I got this for a magazine subscription as Google Assistant already gives me general news links. But it's really bad for magazine management. If you're reading a long article, short story, or novella, it forgets your place when you return to the app. Navigation within the magazine requires too many steps to get around. The magazines you purchase are hard to find. It's good for single short articles, but the UX doesn't do full issues well at all.
A Google user
This App is a serious data hog and unfortunately, I'd rather have the old app. I burned nearly an entire month's worth of data with my carrier in less than an hour on this new app, and all I was doing was reading the news. There was no available wireless connection. If there is a way to throttle the data usage, it's not obvious. I've had to uninstall it and turn on all my data conservation modes for the next 3 weeks. It's pretty, but if it burns data, it's not useful.
A Google user
When reading the articles, Google News will occasionally reload, taking you to the top of the list. Selecting an article to read never returns you to the same point in the list, so you are constantly scrolling, and never know where you are in the list, unless you are at the top again. Also see an increase in the siloing of opinion, as I see far fewer articles with differing opinions. It is a nicer interface and has more to read than before.
Adam
GONE is the ability to automatically open stories in an external browser. GONE is the ability to browse news without being logged in - so they can track what you read and you end up seeing the same kinds of stories all the time because they're being "helpful". Stay out of my business, Google. I like seeing lots of different kinds of stories from many different sources, not your "curated" news.
Chris H
App has not updated news articles in eleven days. Also loses your place returning to the top. All in all not Google's finest effort! Update 5/15/18 Gee, I never would have figured that out! That was the first thing I did!!!!!!!!!!! Update 5/2/19 Now it updates constantly, and speaking of constantly, notifications all the time with no way to stop them! And forget about filtering content. My feed is littered with sites I have no interest in and in languages I do not speak.
J.
No matter how many times I banish certain topics (for instance, sports and entertainment), these stories incessantly clutter my feed. Hitting "see less of [x]" clearly does nothing. For that reason, I'll be looking for an alternative to Google News—if it weren't for that glaring failure, the app would be just fine and usable, but as it is, it's more trouble than it's worth.
Zia RDS
Can you please add "save for later" and "more like this" buttons? Sometimes I don't have time to read right that second but it captures my interest, only for all the stories I hearted to go missing after the auto-refresh. There's a bookmark article button, but that's only if you click into the story. I appreciate getting to dismiss what I don't like, but the algorithm isn't swift enough to understand what I DO like, at least not now. A "more" button would be easier. Thank you.
A Google user
Can't easily filter out news sources that I don't like. I don't want spoilers from movies and TV shows, and they're fairly frequent. Also, on a limited data plan, this app chewed through 2+ GB of data in a couple hours in the background, not even using it. Fix these issues, and I might give it another chance, until then, I'm uninstalling it.
A Google user
So much less than the old news and weather app. I can't choose my topics, I can't remove things like sports, I cant add interest features, even mini cards take up a good portion of the screen, I can't add local sections for more than my current location, the local weather is less useful and doesn't give same granularity of detail. I guess data harvesting is easier for Google. Very disappointed I'm stuck with this for news and I'm actively looking for alternatives.
A Google user
This app sucks compared to the old news and weather app. It doesn't fit in the same space, it takes up so much more room. I don't want to see all kinds of pictures, I just want headlines, like the old app and have the ability to click what I want to read. It gets worse, I'm trying to read something and it moves off the screen by itself. It also just refreshes by itself. You're reading something and about to click it to read more and then it refreshes and it's gone. Why try to make this all cute and animated? I just want the news!
