Bbc News App Reviews

Thank you.

A fine balance of news and sports.I look forward to my Daly news reports.

Can’t send email to bbc

Would have rated it 5 star only if I can read Africa news on the app, not on mobile web like it is now.

The grammar etc is okay but the reporting slants left by giving credence to those on the left and using tones of skepticism for those who simply want what is right/true.

Mostly objective, and opinionated only when requested. Video footage is excellent, on the spot, close-up viewing, and actual. For my money, BBC is the best, the most trusted source of news.

I love it but nothing is perfect. Content is great and it is easy to navigate. Five stars would have been apt but heck nothing is perfect so I give it a four stars. Keep up the good work

Much less one-sided than US media when covering US politics! Plus a wide variety of other items and issues of interest from around the world. I have given up on lamestream American media!

Great site for world news and good stories and commentary. Helps me round out my news gathering efforts.

The best way to describe BBC....virtually the only remaining reliable source for news

This is where I get my news. There are reporters everywhere. I think they are closest to the truth. They cover the globe so you stay informed.

This is my go-to news source every day. I often check it several times a day. BBC news is fact-checked and highly reliable to that extent. I don't live in the UK but in a country with very biased news reporting so I do count on the BBC for news about my own country. The BBC app is also the rare app that works 99% of the time. That having been said, the BBC has its historical biases, both with regard to the UK domestically and as well as to the areas of the world that the UK previously colonized. It may not be a mouthpiece of the government but it epitomizes the "establishment." So one does have to read news from several sources each day. With regard to the app itself, while I appreciate that it functions reliably, I don't like the limited scope of the news that it presents. It is highly Euro-centric in that there is no depth of coverage of events happening in the non-western world. Major events are reported but they don't stick with it for as long as it is needed. Moving on after one or two days is ignoring what is going on and that's a real disservice to the rest of the world.

This apt does these two things I was looking for to give context to the repetitive national news cycle. What else is happening in the world, and what are people elsewhere concerned about?

The BBC is my go-to source for world news and the North American stuff is good, too. Articles are well written without spelling errors. I would appreciate more breadth in news. The science and environmental reporting is top notch. A big annoyance is that I can see linked article titles in articles, but can't click on them. I don't like that.

I updated it yesterday, but it doesn’t work anymore!! It says “please check your internet connection and try it again !” My internet connection is good!

That’s the last straw. Good bye.

I don't get the focus of this app. It's narrow, it repeats itself, its superficial. Given that's what the state of news is today, I guess this app is not for me. I expected better from BBC.

What I like about BBC News is the information you get around the world. American news is primarily America centric for the most part. What could be improved are updates. My particular area of interest is Zimbabwe. The news tab is almost never updated. News is 2 and 3 weeks old.

Great news app, but I can’t see any videos or photos on my iPhone, iPads, or android devices

My app have not updated since Jun 10th

Seriously? You want people to read your articles and whom ever you have writing them can’t spell so many words!!! It’s ridiculous!!! this is seriously getting to be absolutely annoying. Fire the stupid person you have working for you and hire a smarter person. Or at least have a proofreader. You all look like fools.

And excellent news source that is very unbiased. It amazes me that all these people were claiming that the app is biased tend to also believe everything they hear out of the mouth of a certain president of the United States. Don’t believe them this is a great app.

Great news service. Puts American News Networks to shame. Gives the facts without bias; I wish other networks would learn from BBC. Outstanding!

This is by far one of the best news sites. BBC is always ahead on breaking news. Excellent reporting is fair and balanced. Get the BBC World Service app for excellent programming.

现在中国看不了BBC了，坑死了 而且你好不容易下了还要VPN才能用

This has become my favorite news app. It has significantly cut my cellular data usage over watching fluffed up video. And the articles are well written and interesting. The diversity of topics is amazing. I have found I like reading news again and its benefits: skip-over and reread. My only wish is for the ability for the BBC app to save more BBC news to read offline.

You will be informed of some small town hero in a little village of a small populated country... while at the same time be kept in the dark of huge news stories that should be developing and have hourly updates except that it would hurt a certain political side. Hey the app works good though.

It’s anti American Not journalism with a American perspective but with world socialist view!!! Nothing positive is ever mentioned in the last few months I’ve had the app about America America bashing and US government policy bashing seems to be the general norm I give it 👎👎👎

I thought CNN was the king of fake news. But since watching the BBC I’ve discovered they wipe the floor with CNN. Every story they run seems to has a leftist slant. With the exception of ‘hard talk’, every guest they bring on is a leftist puppet. I have never them say one positive thing about Trump. They relentlessly push the Nazi, racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic narrative. You have to be blind to miss the fact that this is nothing more than a giant propaganda machine, pushing a globalist, left-wing agenda. They are the serpent in the garden or eden. Smiling assassins.

The BBC is funded by a mandatory £150 fee in the UK. So why does this app have ads?

Reading an article and the page keeps jumping to the top in the middle of my reading..... very frustrating.

Not a serious news source. Extremely far left.

It's really good to get news that's not biased by the US media. I enjoy reading news from this app every morning

As an American I enjoy reading and seeing news that is well produced and coming from outside the boundaries of our country. BBC is more left of center then I am , but they do a pretty good job of presenting events as they occurred rather than how they wished they occurred. I respect that.

BBC is generally great news. The app sometimes feels like a computer wrote their stories, occasionally some of the words are mixed up or omitted like it took a story from their website and somehow lost some of it putting it on the app. Categories are not well refined because there are topics categories (like Medicine, and Sports, and Military) and geographic categories, but they get too jumbled up. Like I’ve never been interested in soccer or cricket, so I don’t subscribe the the “Sports” section, but nearly half the stories in “Africa” section are related to soccer. But the real reason why they only get 2 stars is in the past few months or so you’ll click on a story and it will open up the story in web browser on the BBC site. It totally ruins the experience, is not as fast as the app (takes like 5-10 full seconds to load), and is completely random. I’ll clock on a story I want to read, it brings up the web browser and I just go for the “X” as fast as I can. Don’t even want to read any story on the web browser that’s why I got your app!

If you are looking for unbiased news content with a clear division between editorial and news content the BBC is not for you, that said it is hard to find in one source. All opinions and facts outside of the approved left wing identity politics fraud and hypocrisy culture is censored Politically BBC is "CNN-light" unfortunately with similar taints and bias and pandering the same kind of hypocrisy; look no further than the content produced by so-called BBC journalists such as Kim Ghattas as evidence.

ive enjoyed BBC for years, tries to minimize bias and almost always on point, my go to for national (im Texan) and international news.

I love BBC world news as a trusted news source. Please add an IOS news widget so I can give this app 5-stars, and get rid of all of my other news widgets

So appreciate having news without a political agenda woven into it. American news outlets are all about political gamesmanship, so now I go to BBC for actual world news.

unloaded app and installed again,but it doesn't work

With all the "fake news" sources these days, it's imperative to have a trustworthy news source. The BBC is one of a handful of news sources you can count on to report the facts day in and day out.

You’d think there would be more news in a news app. Its just clickbait and stories about kardasians and jenners

100 percent satisfied. Title says it all. Sooo grateful for BBC.

App works flawlessly on IPhone 6! New standard for apps.

I live in the US.... thankfully I have the BBC to listen to and read. Best news source as far as I am concerned..... and it's free! And, more importantly there are no ads.

The app is great. BBC write their stories such that if you know nothing whatsoever about the subject matter you're brought up to speed in no time. Brilliant. Absolutely Brilliant

The reporting is great and I live how easy it is to navigate the app. The only problem is that sometimes when I go to click on something or scroll down to see other news stories, it freezes! That is the only problem that I’ve had!

I live for the news. Best news source out there.

Excellent quality, and always reliable, just like the BBC

The application keeps force closing. Also, you can never play the video keeps stating there is an error.

Full screen pop ups, mid article spacers, so annoying.

As always the BBC is number one for quality but I’m having trouble seeing videos. The sound plays but the screen is black, hence the 4/5 rating.

Love getting the news from around the world. And the format is by far the best as far as news apps go! But I do occasionally wonder if what I’m reading about other countries are as leftist-slanted as the reports on Trump are. They don’t give him a break! As horrible as they make him sound, when he’s really been quite impressive, I wonder if the rest of the world is also happier than they’re sometime made out to be here. I guess take it all with a grain of salt and realize that people want drama and bad news. So news outlets deliver.

Love BBC news but App has issues. I constantly get an Error saying it could not play media when trying to play news videos. This happens with about half of the videos i try to play. At first I thought it could be my phone, but after upgrading from iPhone 6 to iPhone 8, the problem continued. The app is always running on the latest version. Its frustrating

It's the BBC! Good content, design and operation.

This is my first stop when I want REAL news.

This app is absolutely wonderful. I originally would use a news article aggregator but got tired of having so many repeat notifications of the same news. I set out on a quest to find an alternative; being an American, I checked the New York Times (4 articles a month? Come on!) and USA Today (ads are too intrusive) before being recommended the BBC app. I downloaded it and it works fantastically - ads are minimal, I can read all I want, and (this is a plus for sure) it's unbiased! I would absolutely recommend downloading the BBC app because it is an excellent product.

Huge array of what is happening in the world. US news is too Trump heavy! I feel like I can connect to the real world with BBC News, in seconds. The App itself has worked flawlessly for me.

Everything is working fine except pictures do not download, just grey squares. App support is also missing.

I use the BBC News app everyday, it’s a well designed app! I would love to see a “Like” or “Save” feature for articles. I often lose an article in an update and have a hard time going back to find it.

Least parochial and frivolous. The news and background that counts.

This is the slowest news app out of all the news apps. I mean slow to load and update. Unbearably slow. One star. Delete this trash app off your phone if you have it.

BBC has too many ads look elsewhere

Wow.. Something must have happened at the BBC. The general maintenance of the news stories has slipped - badly. The U.S. news category in the customisable “My News” section is now routinely over a day old. The so-called ”headlines” in the main “Home” section now includes a lot of rubbish that would be more at home in the tabloids. There seems to be an over emphasis on Indian news for some reason... I don't get it because it’s usually ad supported apps that go for this sort of inane junk. BBC is mostly British tax payer supported with a mandate to provide quality and should be above this... Prior review: This app has gone downhill fast lately, maybe they had a change of editorial management or something... First, the quality of the news stories has noticeably dropped. There’s a lot more “soft news” and rubbish about what someone said or tweeted that insulted someone else, followed by a cascade of screenshots of those tweets - waste of space and NOT important! Many news stories are now written in a short one sentence paragraph “staccato” like format that after a while becomes irritating to read.. “Hard news” gets mixed in with irrelevant social issue nonsense mentioned above.. Before there was better seperation/hierarchy.. Second, while it’s nice to have the ability to customise layout under “my news”, lately it’s been throwing up a mishmash of outdated stories - some from over 3 years previous! This USED to be a reliable place to go for the latest news, but now I’m not so sure I’m getting it all anymore... Third, It’s become unreliable. Lately it’s been freezing - that NEVER happened before... BBC, PLEASE return to the quality you had for so long. Fix the app crashes, the mis-placing of stories and the over simplified writing. There’s enough junk out there... Heading for the lowest common denominator is NOT the way to go! Portion of prior review: Probably the best content out there... If you want "real" news about almost ANY topic from ANY part of the world, you'll find it here. All that plus plenty of interesting features and other stories and articles that go well beyond just the standard "news and sports"..

This app is beneficial for all aspirant, who are willing to gain knowledge and tempting for more skills.

What’s to like? - I click “share” and it gives me everything except a simply “copy link” option. - Every story now just loads a web page now, making the app MUCH slower than before. - Bookmarking a story to read later requires a lengthy registration, asking for silly info like my age. You want demographics? 100% of your users want simplicity, anonymity, and a demonstration of some simple competence.

BBC is my choice for news. I find out more about home (U.S.) than US news apps. How cool is that? And they give better international news. Update: I have noticed that BBC is now partisan against non-liberals. Their bias shows too much and they need to reign it in. Report facts; let people decide. Minus 2 stars for bias.

I used to value this app but it has become so left-leaning that I am deleted it.

It is refreshing to have a news site that actually covers the news. You can find out what is going on both Domestically as well a Globally. Thank you BBC -

Thank you for news presented with a global perspective. In the US, where I live, most news sources are too local. The BBC website gives background really well, along with current events.

A great app for easily keeping abreast of world news and areas of special interest. Easy to use, to configure preferences, visually appealing, easy to read titles and copy, continually updated, reflective of both social trends and editorial preferences, a non USA point of view.

This is the only site you need to read the news covering all news in elegant fashion.

Good luck trying to find unbiased news out there. This app/news definitely leans left. It will be refreshing to find news that isn’t slanted right or left. Just give facts and keep your opinions to yourself. I have a brain and can think for myself. Later BBC

I like the BBC News. However this app takes so long to update I can read the latest news on several other apps before this updates.

Such a weird format. Some article pre-load within the app, and others drain your data loading in this weird Safari-esque format that then load a whole bunch of other articles. I used to LOVE this app — I’m on the verge of deleting it!

Great unbiased news, gives perspectives that US papers don’t have.

This app focuses mostly on the distressing news throughout the world. It repeats it ad nauseum. There is so much news out there, it would be good for this app to broaden its horizons. It gives a bit of news from the most "noisy" places (repeatedly), but fails miserably in wider coverage. If it's not bad news, this app doesn't cover it. Except of course for the little Royals. Now that's cute. The main problem that I have with it is that if you want to read one of the stories and you happen to be way down in the column on the story, when you finish reading it and go back to the column it puts you all the way back up to the top of the column instead of where you were. That is extremely frustrating have to go all the way back down to the bottom of the column where you were!!!

Perfect way to keep up with latest news !

What used to be an example of objective reporting has morphed into a propaganda tool for brexit. Totally bummed out to delete what used to be my favorite news app

Bbc used to be an unbiased media source but has begun pandering to the social justice movement and has turned the site into a really bad news source. A shame because it used to be so measured.

Easy to comprehend and locate subject matter. My constructive criticism is about content: WAY too much USA centric content. For goodness sake, every other news channel does US news, why not focus on non-US?

newspaper good..

The go to place for objective news and analysis.

Badly designed application. Full screen pop up adverts. Such a terrible design.

I think BBC News is a good one on the Apple App Store. It is useful.

In addition to Apple News, I wanted to read more world news. As I already followed BBC on Apple, I choose to download the app. I have been blown away by the scope of their stories and their broad range of topics; they also have an impressive collection of videos. By reading BBC I feel much more informed about the world. While other channels choose to only report on world news when it is relevant to the U.S. or U.K., BBC offers a more varied selection with many articles about Africa and Asia along with Europe and America. While another review complained about the font I find it easily readable.

A+ this is onestly my favorite app. great for checking the news on public transportation & sometimes i spend hours browsing the top stories & magazine articles on weekend mornings before getting out of bed.

Hats off to the worst site EVER

It is very convenient to read BBC News as each story is covered including a background synopsis. This makes it easy to put things in the proper context.

All ads - you have to watch a 1:00 minute advertisement to watch a clip that’s 20 seconds long? Then another for the next 20 second clip? Heaven forbid the video fails to load (it will) and then get ready for another advertisement! Oh you tried to click a news story? Sorry! That was an ad on the middle of the page! LOL! I bet you really feel good knowing you can get a great rate of return if you take out another mortgage on your house!

This app has a great format for presenting news. I like the customization of ‘My News’. It’s very gratifying and somewhat addictive to be able to get the gist of current events at a glance. I have two complaints: the ad network that it ties into can be intensely irritating with questionable content (skull face masks for hunting or something??) and popup ads that take over the entire display. I would be very interested in a paid, ad-free version. My second complaint is that under US news is an article that is ever present about “Obama’s hopeless push for gun control”. It was published in 2015 I think, and never goes away. I’ve read the article, robooted, reinstalled, but nothing ever causes it to go away. Nevertheless it’s only a minor curiosity, I’m much more interested in an ad free version. Every now and then, The intrusive nature of these ads is concerning enough to me to uninstall it. I miss the convenience so much I usually cave in again and reinstall it before long. Overall, good job BBC, this is a terrific app!

The app delivers BBC text and video news, and does so in a reliable way, but it has a few glitches. The most annoying one is that often, after you enter a story, when you exit it you are returned to the top of the news page. Perhaps the page is constantly refreshing, possibly at certain peak times of the day for story submissions, but that shouldn’t catapult the reader to the top of a long home page.

Good diversity of stories and perspectives.

Used to be my favorite app so much easier than the other big network apps and so neutral I still like all of that but this ad popping up in my face when I’m trying to read an article, taking over my screen and then moving me over to Safari browser and I have to shut the whole system down... I forget what I was even looking at..... So I guess I’ll see you later :((

Totally fell apart, news is not commercials that interrupt news is now making me delete your app. None stop repeating same commercials is not acceptable, maybe if they were good commercials but they are not.

Ridiculous. I get the revenue source but before every video is too much. Adios mate.

The news source I go to FIRST.

Taxpayer funded apps shouldn’t be loaded down with ads.

...every story is stuffed with Google ads for women's clothing, and no amount of reporting it as "not relevant" changes the ads. :-/

Error

Not just event news, also political, social, scientific, sports, and other stuff. Great variety. BUT! Too many articles are cut short. You get half-way through the story and it comes to a sudden stop. I assume the rest in on the website, but I want it all in the app so I can finish the story without changing device.

Great! In general like text/photos more than vids; saves Mb and Gb

The news stories themselves are good. This used to be my primary source of news. The problem is the animated advertisements which are distracting the reader from the story. Perhaps that is the intent but when ads get shoved down my throat like that I delete any apps that use them and look for something better.

Please add a Dark mode to the settings. Thanks.

The app fails to load articles making it nearly impossible to use or enjoy. I have deleted and reinstalled it several times to no avail. All other news apps load perfectly except BBC. Most unfortunate as I would prefer to use it for the quality of the articles but it is impossible when articles fail to load.

Excellent.

They seem to be turning into a primary left wing organization, not as fair and balanced as it used to be.

Balanced, unbiased and reassuring

Every time you watch a video you have to watch an ad and it’s the same ad over and over and over! Ridiculous!

Well written. Informative. Concise. My go to place for news

Terrific & timely look & listen @ happenings among our national & world neighbors! Many thanks!

Stop it with the AUTOPLAYING FULLSCRREN NOISY VIDEO ads. Awful.

Gave up on CNN, Fox and Al Jazeera, although if you read all three on the same subject and put them in a blender you may end up with something balanced. Refreshing coverage and good to see an Africa section

I can receive it when I cannot get henNYTimes.

Ads are about 1 minute long for every video you want to watch. That's harsh given that most videos are 2-3 minutes long. I close out of them every single time. I wish they would just not show videos in my feed any more. On top of it the BBC is apparently is turning into a tabloid. So what if Melanie Trump is planning to attend the Olympics? That is top news on the home screen? It's shameful. Get your act together and report on worthwhile issues.

Every other news source and their websites should be compared to this

Not the full page but navigatable.

Journalism! The real deal in world and regional news. We Americans have gotten used to thinking we are the world. Our news broadcasts and many local newspapers no longer cover news events from other continents. BBC News covers the world. I like the push notifications that contain just enough information for me to evaluate.

Padkayne 42 has summarized it most eloquently. Let's leave it at that!

Great app! News stories are constantly updated, always well written and the simple swipe controls makes it very easy to use. A must have for anyone interested in what is happening in our world.

While reading stories on my iPhone, the article will randomly reset to the top of the page forcing me to scroll down to find my place again. Makes it very hard to read an article. When browsing into a sub-topic and returning to the main window, the app resets the top of the page rather than the sub-topic location which means I have to scroll down again to where I left off.

I have used and loved this app for ages. But recently there have been increasing number of articles that start really interestingly - but then end suddenly. Like they only uploaded half of it. No link to read it elsewhere. Very annoying. Please fix!

What a fantasyland the "journalists" for BBC must live in as their fairy tales are so far divorced from reality its hard to stop laughing (if you've enough idle time on your hands) as you read them. Am glad the site is free for its not worth even a farthing.

I love knowing I can get a totally different view of the news that are important to me. Consider the BBC a friend and whether its on the tv, or social media I always check and verify what I'm hearing at home Ciao

One star due to useless update summary.

Video doesn't works if touched. First couple of seconds of video replays. Older news continue to show in app. Latest news are updated weeks later in categories such as health, tech, science, etc. Same content is repeated in many articles related to a news or event. Some times even old articles and videos are just resurfaced on first page. If a article is updated, by clicking new version is shown but there's no way to know what is really updated. Is it a line a word or what, leading to re reading the article. Hope you will fix these sometime... seeing the same for years.

Love this app! But, you can’t search and old articles. No feature to search previously read articles once they become “old”. Can’t go back and read articles from a few months ago, a year, or even two years ago! Very frustrating!!!

有中文网但app没中文，遗憾

Not as good as NPR but OK. It has more bias than than public radio but less than commercial news. Most articles are longer than they need to be, like they are trying too hard.

I love BBC and it’s my go to for news. The app is usually good, but the past week or so it’s not letting me share articles. Instead, all that is shared is the headline, with no link to the story. This isn’t happening to people I know with Androids. Maybe the next update will fix it?

Thank you

Ur app keeps breaking and won’t update news for days indicating no wireless data connection even though all my other apps don’t have any problems.

Gave the new format a chance. The old one was much much better. Change for the sake of change.

I love using this app for the content and the usability. It would be even more useful to have CarPlay support added to it so that I can easily listen to newscasts from my car!

For several days BBC News app loads to a red banner with no news loaded. Gray matter only :(

If you like to watch a heap of advertising you'll love this app.

Unbiased

Example: Brexit topic. Today is 12/05/2017. Lot happened today and the app still shows “3 DAYS OLD” news under Brexit topic.had enough of this sh***y app and deleting.

What more can I say. BBC is always negative on Trump coverage.

I am an English learning, and I used to use (Look Up) feature to know the meaning of some words. It was working online / offline internet. Now, I lose it when I am offline. So sad. It is very important, especially for us (English learning). I hope see this feature soon. Thanks.

Good but on modern phones, needs a dark mode in the options.

Simple reporting of the news. If you want opinion go somewhere else. Coverage is simple fact based which is just the way I like it. I’ll girl my opinion from the facts.

Note that I am not reviewing the BBC’s content. The BBC is my #1 go to app for news; however, it is not just for the stories, the global coverage, or the fair and balanced coverage. It is because the app simply works right. Tap to read, swipe to return to the home screen. How difficult is that? Apparently it’s pretty tough, since the BBC is the only news app I have that I can use with one hand. For that alone, it’s worth five stars.

apparently there is very little news in the world- the same articles sit there for days. they must not staff the Middle East, as frequently they can find only 3 articles to post. won’t satisfy your world news needs. Reuters is a better bet.

After reporting natural and people made disasters, it would be wonderful to read referenced follow up. For example: What is happening after Hawaii ‘s recent lava flow? After California’s fires? Florida’s flooding? Syria’s Isis aftermath? Somehow, people carry on, survive, and recover. There is likely a lot of inspiration as well as heartbreak that goes along with it, its own story.

I want a world perspective that does not get into the weeds (details). The BBC site is perfect for me.

Exceptional source of global news

The ads were fine before but now the app forces a video ad to go full screen.

Always interesting and informative reporting.

The app is great. Just a quick suggestion: please hide the home indicator on iPhone X when viewing video in full-screen. (As an example, the YouTube app does this very well).

Basic content and organization is first rate. Lately I’ve been getting loud music pop-up ads. No effin’ thank you! Deleting app NOW!

Pop up ads now take over the app experience. BBC News has always been my reliable source for unbiased reporting but now I can’t read it for the ads. Sent a comment but received no response. If this continues into the new year I will drop the app entirely.

Garbage app.. I can’t listen to music and read an article without a video ad taking over my audio.

I learned to live with this app and appreciate the good things while ignoring those I didn't care for. BUT now you have added a stridently loud ad that unexpectedly bursts into noise as I scroll down an article. No way to stop it except exiting app. This one may prove to be something I literally cannot live with. PLEASE remove this intrusive ad. Bring back the old app. This one is pedestrian -- in trying to look like everyone else, you have lost what made you unique: order. Why do I need another news app that looks like all the rest?

They need to remove ad that pops up with loud music.

I find most American based news outlets to be shallow and sensationalist and therefor rely on BBC both worldwide and in America for my news. I look to BBC to provide actual reporting of actual events, worldwide and in the United States and to report on more than rescuing cats out of trees and the daily shooting report that seems to come up every day in this country.

Great app until the latest version which now has ads that take over the screen and auto play obnoxious video in the middle of an article. Please revert to inline ads as previous before users start leaving.

Suddenly, ads pop up filling the whole screen and playing loud music. You can click them off, but it's very disrupting. I will give it one more try, but if another pop up happens, I will be deleting this app.

The ads start playing randomly. I don't want a commercial for Mexico blasting off as I read my news. Going to stop using BBC.

Annoying as hell that have to scroll back down the news list to last position, every time you finish an article. If you only take about 30 seconds to read article, then most of time you can have no problems. But this is ridiculous and makes a great app pretty awful to use. Shame on the developers for being so stupid and ignorant. Reflects badly on the BBC.

Brilliant job handling the iPhone X notch when reading in portrait mode. Other developers should take note. Excellent world news service from BBC as always.

I’m an American living in Europe. If I want a balanced perspective on what’s going on in the world, I trust the BBC.

Great balance of all the news from around the world that is clearly and fairly reported.

Unlike the American news media that is saturated with useless information and non news items, the BBC presents researched and important reports from around the globe on real news that we actually want to know about.

I live in the USA and this app is the only way for me to get objective news. All of the articles are fantastic!

The ads recently started playing video and annoying music without being touched. App is now removed from my devices.

Everything was great until recently. For the past week or two, an ad for Paradisus Los Cabos now appears constantly and just scrolling by it makes it pop up and take over the screen blasting it's music. It's on every page and I'm at a point of looking for alternatives to getting my news. You have one week to remove ads like those or I'm out of here.

The app used to be great, but recent changes have made it unusable. The app is now plagued by popup ads that take over, play music and are not quick to close. The pop up now an almost every news article. I get that ads are necessary, but the recent changes in frequency have made the app worthless.

Your gonna hate it now you will be reading a story and a pop up advertizment video starts playing iut loud in your face it startled me for the last time ill get my news elsewhere

I like how the BBC has such a worldly perspective. I learn about so much more of what’s happening in the world in their app than in most other news apps. Keep it up! (4 stars for (sometimes) obstructive ads. I understand you need to make money, but full-screen pop-ups are a bit much)

Some of the most interesting stories are in the BBC Capital section but due to some parsing errors with BBC Capital content, only the first paragraph shows up in the app. I am getting tired of the teaser and also of the workaround needed to continue reading. I have to try to share the article, then select just the URL portion, then click on Look-Up, then search the web to be able to launch it in the browser.

Latest updates plays loud annoying music for a lower placed advertisement. Can’t be shut off. Same music every time app is opened. Why antagonize your readers into becoming unwanted listeners?

The BBC represents the ego and arrogance of a fallen empire that still thinks it can sermonise India without question. Get rid of that stupid notion and your hatred for Indians and Hindus. Get rid of your bigotry and hypocrisy first. Let’s do a roll-call of the series of crimes that plagues the BBC.

Paradisus anyone? Wow... this ad literally blocks my entire screen when I scroll thru EVERY article. Not worth it, back to biased CNN

Ad videos are popping up automatically dominating the entire screen. It really is a huge turn off when a video ad is shoved in your face. I’ll be looking elsewhere to get my news

Easy reading and comprehensive coverage. But recently a video ad selling you a trip to Relax in Playa del Carmen, Mexico for $405 starts playing with the volume on max volume. I don’t play videos at night. Please BBC don’t wake up the whole family - many of your news readers just want to read at night.

If you open a story to read, within a moment or two and ad takes over the app complete with amped-up rock music. In the past, they had enough sense to make intrusive add silent. I guess they now feel they need to advertise to all millennial’s in proximity when pushing their ads at one user. One less user here.

Pros: 🔅 Unbiased News 🔅 Prompt Reporting 🔅 Great World News Coverage Cons: 🔅 Clunky Layout 🔅 Bad Editing (grammar/spelling) 🔅 POP UP ADS WITH AUDIO 🔅 POP UP ADS WITH AUDIO 🔅 POP UP ADS WITH AUDIO 🔅 POP UP ADS WITH AUDIO 🔅 POP UP ADS WITH AUDIO Pop up ads have rendered this app useless. Please find a way to monetize your app that doesn’t completely destroy the user experience. I will be looking forward to you making your app functional again.

I used this app for years and it was my go to news source. The ads have gradually gotten worse, first with the full screen pop ups over the past year and now this month it has begun auto pop up of video ads that play with a loud volume. The app is essentially unusable. Will delete soon if not fixed.

Be sure to remember to reduce your phone volume to 0 before you open the app. It automatically plays video ads in full screen and blasts your speakers even if you are reading a standard article that contains no videos.

There I am discreetly attempting to read a news story only to have a video ad open by itself, without being selected, all while blaring some obnoxiously loud music! What the heck are you thinking? I’m ok with viewing/looking at silent ads so that I can read my “free” news stories, but video ads should be restricted to videos only, right?

UPDATE: Sorry to say that I have to delete this app because of the raucous auto play ad that comes up. I have autoplay set to NEVER in Settings but it still assaults my ears and has no off/skip button . . . . . . I like the news, but the audio that starts soon after starting the app is driving me buggy - no way to turn them off!! Give us an off button, please.

This was until recently an excellent app. Recently though, it includes video ads that automatically play, suddenly blasting music while I’m trying to read the news. This is extremely obnoxious and distracting and I’ve has to stop using the app.

For the third time in the last week a loud ad popped up while I was checking the news. So I deleted the app!

Always pop up. Have to stop them, go back to where you were, and start to read article again. Toss this on top of bias d reporting and it’s only good reading in the WC.

While reading stories, an ad pops up playing loud music. Very annoying.

I appreciate the news and he way it is delivered.

Invaluable to have a different view of what's important in the world. (I despise Trump, but US media overdoes the coverage of the man I think of as Mr. Toad).

Everything was good until you recently made the ads pop up with audio. I understand it’s a free app, but I will stop using it if I can’t trust that it will be silent when I use it. I’m referring specifically to the ads that pop up while I scroll. If it were at the beginning of a video I clicked, then obviously I anticipate the ad. I can’t be the only one that is significantly annoyed by this update.

If you want your phone taken over by video ads this is now the Ap for you! You want loud obnoxious video on your phone when you just want to check up on news on your phone where it can disrupt your life and that of the people around you? This is it. You can’t even stop them or escape out. You have to quit the Ap! I’m brexiting this one after years of use. Trashed it today.

This was my favorite news app until ads started taking over, now every few minutes annoying audio ads will take over the screen and play annoying music, I’m so disappointed

Great app except for the awful auto play ads. Too bad

Crashes every time i select an article to read. New version is bad

Scroll down (or diversify your interests) bad news” folks and you’ll find a range of stories on extraordinary people, places, and events.

I love the international coverage but the US coverage is very one sided. Recent example: The Trump administration have repeatable said his withdraw of troops is not a “Mission Accomplished” situation and the fight against ISIS has entered a new era. While I don’t like the decision, you keep saying he said they he said the fight is over. He said the caliphate ie the “country” of ISIS is defeated. His point is, and you know this is that they are going to be like Al Ciada, and the Taliban, still dangerous, but still there but a shadow of themselves, but you keep saying/implying Trump said it’s all over. You are misrepresenting, on purpose what he Said!

I visit the BBC daily for accurate reporting of world news

Always loved and appreciated BBC. Quick coverage when you want it and more depth when you are looking for more. Solid, reliable coverage.

I like how the BBC has such a worldly perspective. I learn about so much more of what’s happening in the world in their app than in most other news apps. Keep it up!

Wish all news reports were unbiased! This is a must read site!

Stupid audio add just woke the baby up thanks!!!!

I’m not sure which update applied these adds, but there is constant full volume ads popping up. Use to enjoy this news app now it’s a frustration, delete.

Now with ads that pop open as you scroll and play video. Very annoying.

I used to really like using this app to check in on world news. Recently, audio ads started taking over forcing you to listen to them. They’re too loud, there’s no way to turn them off, and ultimately I just deleted this app. Sad. Whoever’s in charge of making that decision should be fired. Great way to chase off your readers.

Early one morning I’m quietly reading the news while others sleep. Suddenly an ad takes over the BBC news app and starts playing annoyingly loud music. No way to mute it other than killing the app. I’m very disappointed. I accept the fact that ads with audio will show up in video, but I find it unacceptable when I’m reading text. Update: This is happening regularly, so I am deleting the app.

Uninstalling because of the new obnoxious audio ads that automatically pop up every time you open a story to read.

Good news articles and reports but adds are very annoying. Pop ups are extremely annoying when touch the screen to look at at pop-ups apier and start playing

I’m not using your app now that you have loud, annoying ads.

After enjoying this app for 7 years, I have deleted it since they now force video ads for no touch or reason which you cannot close—ads that are completely irrelevant. Find another news source. 😟

With the addition of auto playing video ads that blast music whenever i try to read the news, its time to delete this app

I loved this app until the new update added ads that randomly pop up and enable sound. I was just hit by loud music in a quiet crowded place. Please disable the automatic playing ads with sound—it makes me not want to open your app. I will change my review if addressed.

Early one morning I’m quietly reading the news while others sleep. Suddenly an ad takes over the BBC news app and starts playing annoyingly loud music. No way to mute it other than killing the app. I’m very disappointed. I accept the fact that ads with audio will show up in video, but I find it unacceptable when I’m reading text. Update: This is happening regularly, so I am deleting the app.

I often read in quiet surroundings, so unexpected loud music on ads is an unwelcome addition to the US version of the app.

I only get the news from the bbc but I always take them with a grain of salt because the bbc is very liberal leftist. They should be more balanced and fair

Whenever I expand an article the app doesn't return me to where I left off, forcing me to scroll repeatedly. Why can't you have your programmers fix this? Otherwise you're doing a fine job.

UPDATE: After finally being forced off the old 32-bit app a few months ago, and suffering through this dreadful UI ever since... this is the last straw! This latest version auto-plays video ads full screen with audio, despite app settings to the contrary. The only way for this app to be more obnoxious is if it actually served up malware too. Original Review: Don't Be Fooled Into upgrading to this version. In addition to the bad layout others have mentioned, this version is designed to get more advertising in front of your face. I tried the compact layout + carousel trying to mimic the old app, but it's a poor substitute. Thankfully, I back up my phone often so I just restored the old app and BBC news reading life is good again.

The most recent bbc app now plays ads when looking at your news items listing. No way to disable them. I loved the app before, read it daily, but the autoplay ads are so disruptive because the cannot be disabled and the over play the audio news segments you actually want to hear. Removed app from my iPad.

Like the news, but the audio that starts soon after starting the app are driving me buggy - no way to turn them off!! Give us an off button, please.

Great app. And I like the news better than the news outlets in the US. I am giving it one star and deleting the app though. Now in the middle of reading the news adds pop up fill the screen and you can’t close them. Thanks laying at full volume. So annoying. Thanks for being yet another news provider to ruin your product with advertising

The app now automatically plays audio ads. Completely unacceptable.

most news outlets in the u.s.

BBC!!! What is happening? You're now loading loud video ads without my permission. Fix the ads. Imagine opening the app to catch up news in a quiet zone only to be shocked by loud video ads. This is too cheap for BBC.

Recently I've noticed increasingly annoying ads within the app. Today while browsing an auto-play ad blared out unprompted. Since the app represents the BBC of which I am a huge fan, this is a big disappointment. Auto play ads are the lowest of the low. Please fix this soon or I'll delete the app for sure.

Well I *used to* Use this app to check the headlines of the world but when they started pushing audio ads at you automatically, the app became obnoxious. Now, if you open a story to read, within a moment or two and ad takes over the app complete with amped-up rock music. in the past, you used to have to tap on an advertisement to view it. More recently, they had enough sense to make intrusive add silent. I guess they feel they need to advertise to all millennial’s in proximity when pushing their ads now. One less user here.

Previously the ads were on the app, but inline with articles. Now the ads keep popping up and taking over the app every couple of minutes. The same as has come up 5 times in less than 10 minutes and you have to view the full ad before you get a way to dismiss it. Can’t get back to the app until it runs its full course. The app is unusable at this stage, it’s too frustrating.

Early one morning I’m quietly reading the news while others sleep. Suddenly an ad takes over the BBC news app and starts playing annoyingly loud music. No way to mute it other than killing the app. I’m very disappointed. I accept the fact that ads with audio will show up in video, but I find it unacceptable when I’m reading text.

Pop up ads have ruined this app. Every article gets interrupted by a noisy, video pop up ad and sometimes the same ad pops up multiple times in the same article. I love the BBC for their news content but the ads have made this app unusable. It’s very disappointing.

As an American I enjoy the broad & balanced news cast.

The most authentic source of news from my point of view. Excellent web server. CNN doesn’t even come close.

Despite multiple attempts to resolve my issue—I am deleting this app due to crude adverts! They say it is beyond their control—rubbish!

BBC news is good. The app works nice except that after reading an article, you back up and it takes you to the start, just like if you had reloaded the program. I would like to just continue going down the page, just like reading a news paper.

Hi I am a UK Expat. You are my go to news. No USA news feed does what you do. Thank you.

Too much duplication between categories of news articles. Too much negative focus on “bad America”. Clean up your own house first. Too many stories remaining too long. The writing reminds me of a petulant child with a bone to pick about daddy. Fast becoming “not my cup of tea”. But then again what can one expect from a nanny state journal.

Exceptionally reliable for non-biased news on most non-UK news. Fairly reliable on UK news. As always one should have multiple news sources, but the BBC comes highly recommended as one of them and I agree with that sentiment.

A fulsome serving of cultural Marxism by globalist elites. The msm are nearly identical in either side of the Atlantic. I am deleting this waste of digital space on my phone.

Best coverage of Catalan issue. Also find excellent articles on health and science, not just political news.

Thanks for your app

What has happened to the real BBC? Who took it? Who replaced it with this ‘Click here. You won’t believe what happened next’ hoaxter?

I have always liked BBC News for their articles and documentaries.Always helps to get a different perspective.

It’s BBC

I love this app better than cnn because I don’t have to sit through all the commercials.

US news too focused on Trump and “try to be fair and balanced” but come out too weak most of the time. Most of the time look like talk shows. BBC reports accurately what is happening around the world.

For the past 5 days, this app has crashed several times. I decided to delete and download again, and now it doesn’t work at all. Please update.

A fantastic collection of auto run ads with the occasional tidbit of news in between. Good job guys!

I used to be an NPR user but have gradually migrated to the Crack Reporting & Commentary of BBC World News— you’re On Top of Breaking News 24/7 while NPR is still crawling out of bed. The Links to past Stories I might’ve missed is often invaluable and the fact that I can ‘Blow-Up’ any Graphic or Photo on my otherwise Tiny Screen is often useful to really understand their significance. The only ‘Constructive Criticisms’ I'd offer is sometime when I’m finished reading a story and back-out to continue down the Feed, it’s reset to the Top and I must scroll-down to where I was to continue to catch-up on ALL the news on offer. Also I’d enjoy the option (like on NPR) of HEARING a story as Reported by British BROADCASTING! (Often a ‘video’ takes too long to load, especially when I ‘Tune In’ in the Hinterland.) And, I’d place the Back ‘Button’ at the bottom of the page so as not to interrupt Reading of the Scroll and to facilitate ‘Ease of Use’ with my thumb which tends to be down around the On/Off & Keyboard end of my Phone.

The paper has made an attempt to cater to US news tastes or orientation. This of course makes the presentation worse and the subject material becomes more pedestrian. I suggest following the standards set by the Financial times and not lower your standards to US tastes.

Oh my. Tis so hot. We’re all going to perish.

Excellent quality, and reliable, just like the BBC, but a recent personal (workplace) experience unreported raises a serious flag for me. Despite ‘reaching out’ I’m left quite unsure where BBC gets its news from in the U.S. Apparently it’s from the World Service! Not sure about that. Quite a lot of verified Real (I would classify as important) News doesn’t make it, or it’s a day late. Not much use if you’re trying to quickly verify the veracity of a U.S. story.

So glad you are not Trump bashers.........

To the people who think that Trump is not treated fairly or given a chance I have to give my view. The people that know him best are the people that lived in New York City on the island of Manhattan and I’ve seen him in action for years. When he was elected the people that knew him best gave him only 10% of the vote. I lived in New York from the late 60s to the mid 80s and knew that he and his father were slumlords, grifters, and racist. He lies in a continuous stream daily and is losing support from everybody except those who don’t read the news and still believe that he will support their interest. They will be disappointed because he has no empathy for them or anyone outside his family. He only won election because of a quirk in our Constitution designed to support the slaveholding states known as the Electoral College. He never won the popular vote. There are so many threads to his corruption we don’t yet know how many. He and his cabinet appear to be more interested in personal gain than benefiting the common interest. The reason I am saying all this is to defend what I perceive to be a light but balanced presentation of our president over here. Yes, CNN does have a bias that leans to the left and Fox has one that leans very far in the direction of Trump. At least CNN starts with facts that can be verified. For balance I need the BBC which has coverage that can take me away from all of this and frequently transport me to some place I have never known before. Thank you for being here.

It’s good to read about Europe,Asia,Middle East and South America from another responsible news group. Gives us here in the U.S. another viewpoint.

Like all sources of News, it has its god and bad but then again that’s just what makes news what it is.......I do prefer fact oriented news which saves the writers opinion for the OPINION PAGES and I firmly believe that it is a Editor’s Duty to enforce such a policy, however today’s Media Outlets are more interested in getting a story out rather than fact checking. This condition runs rampart in the US and continues to cause great to grief. In general, folks want factual news and not ACOSTA TYPE BIAS.......whether it be directed at the Left or the Right.

Update: still one of my favorites, but not on cellular — it uses WAY too much data. I try to only turn on cellular for a short time to load some news, but bad timing uses too much of my cellular data — seems to be the photos. ***Needs “text only” mode when not on WiFi*** BBC App rarely used now. ———- This has become my favorite news app. It has significantly cut my cellular data usage over watching fluffed up video. And the articles are well written and interesting. The diversity of topics is amazing. I have found I like reading news again and its benefits: skip-over and reread. My only wish is for the ability for the BBC app to save more BBC news to read offline.

I’ve given up on US news sources because the have such biases. Time to find a source that’s reliable and balanced. BBC seem to take a more measured look at what’s happening around the world and report the facts. Of course, I can’t trust them to report the news from the UK with the same unbiased view, but that’s somebody else’s problem.

Reports breaking, current news as well as human interest events. It’s my go to news read for what’s happened in the world.

Very neutral and unbiased information (exactly the opposite of Fox News) The breaking news are very current and accurate too. Keep up the good work!

I got tired of either CNN or Fox news, both ends of the spectrum constant heat from both sides, arguing and bantering all the time.. if I want to argue I can do that in my own neighborhood. All I want is just the news. And you deliver

Great Ap for content and appearance. Bad Ap for navigation. Too often I enter a story and return to the beginning frame, no matter how far down the page I’ve navigated. I’ve registered this moan many times with no response.

Love the Beeb news is always genuine I am a Brit 🇬🇧 living in US. I only wish you would do longer audio’s or I would have given you 5 stars Thank you.

In America e have a similar left stance with ABC, NBC,CBS an a host of Cable sites who preach to their audience like the BBC a progressive left Global order that’s negative to our people as well yours at the BBC. You ave lost your way all over the World and your losing not only audience but fair writing on political issues and you have lost me.

The absolute lack of coverage about the Human rights violations of Israel when placed side by side wIth the amount of coverage given to Saudi Arabia

BBC is the best news so far that provides news on technical, political, cultural events, innovation, natural disasters, very nicely. please continue to provide such good news and not start reporting news like those other news channels that focus on crime and political/other scandals with very little attention on the real stuff that matters.

Every news organization has some element of bias; BBC News is the least biased I’ve found. Their articles are of international scope but local importance. Facts without fluff. I generally visit BBC 1st, then the rest.

One of the best news sources for news in The United States. Ironic, but true. Obviously it’s a great source for world news as well.

LOVE the BBC app! I go here first thing in the morning, several times during the day and last thing at night. Broad topics, all sides presented, intelligent reporting of the facts, without opinions. I forward articles from this app to friends and family several times each day, and most of them are now addicted, too. Spot on when it comes to politics, very quick response time post-news-event, along with incredibly fascinating, in-depth reporting on unusual topics. Keep up the great work!

Impartial as possible with information

BBC is a true news media that reports objectively and unbiased. The American News media are reporting on there own agenda and mostly against President Donald Trump. It’s true colors have come out and it is disappointing to say the least. I cannot watch the American news media anymore. I have noticed this decline in the American News media for a number of years. Thank you BBC and keep up the good work.

It’s nice to read world news without being focused on partisan politics.

I like bbc for there global reporting on all subjects. No frills to the point and factional. I don’t have to listen to to somebody’s rhetoric and opinions and in a minimum amount of time every day I keep on top of the world news and I am well informed.thank you rose

Reading an article and the page keeps jumping to the top in the middle of my reading..... very frustrating. Still broken. App keeps jumping to the top of the page while I am reading.

News at my fingertip!

I like getting an idea of how another part of the world views news.

1. repetitive wordings and paragraphs; 2. lacking perspectives and unrepresentative opinions; 3. many stories lacking a gist; 4. Unreliable sources, post and photos plagiarized from social medias... What a blight of this age..

Great app from an international perspective. Wish I have the ability to have a IOS widget for a quick glance at what’s important to me

BBCNews I would rate as 5 star. Balance, fair and understandable.

The reporting checks out, with other sources. Facts matter, multi sourcing is imperative. As a former investigative journalist, I appreciate research.

Simple, accurate and most importantly unbiased reporting. Thank you BBC News.

95% of all news from USA are negative against President Trump. We have CNN and MSNBC for that news. Would like news that doesn’t put a spin on everything, just report the news!

Ut to i.

Content from a very large and distributed staff gathers content that is well researched and informative. As an American, it’s also healthy to get the perspective from a European source, with a different viewpoint than US based news organizations.

Each day I begin my day and spin through a half dozen sources and find many issues confused. But then I check through BBC’s stories for clarification and separate reporting. I think BBC tends to fresher independent views rather than remaining consistent to editorial views.

BBC provides access to major news stories not readily available with u. S. Media sources. Coverage gets to the point with little partisan bias. The app is easy to use. Thanks for making the app available without lots of advertisements or requests for subscriptions

Is an wonderful service I recommended

Love the BBC News App!

“The Pope uses the “R” word!! Really?! What in the world?! Just use your words folks. Stop the “politically correct/afraid to offend anyone gibberish. Stop. It.

BBC a real international news agency. It has best coverage.

Since all the usuals cnn and fox carry the same stories I have taken to BBC for my daily news overview- what a refreshing change!

I use bbc as my main news source and love their reporting. One suggestion, is that the functionality of the new app is still not as simple and easy to use as before. That said I’ll still be using it as my source for news.

Was great. Now I have to watch a 15 or 30 second advertisement to watch one minute of content. Is the BBC struggling that much?

Direct to the point and not one sided.

As an American I enjoy BBC’s reporting and broad analysis of political, social and economic events. Very balanced, comprehensive!!!

It’s nice to read broader views from around the world.

BBC News is the gold standard of news that is accurate. In a time when News organizations have become full of sensational headlines and inaccuracies and Full of Banner Ads. It is good to read the high standard of journalism that BBC News continues to report.

I can scarcely imagine life without the BBC. Thank you from across the Atlantic!

The Beeb delivers news that reminds me that America is not the center of the universe.

Just like the BBC World News “utter joke” TV programs such as “Outside Source” and “Beyond 100 days”; the BBC app is filled only with pro-democrats & anti-republicans biased articles & analysis. Definitely NOT balanced NOR fair reporting on US matters. Clearly going against their self-proclaimed so-called “BBC values”.

So much more informed and balanced than my usual US news outlets, and focused on the entire world rather than just any one country or area.

The most extensive world coverage and variety that it’s pretty much the only app I use every day, multiple times a day. If your news interests extend beyond your local area and the borders of whatever country you happen to be in, this is your must-have app. Thanks BBC and please keep up the good work!

Grateful for the greater spread of world news, after the national US news, which, frankly, since 2016, has been discouraging. The world is not centered on US events (we in the US are not aware of this.)

BBC News is one the favored world news network. Unbiased reporting from everyone corner of the globe on can stay informed of. Keep up the good work!

Too hard to decide which stories to read when headlines are as short as something like “Decisive day” with a small photo. Other news apps don’t have this issue and can show more descriptive headlines on small screens.

Bad things about this app: The news stories over weekends are all old, very little current news is reported {except for the UK news]. I’m forced to see US and Canada news, why are they put together? I would prefer to see US news alone. The BBC so hates Trump that it’s almost unbearable. Reading coverage of the midterm elections in the US has been painful. Seems the bbc has forgotten that mr trump won the presidential election two years ago with a majority of voters votes. How would you all feel if your beloved queen was bashed constantly? I’m sick and tired of the bbc spewing stories as facts. They know very little of American politics so lies and repeating the liberal lines from other outlets seems to constitute coverage of an election in America. This is the only outlet for feedback. I sure would like to go at it with someone at the bbc over their horrible America coverage. As it stands my only option is to delete this app and begin a search for another news app...the bbc is rubbish. I’ve lost all respect for their reporting.

Objective and universal, better than many.

The collapse of WTC7 20 minutes before it happened? They must be a great source of news!

On “top stories” under “around the bbc” the article titled “the most powerful punch” was posted on June 6. It is still pinned to this list on the main page. as all the other articles get updated, this one stands fast in its place. Keep waiting on updates to take it down and get new articles to replace it. Developers— please take a look and get this article moved out for others. Otherwise app is great— couldn’t find a good pathway to notify the app developer of this glitch.

As always, the BBC gives me reliable news.

The app is built well. I love being able to choose what topics are more important to me. I love that I hear more of the world news. World news can be depressing these days; but the stories and other topics can be up lifting. As an American, finding world news that covers the length that BBC America does is difficult. Thanks BBC for keeping me up to date and aware. You get five stars from me for your APP. I said APP because I am reviewing the APP and not the news itself...the world itself is depressing and BBC can not help that.

Click on a 41 second video and get a 30 second. The videos are shorter than most news apps but the ads are much longer and it happens every time unlike many apps with shorter videos which show one ad every few videos.

Your videos won’t play 80% of the time. Did you notice? Is it time to improve?

Fine, balanced reporting: check. Clear, grammatical, properly spelled & punctuated prose: check. (Getting hard to find in Leftpondia. Bless the Beeb.) Easy navigation: check. Customizable topics focus: check. Readable font: not so much. I don't know what the font is called, but it makes me squint. It looks very stylish and modern; 20 years ago I might have loved it. But the sans serif font is so fine-lined as to appear pale gray on the white background, a low-contrast combination that strains the eye. I searched in vain for controls to adjust the display. I followed the app support link, but was directed to use my iPad’s controls. Well, really. I already did that and I’m still having trouble. Besides, iPad’s “smart invert” option screws up photos. Ironically, when I read about a playground for kids with disabilities, the text display was in a nice bold white font on black ground—very high contrast and so easy to read! Now why not let me choose that all the time? In a perfect world, I would also get to choose specific fonts (Bookerly, anyone?), foregrounds, and backgrounds. (I am fond of yellow on navy blue, but your mileage may vary.) Someday.... So, developers, you lose two whole stars for making it hard for me to use your otherwise five-star app.

Aside from being completely biased, the pop up ads are extremely annoying.

Fluff fluff and more fluff. This used to be the best news service. Now fluff; little news.

REVISED REVIEW: THIS MORNING, MY VIDEOS HAD CAPTIONS! THANK YOU!!!! 5 STARS!! #ACCESSIBILITY I appreciate a better view of the news from all over the world. However, please add captioning to the videos to make them more accessible, not just for those with hearing loss, but it would benefit those who can't have the sound up and want to know what the video is about. Everyone wins!

Many articles come with a left slant, but not in the annoying style we get so often in America. A great app to get headlines from around the world. As for the reporting, it’s ok.

There are no less than three smear articles in their most popular section on everyone's favorite subject. Check right now, how many can you count? They have no interest in objective reporting they craft a narrative.

Well covered, in multiple locations, timely and thorough.

I am English learning, and I used to use (Look Up) feature to know the meaning of some words. It was working online / offline internet. Now, I lose it when I offline. Why? It is very important, especially for us (English learning). I hope see this feature soon. Thanks.

The forced scrolling mentioned by other reviewers is certainly an issue with the iOS version, but you are still left with the balanced, 'fake news'-free, exemplary reporting for which the BBC is justly famous, and one of the few news apps that reports on the vast swathe of sentient life *outside America's borders.

The BBC has a reputation as one of the most solid and reliable news sources in the world. It has always prided itself on being on the cutting edge of technology and eschewing any base commercial considerations. Until now with this app. You can do better than this.

Consistently very weak on Canadian news. It would appear that the BBC has somehow decided that Australia ( a country of remarkably similar size and history) warrants a separate section of coverage but the “other colonies” are often overlooked in favour of the sensation that is the Excited States.

One of the best free news apps out there, if not the best! Only downside is that it's in British English... But hey, it's free!

Yet another liberal media outlet! Stop bashing The President of the American people!!!

The news that his post it is often rather dour. I agree with a previous post regarding the reporting of mostly tragic and depressing a events around the globe. Would make for a better change if it included more optimistic and hopeful events of humanity

American news outlets are fixated on domestic politics forgetting the rest of the world. If I want to know what’s going on in the world, I check out my BBC app.

The BBC is better than most. Presenting facts, without bias is often dry, callus, chilling even, with complexity, occasionally confusing. Seems to be a policy BBC. editing adheres too. THANK YOU! From “out of balance” America!

Very complete world and US news. It is a dangerous time and I want a clear picture of how our country affects the world.

Highly customizable, easy to interact with, great organization, and almost always beats other news sources with breaking news.

I like the news from a source outside the states. You cover world events that the news here doesn’t cover. I can get a quick overview of what’s happening in the states and the world. I check BBC News twice daily.

It’s nice to have a news source that has a broader perspective. I can get a variety of articles on US news, as well as a wide range of world news that’s unavailable elsewhere. Some reviewers complained that the news is “left,” but they don’t get that the rest of the world sees the current administration for what it is! However... as others have mentioned, after reading most articles, the app doesn’t return you to where you left the main page; instead it takes you back to the top, and you have to scroll back down to find your place. Annoying!

The one thing I want, this app doesn’t have — live world service video.

I learn something every time I come here.

I can tolerate one ad with a video, but with every video very disturbing. Astronomy, science sections very informative.

The app itself is fine, but the stories are mostly negative angles on events or just plain negative events. For example, vandalism, deadly accidents, murders, hate crimes, etc. Politics comes in for it too where there are no positive stories on what the various leaders or governments around the world are doing, only negative or neutral ones. Unless you have a bulletproof psyche, the written content will get you down. Best to stick to the one-minute news video and just get the headlines. No wonder young people don’t bother with the news because it’s so depressing if you only read it from this app.

All the news you need, straight up.

Best app for getting news and up-to-date information. Wish I could see more videos and more details. Through iPlayer or other search engine built into it but for what it offers and I get to listen to it's amazing. If I could just make one improvement is to improve the way I search for articles similar to the layout that and PR or KUOW has. I would honestly give it five stars but those few things I would like to change would make it the only app I would ever have to use for News. I always have to seem to find ways to get around not being able to see different videos and articles and getting to it from different websites or different sections of BBC through my web browser no the phone, A better search for articles would be really nice.

Coffee in one hand and the other is my IPad thumbing and tapping away at all the local and global news. A favorite is to customize my topics to read about what's most important to me. The BBC has been a trusted news wire for decades and it's the first app I install on my upgraded devices.

I am disappointed with the coverage and the leading headlines. When it comes to USA politics I feel it is slanted to one side. Unfortunately other news apps aren't any better. Give booths sides of the story, give the facts, and I will make up my mind.

All too frequently, one opens an article and it is unusually truncated. When opened via a browser, it there is quite a lot more. This has been the ongoing for the last several iterations and the app has no function to apprise the Beeb app developers. Aside from the incredible liberal bias, too often clicking on an article requires yet another click to read an article one has already shown interest in reading. Why? On the former, you expect the Beeb to be in the centre but may as well read the Guardian and all things Morrisey

I live in US. Could this be the cause of not being able to play videos? I was going to see one on Serena Williams, to name one subject and instead I got a black screen with a sad face saying video not available. No further explanation. I uninstalled the app until it gets that ironed out. I’d rather be told up front that US viewers will be unable to stream content than the present way videos are halted.

The best news for world events. The only news I can read about other countries other than America.

Among the better balanced news sources. Dislike the ads that pop up and seems to persist, and do I detect an increase in attention getting stories that do little to enhance human understanding of world events and world community.

The BBC has served me well for accurate international news for nearly 30 years of living abroad via radio, then website, and now app. I use American news apps, but the BBC continues to offer more balanced and informed reporting. During breaking news, I will get the frantic guesses from another news app, but will then wait for the BBC to put out a more considered and verified account of facts. I’m not unusual in being exhausted by news sensationalism. One star lost because I’d appreciate closed captioning for every word spoken on video if I’ve had to put up with 15 seconds of ads to watch it.

BBC is giving the fact news.

Same old Globalist approved NPC talking points every other major network spews out. Seriously lacking any resemblance to what the BBC used to be.

Right now? Yeah. CNN is suing the White House? For pulling credentials of a cretin? Really? Most trusted news source? Right here. Nuff said.

The app is well put together though the content tends to be a bit left of center. However, no news outlet is without some bias - caveat emptor.

I live in the USA - the news ‘journalism’ is terrible- this is my go to source for unbiased reporting

Better than most US news

I was brought up on BBC news. It has always been the best and known throughout the world as such. It remains the only news channel I would trust.

The app goes through the daily news well with good writing and reporting. You can also find subject matter not usually found in a typical news app. I can read about world news,and events that are interesting yet not mundane and repetitive.The app has topical stories on many subjects that are informative and entertaining to read. I recommend this app to stay informed.

I have not found a more comprehensive global news source that rivals the quality, content, coverage and timeliness of BBC News. Experience matters for sure. Thanks BBC!

USA media has become far too biased to be believed. BBC viewpoint provides a look at what some of the rest of the world thinks about todays issues. Only time will reveal the truth in hindsight. Meanwhile I can at least get an idea of which version of the news is credible in your opinion.

BBC is my choice for news. I find out more about home (U.S.) than US news apps. How cool is that? And they give better international news. Update: I have noticed that BBC is now partisan against non-liberals. Their bias shows too much and they need to reign it in. Report facts; let people decide. Minus 2 stars for bias.

Better than American tripe though I get most of my news from select youtube sites, esp. lionelnation....

BBC News has been my go to app since many years. Of late, it doesn’t load properly. Don’t know whether it’s an issue with iOS 11. Please do whatever needs to be fixed. Thanks in advance. Even after updating to the latest iOS version and updating BBC News app, images aren’t loading when the app is opened.

Over the years, the BBC News site has provided this conservative American with a good respite from the biased liberal mainstream media outlets in the US. The reporting on American politics tended to be largely fair and untainted by any ideology or political agenda. Sadly, that has all changed quite radically over the past several years. The endless criticism of Republicans in general and Trump in particular is nauseating. The daily unchallenged "analysis" on reports from Washington by pundits like Anthony Zurcher are clear proof of the BBC's Leftist bias. We get it already, he hates Trump. Now just give us the unfiltered news.

I love watching the BBC to see what the world really thinks of of the United States with all that is going on here.Fair and neutral.

Super job!

Far too lefty liberal leaning.

I have been reading BBC News for years using the iPhone app. It is my “go to” news source.

I don't watch any videos, the repetition of adverts is unacceptable. I can take one per session, but before each video? That's way beyond reasonable

BBC News has been my go to app since many years. Of late, it doesn’t load properly. Don’t know whether it’s an issue with iOS 11. Please do whatever needs to be fixed. Thanks in advance.

Without a doubt, BBC app is best news out there. Human interest stories from around the world are factual with heart. I turn to BBC first!

Great way to start the day and stay informed

Great news coverage.

I live in New Jersey, USA, but we regularly listen to the radio broadcast of the BBC at 9 AM on public radio. It is even better to read it - I hope to find the link to BBC for the UK - so much if news here is prejudiced by corporate management. What is covered in the BBC news has different perspectives than American news (all — & I mean ALL news feeds covered the same news - fires in California, the latest mass shooting, last week in Thousand Oaks, not a new one!). I know the news covered in the UK is different from American news, first hand. When we visited England in 1985, I read news ABOUT the US policy that was never mentioned in our news here! Thank you fir being a source of fresh insight! Carol S

I rely on the BBC for accurate, up-to-date national and especially international news.

I depend on BBC, both written and spoken word, more and more for news, both foreign and domestic. (I am in the U.S.) I constantly recommend this app to people anytime they get a new device and are installing features. NPR, PBS, and CBS are vital to my daily efforts to be informed, but BBC gives a window of insight as to how the world beyond our borders, however vast, perceives events. Thank you for this invaluable service.

Title says it all, and I’m an American

Told do not have permission to view videos , tried all of them and all denied to do not have permission, your kidding

It is a great dismay that BBC News fails to provide access to its own news departments in other languages.

Good reporting and writing but the app crashes one to four times daily when I’m trying to read the 10 most read news stories. It seems to really not like you to use the back button (<). It does come up and ask if you want to report it and I’ve checked to always report but it has been doing this for over 9 months and no fix has come out yet.

Very precise in coverage International coverage is very well covered, please keep it up

BBC offers objectivity about the USA that, in this time of extreme divisiveness and negativity in this nation, is enormously appreciated. If anything, I wish reporting were in no way edited for USA consumption. I'd much prefer a candid British perspective. BBC is my first choice for news nowadays.

I want to like this app, really I do. I’m one of many who have enjoyed BBC World Service most of my life. But this app, this app. Changes over the past few years have caused me to delete it, try it again later, and sadly, to delete it yet again. Full page pop up ads, less content, and days-old content mean I’m deleting this app yet again and returning to the radio. No, not the BBC News web site, because that’s as much a mess as the app. World Service Radio is the only place I’ve found where the BBC retains its dignity.

Only rating the app here, not the news. - frequent freezes and crashes, particularly after closing an ad - one ad, over and over. I get the same ad about 90% of the time. I promise I am utterly uninterested in buying a Hyundai. - often feature stories (“Around the BBC”) are incomplete - like two or three introductory paragraphs then they end. No links, no indication of anything more, just an abrupt end, often without even reaching the headlined topic.

UPDATE: it’s gone! After four long months of slight annoyance it has been packed away! Thank you! On “top stories” under “around the bbc” the article titled “the most powerful punch” was posted on June 6. It is still pinned to this list on the main page. as all the other articles get updated, this one stands fast in its place. Keep waiting on updates to take it down and get new articles to replace it. Developers— please take a look and get this article moved out for others. Otherwise app is great— couldn’t find a good pathway to notify the app developer of this glitch.

Plain and simple; elegant!

Okay, 15 seconds is one thing, 30 seconds starts to get quite annoying (like in-game ads that give game credits). One freaking minute ads though is just non-acceptable. Seriously, stop them or add a skip button.

Watch Vtptv and on iPhone. Need BBC to keep informed

Love it, time tested and still exceptional

Professional, interesting, good photos, comprise the whole world. I love it!!!

It is incredible that the BBC is so biased! So left wing politically correct. Sad and very unprofessional.

Lovely tiny font, it's got. Which cannot be changed within the App itself. Nope, you gotta go to System Settings on your device and do it there. Which means of course that EVERYTHING will then present in large font which is not what I want to do AT ALL. And those intrusive ads that suddenly appear right in the middle of paragraphs as you're reading or scrolling, OMG, how annoying is that. Which is why when I want to catch the beeb nowadays, I typically use Safari instead - what with its zoom options, and ad-blockers, why even bother with the irksome app!

BBC news is the only really comprehensive news of the world. So many countries, politics and people who aren’t covered anywhere else.

Lovely tiny font, it's got. Which cannot be changed within the App itself. Nope, you gotta go to System Settings on your device and do it there. Which means of course that EVERYTHING will then present in large font which is not what I want to do AT ALL. And those intrusive ads that suddenly appear right in the middle of paragraphs as you're reading or scrolling, OMG, how annoying is that. Which is why when I watch to catch the beeb nowadays, I typically use Safari instead - what with its zoom options, and ad-blockers, why even bother with this irksome app!

I look for sources that are not so prejudiced and owned by those affiliated with U. S. politicians. This is one such.

I find it a valuable source of international news and events, plus adequate coverage of US news. It has fairly good coverage of social, cultural and sports news. There are good links with each news item to get related and/or relevant news stories from the past few months or years. The videos are sometimes a little slow to load or enlarge, but they are nonetheless a definite plus. I have used the app mostly on my Android phone and it works well. I’m using it recently on my iPad and it seems to work well, though I haven’t used it sufficiently on the iPad to give a definite opinion.

Hate the San serif font. Very hard to read.

but now its all stale commentary and opinion pieces. Not sure whats happened to the actual news but apparently you can’t view it

I absolutely love this app. It keeps me up to date with out opinionated articles. Love it!

Great informative articles without all of the ads! Thank you from a grateful American

Currently there are way too many filters in the US media and somehow BBC has the punch. Insight and the courage to tackle and bring forward stories by reporters unintimidated and risking themselves for truth and insight. Thank you

For anyone that needs general news this is a great source it’s so Autistic friendly