AOL Mail, News, Weather, Video Reviews

1. Within the last month I have experienced issues which occurred the last time I was hacked. Same font and same window. Now each time I sign in it automatically signs me out if I leave it on it switch to another app on my iPhone or iPad. This makes me believe that someone else is using my accounts. And my other account will not open either. I have attempted to contact aol but they only give assistance to paid members. I have been a member since the beginning and as a retiree from aol/TW have never been forced to pay.
2. I have too much mail and would like to select mail and mass delete as I could if I had a computer. But I no longer have one. When I inquired about a change in AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo I was told it can’t be done and to use a computer. Sorry I can’t give a better review at this time because I love aol. But I no longer feel safe or able to get assistance. Possibly you as the developer can do something and notify aol members.

I read that this problem has been commented on a year ago and it’s still a problem. I have the newest edition of AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo. AOL was working well with no problem when used in my mail app on my Apple products, but now I’ve been advised you won’t support my doing this anymore. I’m very disappointed and will begin the process of changing over to another mail service at great inconvenience after many years using AOL.

I received a response from your team which seems to be your standard response to many of your dissatisfied customers. I did as directed and the first letter still gets cut off an email address resulting in it not being sent. As I read other criticisms, this isn’t a new issue. Why can’t you fix the problem? I’m surprised your advertisers are continuing to use your company. They must not be reading the reviews. Too bad you no longer allow us to use the Apple all-inclusive email program. AOL worked well in there. I’ve been notifying those on my address list to use my gmail address instead of this one.

Read the complaints and fix the problems! Deleting, rebooting and reinstalling doesn’t work. And to suggest going off WiFi and on to a data plan is asinine. The problem is not with your consumers, it’s with your faulty product. Hire someone who knows how to fix it.

Thank God AOL finally put together a decent app! The prior ones froze and their compatibility with iPhones was not great. All the bad reviews were issues I saw with the old version. Yes, the older apps were horrible. I finally had to delete it from my phone.
This new 6.0 version has been out for a week and it’s totally a different app. It’s incredibly better, more user friendly, and more logical compared to gmail! Thank you AOL. I started with AOL in 1993 , I’m still a paid subscriber to guarantee that I don’t lose emails (which has actually happened), and I run my business with AOL. I can’t get myself to succumb to google’s Gmail.
One final thing — your news feed needs to feed us THE NEWS— not the skewed opinion by whoever you’re hiring to write the news. Then it no longer is news- it’s your writers’ opinions. Not interested in their opinion. They’re journalists. Show both sides with respect, dignity, and neutrality. Just state the verified facts and don’t leave out details that skew the picture. Trust me, you’ll be more respected. Tell your writers to take lessons from Walter Cronkite— he was a legend.

I’ve had an AOL account since the early-mid 90’s. Having the hoops to jump through (losing all my data in the process) just to keep it linked to my other mail accounts was ridiculous. Having mail all in one place makes efficient sense but that just isn’t to be with my AOL account anymore. I would drop it except I feel a bit caught by the short hairs (so to speak) being that I’ve had this address for probably over 25years and want to keep it the same. I’ve downloaded AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo and retrieve my mail that way now. I HATE how the the first thing I get when opening my mail is an advertisement at the top of my mail list. There are a few other features I find [mildly] annoying but can overlook it. The platform is VERY similar to Google Mail and simple enough to use. I think the bottom line is I just didn’t appreciate being pretty much forced to change up what was working fine for me.
UPDATE
I pretty much hate it. It lacks many of the features I liked in my old mailbox. I can’t stand how ants me to use their web search to access links from my email and how it asks for my log in information anytime I do se the link from my email. I dislike this new aol more and more each time I use it.

When something works as well as AOL mail has for decades, it seems inevitable that it has to get changed, in this day and age, to make sure that if you are elderly, it won’t work easy any longer, and becomes virtually impossible to get it to work correctly with other programs. I did use it on my windows computer and my iPad. Now I am told that it won’t work any longer after Oct 20. Supposed instructions are given to make it continue operating with your present system, however, when u read the instructions it tells me that my older “windows live mail” will no longer work with the new system. So nothing on my older windows system computer will read AOL mail. They tell me that I can install an IOS app on my iPad and use that and I did try, however, while it works on its own, with plenty of junk commercials attached, I can no longer send attachments or articles from other programs, through AOL mail. Very few choices in using email, and I am too old and tired to try and learn any new system. Looks like I will have to rely on my one other email account and change the send to address from AOL to it. Good luck if you wish to use the “new” AOL email.

I can’t even really write a review because AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo is not working. I do not receive emails from everyone that sends me emails. I deleted AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo and tried to do the original email online but that didn’t make any difference so I have AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo back on my phone now but like I said I do not receive emails people send me emails and I never receive them.

I did the whole reinstall AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo /restart the phone routine several times. It still is not working properly. One of the greatest things about aol mail has always been it’s spam filtering capability. Now if I block to all, but my contact list, every slimy, smarmy, spammy piece of mail sent my way gets into my spam folder, but emails from other senders that I know, but haven’t entered into my contacts yet, just disappear. They don’t even appear in my spam folder so that I can select them out of all the garbage to keep and read. I have had my aol account since I got my first computer in 1995 and in the past I would have given it 5 stars without thinking about it. I spent many a pleasant hour in the chat rooms back then. It was better than Facebook will ever be, but you tried to fix something that wasn’t broken and that is sad.

Hi!

I’ve been an AOL mail user for quite a long time, over 10 years! and I really love AOL. But when I try to write messages out and send them when using AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo , my messages don’t send out and I receive a pop up message saying “Oops, this is embarrassing, something went wrong.” Then I’d have to send the whole message again or I have to type it up again which is annoying. I keep in touch with friends through my email and want to be sure my messages are sent but 90% of the time on my app it pops up that message. It works fine if I go on the website into my account on the computer but for some reason AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo won’t cooperate all the time when using AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo .

I figured I’d mention this to you because I feel it should be fixed so everyone has the chance to send emails through their phones without any problems. I’m not quite sure if anyone else has this issue but I know I’ve been having it since I’ve downloaded AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo years ago.

I’ve had AOL for decades and everything was reliable up until the last 6-12 months. At some point AOL mail within the general iOS email app would disappear, would have to reload ALL the old email once it finally managed to reconnect, and then would still be unreliable when sending as some things would seem to go but actually just be shoved into a drafts folder while others would go out via one of my non-AOL accounts without me realizing what had happened. Did all the usual things to try and address the issue to no avail. Seemed to be something at the other end and not on these devices. So I turned to this AOL app hoping I’d overcome some of these obstacles with the iOS general email app but AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo is glitchy and unreliable with the issues others here have mentioned...having to log back in each time, etc. I really hope these issues are fixed. I’ve been very happy with AOL and didn’t jump ship for things like gmail when many others did but I can’t imagine sticking around in the AOL eco system much longer with it becoming as unreliable as it has lately. Really do hope these issues are fixed soon.

I’ve really loved using the AOL app for a while now to get my emails and read the news. However, for while now I’ve noticed a problem that at first I thought was just a fluke. But unfortunately, it’s been happening quite often now. News stories will be interrupted by an ad, and at the top of the ad it will say “scroll down to continue content” (or something similar) but when I scroll past the ad, there is no continuance of the article- just links to other articles. There should definitely be more content as sometimes sentences before the ad don’t even end. I’ve tried restarting my phone and updating AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo , but it is still happening. Hope this is something that can be fixed soon- I’m dying to know the rest of the news!

UPDATE: I have changed my rating from 2 stars to 5 stars. I deleted AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo off my phone, rebooted and reinstalled it and this has fixed all the previous issues I was having with missing emails. So far it’s working great & I have no complaints!

Previous - Although I love the new look of this most recent update, I have had multiple issues retrieving my mail. Only certain days are available. Example, I accessed my mail for December 27 & 26th but the 25 & 24th mail is no where to be found then it skipped all the way to the 23rd! I also noticed I’m not receiving all the emails I was on a daily basis & they are not in my spam folder either. It’s super frustrating because I now have to login to my laptop to make sure I didn’t miss any important emails.
I hope this glitch can be fixed soon as I relied greatly on AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo on a daily basis.

I used AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo on my iPhone for years without having to log in very often. It remembered me and my sign in info for weeks or months at a time and was very easy to quickly check email throughout the day. Something changed in the last couple months and it asks me to login constantly. Sometimes several times a day. It’s tedious having to constantly log back in all day every day - there’s now no such thing as just checking the email real quick. Why was this changed? Why is there no option or checkbox to toggle on that says “remember me”. It’s not a public computer, it’s my personal phone that’s locked and needs a passcode to access. It makes no sense that I should have to log in every time I want to do that. What’s the point in even having AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo then? I’ll just login through the browser. Or better yet, I’ll find a different provider whose app functions in a less annoying way. Do better aol. I can see from a quick google search that I am not the only user severely annoyed by this failure to stay logged in on my phone.

AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo bugs me.... I have notifications set up..... I get a lot of emails so I don’t always check them. But when I see a notification I’d like to check, I click on the notification so it can take me to AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo so I can see what the email is in it’s entirety. Once I click on a new notification..... it’ll take me to my email inbox page and a pop up comes up saying “THIS MESSAGE DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE”. And I know why it does that..... it does that because AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo doesn’t think that email is there (since it’s so new- and I clicked on the notification as soon as I got it). Sometimes I can wait a minute or two and the pop up will go away and it will take me to that email...... but usually it doesn’t.

So basically...... AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo doesn’t refresh in the background when not in use. I suppose it’s good for battery life reasons. But it’s also annoying when I open AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo and have to wait like 30 seconds for all my new emails to load.......... I wish they were all loaded by the time I went to AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo .

ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. NOT USER FRIENDLY. HARD TO NAVIGATE. WHEN DELETING SPAM OR TRASH YOU HAVE TO DELETE 1 at a time. For this reason I very rarely ever check my SPAM box. Had 119 the other day. ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE AND THE STUPID ADS ARE EXTREMELY ANNOYING. Bottom Line : AWFUL, HORRIBLE, ANNOYING, DISGUSTING and VERY STRESSFUL !!!!! Does anyone at all like this NEW version.... NOT FROM THE REVIEWS IVE READ. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE at least give ME back the old version. I'm elderly and disabled and REALLY NOT USED TO THIS RENEWAL GARBAGE !!!

PS. IVE DONE ALL THE TROUBLE SHOOTING YOUVE SUGGESTED.... DIDNT DO A DMN THING. I DO NOT HAVE A COMPUTER. ALL I HAVE IS MY IPHONE 8+ WiFi. Never Never had any problems whatsoever !!!! "IF IT AINT BROKE DONT FIX IT". You need to remember the average person is NOT TECH SAVVY LIKE YOU GUYS ARE.....FOR GODS SAKE CUT US SOME SLACK. I've had AOL since 1999. If i didn't have so much information, some private, contacts, online billing, shopping, medical info embedded passwords and acct info, TV and various apps etc. I WOULD DEFINITELY CHANGE TO ANOTHER EMAIL ACCT. I CANT. There's no way in hell I can change or switch all those years of info. AGAIN, THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE NOT, let me repeat, ARE NOT TECH SAVVY LIKE YOU "KNOW-IT-ALL" GUYS

I had previously rated AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo four stars. I have come back to downgrade to two stars simply because I am truly aggravated with AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo yet again.
Every so often for some unknown reason AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo just decides to sign me out. I will uninstall and reinstall AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo to know avail then after doing this a good 287 or so times it will finally trigger and leave me signed in until another year or so passes and I have to go through the same thing again.
I have other email carriers but this has and always will be my primary email. Those other email apps I check on a weekly and monthly basis. This one I check periodically throughout the day, so the constant need to sign in again several times on a daily basis is most upsetting. I hope there is a fix for this because I don’t know how long I can keep doing this before I am forced to make a switch.

Have to confess that I am SOOOO impressed with this new AOL app because the old version was terrible. The old version—new emails were not showing up in New Mail in timely way on my iPad/iPhone (whereas I would see the new emails when I accessed AOL via the web on my laptop); the new version—new emails are showing up in New Mail on iPad/iPhone just as they are showing up on my laptop. Old version—emails were not synched between iPad/iPhone/laptop; new version—emails are synched between all devices (whichever device I delete/compose/read emails on, the other devices reflect that action immediately). Old version—when I would click on link to Zoom meeting in an email, Zoom app would not open via Safari; new version—clicking on link to Zoom meeting in an email opens up Zoom app.
Sooo pleased with new AOL app!

Wow, junk ads at the top of the in box faking as new mail, inability to add documents as attachments in a message or response, if you click on links within the email message it opens up a weird window that appears to be some browser like page but it doesn’t interact with vpn I have installed on my iPad ( and no way to know the safety of the webpages), it doesn’t display the web address of what has been opened. This weird browser appears to secure web pages as an unique device(so I have to do a two-factor authorization), there is no back button, no ability to save a pdf to a file (if that is what the link opened) and no ability to print the said pdf. If I want to do anything of those things I need to hold the link down in the email message and open safari. I don’t need a news feed, nor videos, nor the other side info not related to mail. The help with email link within AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo goes to page that “opps” doesn’t exist. Come on, AOL you can do better than this!

Poorly organized website. Disjointed story lines ( frequent next page continuation of stories often never giving the story in the headline) and misleading headlines (frequently subject does not follow headline of story). Also, news is biased toward stories that reflect the philosophy and ideals of the liberal democrats or socialists’ view point. Much news is not reported except in a cursory or negative way when it involves a conservative subjective or President Trump. Opinions and impressions are often reported as facts which tries to lead the reader to think as you do which is either as a liberal democrat or a socialist ideologue. You are not a news organization when it comes to reporting political news but unfortunately a biased agency running a campaign supporting only the Democratic Party. You do not report on the conservative view point except to dismiss them as evil thinkers because they do not believe in identity politics, open borders or big federal/socialized government that knows better than the individual regarding how to take care of themselves. You do not promote independent thoughts.
Sincerely,
Veltman 510

I have a Verizon email that was migrated to aol. Originally, I could use the Mail app and check my email with no issues. Then I started getting these error messages and I couldn’t access email anymore. So I installed AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo to have direct access to my email. The problem is that it’s not direct access. I have to log in every time I want to check my email and it doesn’t stay open so that if I get a phone call while I’m checking my email I have to log in again when I get off the phone. There’s no option to use my fingerprint and every other time it’s telling me that my login has expired. Seriously? I have a lot of email and not a lot of time to check it in between meetings during the course of the day. If AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo can’t give me direct access to my email, what’s the point of AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo ? I may as well be logging in to AOL from chrome on my computer once a day when I’m no longer working. I see that other people are expressing this same concern. Why hasn’t it been fixed?

Ive been a loyal AOL customer since its beginning or in ‘95 anyways [not exactly sure what year they started]. In the last 28 years AOL has never crashed on me nor lost any data. Proof of that is in the fact I have over 150,000 emails that I still have access to. I know I'm fully guilty of never clearing stuff out but getting 500+ emails a day it adds up. The thing is too that it is so easy to place mail in different folders that they never screw up either.

Ive read in a blog post that AOL is out-dated... so Ill try other email providers and keep coming back to AOL for news and keeping my mail for so long and consistently. I can’t say any other company on the web has a track record that perfect. Compared to yahoo, gmail, outlook, hotmail, etc. AOL is still the easiest, safest, fastest free email provider in the world.

Thank you Apple Support. I did your recommendation of deleting AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo , restarting my phone and reinstalling AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo and mail arrived sounds are coming through as mail is received! I have updated my review! Thanks

The biggest feature I loved about AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo is the fact it notified me immediately when mail arrived! Well it used to anyway! Periodically sound notifications stop coming through. I have checked all of my settings and the sounds and notifications are turned on. My fix was to delete AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo and download it again. Well now that doesn’t correct the problem anymore. My mail arrival sound is no longer alerting me again! If anyone out there has a fix for this please post it! If AOL would correct this I would gladly rate with 5 stars....

I have had compuserve mail for many years. Never noticed any differences with the merge into AOL. Loved getting email on my iPhone. Loved the AOL mail app for many reasons. It was fabulous! The last update made it a real P.I.T.A.! Every time I turn around I have to log in again. I spend more time logging in than I do communicating! In the past, I logged on once and it was active till I logged off! I expect to be required to log in on device that is public, and love the auto log out on those devices. But my personal iPhone, with finger print login to use it, I have no problems with others logging into my email. I don’t care a lot about others seeing my email, but I appreciate the auto locking features of public devices, but on a finger print locked device, why make it a mandatory feature? As a plea to AOL, please either go back to what it was, or add an option to let the individual choose! As it is, I am going looking for an app that lets me stayed logged in!

When the second time had started the score was 0:1 over France. I watched iit on a huge screen of the Marriott Marquis hanging over the Times Square. I went live on my Facebook to share podcast with my friends all over the world; cheering for our team to win. In a second i felt really connected to the world, while reporting, messages started coming into my eyes from everywhere. The Marquis wanted to know what room am i staying in, my friends wanted to show them my surroundings, that’s when my office had called asking when i return ; -“ it’s Friday, you know, everyone wants to go home!” Well, i wished a great weekend to my viewers, wrapped up and dove into the Subway. The 2 train got a reroute at the Chambers and went straight to Cortland. I got off, went straight and up to my office, wished a great weekend to my colleagues came down on the street and right there, standing beneath the great Father of the nation i got this message what i’ve wished for from “America On Line” - “We won!”...

A little bit funny that one day all my e mails were blank. I had gotten a hint that someone might have hacked my mail but didn’t change my password.

All my most important documents were on this trusted site. I am a basic over 60 person so it was easy to navigate the attachments were easy like I said it had all my data and personal records on it.

I still feel like it was extortion sorry but one day everything is blank on my OC and my I phone. Apple with many hours of me freakingbout to recover mail told me it was the server. They were correct my other accounts g mail yahoo all working. We tried going through Safari but here is the creepy part. Call their Tec support number and you are routed to a person who promises to get you up and running AND lost e mail back for a monthly fee. Talk about making you a hostage a vulnerable moment. I still am livid now I don’t trust them.

Long story of course I paid what a racket BUT they never got access in my phone working why? It’s the server!! I don’t walk around with a PC I use my phone.

With promises to recover lost whitewashed mail ( something fishy) ok got that up but my phone what I really need access to, NOT working m. That’s not fixed for me to go through safari mail and type it in. It’s not private and it’s annoying. All other mail works. I paid FIX THE SERVER or refund my money!!
I don’t think I will ever trust them again.

You cannot delete automatic added email addresses in your contact list on the mobile phone you can only do it on the desktop. Hello ,
This is Jeff guess I do need to redo my review I just kind of blurted out there kind a quick hotheaded sorry about that. If you don’t mind the next review is below👇.

Hello I’m Jeff and my mine situation is that you cannot, at least that I know of delete any contacts from my mobile phone? That is incoming email address which I guess they are done by design and in addition the The ones that you manually put in yourself. I subscribe to lotta commercial emails or businesses with emails addresses and they And they drop down in my contacts automatically. So I googled and the way I Understood it was the only way to delete the contacts on the mobile phone was go to your laptop or home computer. I’m pretty sure I have a latest app. Other than that it’s a great tool to work with I love it but as I mentioned the more emails I get that drop down in there I just filling up, anyway Thanks for your time guys.

Regards,

I have been an AOL user since the early 1980s - Leading Edge PC, dial up modem, switched from “Prodigy” - and have remained through some rough patches. The desk-top version works well and meets my needs fairly well. AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo , however, appears to have been written by someone who never used the
non-mobile version. AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo does not seem to allow attachments that are not photos such as a pdf or word document. That is quite frustrating. There does not seem to be a way to access the ‘contacts’ list in my regular AOL account. Utilizing the icon accesses only the contacts on the phone. If there is a way to get to the main contact list it is not obvious. Moreover, the contacts that are on AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo do not seem to be the same as the desktop version. There is more but these two are very aggravating. Back to the drawing board.
Richard Vandiver

For 15+ years I’ve been using Gmail. In fact, I have at least 10 different Gmail accounts. I would either use the different accounts for different purposes or I’d forget my password and create a new account instead of trying to figure out my forgotten password.
A few months ago I finally got tired of the large amount of spam that I’d receive through my Gmail accounts and decided to find a different email provider.
I absolutely LOVE AOL email! I haven’t received one piece of spam since switching from Gmail to AOL. This saves me so much time and frustration!
Thanks AOL for your awesome free email service. I never thought that I would switch email providers but I’m so glad that I did.

Used to feel this was a good 4 star app. It’s worse now. All the recent changes are attempts to fix things that were not broken. Now AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo signs me out on my iPhone and iPad, every 3 to 4 weeks and requires a tedious process for signing back in. Why? It’s not to protect my privacy or information because when I now sign in it wants me to disable cookie blocker and cross-site tracking. AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo also now wants to use Safari on my iOS device, to sign in. Why? Other apps that require more security don’t do this. Perhaps most frustrating is that even after turning off cookie blocker and cross-site tracker blocker, AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo keeps asking me to turn off the cookie blocker and won’t log me in. I have to go to Safari and log in there, then go back to AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo and after a few tries it then logs me in.

I received a notice this morning from a company called Oath, LTD (an AOL sub?) advising me that after Nov. 13 I can no longer access my AOL account.

Dear Member, AOL FINAL WARNING

We emailed you last month to let you know about changes we are making to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. These changes are key steps towards creating what's next for our consumers, like you, while empowering them with transparency and controls over how and when their data is used.

You can learn more about Oath and what these policies mean for you here, as well as more about the changes in our FAQs.

In order to continue to access your AOL Mail account after 13 November 2018, you will need to confirm you accept the Terms of Service. We also need a few moments of your time to explain how we manage your data and provide you with some choices in relation to the processing of that data.

Click here to start.

If you do not want the new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to apply to you, you will no longer be able to access your account from 13 November 2018. If you would like the contents of your email account, you may obtain a copy of your data by clicking here.

Thank you for your time and cooperation.

Oath

Privacy Policy





Oath (UK) Limited, Shropshire House, 11-20 Capper Street, New York WC1E 6JA, UK, AOL FINAL WARNING

Can read study well enough, but there is no way to attach anything other than pictures. If i want to attach files, i have to go to the safari version, which is a royal pain. (And no matter how we tried to fix it, it still doesn't work)
Also, when you click on something in an email-say a story you are unable to go any further than that. What i mean is that say there is a link in a story you are reading in your inbox. It will not link to that sub story. You cannot mail a story you are reading to someone else. (Without forwarding the whole email which i do not want to do.)
There is a lot that needs to be fixed to make AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo work the way they think it does or that it needs to.
Update:
I was told AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo can’t upload anything but pics. No mention they would work on that. This makes AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo basically worthless. Including no mention of letting messages go further. They should not “sit on their laurels” as they are not laurels. Make AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo do what it should and what other apps do. I wouldn’t bother downloading it until they do
More update.
Can it do a secondary click through. If I click on an email and within the email is further links you CANNOT go there. AOLMailNewsWeatherVideo (and aol) is completely useless. I hate it.