 would get updated with bug fixes. Constant freezes and interruptions. Disappointing.

by Loves Details

I like WLOSABC13 but would really appreciate having landscape view on my iPad. A little clunky but good for breaking news stories.

by Manning1635

With most TVs being a smart TV, why don’t you offer casting from a device?

by Kmill2692

WLOSABC13 is not updated as often as the webpage and does not include all stories.

by Msthiker

Love having WLOS at my fingertips

by Jason675326

i'm not sure what I really expected. I have never been impressed with the old broadcast news team or the like. I moved here 15 years ago it was horrible at the quality of the broadcast journalism in this area why would I expect their mobile app to be any better than what we get on TV. WLOSABC13 has about six stories there following or them or feel good pieces two of the pieces that might be newsworthy are all missing critical information. WLOSABC13 is a joke

by The Hornichai

For a news agency, one would think video feed to be important. No, I don't want to watch glitchy adds for 2 minutes before a video fails to work. Hasn't worked for months. I used for weather info, but that's not working either. I'm sure you have an IT guy sitting around somewhere in your office to handle this task. It's a shame... Since it hasn't worked for such a long time, and appears no one is up to fix it, I'm about to delete my app.

by Ggfoodgirl

Not very user friendly. Headlines cannot be clicked on and read. Articles available to read are not the headlines. Weather can be found on other apps inn much easier way. Such a shame western Carolina doesn't have a user friendly news app.

Developers really need to look at other news apps and get a clue.