Live Alert 19 Reviews

I started using LiveAlert19 to replace iMap Weather Radio, which was deprecated and no longer worked. I can safely say that I get all needed alerts for both my location in Oklahoma City, and for my parents who live in the Northwest Alabama area (covered by the station behind this application). LiveAlert19 does what I need and does it quickly, within 1 minute of warning issuances, allowing me to assess the threat to my parents and advise them accordingly (they’re not as weather savvy as me).

I removed the previous version because it constantly froze. The first time I used the new one the back arrow in settings won’t respond. I want weather, not news and this is kind of cluttered on the main screen. I started using the Storm app.

I don’t know who approved the new layout but it’s horrible- can’t distinguish between what are ads and what is the information I’m looking for. Id blame the issue on screen size assumptions (hey not all of us want to walk around with a brick size phone) but the iPad is equally troublesome. While I love the idea of not getting news alerts on a weather app I’ve yet to get the settings tab to even open to set this adjust this feature. And the update wiped out all my previously identified location data. I’d send the directly to you but the links don’t work either.

This new version has major issues. Have had many phantom alerts to start with and the radar is hiding all landmarks and streets where there is precipitation. They need a major overhaul of LiveAlert19 and the sooner the better. The only good part of LiveAlert19 is the alerts when they work correctly. I have gotten alerts for places that I have turned off alerts for. Also no alerts for current location at times. Best advice I can give is to use at your own risk.

I loved LiveAlert19 when it would notify me of impending storms, watches, warnings, and lightning, but it all stopped working on all of our iPhones. (One 7 and 3 10XRs) LiveAlert19 is up to date. Notifications for LiveAlert19 are turned on in Settings. Location is enabled. I’ve even looked at LiveAlert19 settings inside LiveAlert19 . All is set up to notify but nothing happens. I’ll give them some time to fix it before April. After that, I’m deleting it. It’s useless the way it is.

I have used LiveAlert19 for a long time. Today I removed it and went with another. I did this because I don’t like not being able to get the day’s weather without having to wait for LiveAlert19 to load, and it isn’t easy to find stuff anymore. The changes are not user friendly.

I downloaded LiveAlert19 to watch the news(which tends to freeze up), get weather alerts and get IMPORTANT news alerts. The news alerts are not specific to your area, therefore you will get EVERY news alert.....even ones that are not really that pressing, in my opinion.....including celebrity news. The push alert feature is abused.

For some reason the alert notifications don’t work anymore. I used to get a push notification when there was storm moving in but the last few storms that have brought tornado warnings and watches I got nothing. Location is on and all alerts/ notifications are on. DONT EXPECT ANYTHING USEFUL FROM LiveAlert19!! I’ve emailed LiveAlert19 developer and whnt several times over the past few months but never got a response

LiveAlert19 is great to use during severe weather situations like the one in early November. It alerted me when the storms were coming and the radar was very useful. It also alerted me of storms in my area when I was on vacation. Thank You!!

LiveAlert19 use to be my go to for weather because it was simple to use and fairly accurate. Since the update it’s become difficult to navigate and harder to understand. I now have to go to the trouble of finding a new weather app that is as reliable as this one use to be.

My suggestion to the dev team is to revert back to the previous version if it wants it’s customer base back.

LiveAlert19 recently updated, before I would check the weather throughout the day, now I’m trying to figure out the basic. To me the updated version is more videos and live streaming. Which I don’t like. More ads, which news 19 app has more ads now too 🤔 I may be switching news and downloading another weather app that gets to the point!!

I think Jason and all the meteorologists on whnt do a great job. But this is not a good app. It used to be my go to but they changed it and now the radar is just confusing and I can’t figure out how to change the settings on the alerts. The radar is pointless if you have no idea what you are looking at. It was great before though.

I’ve had LiveAlert19 installed for almost 2 years, but seldom use it due to the impossible ads placement and closing them is just impossible because they take over and you can’t go back! Just have to start over, and the ads fill up again.
Sorry WHNT, I like you guys, but LiveAlert19 is and has been useless. No good!

This recent update sorted things out in a better way, but why does everything take me to safari to see the weather? This is an app, not a browser??? Anyways, looks better, much work to do however.

This keeps appearing as needing an update but then says it's not compatible with my phone. I have latest iPhone update.

LiveAlert19 used to be very basic and easy to use. Especially the radar. It’s hard to see now, and I can’t figure out if it has a future/past setting anymore.. neither can I find the hourly forecast anymore. I wish I hadn’t have updated all my apps at once. What a shame

This was a good app until the start of 2018. Since then, it has been very slow on both the iPhone 6 and then my iPhone 6s. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to switch to a different app that won’t freeze.

Please give us our old app back! I seldom write reviews, but LiveAlert19 is just frustrating and disgusting. It was one thing to have advertisements at the top of the screen, but now people pinching their belly fat etc. are all over the screen. To me the old one was much more user friendly.

The look is great if I only knew what to click on to see everything. Too many ads to navigate through. How about offering a paid app with no ads? As bad as I hate to I’m using another station’s until you fix it and make it user friendly.

I never use LiveAlert19, because I can never find it on my phone. I search “weather” to locate my weather apps and this one never shows up. You need to rename LiveAlert19 for what it provides, weather details.

April13, 2019
Still no fix for being able to read the the state and city names through the alert overlays. I’m still depending on other apps for this information. This is a bad case of IT techs and upper management not listening to the users. No wonder the 2.5 rating.

March 3, 2019
Why is it so hard for LiveAlert19 designers to understand that STATE AND CITY NAMES CANNOT BE READ OVER THE OVERLAYS during bad weather and alerts?

People have been complaining since the September 2018 update that ruined LiveAlert19 and we are being ignored. I have to go to other apps to find this information and I am almost ready to delete LiveAlert19 since I can also get ALL ALERTS from those other apps.

The 2.6 rating should be telling the designers how bad LiveAlert19 is. That’s probably why the most “recent” reviews are not listed first