WFMZ Reviews

WFMZ has improved immensely since they separated the local,national and sports from the BS news and nonsense of the entertainment scuz. I am no longer exposed to that dreck. I’ve gone from one star to four. That’s saying something.

Just a quick update on my last review. I’m thinking WFMZ has improved even more since my first review. They update the news a lot faster than before. It’s also separated into more categories now and there appears to be more stories. The news does, however, tend to slow down on the weekends.

My iPhone 6 used to have a alert tone specific to a 69 news alert which I couldn’t change, that was ok. Now some how it changed to the Tri- tone alert and still I can’t change it. I don’t like that because my text message tone is the Tri-tone, and always has been. I wish I could change the alert tone. Now I just took it out of my notifications.

I gave it about a week to see how I would adjust to the changes, but they’re just not good. The font is extremely difficult to read. It is not easy to scroll to read just headlines as it’s cluttered with pics/video and different layouts. There is also no ability to customize how the homepage looks. I’ll never understand why businesses take a perfectly good app and ruin it with changes that aren’t improvements. It’s looking like this is another news app that I’ve stopped using as it’s just too cumbersome to get news quickly.

this app is the best news weather traffic in my area of Schuylkill County! the anchor people are the best! I look forward to my mornings evenings late night with this app very informative. It’s amazing how you Report many stories from our area and our local WNEP is a day late and a dollar short! Keep up the great work keep us informed I look forward to my days with this app!

I’m giving this one star because it pops up. Other than that I am not impressed. The weather closing updates come up 10 at a time. No more picking your favorites. The change button to show all entries doesn’t work. Where is the traffic map? Shouldn’t need to download separate apps for traffic, weather, entertainment and news. It was nice having a local news app with everything I was looking for but all the updates are not necessarily good. Thumbs down!

You took a functional, fast and familiar means of keeping up with the news and turned it into an annoying, cumbersome, frustrating mess that leaves but one question,
What were you trying to accomplish and why did you fail so miserably? I’m busy, everybody is busy...you’ve turned a simply dream to operate and turned it into a nightmare.
Regards, Peter

#1 thing WFMZ is missing: SEARCH. If I was looking at a story a few days ago and want to find it again, or see all the articles related to one I'm interested in, that's next to impossible. The menu is a huge, cumbersome, un-hierarchical mess. Navigating is painful. The notifications are one of the only things that make WFMZ useful to me, and even those could use some improvement in customization options. Not impressed, but I like this better than local Patch news, so it gets to stay for now.

I’m disappointed that we can’t choose our school district so we don’t have to go through the whole list to find them.
I would like to see the old format where you can choose your main schools.
Thank you

Please get rid of the "Turn on bluetooth" notification that pops up every single time I launch WFMZ !! It's annoying!! Also add a feature to search for a specific news story. I saw a story pop up and wanted to read it but I couldn't find again after I closed WFMZ and opened it again! Fix the crashes as well! Some stories I look at causes WFMZ to crash and I lose the story I wanted to read!! Which is why I ask for a search feature.

The previous app revision was so bad I abandon it. After this newest update it is cleaner and simpler to use. I only wish they would get ride of the huge ad in the middle and put the weather in place and move the ad down. Great improvement from the last. Great app to get my local news!!!

Whenever I am traveling I can always count on news from my hometown area! The 3 weathermen are doing a great job! Keep up the good work!!! I look forward to watching the weather, these guys are really good! Shirley from Leesport!

Love the this app apps, but wish there was a way to have the alerts more localized. I’m from the Greater Lehigh Valley, and get annoyed with all the Reading alerts I get. No offense, but I don’t really care about any ‘local’ news, outside the Northampton & Warren County Areas. I wish I could only get alerts from that tightened circle.

it’s very evident that you’re postings and narrative are overly liberal and very biased as you only present the liberal side of the story but never presenting a unbiased and balanced view of a story. We never get news alerts of an absolute failure, such as the border crisis, but you certainly carry the narrative making our current president to be completely flawless. listen nobody wants any leader to fail, but failures must be called out in order to be fair and balanced.

I used to read the news via the this app app multiple times per day. A recent update now has ads on the bottom of the screen which are very annoying and distracting. I plan to delete WFMZ if I don’t see a change within the next few days. I tried to X-out of the ads so I could focus on the news and was repeatedly sent to other screens for the ads. Very disappointing, this app.

You’re able to read headlines and gather the facts quickly. If you want to know more, it’s right there for you.

It upsets me that the company seems content with subpar performance. WFMZ could be great if someone took the time to fix all the bugs. WFMZ crashes constantly if you access alerts. Also, WFMZ needs to feature more up to date articles. They keep the old articles around far too long which results in fewer actual "news" articles.

WFMZ is great but please fix the crashing. I've noticed it doesn't crash (as much) when I just click on WFMZ , however almost every time I access WFMZ from a notification it crashes after the page loads. PLEASE FIX

When WFMZ opens you get a pop up at the bottom of the page that never closes.

I have been kept up with the proper information as needed for my family and friends and household and my self... thanks

I moved just out of the viewing area for tv and thought I would try casting WFMZ to my tv from my iPad. No such luck. There is no casting ability for chrome cast/smart cast or airplay. Perhaps they can work to have that added?