FOX 17 News Reviews

FOX 17 News Reviews

Published by on 2026-05-30

๐Ÿท๏ธ About: The FOX 17 News app delivers news, weather and sports in an instant. With the new and fully redesigned app you can watch live newscasts, get up-to-the minute local and national news, weather and traffic conditions and stay informed via notifications alerting you to breaking news and local events.


       


Is FOX 17 News Safe to Use?

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Overall Customer Experience ๐Ÿ˜Ž


๐Ÿคฌ Negative experience
96.8%

๐Ÿ˜Ž Positive experience
3.2%

๐Ÿซฅ Neutral
0.0%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 138 combined software reviews.

Is FOX 17 News Safe?
FOX 17 News does not appear safe based on available data.
3.2/100

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Is FOX 17 News Legit?
FOX 17 News does not appear legitimate based on our analysis.
3.2/100



Summary of Customer Reviews (Takeaways): ๐Ÿ’Ž

- Has a weather section with animated radar

- Includes video content

- Has breaking news alerts



Read 24 Customer Service Reviews ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ’ข

4.8 out of 5
Fox 17 news

My old question is why times can watch this new or system is too slow or very poor canโ€™t see it. Wish near future make more better quality on this page thank you.

Still not working great lots bugs and stop working last night. Couldnโ€™t watch news at 9 pm still not working today early this morning until 4 am to 9 am block lots bugs get out . Hope fix problems on this page. Thank you

Very poor app

Worst problem is if you are listening to music and open a page in FOX17News it will silence your music??????????
Please fix this!

Images and pages fail miserably.
They really need to replace whoever is responsible for FOX17News, it is fail city.
One of the worst apps I use, but I love Fox Nashville.

Latest version

Latest version opens to blue screen showing improvements. Cannot get out of that to see news. Version does not rotate screen. Removing from my ipad. New and improved for programmers does not mean new and improved for users. Do they not test updates to see if they work prior to release.

Too many notifications

While I like FOX17News , you get way too many notifications (5-20 per day) with no way to adjust to only breaking news or the type of notifications you want. Most of the notifications are teasers to try to get you to watch the news. I would not recommend FOX17News. Iโ€™m deleting mine.

Bad job on the last update!

As someone who goes to work later in the mornings, I loved having the option to stream the local news after 7 am. After your last update, this has disappeared. At least NewsChannel 5โ€™s App works until 7, then they update with viable traffic alerts afterward. Deleting app and moving on since this was the only reason I had the Fox 17 App.

Live News Streaming Taken Away

No live streaming from this Fox17 app any more? Why did you think it was a grand idea to remove such a useful function in a news app. The local CBS and NBC news apps are now getting 100% of my attention in the mornings while Iโ€™m getting ready for work. Very, very disappointed. Maybe you should look at your ratings and actually do something to reverse the results youโ€™ve created.

Horrible

Fake news.

Useless

FOX17News worked the first couple of times I used it, but the next day I was no longer able to open it. Every time I tried using FOX17News, it would look like it was loading... And would stay stuck on the loading screen without ever actually opening FOX17News . I deleted it.

Portrait vs. Landscape

Why wonโ€™t the screen rotate on a tablet. Very annoying when you use your tablet with a keyboard. If there is a solution let me know.

WAY TOO MANY NOTIFICATIONS!

Above and beyond an acceptable amount of notifications throughout a single dayโ€” so much so I will be deleting FOX17News . Would have kept if there was a way to limit notifications to specific topics that matter to you... and several duplicate notifications! It was honestly so annoying.

Ads ads ads

Way to many ads, some take up a quarter of the screen! Cut down on the ads, I know you are money hungry but come on!!

Very glitchy

I can hardly do anything on FOX17News . When I first opened it, it was so laggy and then it eventually crashed. Now I canโ€™t even open FOX17News because it keeps crashing

Latest version not working with latest ios

Latest update does not work with latest ios update. We can see the article titles and photo, but when we try to open the article all the text is blacked out and appears to redacted like a report to Congress

Lots of worthless push notifications

Tons of stupid stuff that are not news worth a push notification. Next time I get notified about the Masked Singer, I might delete FOX17News .

tdot cameras

canโ€™t find them on fox news

Fox 17 Needs Bug Fixes and Upgrade

Crashes frequently. Video playback pauses involuntarily. App will not post stories to Facebook. Issues have not been resolved after several months of waiting for you to fix the bugs!

Needs a refresh button

FOX17News doesn't automatically refresh itself with new content regularly.

It also doesn't have a refresh button so your left looking at the same stories for days.

Needs customizable notifications

I just want alerts for IMPORTANT breaking news, not human interest stories or every time the Titans score. There are sports apps for that. I donโ€™t see any way to customize content for alerts in FOX17News .

Not a bad start.

Need more text stories in lieu of video. Create breaking news alerts. Like the weather section, but could use animated radar.

audio only works in headphones??

audio only working in headphones

Doesn't work on iPad

This is my third time in 3 years loading FOX17News. Each time I deleted as soon as I loaded it. It simply does not work. I really love this station on my TV, and really wanted to stay in tune with this station. You all failed. I will take my viewership elsewhere when I am exercising or on the road.

Don't waste your time

This is probably one of the worst news apps out there. It would appear that they never proofread their stories before they put them online. They definitely need to update FOX17News and put more up-to-date stories on the website.

Dark mode issue

App works fine as long as you donโ€™t use dark mode on the iPhone. If you do, it just shows black boxes where text should be seen.

Dark mode enabled - black boxes and no text
Dark mode disabled - text is visible

Mr Goebel

FOX17News works fine, the notifications are ridiculous, to many and duplicates all day long. I had to turn them off and turn on NC5 for notifications. I reported this and even got a reply acknowledging it but after weeks, still no fix.



Is FOX 17 News Safe? ๐Ÿ™

FOX 17 News does not appear safe based on available data. JustUseApp Safety Score for FOX 17 News is 3.2/100.
This assessment is based on our NLP analysis of 138 user reviews. Combined with the app store average rating of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

84.4% of users say app is safe ๐Ÿ‘
84.4%

15.6% of users have some concerns โš ๏ธ
15.6%

0% of users say app is risky ๐Ÿšจ
0%


Is FOX 17 News Legit? ๐Ÿ’ฏ

FOX 17 News does not appear legitimate based on our analysis. Our NLP models processed user feedback to estimate legitimacy. JustUseApp Legitimacy Score for FOX 17 News is 3.2/100 .
This conclusion is based on analysis of 138 user reviews.

๐Ÿ” Privacy & Data Safety

FOX 17 News collected the following data from you:

  • Data Used to Track You:
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
  • Data Not Linked to You:
    • Location
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics

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Features

With the new and fully redesigned app you can watch live newscasts, get up-to-the minute local and national news, weather and traffic conditions and stay informed via notifications alerting you to breaking news and local events.

The FOX 17 News app delivers news, weather and sports in an instant.

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Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc


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