Arizona's Family News Reviews

by Ilovemyaps

Before the update, this was my go to app for (AZ) news. Not anymore. They’ve added a place for you to turn on notifications that literally is 25% of the screen. The previous layout showed more possible stories which enticed me to keep looking at their app and the articles. Now it’s a scroll fest and you lose interest in looking for stories. If you want local news do yourself a favor and use AZCentral or virtually any other local news app.

by Tricem

Version 44: This layout is crap. The locked portrait mode is horrid. Overall, the update just stinks, but my biggest issue is that I have thick fingers, and keep hitting the damned share button when I'm trying to hit the back button. Please fix this atrocity sooner than later...

Version 45: Nothing has changed with my original review. I did notice that the traffic map is utterly useless when we have a weather system in town. I don’t even know why the traffic map is showing weather, but as of right this moment, I can’t see any Phoenix roads through a massive green blob. Way to go, devs...

I’m off to find a better news app, as this one isn’t worth the space it uses on my devices. Thanks for ruining a fairly decent app, guys...

by Neomaxizondweeby

ArizonasFamilyNews was good before the last update.
Now nothing loads quick or at all. I click on a story and get a blank white screen. Sometimes it will eventually load, or flash the story and a blank screen. Wifi and data connection. The opening ad works without flaws and is more difficult to remove. Use to just swipe it off. Everything is much harder to navigate. Can't see the current day's forecasted high temperature without going on a hunt for it. Seems they want to advertise more than help share the news.

by JMHep

You often see a headline, "Just Breaking," "Just In," "Join live stream," and then you start to read the story and find the news is a day or two old! Update more often and discard day-old stories unless there is a definite interest in updating and follow up. Just don't continue to call the old portion breaking news. Unfortunately, what is truly breaking news often does not get put on right away. I may open ArizonasFamilyNews in the morning and find only one or two new stories the rest being filled with yesterday's still "breaking" news.

by DDnurs

Arizona is a huge state...with diverse politics and groups of diverse people. Phoenix coverage seems to be full of murders and political strife.A murder trial took place here The murderer took the life of a policeman...I would have thought it would have been followed closely...more than most...Nope...
Governor Ducy is trying to increase awareness of developmental delays and followup on the 2004 studies done on the disabled...It took one year to get individual therapy for our downs grandbaby despite calling repeatedly and doctors orders...I cant imagine how the three “reservations” are doing...We need speech therapy to be a priority for children “all over the state”...not just Phoenix...
We need a neurologist...If you look at the need...We are a “big military state”...Doug Ducey could petition the “armed forces to provide someone”..or make a “state mandate”... to find specialty services for patients “falling through the cracks”.. even if he has to ask the president to make an executive order for military services to be able to be tapped for an obvious need...We have the finest neurocare in the world in Phoenix but no “ancillary services”... to provide follow up without traveling four hours for care...
There is a great deal to Arizona....besides Phoenix....
Just saying...

by EdJHill

For several months, I checked in each morning to Ch3, Phoenix, for news and weather on my iPad. Recently, it has increasingly difficult to connect with the video. If I get the video, it only lasts 2-3 commercial breaks and drops off. Only a few minutes later do I realize that it has dropped. It shows that the live feed is still active but, ...... it isn’t! I have finally given up and changed to another channel in town. Too bad because I really like the morning crew at Ch3.

by Jessie 46

When trying to scroll through the story you can’t scroll up easily. It either freezes or knocks off ArizonasFamilyNews completely. Then you have to go back on, find the article and try to start reading again. Needs to be simpler. Had no problems with the old format.

by TrunksLevel4

Had ArizonasFamilyNews for about 10 mins, got to a story I wanted to read and clicked on it. Got a few sentences in and there was an ad, I kept scrolling done with my finger but nothing was happening. Thought ArizonasFamilyNews froze. Uninstalled and reinstalled and it happened again. You have to scroll off the ad to move the story down. What kind of news article is that?

by Bluejay1013

While the coverage for Phoenix seems to be good and up to date, coverage for other municipalities is lacking. Information on Emergency orders and current news for places like Tempe, Mesa & Chandler doesn’t appear to be available on ArizonasFamilyNews . Also very little information about Flagstaff & Tucson other than the number of cases is reported on. Please provide this additional coverage as Phoenix doesn’t represent all of Arizona.

by DIY Guyz

I find the navigation to be a bit messy. And, often times when I get to the bottom of a section ArizonasFamilyNews will freeze. I reloaded ArizonasFamilyNews to see if that would fix the problem but it’s still there so it is a bug in ArizonasFamilyNews .

by Algietrig

The traffic map used to be excellent. I could pull it up, and the roads were marked with red, green or yellow which helped my sister and I know which streets to take. Then they changed it with very dark colorings on the streets where I couldn’t read the names of the streets. It also would cover roads with rain and you couldn’t tell what was happening with the roads at all. Now it’s just a map with nothing to tell you what the traffic is doing. As 2 seniors we really appreciated the original maps, but now find it to be worthless.

by JoshArt

Great App, love that I can watch live. The issues I keep running into most frequently are with live broadcasts: 1. The audio for live broadcasts cuts out intermittently and changes tone and clarity. 2. The video quality gets really blurry and pixelated, but the sign language interpreter video still looks perfect. 3. You guys keep cutting off Ducey’s press conferences for commentary while they are still speaking. We just want to watch the conference, your commentators add nothing of value and is really just an interruption.

Three stars due to the issues and frequency that I run into them. I experience at least 1 of the 3 issues listed each time I watch the live coverage (almost every day during the pandemic).

Still very thankful I am able to stay connected to local live news without cable.

by Liz In Az

Overall, ArizonasFamilyNews is good and helps me stay up to date on what’s going on locally. But the main issue I’m having with it is sometimes I will open it and it will freeze causing me to have to close it and reopen it.,sometimes a few times..in order to get it working. It happens a lot when I look at the weather section. I open ArizonasFamilyNews , click on the temp. to take me to the weather and then when I click on hourly, or radar the whole app freezes and I have to restart. Kind of annoying when you just want to look at the hourly forecast or radar.

by Tymora

I love news channel three! But I don't always have time to turn on the tv in the morning so I was happy to find live video on my phone. Problem, most of the time the video freezes, is not on line, or crashes my phone. Definitely needs updates!

by W. Henry

When I first saw the photo of the plane that nose dived into the building I identified it as a 1947 Ercoupe to my wife. I remember that back in that day it was advertised as “ The plane that grandma could fly.”, extolling it’s simplicity to fly. When I heard that the occupants lived through this horrific accident I couldn’t help but wonder if the designers of this sweet little plane might not have added “..... and crashed and can walk away.”. Just a little bit of humor there... but not much.
Bill Henry

by FromLongview

Joining together brings has brought fluidity to you news sharing. Thank you for having coffee with me each morning. You start my day with your BETTER THAN EVER news and weather. You UPDATE me during the day. You alert me as weather changes. YES U R STILL THE BEST!!! Thank you! Dallas

by Skip582782

I have several of the local news and radio apps on my phone. This one usually alerts me about breaking news before any other.

by Aztoybuyer

I’ve tried 2 of the other free apps for local coverage and deleted them within 2 days. Azfamily gives a good overview of what’s going on at home; with both written articles and some video. The layout is concise and easy to follow. National coverage is not as comprehensive, but I get that elsewhere. I wanted an app that let me feel I was at home, and this is it.
Sure, there’s some advertising - but I can put up with a 30 second spot promoting our local stellar Musical Instrument Museum.

by Resunoko

ArizonasFamilyNews is great for local news, weather updates, traffic conditions, and much more. I really appreciate the local news in such a user-friendly format.

by Craziebarb

Who wouldn’t enjoy all of the joking and fun when all your “ family “ get together and if there is any drama it is never seen! Very cozy. I’m a snow bird and you delight me every day with upfront news! Mama Barbara 😇. Very fair/ funny appropriately/ just honest! Chris, are you a dill or sweet Pickle?!!! 😁. Best I can do for an old lady!

by Fhphotog

You often see a headline, "Just Breaking," "Just In," "Join live stream," and then you start to read the story and find the news is a day or two old! Update more often and discard day-old stories unless there is a definite interest in updating and follow up. Just don't continue to call the old portion breaking news. Unfortunately, what is truly breaking news often does not get put on right away. I may open ArizonasFamilyNews in the morning and find only one or two new stories the rest being filled with yesterday's still "breaking" news.

by It's Me, Silly

Has anyone else reported any issues with the traffic map loading correctly? I’ve uninstalled/reinstalled ArizonasFamilyNews, as well as the Phoenix traffic app and am still having the same issues. Other than that, I’ve had no issues!

by Not Worthier

Not as good as in the past. Seems as if you are trying to rush thru every thing.
Sometimes the pop up does not carry over to the story that is being reported.
Still like it over the other one I followed in the past!

by Dad Bee

Current and contemporary. Latest info presented as it occurs. Good variety of subject matter. Even has a daily trivia section!

Update--Daily trivia section is gone. Replaced by horoscope section (personal opinion "boring").
All other aspects remain.

by Yxofmap

Thank you for keeping me updated on all the news. I just wish there weren’t so many fatalities and crime in the valley. Enjoy your human interest stories that help balance the sad news.