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What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] rednote 1/5 · US Rogue software: I turned off all in-app notifications, but the homepage recommendations kept popping up in my push notifications. Customer service was unhelpful, and even after an update, the problem persisted. I can only turn off all Xiaohongshu push notifications in the settings, which is infuriating. · translated
2. [R29] rednote 1/5 · US Try force-pushing to me again: I turned off all notifications except interactive ones, but it still keeps sending me random push posts. Do you not understand? Don't force-push to me, okay? · translated
3. [R33] rednote 1/5 · US World Cup live stream recommendations are disgusting: I can't turn them off, so I had to use a VPN to solve it, and it seems that's the only way. Also, the trending topics are still full of the World Cup. I've blocked countless World Cup keywords, but it still recommends them. Xiaohongshu is incredibly stubborn. · translated
4. [R35] rednote 1/5 · US Stop the pop-ups asking for notification permissions: Can you please act like a normal app? · translated
5. [R4] rednote 2/5 · US Account being restricted for random reasons: They decided there was a safety issue on my account, so they restricted the account access. No appealing granted, only to verify myself with upload of the passport. Yet their system is not capable of doing so. Tried to contact the support team, only bots were given unhelpful answers. Tried to Uninstall the app, didn’t work. Tried to have a new account,
6. [R7] rednote 1/5 · US Banned: They banned me after 2 days of having the account. Idk why coz I’m not a bot- I also wasn’t posting a lot. I didn’t post or comment any inappropriate stuff so it’s really frustrating. I only created an account on rednote coz I wanted to follow the love and deepspace cosplayers and also watch reels from people who went to AX expo. There’s more about that here than on IG. Then I got banned.
7. [R25] rednote 2/5 · US Unclear suspension and no meaningful appeal: My RedNote account was permanently suspended without a specific explanation or clear evidence of a violation. I appealed through the app, but only received a generic response and no meaningful human review. I am giving this rating because the account enforcement and appeal process is not transparent or fair.
8. [R27] rednote 1/5 · US Blocked account for no reason: I reached out to customer support, asking why they blocked my account. They refused to give any reason. They just block your account as they want
9. [R10] rednote 1/5 · US It’s not supporting gender equality: Everything deals with gender equality will be banned. This is an app with sexism.
10. [R17] rednote 1/5 · US Warning: The muting and censorship are severe. Xiaohongshu loves to secretly exert its power. Xiaohongshu started with female users and now wants to get rid of its 'female platform' label. · translated
11. [R23] rednote 1/5 · US Xiaohongshu really loves to censor: Censoring comments: Comments you post aren't visible to others, and you don't tell the person who posted them. Censoring posts: Posts you make aren't visible to others, and you don't tell the person who posted them. Is this how you respect your users? Always doing things behind their backs? All sorts of emasculating designs, truly ingrained. Update: Received a developer response telling me to contact customer service. Guess what? I actually did. First, your customer service is all bots. You tell me to contact customer service, but you're asking me to talk to a bot? You're wasting my time. Second, the bot customer service blames 'censorship' on 'review.' It says posts need to be reviewed. Guess what? I went and verified it again. I posted something, and it clearly showed 'review passed,' but others still couldn't see it. So you're lying! You're not honest or straightforward. Seriously, are you going to make me contact customer service again to ask why others can't see my post? Lol, I'm done. · translated
12. [R2] rednote 4/5 · US Few Issues: One issue being it won’t let me upload a profile picture nor a background, it just loads & wont stop. Second issue being there’s no filter option for search so it’s hard to find small creators under 1K
13. [R12] rednote 3/5 · US Issues: It’s asking for my birthday and year and when I put it in it doesn’t move to another screen and may I Mind you I’m over 13
14. [R45] rednote 1/5 · US Cannot connect due to Timeout of 8000ms exceeded: ios用户，已经一天用不了app，永远是网络超时。其他app没问题。更新iOS、更新小红书、重启手机都没法修复update: this is third day can’t do nothing with this app due to timeout of 10000ms exceeded. Looks like they tried to mask issue by increasing the timeout
15. [R6] rednote 3/5 · US App is good but some videos and comments are Awful: Personal I liked the app especially to learn Chinese, but there are a lot of rasist comments and videos about India, it's really sad for me to read as an Indian
16. [R22] rednote 4/5 · US Creepy people: Hey rednote good and great app but some men on here are inappropriate with their behavior on here comment section wise and chat wise that I had to block them please do something about this and thank you great app nevertheless!❤️🐧
17. [R52] YouTube 5/5 · US The best app there is: YouTube since I was a little kid and I love it. It’s helped me so much and taught me so much and changed my life. It showed me so much about history and everything I could ever think about if I was gonna give any money to any app that there is, it would be 200% all the time please YouTube don’t side with China
18. [R53] YouTube 3/5 · US Too many ads: WAY too many ads for one video, especially to the longer videos like every 5 minutes there’s an add and the tiny ad box that appears in the corner when you skip one is just taking away from the experience of watching. It’s getting tiring but overall, I love the app and just see the ads as a little too excessive.
19. [R54] YouTube 1/5 · US STOP with the Shorts push: Why is it that every time I open the app it’s on the Shorts tab and not the Home page??? Horrible idea and you should fire whoever thought of that
20. [R56] YouTube 3/5 · US Fix your app: YouTube isn’t terrible but I have some complaints 1. Too many adds 2. Bring back the dislike button 3. Lower premium prices 4. Work on moderation I have seen videos and especially adds that should not be on YouTube.
21. [R65] Spotify 1/5 · US Disappointed: Why can’t I play music when my data is off?
22. [R66] Spotify 4/5 · US Skips: Great app! Has all the songs you could possibly imagine. Only thing that is missing is that 6 skips is little, like just because I don’t have premium I only have 6 skips..
23. [R68] Spotify 1/5 · US you give me nothing without premium. You treat me like if I don’t spend $125 a year on your premium.: 0/10
24. [R69] Spotify 5/5 · US Faithful user of 7 years: This app never let me down, through highschool and into my adult life this is still quite amazing
25. [R79] Instagram 1/5 · US Locked out of app for over a year without a single response from IG Support!: A business owner who has spent thousands on ads, I have been locked out from logging into the app for well over a year for both my personal & business account & IG (META) refuses to respond to my tickets to fix the issue. I’ve attached screenshots, enabled 2-step authentication, and provided proof of identity. I am able
26. [R80] Instagram 5/5 · US Genesis: Instagram is great because I get to text my bf but suddenly something happen he was banned that made me sad I wish he can still be there I need a miracle to bring him back to me.
27. [R81] Instagram 3/5 · US Save alphabetically: Would be great if our “saved” videos gave us the option to save “alphabetically” like Pinterest or by “recent”.
28. [R82] Instagram 1/5 · US Muy molesta: Me desativan la cuenta todos los días si hacer nada
29. [R93] Facebook 2/5 · US fix marketplace.: terrible actions, need to ban or at least give an option to hide dealerships, ‘ad sellers’, overpriced trash.
30. [R94] Facebook 5/5 · US Love at first try: I’m addicted to Fb and I love the means of connection with friends around the world.
31. [R96] Facebook 1/5 · US Too many ads , algorithm not refined enough: Title says it all
32. [R97] Facebook 4/5 · US Help Facebook: I really need to get info my other account but can’t remember old info cause sum1 stole my phone and it had all my acct on it😒
33. [R107] TikTok 1/5 · US Mala censura: Tik tok no esta tan mal pero llega el momento donde te encuentras con contenido inapropiado para niños/as
34. [R108] TikTok 4/5 · US close friends: so basically tiktok pls add close friends on tiktok for stories and post so i can post stuff for js certain ppl
35. [R109] TikTok 3/5 · US Shadowban: I love tik tok but recently my videos don’t show up to my friends or FYP anymore I think I’m shadow banned and it’s really disappointing I worked very hard on my account and used to get tones of interactions now the videos hardly get 5 likes because I am shadowbanned
36. [R110] TikTok 1/5 · US Barely works: I hit not interested on videos, adds, and lives next day i get the same video left with nothing but to report it still get the videos just don’t see them anymore, cant delete searches comes back the next day or the app has it mesmerized, cant delete comments either I’ve replied to someone or the video has been deleted and I’m just unable to delete it cant even do it quickly of course