AP News vs Apple News

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. [R3] AP News 3/5 · US Not good on local news at all: The only “local news” this app ever provides for Delaware is other states sports news. Lame AP. Can get that info in any sports section of any paper. Hate sports in general. How about you have actual local news - or stop saying you do.
2. [R9] AP News 3/5 · US Expedia ads: Recently lots of large Expedia ads embedded into articles that that are so highly touch-sensitive, it is *impossible* to scroll without accidentally clicking on them. Really irritating! Please please stop.
3. [R61] Apple News 2/5 · US No subscription experience: The article selection is robust but most content is pay walled and it barely seems work keeping on my phone unless I sub. I think that is Apple’s point…make the non payers experience miserable until they pay
4. [R87] Apple News 3/5 · US Pay pay pay: There is too much news they show but to get the whole story they want money!
5. [R10] AP News 2/5 · US Meh: Push notifications on iOS are completely broken. I set them to Breaking only, and I get everything. I set them to nothing, and I get everything. Otherwise a good app.
6. [R12] AP News 3/5 · US Great reporting, but push notifications are broken: I really value the Associated Press for the news it delivers. In an era of heavy bias, this app remains a go-to for extensive, objective reporting. I rely on it daily to stay informed on what’s actually happening without the spin. The only reason I’m not giving this 5 stars is a persistent technical issue with push notifications. Every time I ta
7. [R72] Apple News 3/5 · US Good app with an annoying bug: Normally I’d give this app 5 stars, because I use it several times a day and it’s my prime source for news. But in the latest versions, when I’m scrolling a story, the story jumps suddenly and I can’t find where I was. I think this may be ads getting swept off the page above the fold. But it’s really annoying.
8. [R81] Apple News 3/5 · US News with commercials: Constant upsell to News+ paid upgrade and having to wade through “premium” stories is very irritating
9. [R38] AP News 4/5 · US So slow to load!: Great news, but it takes ages to load compared to other news apps.
10. [R109] Apple News 1/5 · US Apple found a way to ruin it: I've been a News+ subscriber since its very beginning. Being able to pre-download magazines so I have lite reading options in my (numerous) travels absolutely paid for itself. But recently, I regularly go to my Downloaded section only to find it empty. I set all the settings to prevent it from doing so, but times and times again, it keeps re-erasing everything I downl
11. [R117] Apple News 3/5 · US Paywall: To many paywall articles, gets worse every month. Google news app is much better, for now.
12. [R8] AP News 4/5 · US It’s the news: The content of the app is good and well done and the articles are informative. The functionality of the app is hit or miss, though. Sometimes it opens, sometimes it doesn’t. I’d have knocked off an additional star for that issue, but the app is free unlike its main competitor (BBC).
13. [R14] AP News 5/5 · US Great Way to Get High Quality News: When I transitioned from getting my news on social media (I know, horrible) to credible news sources I did some research and decided to downloaded the AP News app. I’ve been using it over a year now and really enjoy it!
14. [R2] AP News 4/5 · US Today in History stuck at February 25!: The app works well most of the time. Unfortunately the date on the “Today in History” image is stuck at February 25. Let’s see if the AP’s app developers read reviews as I can’t find any other way to feedback on a bug.
15. [R31] AP News 1/5 · US App logs out every time it updates: Every time the app updates, my account is automatically signed out, which means I stop receiving breaking news notifications. I attempt to log back in, and instead of accepting my login credentials, the app prompts me that my account doesn’t exist and I have to create a new account. I have gone through this frustrating circular loop over three times. Please fix
16. [R112] Apple News 1/5 · US Spam: Constantly shows me articles I have to pay for I know there’s a setting to restrict that but then I get. Total Scam because you can just articles with AI and find out what they say