Reviews for AP News: World & Local

The news content on the app is great. Associated press, in my opinion, has done a great job of relaying information without bias while minimizing alarm about the topics. There are some technical issues with the app, most of which are easy to work around, but the charts and graphs are currently broken in a […]

Current version is essentially useless, I miss the prior functional version. As others seem to be experiencing, there are major issues with articles loading. I can load one article and that is it. If I wish to read another I must close the app, making sure it is not running in the background, and relaunch […]

Good news, bad app. There’s the autoplaying videos, though I get no sound at least. But there’s no way to control what notifications you get (such as only politics, or sports), only a simple on/off toggle. When I turned it on, I get spammed with dozens of irrelevant notifications per day, drowning out all other […]

EDIT: As of July 19 the app is still down and does not work. Under normal circumstances I love the AP app. HOWEVER, my app has been unusable for over a month. I open it and it just says “sorry there was an error. Please retry” and it’s an infinite loop. I have un-installed multiple […]

AP News is my favorite news source, but this app needs to give better control over notifications. I do not want notifications about sports, but there’s no way to turn that off individually. Notifications are either on or off, and there are about two dozen topics that are “default” and you can’t delete. I’m going […]

This is my preferred news ap. However, since the upgrade in July it has been absolutely horrendous. The ap crashes, it randomly scrolls, it takes you back to articles you read before in the middle of reading another one, the share button is completely gone, and the formatting makes the headlines hard to read. It’s […]

Moving within the app is fine. But the notifications do not work well, and it’s very frustrating. Clicking on a notification doesn’t take me to that article unless I have fully closed the app beforehand. Otherwise, it just takes me to the last article I opened. I also keep getting repeat notifications, which clutters my […]

Having an issue with notifications on Android (Google pixel). I get a notification and instead of it just being in the pull down menu like it always has been, it’s also displaying the headline over whatever other app I’m currently using. This isn’t an app that has “display over other apps” permission so I can’t […]

Since the latest update, app continously crashes. I used to love to click the articles within (below) an article, but those immediately crash the app, so then i re open the app and search the article title 🙄…it’s frustrating, when I used that method to find so many articles that weren’t on the “Top News” […]

I love AP news and the app used to be great and user friendly. However, since the last update about 2 weeks ago, the app crashes, never opens the correct story when I click on one in my notifications, and I have to search all over the place for articles, even big news events. Half […]

There’s no option to customize notifications – I only want headline or breaking news alerts. Unfortunately, the app doesn’t let you choose specific types; it’s all or nothing. I’m not interested in getting notifications about weekend activities or sunny-day suggestions. I wanted actual news. Going back to CNN.

The general layout is nice, but there are a few shortcomings to this app. 1) I can’t turn on news based on my location w/o turning on loc on my phone. zip and state options would be nice. 2) app keeps crashing – is it not backwards compatible for people with older phones? 3) accessibility […]

used to work great. Over the last several months it’s progressively gotten worse. It started just not opening the article from notification. now it won’t even open the app and if I do get the app open I can’t navigate, the front page is missing and the only thing I can get to is the […]

I’ve just tried to read the same article twice. the first two times, it crashed. the third time, I tried to scroll down, and this laggy mess of spaghetti code took me to a random article. I tried scrolling left and right, because for some reason that takes you to other articles and barely lets […]

Quickly repaired problem frim original review below. Top-notch news app, still hangs on bringing up articles. …………….. Currently unusable on my up-to-date Samsung S23 Ultra. Pop-up announces that an update is available and asks me to update, while Play Store says it IS up to date. Deleting and reinstalling doesn’t help. Clearing cache and data […]

It’s among the most trustworthy of large news sources. But it only populates local news sources based on your location. If I don’t want to share my location, or if I want local news of some other area, I seem to be out of luck. I also can’t seem to disable notifications by topic, so […]

[Update: (One hour later). I received a reply from the developers telling me the glitch has been fixed, and it has. I’ve reinstalled the App.] I’ve been using this App for several years without issue. As of this morning, October 1, 2025, when I open the App, a notification appears telling me to update. When […]

AP used to function just fine on my Samsung Galaxy Z6 Flip. Now, when I open the app, the homepage works fine, but if I click on an article to read, the app freezes and will not scroll up or down. After a few seconds of trying to scroll, it will simply crash. I’ve checked […]

Regarding just the app: it NEEDS custom notification settings. If I’m being inundated with notifications and can’t choose what I want to see, I’m disinclined to read any of it. I want to choose what I care about the most. Instead, I had to turn off ALL notifications. News is important, but only when you […]

The news and functionality are good. But the ads are too frequent, appearing on every article on top of the pages. The “x” function reduces the size of the ad but they still obscure some of the reading area. UPDATE: I am uninstalling this app and just bookmarking the website. I still get push notifications […]