WLOX Local News Reviews

I enjoyed the access to local news headlines, and I appreciate that the news stories were never behind a paywall. However, WLOXLocalNews made my phone’s performance abysmal! WLOXLocalNews constantly refreshed in the background, even after disabling this option in settings, and unavoidable full-screen animated ads (with embarrassing sound) popped up at random intervals. Extremely frustrating, and there’s no paid ad-free version available. Save your phone and just pin the WLOX homepage to your home screen!

The problem with WLOXLocalNews is when I turn my iPhone sideways to view a picture or video I can’t go back, WLOXLocalNews freezes. I have to completely close WLOXLocalNews and reopen it to continue. Very frustrating. And I realize the news has to advertise, but do I have to see one EVERY TIME i view a video? I have to admit that I don’t watch as many because of the ads.
Thank you for letting me air my thoughts.

This new update isn’t as user friendly as the previous one. The colors and the set up seem distracting. It just kind of irritates you look for what you want to see first. It also freezes up, you have to close it and reopen. Sometimes change isn’t always the best. Also couldn’t rate WLOXLocalNews in the actual app. That link doesn’t do anything. I had to go to WLOXLocalNews Store.

The new version uses a font that is not as reader-friendly. It’s much slower to load, and the ads are placed too frequently and are distracting. In general, I find WLOX doesn’t update the news as frequently enough. There has to be more stories that are of local interest. Instead of the same news with no updates,!there could be more inspirational local coverage. Perhaps the most ironic and frequent negative aspect is the message of “there’s no news,” which in find is more frequent at night and on weekends.

I am so proud of how well our local reporters articulate what is happening in our community. They do it with such professionalism and most of it is impromptu which makes so so much believable, “ no fakes in our news casters.”

I use WLOXLocalNews everyday and I recently downloaded the newest update. It looks like a disorganized, jumbled mess. Often the same story featured several times and there is no clear division and eye appeal to the dividing lines between stories as they are listed on the main page. Also with the recent storm in the Atlantic there should be an update on the main page with current Speeds and forecast.

I always check the news and weather every day several times. Love getting it on my phone

WLOX is where I start my morning. The content is lackluster, and stale. Quite a bit of the current content is months old.
The weather part is only somewhat helpful now since they removed the live morning report. Really enjoyed watching Wesley, he had a lot of enthusiasm. Near Zero on the saints. My time on the site has gone from 15min to 4min, then it's on to AppleNews.

We appreciate you for providing up to the minute news coverage!

Thanks for all the wonderful updates and news that you provide us daily

Very good. I’m able to stay informed at anytime of the day with the news and weather apps.

Four Star because the iPad version, you have to start the program, close the program and restart program to get horizontal NOT vertical to work!

Too many ads! Can’t tell the news stories from “sponsored content”ads. Too many ads interruptions!!! Wish I could go back to old app. Will probably delete this whole app. Makes it Too much trouble to try to see the local news!

This “news outlet” that claims to be unbiased and equally representative is ACTUALLY openly racist. Notice the capitalization differences. “Black” is NOT a proper noun, and by capitalizing it and not “white”, you are a prime example of how media drives separation in the masses for profit. Shame on your company and I will no longer follow such racist bigotry. What a joke.

I love WLOX they keep us up on all that is going on ! Please keep up the great news!

The new update is awful. It is confusing. It's hard to separate the headlines. It repeats headlines/news on home page. Mixes old news with new news. As a result, I have now started going to the Sun Herald app to get my daily news. I pray to God that they do not screw up the wlox weather when they do an update for it.

Ever since the update WLOXLocalNews freezes on the loading screen with a circle just going round and round. I hope this gets fixed soon cause I loved WLOXLocalNews before the constant freezing

Not user friendly. Continually freezes up trying to open. Will not open to the notification story when opened using notification link. Poor overall update

WLOXLocalNews is always crashing. Weather forecast never works. Live news feeds doesn’t work.

The old WLOX app was not very good. This one is a hundred times worse! It’s hard to follow which stories are actual news and which are just click-bait. It’s very disjointed in the presentation and has too many adds.

Appreciate the convenience of staying fully informed while on the move. The AAP gives a Headline which I can clip on for the full story, or leave till I have more time, etc
Great knowing immediately the local headlines, wrecks, as well as important national news.
I’m a believer👍