Reviews for BBC: World News & Stories

Well engineered app, and easy to customize, so I get the news that interests me in an attractive format. Unfortunately, ads are getting increasingly obnoxious. They pop up mid-article, disrupting your reading and, lately, even jump you to a loud commercial that you cannot shut off. While we understand the need to pay for the service, how about reverting to a presentation that encourages one to view the ad favorably?

Not as good as the old version. The old version, you could select which genre of story interests you. For example, I love the BBC's reporting of Formula One, so I had that as favourite. This option no longer exists. The layout is now more in line with other big news apps, so there is nothing special about this app, and furthermore I find it hard to find stories that interest me. Many sub sections can no longer be read off-line (such as sports including F1). The website is much better.

Too much news in video format, without transcripts. But the biggest reason this gets a bad review is there are many articles that come up as 'There was a problem loading this content. Please try again later.' But trying later never works. And, the same articles are on the app day after day after day. Finally, too many dead animals in their Week in Wildlife photography series.

Great content, great articles. Over the years as they keep updating the app itself it just declines, the new layout has declined, it no longer works offline, it used to preload articles, it no longer does. Since the most recent update, it no longer works at all. Nothing loads, it just tells me content not available. The more they meddle with it the worse it gets.

I used to like using this app, but I will be deleting it after writing this review. The thumbnails are way too big. The worst part is that I can no longer see all the news categories available on BBC. For example, I can no longer view Africa news or Space and Exploration stories, unless it's a top story that appears. It is no longer possible to search these categories, as well as many others. It has become much too simplified. Nice try, BBC, it's getting deleted.

EDIT: As with everyone else, the app no longer works. Upon opening, it closes within 2-3 seconds without fail. Extremely frustrating. Untill they fix this, changing to 1 star. Great news app, really no complaints except one - I really wish it wouldn't automatically put "I saw this on the BBC and though you should see it" text whenever I share an article through the app.

I can no longer get the radio "world news" to work anymore. Deleted the app and reinstalled, still does not work. Just loads and loads and loads. (Update). It works now, but the radio seems to be on a 10 minute timer. Shuts off every 10 minutes and I have to push the play button again, to get it going. Very annoying and can't figure out what to adjust in settings to not get the radio from stopping.

I feel resigned to leave a review because of the latest update made to this app. As many others have stated, the "my news" feature is gone, but what's worse is that the number of accessible articles has been severely limited. I could go onto "my news" and read articles posted just minutes before, but now the "explore" section is featuring articles that are over two days old. This app in previous versions was arguably the best all-around news app on the store.

Up until last week, I thought this was a five-star app and had been using it for a number of years without any problems. However, last week and up to now it is suddenly closing as soon as I open it. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app, cleared its cache, and rebooted my phone. But the app keeps closing. I like the BBC News very much and would like to continue using its app.

BBC was one of my top news apps. But then they got rid of great stuff like my news. That was bad enough but then as of the most recent updates reminds up to sign up for a free account everytime the app is opened. Every. Single. Time. Sure I can skip it by pressing the option below. But the reminder and the step required to skip happens every single time. Every. Single. Time. If the forced reminder does not go away I am just going to uninstall the app. Stop trying to make us sign up for stuff!