KOIN 6 News - Portland News Reviews

by Teach Em Up

KOIN6News is completely dominated by a giant auto playing video with a little news and a lot of adds. You can’t close the video, and it expands and contracts as you scroll up and down blocking text.

Just pull it up in Safari and put it in reader mode, or just switch to another local news source.

by Carrera53

KOIN6News is painfully annoying to use since it is purposely designed to make the user unintentionally click on ads as you scroll through a story. Just lightly brushing the screen causes a redirect to web browser with the ad content which takes you away from the story and KOIN6News .
I am there to read the news not browse advertising! Like I can afford a new Bentley ( I actually had this ad redirect 6 times in one story! )
This is basically an advertising app with “news” sprinkled in occasionally🤨

by ReneeNGardner

While I find KOIN6 a very reliable news source, the auto play videos in KOIN6News are a nuisance. Every story I’ve clicked into starts with a loud ad that cannot be muted or stopped, then leads into a video story I don’t want to hear. Even if I scroll down to read the story, the video is still playing.

by Paulworks

The layout is good but when you click on a story an add shows up and then it appears to be trying to load the page but never does. It also crashes and appears to turn my sound on for ads when I have it off so as not to disturb people. If it isn't fixed soon I will switch back to KGW which was also garbage but at least I got to read the news stories.

by Strozut

The latest update is unusable for watching livestream of newscasts on my iPhone with 10.3.3 iOS. Once I go through the clunky interface, I get stuck in ad loops. The rare time a few seconds of the live broadcast streams, it suddenly pops back into another ad loop. The old version had problems, but was usable. This updated app is similar to the clunky KGW livestream interface, except not watchable. At all. (One star because that is the minimal requirement to pst a review.)

by Loghyr

Below is the review I wrote a while back. Deleted KOIN6News . They fixed that idiocy, but now in the middle of reading a story a commercial’s soundtrack started playing and could not be quickly stopped. Deleted KOIN6News again

The news KOIN6News provides is not bad, but EVERY time you open KOIN6News it shows an ad which must be closed before KOIN6News can be used, and EVERY time you change pages the same (shrill) video of a KOIN spokesmodel encouraging water conservation plays. Every page change? Really? This is a very poor user experience

by HBDesert

They really need to take a hard look at resource management in KOIN6News. I like KOIN 6 news, but to try and watch videos results in constant frustration with performance issues. Don’t even try to screen share with Apple TV for a news conference unless you like watching the same ad 4 times and have it freeze up.
Good content, but a poorly engineered app.

by Atropheus

KOIN6News is such a mess. Ads pop up and the swipe up to dismiss is almost the same gesture as closing KOIN6News on iPhone, so 9 times out of 10 I accidentally close it. Video ads start running immediately so you can’t just read the article and see the picture related to the article (today it was a girl doing bridge pose instead of the suspect police are asking public to look for). Articles lack punctuation, spelling and capitalization errors are everywhere. It’s fine for just seeing the notification blurbs that come up, but don’t bother clicking them, it’s all downhill from there.

by Lizzieb7

No matter what I adjust my notification settings to, I still receive notifications for stories I have absolutely no interest in. Deleted KOIN6News to find a local news station that can send me ONLY what I’m interested in.

by 12Fun

I have happily used this news app on my phone for several years. However, recently it has been overtaken with ads that have blaring sound. I’ll be sitting and reading quietly and all of a sudden an ad will appear with VERY loud audio. I looked for a place on KOIN6News to contact KOIN to complain but could find none. I won’t be able to continue using KOIN6News with this problem!

by Nijo150

I refuse to use KOIN6News because videos auto play when you click a story. This means that if I’m sitting in a quiet place and click a story, the video starts blaring away if I don’t have my sound turned off. Auto play is a big no-no. KOIN6News is unusable. Luckily, there are other local alternatives.

by Aperson55

Liked other versions the things that play automatically are the data sucking adds and there doesn’t seem to be away of stopping stuff from running unless I asker to. All automatic all data and battery killing time to delete as I’ve already done with a similar functioning local news app. C-

by Sig503

Lately after a device reset, app will allow one to clip on story but then it won’t let you back out of KOIN6News . No buttons work after KOIN6News crashes.

Might just copy the link rather than continue to use a crashing app.

by Scarlet56

I like the new site. The only problem I have now is I get notifications twice. I've turned them off to avoid the irritation. Keep up with the improvements. I upgraded my rating from 2 to 3 stars due to the improvement in navigating the site.

by Jekmb

I like the news up dates very much but the ads are terrible. Some go on for 30 minutes. They have come ons and deliver junk. They certainly don’t entice me to buyrjkem

by New2iphone-jojo

This ap provides relevant accurate and current news stories as they develop. Never had any issues with functionality. Thanks KOIN 6

by Jgr2204

I find the KOIN news app to be a spot where I can get the latest Portland and Northwest news.

by RAM1946

Love the news team! Very informative, caring and knowledgeable when giving a review of issue. Love the idea the team goes into the community to learn more about a topic.

Keep up the excellent job!

by Fsehi

I turn the Koin 6 news for my Weather and News, because I can rely on them to be accurate and informative. I use KOIN6News and I watch every night. Love you guys

by Miss Marta007

I’m updated with current news and really am glad to be forewarned about local nes, especially impacting local residents of traffic hazards and protests, so I can avoid (usually) walkable areas! I don’t need additional stress so THANK YOU! Am informed of events possible to attend! I’m glad glad to be in the “KNOW”. - thanks,Marta

by Mugshotmike

Numerous times the notifications have said that a person in an accident was identified only to let the reader search in vain for a name. Today’s notification about the Substation fire said Person Found Dead, but when you open the story, it says “no fatalities or injuy have been reported “ Come on, people! Get your app together!

by SuitablyDressed

Update works fine but I actually liked the previous version better. This one is a carbon copy of every other tv news app. Can't anyone be original anymore? KOIN news is by far the best local news operation in Portland.

by Jimmp

The older version was clunky and hard to use. This update is great and makes this so much better and easier to use and scroll through. I live in Portland.

by Ghandi48

Would have given you 5 stars if Kelly Day was still on. Nothing against her replacement but, liked the way She and Jeff G partnered.