ABC7 Bay Area Reviews

The new layout is just bad. The prior version gave you an overview screen where you could quickly scroll through and select the articles you want to view. In this version, they minimized the overview into a small pane on the left, pretty much forcing you to swipe past each story. It now takes you longer to scan through the news.

Further, it’s just ugly. There is nothing visually exciting about this latest version. Not sure how, after viewing the prototype, the review team decided this would be a win.

How many times do I have to write in to tell you to fix your app? I have no choice but to leave a negative rating to get your attention. When you scroll through your pages any slightest touch to any embedded links in articles open another page!!! Annoying as hell to say the least. I get it, it was caused by iOS 13 update. But you should address it and figure it out. I gave you many weeks to release a new version to address this but nothing from you. now I’m deleting your app for good. There are plenty of other news app that have addressed this and have more timely breaking news and a lot less typos. You just lost a long time user.

I HATE this new version of your app. I don’t like the constant scrolling necessary to find a story i want to read. I liked the old version much better, where it showed a list of stories. Now I can’t find the traffic, weather, or 7 On Your Side. What was the point of this new version? If it was to ruin your app and make people want to delete it, you have succeeded. I am relying on other local news station apps instead and will delete yours. I was using your app every day, so I am extremely disappointed in what you’ve done to it.

Shame on you channel 7 News.
Your leading news story yesterday should have been the splash down of the US astronauts! You continue to lead with and cluster up ABC7BayArea with Covid 19 stories. There is more news than Covid 19 and in addition, the numbers reported are of no relevance and politically skewed!
Channel 7 news used to be a good new source, but lately has been politically biased like most of your competitors. I will be deleting ABC7BayArea and will move to Fox News to get a more accurate picture of what is going on in the world.
Barney

After getting annoying alerts for everything under the sun that is not news, I searched for the story about a fire that had International completely blocked all night into early this morning and could find nothing until over 12 hrs later and then the story was grossly misinformed and incomplete. I know this because nbc posted the full detailed story at about 7 am this morning. I decided I should have their app instead. I live in Oakland and I need to know things for my safety and well being. I don’t need alerts about people dressing up their dog’s collar. This shouldn’t need to be stated. Report the news.

You folks need to remember that people reading the stories on your app are using their fingers to scroll. So when you embed a hyperlink in just about every word it makes it impossible to read the story cause you’re constantly hitting a hyperlink and getting sent to the new page. Also your video auto-playing is annoying as hell. If you want to do that, at least keep the sound muted for the user to decide to unmute. Many of us don’t keep track of where the volume on our phones is set at and having the videos blaring at us when we just want to scan the story is annoying.

Since the update ABC7BayArea is full of ads. Whenever you click on a story you get an ad, even if you just watched one the story before. ABC7BayArea is now harder to navigate, has less content, unending ads, and no way to contact or leave feedback. I have had and have depended on ABC7BayArea for years. No more, I am deleting it. There are many more ways to get the local news and forecast. If it wasn’t for Dan Ashley and Spencer Christian I would stop watching their evening and nightly news on TV as well. Shame on you ABC7, you have ruined my mornings.

I left a three star review the other day due to ABC7BayArea performance (Not because of the station’s news policies or slant, you morons who do that). I then deleted ABC7BayArea and hunted around for a new one. I’m not telling you I ended up with NBC’s because of any bias I have, but only to tell you this: It Works Like A Charm!

I picked a story on video, it loaded immediately, and after the obligatory ad it dove right in to the story and never suffered a hitch while playing. That was enough to get me back here to leave this review.

These people should either sue ABC7BayArea developer, fire the executive who administers ABC7BayArea , or both. It’s almost as bad as Walmart’s website used to be, if you remember those days.

After a few years of dealing with ABC7BayArea I’m finally deleting it. I can’t anymore with how terrible it is. For starters the ads inside are such icky scam clickbait that it makes the news seem entirely unreliable. And I’ve sent messages to the creators about it before but I HATE that I have zero control over the news that gets pushed to my home screen. I should be able to say no to getting endless updates about sports, celebrity news, this person said WHAT? On Twitter??? BS, and for getting every single second play by play about things that don’t matter to me: “EVENT is today!” “We’re counting down to EVENT!” “EVENT is about to start” “EVENT just started” on and on until I want to die. DO NOT DOWNLOAD ABC7BayArea. THE NEWS IS NOT WORTH IT. THE TYPOS AND INCOMPLETE REPORTING ARE NOT WORTH IT. NOTHING THAT IS PROVIDED IS WORTH HOW ANNOYING ABC7BayArea IS.

The biggest problem I can see is the ads. It take over the information I’m trying to read. Most of the work is taken by all the ads ABC7BayArea has. I like how clean it is. It could nice clear medium large font. The video way to long to play after every ad. Make it a shorted ads. Maybe No ads on the breaking News. Because other News app media take away from this and they don’t have ads for live braking news. Maybe put them at the end. ABC7BayArea has the potential it’s loads faster than other apps. The news is good maybe break it down i columns don’t get there should bullet point for key importan issues. (Have you try your app developers) maybe they need to start there first because it’s currently trashy

I cannot find a quick way to provide input or feedback on any news story, nor can I quickly access/find the way to vote when it is requested. In Settings there is a “Feedback” option, but when clicked I just get the unending circle. For example, at the end of many News stories I want to ask, “But why?”. Also, at the end of the announcement of the new Bart Director I wanted to give feedback by suggesting that BART seek the input of rapid transit experts from Singapore & London. Help? Thanks.

I’ve used ABC7BayArea for a few years and lived with a lot of annoyances. One longtime issue was ABC7BayArea throwing up an alert about a news development on the lock screen, but when going to ABC7BayArea , it merely linked to the “home” screen. Sometimes merely finding the story mentioned in the alert was difficult (you’d think that it would be the top story given it was the subject of the lock screen alert).

Well, they finally fixed that, but TODAY I kept encountering another super annoying issue. While reading one story, ABC7BayArea kept switching to a different story. It did this 4 times. The first time I thought I might have hit a link within the story I was reading. The next few times I was careful not to touch any text that might have been a link. Finally on the 4th try, I just watched the screen without touching. Sure enough, after about 20-30 seconds, ABC7BayArea just loaded the same story AGAIN about LA Police capturing Nipsey Hussle’s killer. In fact it’s something I had already looked at when opening ABC7BayArea .

Anyway, I have no tolerance for apps that decide what I want to see when I’m trying to see something else.

Its deleted, gone... good riddance!

The only other local news app I have does NOT have an ad to start every....single...video report.
One can view each news video in ABC7BayArea free and clear. Wonderful. The ads are embedded in less obnoxious fashion. But ABC 7 can't stop at the less obnoxious ads. They have to go all out with a 30 second ad beginning every single video in ABC7BayArea . And the majority of stories have a video. Yes I know I can just read the story under the vid but not everyone wants to do that every time when there is in fact a video. The video ads are so frustrating I'm using ABC7BayArea less and less. GET RID OF THE NEWS VIDEO ADS!

I usually read ABC7BayArea first thing in the morning. It definitely has the best weather and traffic reporting vs. other local news apps. The cons: not a lot of newness, lots of stories from days ago stay on the main page. Also every time I wtch the weather video forecast it ends and I get a blank/black screen with no way to get out of it and back to ABC7BayArea unless I quit and reboot ABC7BayArea .

The good...excellent content that’s updated very frequently including the weekends. The ads prior to watching a story has decreased as well.
The bad...I hated having to search in settings on how to stop the auto play of the news articles that all I wanted to was read about. I know I’m probably the minority that wants to read instead of watching the story but that’s my gripe and maybe not yours.

Still a 4+ star free Bay Area news app!!

The format of the old app made it easier to scan the news stories of the day quicker. The format of the new app feels like it forces you to view each news story one at a time instead of being able to quickly scan through all the stories all at once. The new app looks pretty but it’s functionally worse than the old app.

Honestly, I see all sides, no one can predict my choice behind the Nov. curtain, 😉 * but I’ve decided not to watch ABC bc it’s very one-sided. Very partisan!
I want all sides of all issues, I don’t need your opinion. Especially when it sounds so wimpy when broadcasted, time to grow a pair.
This is exactly why ppl are moving out of Cali by the thousands...
California was never so prejudice nor partisan.
I grew up here as an immigrant (of value to USA)
But sympathizing to the extreme of condoning looting is anti-American! And giving air-time to such is giving value. Where’s your BackBone?
Brass Ovaries? Show so integrity! Pls.
You have the power to DEFUSE or add Gasoline.
You’re not defusing! You should be ashamed~

My sons are Active Duty Military TODAY fighting
for the American Way, incl. Freedom of Speech,
But not freedom to destroy & commit crimes,
That’s not honoring anyone, especially our people who protect us!
Putting down all Police is just not intelligent, that’s ridiculous, There are Bad ppl everywhere, even in your offices,
But most people are Good,
Look at the percentage, there’s your fact,
enough said,
Stop making EVERYTHING about Skin color,
That’s Not the California Way, never has been
You asked~
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ABC is one of my favorite networks and ABC7 news along with the World News David Muir make for good listening without the rants and raves you get on other networks.

I love the special 4 @ 4. Lots of humor there.

I think the whole spectrum of news is covered from 4:00 PM on daily.

It’s frustrating to watch the videos that I end up just reading the news. When playing the videos, it starts with the ad then stops. So I click on the play button again then another ad plays on top of the news playing 😡

Using only my cellphone I am able to receive the news minutes after the development, from sports to politics to everything...they continue to be consistent and cover current events very well !! Thanks ABC bc I still can’t get you folks back on my tv but I can get updated throughout the day n night using my phone until I get the Smart tv set**

ABC7BayArea is useless if it does not automatically switch from portrait to landscape mode. A use case where this is a problem is when it is use during cardio workout on an exercise machine. With phones having the earphone jack at the bottom, the phone can not sit on the exercise machine in the portrait position so having to pickup the phone everytime a news video is played to switch the video into landscape mode is not practical.

I really love ABC news app, the content is relevant and of interest. The weather is important to me, so am a big fan. I must agree with others on one point.....a 30 sec ad is too long, esp when I like to read everything!!! I can't stand hearing the star ad over and over and over and over and over and over and.....get it?! PLEASE CHANGE IT!