ABC30 Central CA Reviews

I really like ABC30CentralCA and I've been using almost daily for at least a year. It's well thought out and aside from the "fake news" sidebars for advertising the content is relevant and timely. Commercials are not overwhelming in number.

The latest update, for me, has a bug where after I watch a clip, the "done" button disappears. So I have to close ABC30CentralCA and start again. After the clip ends I'm stuck with no way to go back to the home page.

It's been many months and still have the issue after watching a clip the done button disappears.

All in all I'm really pleased mostly due to the other local news apps I've tried simply do not work.

ABC 30 app is the best app for local news. I read it daily and also check the weather which always has the most accurate forecast. I’ve had ABC30CentralCA for years and am overall very happy with it, however there are some bugs that need fixing. There are only problems when watching the video clips. ABC30CentralCA often crashes in the middle of the video which is SUPER annoying. I’d say 2 to 3 videos a day will crash the entire app. Also, the next video will automatically play. This has happened even after I close ABC30CentralCA . My phone will be locked and the video continues to play. Please fix your video issues!

Great news app and neat features to stay up to date locally and nationally. One thing that needs to be fixed is when I’m scrolling through a story, the authors will attach links to parts of a text that will transfer you to a specific story they’re describing by tapping on it. These words are highlighted in blue. Sometimes, while trying to swipe through an article, I accidentally tap on these words and ABC30CentralCA transfers me to a whole different story. It’s nerve racking because I have to return to the previous story and carefully scroll my way down to where I left off.

App often looses connection and plays the next news video without prompting. But what I find distasteful is the lack of respect the news reporters show our President. I understand that abc is connected to the Disney empire, and their blatant bias shows in the stories they write. An example is when they refer to what Trump has said, they’ll use negative worlds like, “rhetoric, hostile, angry and taunting”, which is to my opinion an obvious attempt to paint an unfavorable image. When posting a picture of President Trump they chose to print an unflattering, angry, or just a down right ugly picture. Again, to reflect a negative image. When President Obama was in office, you wouldn’t see this obvious bias reporting done by abc news. Shame on you all

While it is the best news app Fresno has to offer, that isn’t saying much. It is a good source of local news most of the time. But it doesn’t even mention giant world events...you know, things that the entire world has stopped for? There should at least be links to ABC News stories about those. The video auto play feature keeps changing in my settings without me doing anything. And there are a ton of ads scattered throughout stories, and the page skips all over as they load, so the story is unreadable until I wait for several ads to load slowly.

I used to love your app for my go to for news. Now with this latest version it’s glitchy, does not open when I am sent a news notification. And also it’s horrible when trying to stream live news, there is a delay because there has to be an ad or two before it will jump into the news. Please go back to when it was user-friendly and worked without any issue.

This is a really good app to get news and weather here in the valley. One request, can you guys please limit the amount of notifications you guys send out as “breaking news”? Or add a setting to what news alerts to receive?

Example: “person ran over/shot/stabbed in Fresno” this literally happens like every day. Unfortunately so often it becomes repetitive and almost like spam.

Also add a tab for live news please

Not sure why the weather portion of ABC30CentralCA does not match the weather forecast on ABC30. You would think that whoever is managing them would be on the same page. ABC30CentralCA weather at times is 10 degrees cooler than what the station is calling for.

Generally I like the ABC 30 app. I like being able to access local news while I travel and being able to stream the news wherever I happen to be. However, it’s frustrating how limited choosing what news you receive is. Also, you can’t access information about the news team, and it’s difficult to find news stories that you may have missed during the news broadcast.

ABC 30 is my absolute favorite news station. I love getting the notifications telling me about what is going on in my community. The only thing is, I use the voice over accessibility feature on the iPhone and when I click the full story button at the end of some articles, my screen goes blank. This makes me have to restart ABC30CentralCA and open it back up, then go back to the story and open it again. My only reason for a 1 star is because I would really really appreciate this being fixed!

Stories are poorly written, with many typos and errors, both factual and grammatical. There is no "report a typo" option like most news apps have. Emails pointing out the errors are ignored. Briefly there was a twitter feed pointing out the errors on the ABC30 twitter stream, but instead of fixing the errors, they blocked that feed. ABC30 - we make many mistakes and we don't care!

In ABC30CentralCA , there is a form to make suggestions. If you fill the entire form out and submit it, it fails with an error message. ABC30CentralCA , like the news reporting, is half assed and poorly done.

ABC30CentralCA does not auto refresh on iPhone you have to kill ABC30CentralCA to get current conditions every time. I use mostly for weather the old ABC30 app did auto refresh and most importantly in Los Banos it showed the wind speed and predicted wind speed by hour this is very useful in planning outdoor activities or choirs or if wind is really going to pick up you don't want your boat on San Luis reservoir. This is a huge downgrade from the old app!! Can I just get the old app back!! Please put the predicted wind speeds and fix the auto refresh problem

Having to scroll thru every story is a pain. I prefer to see headlines and a small pic of multiple stories giving me the option of which articles to access. The new app makes me read each article headline scrolling thru all articles before the option to choose to read an article.
ABC30 news app went from one of my favorites to my least favorite and last news app I view to examine news. Not even the local news generates any appeal. I prefer other news apps first. 😳

This is my favorite news station and I use ABC30CentralCA several times a day. Lately ABC30CentralCA has been stalling. Having to close ABC30CentralCA and start over. If it’s not stalling, it will completely close out. Please fix soon.

I like having my action news ap on my phone because it always has the most late breaking news.. and always accurate news!!!

Giving it 1 star for dev attention. The links in articles since the latest update open too easily. A simple scroll that use to never accidentally open links does it constantly now. It seems the link area is larger than just the blue hyperlink 🤔 All I know is I exit ABC30CentralCA frequently, out of frustration when unwanted links randomly open, and read the news on your central valley or Fresno bee.

This has only been going on for the last 3 weeks.

Please turn down your background music. Cannot hear the programs. If it does not get better my family and I will not be watching .

Always defaults to live. Can’t find stories that I just watched in the news to share with others. Especially frustrating when traveling and not in local time zone. I get an alert that something is livr and when I click on it it’s not there anymore. It’s another story. I hate ABC30CentralCA

The prior ABC30 app was great. A list of news stories loaded and you could very quickly scoll down the list to read the items that interested you. Now, the screen is filled with a big picture and one story and you have to keep swiping to see the next story. It's really slow and you end up swiping past a bunch of stories
that are of no interest. I checked ABC30CentralCA every day but doubt if I will do so now.

I’m currently in AZ stuck because of Covid and not quite ready to take the long drive home. I don’t miss any of my local news. I enjoy the honest reporting

I absolutely love ABC30CentralCA and I love ABC30 ... I love how they keep us updated on everything going from breaking news to emergency alerts in the state, city or country. I recommend everybody to get ABC30CentralCA it is very helpful and useful.

I enjoy ABC30CentralCA a lot. I wish it had a search engine. I’ve also seen that not all things or something n ABC30CentralCA that are on the full website.
Besides that I like it a lot & use it frequently.

I like that I can pick my notification categories in the settings. Layout is cleaner and I like the new explore function. Very neat and organized.