CBS 42 - AL News & Weather Reviews

by CPRPTR

Of all the apps I have downloaded, this one is the hardest to navigate. If you initiate a “notification”, it is almost impossible to locate the story. You have hidden the story somewhere deep inside of endless channels of CBS42 . For example, your notification says “Click” to see Coach Saban give his weekly news conference. When you click, it takes to a screen with advertisements, then two options, News or Live. Click Live, and you get a blank screen, Click News, and you get this endless web of titled options that goes in different directions, none of which is the story you initially started to look for.
All other local news apps, have easily navigable News Apps. When you get a Notification about news happening or story, you can click on the Notification, and it immediately takes you to the story, or video, or live stream. Why can’t yours do the same thing? In this day of incredible technology, endless Web services, and fierce competition, it just seems to me, you of all people should be a leader in them News and Entertainment Apps. Yet, you are dead last in CBS42 category.
Good luck with that!

by Matt_J In Alabama

The latest updates to the this app weather app have turned a fairly functional app into a bloated waste of time. I would prefer to go back to the old app. Will be looking to replace it with another local weather app that sends real time alerts.

by Alston28

Where’s the updated order????

by IPhoneWanderer

Not a fan of the new design. The headlines are impossible to read and the thumbnails are too small.

Not a fan that your app sells my information to third parties by default. Shame on you.

by Shadyrestn

Live stream never work WiFi connection or network connected. So during a power outage CBS42 is worthless... you’ll get repeated alert messages letting you know there is lightening in you area though

by Doallucando

I get an alert. I go to that alert and all I get is a blank page every time

by Jettt111

CBS42 crashes and the Home Screen pops up and you have to start CBS42 again and it crashes again and has been doing it for 3 or 4 years. I’m just deleting it. There are way faster and better ways to get the news than deal with this bugged out crappy app they are too incompetent to fix.

by Atlas1980

The only part of CBS42 I use is the watch live feature, and I have to try it multiple times on each visit before that section will load properly.

by VoiceOver User.

In previous versions of CBS42 , if I received a notification, I was not only able to read that article with ease, but was also able to _easily go to the next article with a simple swipe, until I reached the end of a group; then, I could hit “Back”, scroll down to the next group, open that article, and easily access the articles in _that group. You say that this new version is _easier to work with? That’s a _joke! Frequently, if I try to access an article that originally appeared in Newsfeed, the text jumps around wildly, rendering it impossible to read. I can’t vouch for the live stream, as I’m not often available when the live newscasts are streaming. And _no _one explains the settings pertaining to Newsfeed: something about “Bell Ring on/off”, or “notify on this topic?”. Equally frustrating: when I _do try to access articles subsequent to the ones that appear in Notifications, more often than not, I receive an alert saying “Your app needs to be updated in order to take advantage of new push notification features”. That’s funny. I’m already running the updated version, the latest one in App Store, and am running the latest iOS (12.3.1 at this writing). I don’t know if non-VoiceOver users run into these same issues; but, if they do, they aren’t chiming in. CBS42 was working better, and was far more user friendly, before this update. If this is how it will stay, then there needs to be a tutorial. I will try reinstalling CBS42 ; and, if that makes a significant difference, I will update this review. Update: Originally gave it 3 stars; now down to 1. You just _ruined it for VoiceOver users, and posssibly for others as well. I try to bring up an article that appeared in my notifications two or three days ago (before this update), which I am just now having time to read. The article doesn’t come up at all, and the only things that _do come up are late-breaking (maybe) news articles. Nowhere in this new version do I find a way to bring up the notifications. In-app settings are of no use now. It tells you to turn notifications on or off for specific topics; but, the topics are not displayed with toggles to turn them on or off. Before updating it again, try navigating it with your eyes closed! If there were a way to go back to the previous version—which was better than the one that prompted my previous review (above)—I would do it in a heartbeat.

Yet another update: July 11, 2021. Back to 3 stars, reluctantly. The latest version trades one set of problems for another, at least for VoiceOver users. Now, if one wishes to modify in-app notification settings, the toggles for enabling or disabling the items frequently either don’t work or don’t come up at all. The Search function (for finding stories) isn’t working at all. At times, if one clicks on a category, it doesn’t come up. If one is a long way down in an article, scrolling back to the top is a real pain now. At least for this user, trying to navigate the current weather forecast—which, apparently, is associated with a video—the text jumps around wildly, and then pauses long enough for my screen to lock, unless I go into my phone’s settings and increase the length of time before AutoLock engages. Then, when I unlock the screen again, the text has moved to a point much nearer the end, and I have missed much of the forecast. I think CBS42 would work much better—for _all users—if the graphics were minimized or eliminated entirely, or there were an item in Settings to minimize or maximize graphics. In this case, turning Screen Recognition (a VoiceOver setting intended to improve accessibility) on for CBS42 doesn’t help. They intrude into the text, making reading and navigation difficult. Sometimes, even the in-app settings do not come up. Reinstalling CBS42 and restarting my phone haven’t helped. I am running the latest version of both iOS and CBS42 .

by Hagenduz

When I get news alerts and tap to open, that story is nowhere to be found. It either opens to a video that has nothing to do with the alert or plays commercials for the Jim Burke automotive group and never opens the news alert.

by WeatherNut15

We had Tornado watch’s and warnings for my area, I didn’t get any notification on my phone, had the other apps went off

by Bike53x12

So far, this ap has run flawlessly. Quick to load and update.

by Arlettawyatt

I love watching the news every day you get all of your happenings from every where every day and that’s great first thing in the morning

by Lynda In Tuscaloosa

Love this app!! And their app!! Keeps me informed!!

by Gnomaad

Always there when I need it — and there when they need me to know what’s happening.

by Y3sindeed

Always on top of the news, keeping us informed !

by Credit Card Mary

Great station! Thank you.

by SGM(R)JIM

Always on top of ALL NEWS and WEATHER Stories. Keep up the good work.

by Lakeside Dr

Good news and information

by W4RHOR53

It keeps me updated.