Reviews for CBS News - Live Breaking News

I don't like to write bad reviews but this is the worst app you've had so far. It takes me 10 minutes to find the weather you did away with a perfectly wonderful weather app for no reason or just to get all your cities and lockstep, reporting the same viewpoint. Why can't you have a separate weather app so we can watch forecasts on demand?

McDonald's pop up/breakthrough ads now make it impossible to even scan an article. Unless there's an update to solve this problem, I'll have to give up on CBS news.

I like the content and layout but the headlines are cut off making it so that you have to tap on it to get the full headline. At first I thought it was just my phone but I have other news apps that the headlines fit well.

Update: One of the recent updates has totally resolved the issue I had with ads, would now absolutely recommend! Original Review: The ads are insanely invasive and only about 1/4th of my screen ends up being the actual article. The news group itself is solid though. Edit: Unfortunately the videos can't be closed when they're playing ads, only after the ads are over

The content is great, but the app has annoyances compared to others. Video boxes follow you as you scroll taking up screen real estate and making you close them on every single article. Also takes up cell data when you don't need/want it to -- if I wanted video I would have clicked on the video tab at the bottom. Ad bar at the bottom of every page is persistent, in addition to scrolling ads on pages (other apps have only scrolling ads, which is a much more pleasant experience). Not a joy to use.

When you scroll down any article an ad pops up that takes over half your screen and has no "x" to close. After randomly clicking the ad many times you'll find the hidden "x", but it's incredibly tiny and hidden behind the "Learn More" hitbox. I understand it's free / ad supported, but I would gladly pay to remove this very predatory ad. It's very disruptive getting redirected to another page on every single article I read when I attempt to close the ad, I'll be moving to another app.

This app is not user friendly at all. If I wanted a news app, I would have downloaded a news app. I wanted a weather app, but you stopped supporting the old one and are forcing people to switch to this. Weather and local information should be easy to get to. I spent 10 minutes digging just to find the local weather, and it's not as detailed as the old app.

Simply awful. They play the same commercials again and again and again and again... ad nauseam. They even play the same commercial multiple times between videos. What morons are running this app? They also send push notifications listing news that when you click on the notification, is nowhere to be found. Good news coverage. Ridiculously bad app. Fail

This app has been great in regards to looking at news. However, there is often a lot I want to bookmark and save for a later read, but there is a bug. I can't have more then one article bookmarked. If I have more than one bookmarked, then leave the app and reopen it, the additional bookmarked articles disappear from the "bookmarked" page. This really hinders my experience.

I've been looking for a news app that is succinct and has more articles that I can read rather than videos. I can read a lot faster than I can watch. This is the best that I found so far, but it still has too many videos for my liking. At least a single headline does not take up the whole screen, and I can catch up on the top news quickly. But my biggest complaint is that when I get a phone notification from this app and click on it, it takes me to the main CBS video which doesn't have anything to do with the actual notification. I've given up on that feature, and turned CBS News notifications off.

CBS is awesome for providing an app with a free news stream and the option to cast. That being said, this app is fantastic! ....when it works. The app has been prone to connectivity issues for the entire time I've used it. At first it would cut out on Chromecast every few seconds. Finally got that fixed, but now the app ONLY works when casting. (Took 1 star away for that) Someday maybe CBS will have a real workable app. If i could use the app without casting, it'd get 4 stars. Good luck!

Please improve notifications in Android. I like CBS News content. However, there's an annoying issue on Android phones. If I get a notification from this app, the text I see on my Android phone will be something like: "President Trump calls for...." Then, if I click on the link, it goes to a video, where some event might be in progress, but there's no descriptive headline. I never can find out what the full headline was supposed to be, and I'm not going to watch the video for a few minutes to try to figure it out.

I use this app to read articles that pop up via notifications on my phone, but its functionality sucks for two reasons... 1) When I open a pop up article, then leave the app for any reason (accidentally or purposely), then return, the app instantly reloads back to the home page and I lose the article. It doesn't remember where I left off in the app. 2) When in an article, there's no way to share it from within the app. These seem like two basic functions that any news app should have.

As others have said, this takes forever to load. I see the headline and my notifications and I'm interested, but I wait for it to spend and spin and spin. I don't have problems with other apps. I'm on 5G when I'm using data. My internet speed with ethernet is 600 MB. My wireless speed is near 100. So it's not from my end. Why don't you just have text for the story with a link for video if somebody wants to do that? I'll wait a bit, then delete the whole shebang if nothing changes.

The quality of the news is excellent, but the app is limited and that particularly sucks given they shut down their local news apps and rolled it into this. There's no search option so you're severely limited in what you can access. 100% positive search was available in the local CBS News Philly app, still works on my phone. An old link, whether from 3 days or 3 months ago, opens fine in the app, so this choice is intentional. Also, scrolling the categories only takes you to 25-ish articles.

I am done with my phone being taken hostage when ads play. You cannot skip or stop the ad. Lord help you if dont have the volume turned down when you open the alert. I understand the need for a revenue stream but forcing your phone to play a 30 second far from inspires me to by a product when the whole time I am trying to quiet the video. 5 seconds into the ad I am debating how badly I want to even read the news but too bad, the ad has you stuck. You won't be able to skip, stop or close the app.

At least with the previous form of this app the article would show fairly quickly. If you read it fast before the top half was covered it wasn't too bad. Now with this new 5.4 version that has been forced on us you can click the article and nothing happens except the click sound. I used to read the CBS app first, then you started covering it with videos and now it barely works at all. Great improvement, you can keep it, I will read NBC. Are you really trying to drive everyone away?

The break-thru ads are a terrible. I like to read the news quietly, so I never have the sound on. When you click on a story, the photo becomes dark & then when you start to read the article, an ad pops up, but if you scroll past it to the next paragraph, it pops up to cover the story. If I had been at all interested, I would have clicked on it without all the pop up reminders. Please stop.

4/15/24 Been using this app for several years, it's really a mess. I rarely bother to open it anymore because it just keeps getting worse. Loaded with so many ads that reading an article is frustrating. One ad banner on the bottom of the screen, one pop-up video ad running in the left corner (with no x-out) covering half the paragraph. This means barely a paragraph is readable without scrolling, then there are box ads running in between every 3-4 paragraphs. About to give up on this app.

The frequent pop-up videos overwriting the text I'm reading are extremely annoying to me!! Follow-up: Your response to my being annoyed about frequent pop-up windows covering what I'm reading (and to other reviewers with the same complaint) is to give instructions on how to dismiss/delete it, i.e., by tapping the X in the pop-up window. Well, duh!! You really think we don't know that? That's no solution! The problem is the frequent interruptions caused by these annoying pop-ups!