Msnbc App Reviews

Won’t let me sign in through Spectrum. Please fix ASAP

Why does it keep freezing?!!! Fix it, please.

Crashes continually, can’t watch terrible app!

Forget trying to use this with chromecast. Will freeze every couple of minutes.

msnbc is the best for news. Yet the msnbc app is the worst.

iPad version locked up repeatedly and I was never able to engage after multiple tries and repeated downloads. App not working = App failure. Back to the drawing board MSNBC coders!

MSNBC is the best news outlet but they really need to fire the people in charge of making sure this app works. Out of all the media apps I have this one is the worse. If it's because of some dou_he bag Russian hackers then I'm sorry, I can understand that.

I am an ardent fan of msnbc but I’ve pretty much given up on this app. The only thing that is consistent is the amount of news I miss as the stream freezes every five seconds. Why bother when there are so many other ways to catch my MSNBC favorites without using MSNBC at all?

This app regularly forgets sign in credentials multiple times per week. It also freezes regularly as a number of people comment.

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When I updated to my Apple TV 4K I was hoping that this app would stream more easily to my television but nothing has changed. It works best if I’m just watching it on my iPad or my phone although it still freezes on occasion with that. I want to just stream it to my television set but as the other reviews say it requires constant babysitting and is so frustrating. I’d be willing to pay $.99 or even $1.99 for this app to be reliable. PLEASE FIX THIS APP ASAP !!

Okay, now you have another offensive ad tied to every breakaway to commercial-the MasterCard ad. Who do you think watches these shows, wrap fans? Do we really have to endure a Cialis commercial every time you go to break ??? Why do we have to see the same locally produced commercial back-to-back. It's unbearable to see these lousy productions repeat sometimes several times. Try to match the quality of the CNN news app why don't you? Do all of us users a favor and hire someone who can fix this app. It’s performance is deplorable as chronicled by the majority of these reviews.

How is this a news app when you can’t watch the new

This is *almost* a great app. But the live-streaming function barely functions, and is not reliable in the slightest. Video frequently freezes, drops the stream, or degrades video resolution. Definitely inferior functionality to its competitors.

Freezes, lags, sound goes out - this happens far too often (every few min on bad days). The CNN app has no such problems. Developers need to pull it together.

I like the content but it often freezes on my iPad

I cannot believe the “powers that be” at MSNBC read the reviews. Instead of improvement the app continues to get worse. Time outs, freezing images, error messages, a movie and Rachel playing over each other, video is not available etc etc. you guys should be better than this. If your IT folks can’t fix this it’s time to “drain your IT swamp” and replace them with some of the “best people”. Maybe you already did.

This app is a joke. It’s laughable how awful this is relative to every single news/video app out there. I’ve since stopped watching MSNBC unfortunately, for this reason alone. You’re a member of an $84B corporate family, hire some actual programmers.

where?

App freezes more than it actually plays and playback never works.

Freezes constantly

Still dead time when you cut to those drug commercials.

Still experiencing audio fadeouts and long video pauses even after following detailed advice from Help team. Surely someone can fix these problems?

I am a US citizen living in the UK and cannot use this app as I do not have a US tv service provider. This app does not support MSNBC for consumers who live outside of the US.

App was working before last update.

It’s no singing otters but I have no problems with it. And it doesn’t break into my fridge like the singing otters or get blind wasted and lie about it. App works. Don’t know why comments for app refuses to check my spelling but that is not a claim the app makes.

Just absolute terrible. I have gigabit internet and I can’t get a decent feed using this app. Cuts out all the time.

… but frequent buffering interruptions affects viewing continuity.

Airplay and chromecast streaming just don’t work. This is about the poorest streaming experience you can get and after each update it gets worse.

One of the worse apps I’ve ever seen, I truly wish Apple would make NBC remove this app all together until it meets their standards. It is truly sad how you can never watch live Tv with the freezing and disconnecting. I’ve started watching CNN more because I just can’t take it.

I have used this app on my iPad for many years now. Never once had any problems after any updates until NOW! Now I cannot get this app to even open! After 4 seconds it just shuts itself down! Very disappointing after so many years of using this app as my first choice for news! This latest update is terrible! Please FIX IT!

I don’t think nbc cares that their msnbc app is terrible because it’s never gotten any better.

What a slog, and the sound goes out as well. Think you could do way better!

MSNBC could really use an AppleTV app.

Need the ability to continue listening while app is in the background. Also, should save login credentials so I don’t have to keep reentering them.

They emailed me a set of directions to reset the app and ever since I have had zero problems streaming it from my iPhone or my iPad to my TV using my Apple TV 4K.

Freezes every 15 mins and always signs me out of my tv provider DURING app use.

The amazing thing about MSNBC’s tech and management team is that rather than fixing the app it’s just getting worse. For some reason they are actively working at reducing the number of streamers that can watch their shows. I call it censorship because they hate live streamers. What I don’t understand is why they even built the app. The funny thing is that they are trying to get people to watch their podcast especially Chris Hayes. Why in the world would anyone watch an MSNBC podcast when MSNBC can’t even make an app that works. Poor Chris Hayes I bet he doesn’t even know he works for a cable news station that actively works to destroy his programming and viewership. What is obvious, by all the negative reviews, is that MSNBC does not even care about their streaming viewers. It is so disgusting especially today when staying informed is so important. As an update 9/25/2018. It appears that MSNBC finally fixed the app. It has worked perfectly without interruptions, skips, loss of sound etc... for the last few weeks. If in fact the app has finally been fixed, my question to MSNBC is why did it take so long? Anyways, it’s great to finally be able to watch the station without the constant frustration of a terrible app.

This used to be my go to app for information. The updates made it almost useless.

The app has been performing well the last couple weeks. I can stream live tv through Chromecast and it doesn’t stall or freeze up.

It won’t run on my iPad at all! It won’t run on my phone unless other apps are closed and it randomly signs me out. They should make this app more of a priority, especially with election coming.

I am so glad I decided to look at the reviews. I have thought the terrible service was my WiFi. Good grief, can’t you hire someone to fix this problem? CNN works great by the way.........

This app plays fine on my iPad but does not play AT ALL on my iPhone!

With streaming, this one has always been bad. Now at actually seems to have gotten worse. Amazing!! Why??!!!

Hire a high school student to come up with an app that doesn’t freeze consistently. The horrible functionality of this app is appalling in this day and age. Improve it! Other apps aren’t as lame in performance.

It’s a mixed blessing. If you cant watch the programming on your TV for whatever reason this is your best option. The DirectTV app cant stream MSNBC when its having issues as well as this can, and that app runs the battery down faster. The support people are polite but can’t do much about what’s coming (or not) from the servers. Sometimes the audio of a commercial plays over a program... sometimes it keeps repeating them Sam few minutes of program over and over, and sometimes the screen just goes black. The most maddening part is that is always does this when there is an important story being broadcast... it will work all day and then just as someone is about to tell you something critical, it hangs up and doesn’t come back until that segment is over. Right after school lets out for summer or a holiday is the worst.. second is weekends and after hours. The second string tech people must not be getting paid enough.

I gave this app one star because the app has been created. But really? What is the point of having this app when it doesn’t work 98% of the time, or the issues create aggravated viewing? It’s to the point now that if I want to watch something on the app, I have to start trying to open it up 15 mins ahead. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve missed the beginning of the show, or missed it all together. So again, what is the point of this app? As someone who likes MSNBC, this app makes it difficult or impossible to watch MSNBC. Please fix it!!

Just this week after 5 years in my cable provider the app tells me I am not subscribed to this provider. BTW MSNBC is playing on my TV as I write. Trying to watch on a computer is no easier.

Please fix! I have high speed wifi and still it freezes. Works great for watching pre-recorded stuff (I love you Rachel and Chris H)

I have attempted to use this app a number of times and it has never worked properly. Sad reflection of the network. No app would be better than one that fails so miserably.

The app needs audio stream priority over iTunes on iPhone. When I stop the app in the car on Bluetooth by say turning the car off. When I turn car audio back on it defaults to iTunes. This happens also if I touch the volume on the radio. Msnbc will stop and iTunes playlist will kick in. Other apps such as WNYC will even stay in background as I move to another non-audio app. I still love having it live wherever I go. Thanks for the app.

I’m running iOS 12 and the app keeps asking for my location to be turned on, but there is no place to turn it on in either the MSNBC settings inside of the settings app, or in the Location Services section of the privacy settings. This has been happening for the last 3 months that I’ve been running the iOS 12 beta, and I reported the issue months ago to the developer so they could fix it by the time the seed for iOS 12 was released, but they haven’t fixed anything. Also the feed drops continuously, on all of my iOS devices, whether I’m on cellular or my 1gbit home WiFi. And every other time I open the app it asks me to sign in with my service provider, an issue that’s been happening for over a year and hasn’t been fixed.

Literally forces me to watch cnn...because this ap is such crap...unreliable...unstable...THE WORST and no apple tv version...how are you even a news division if you cant keep up with the current tech changes and advances

Basically useless to watch live TV. Older app worked better. Thanks for ruining it MSNBC

This app is crap. I have to sign in with my cable login EVERY SINGLE TIME. I’ve tried to watch episodes, and nothing happens. Blank screen.

Used for a week in Copenhagen and it worked very well. Video stalled every so often but usually the stream was very good. Video quality was excellent and sound was clear as a bell. Used it for the 11th hour, the Rachel Maddow show, Deadline White House, and Chuck Todd to meet the press. All in all we can’t complain as it was the first time we’ve used it. Give it time we expected to improve. Keep up the good work guys.

Zero stars AAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL across the board! Endless years of a malfunctioning piece of garbage. The developers are clueless, non-caring, and ridiculous to think that the updaes that theelease ACTUALLY help this app perform... I mean, reallly guys!?!?

You need to get it together and release an Apple TV app, for streaming to cover when cable/satellite goes out.

Frustrating app

I love the news programs on MSNBC -they’re my favorite! But this APP needs a lot of work. It constantly freezes and it is so frustrating. Especially now, during these times when the news is so important. You’ll be watching & right at a pivotal moment the APP crashes or freezes and you’re left hanging! Maybe too many people are trying to watch at once, I don’t know, but it’s not good:(

Sheesh!

Live streaming never worked consistently, but since the update a couple of days ago, it does not work at all. 🙁. Please fix the update.

I'm not even going to waste time writing elaborate review. If you are not fixing issues with the app, you might as well discontinue developing this app!

The new update seemed to break live streaming for a day or so but it’s back now Overall the app performs well even on my old iPad 2 running v9.x. Run it on that device every day and also on my iPad 4 running 10.x and iPhone 6 running 11.x Some issues where sound mutes for a few minutes every now and then, on all devices. The ad serving is pretty glitchy. Ads cutting off or ramping in late. Long pauses and audio sync issues. 3***’s because of some pretty regular buffering and hanging issues. As other reviewers say, the app is poor. But I can live with restarting to watch wherever I am. But I’m amazed that this review thread is probably the worst I’ve ever seen a final brand just seems to be happy to live with. Must be nice. I run companies and have developed apps here and couldn’t imagine ignoring so many negative comments.

This is *almost* a great app. But the live-streaming function barely functions, and is not reliable in the slightest. Video frequently freezes, drops the stream, or degrades video resolution. Definitely inferior functionality to its competitors.

What a great channel.....but here we go again... another 2 days of wasting time restarting this app when it freezes. Seriously?

Ditto most of the other reviews—-freezes too often, quits frequently, often won’t load at all. I’m pretty close to giving up completely.

This app is pretty much at the bottom of the barrow if you will. Far too often I’m stuck waiting to watch a program and then be told by a screen notification that sorry app can not be loaded. Very sad. I sometime have to wait a full weekend to watch a program only to have it deleted on Monday. Without viewing. We pay for this service through our cable and yet u pack a ridiculous amount of commercials into each segment. I enjoy the programs that MSNBC provide for They are very informative. But it means nothing if the audience can not view the content. Fix the app or build a new one.

Piece of crap.

Literally the worst functioning app ever.

Just got latest update 16.4.1....now won't load live feed on my iPad 3.

Really shouldn't have to dust off my apple device to watch MSNBC. Support android. Hurry.

Constantly freezes up! Worst app ever!

The ability to watch this app live does not work. Circle just spins

Title says it all. The chromecast streaming freezes every ~7 minutes and needs to be disconnected and reconnected, after which it freezes after ~7 minutes again. Rinse and repeat. Absolutely unusable for this purpose. Only keeping the app in hopes for an update.

How can we get the Apple store to take this app off you can’t even watch John McCain‘s funeral without the app freezing. If you’re not going to fix it d***** take it down!

The amazing thing about MSNBC’s tech and management team is that rather than fixing the app it’s just getting worse. For some reason they are actively working at reducing the number of streamers that can watch their shows. I call it censorship because they hate live streamers. What I don’t understand is why they even built the app. The funny thing is that they are trying to get people to watch their podcast especially Chris Hayes. Why in the world would anyone watch an MSNBC podcast when MSNBC can’t even make an app that works. Poor Chris Hayes I bet he doesn’t even know he works for a cable news station that actively works to destroy his programming and viewership. What is obvious, by all the negative reviews, is that MSNBC does not even care about their streaming viewers. It is so disgusting especially today when staying informed is so important.

Bad, fake news.

Love the channel itself, but the app is horrible!! Always freezes up on me. When video is playing, half the time audio cuts out. And since there’s no app for Apple TV, I usually just cast it over AirPlay. However, recently that won’t work either.

What a piece of c*** app Frequent freezes, doesn’t act like it knows it’s connected to the internet

I love MSNBC and I love watching, but the number of times that this app freezes or fails to load properly is just unacceptable. What are the developers doing? Why don’t you concentrate on making this functional for your users?

This app is way past bad. I have written emails to support about the performance, or lack of, and nothing changes. Oh yeah, I cam watch the never ending commercials without a problem, but as soon as the video starts it freezes constantly. Also there is a lot of looping and pixelating. Don’t waste your time with this piece of crap.

I love Rachel Maddow but it stresses me out that I cannot watch her show unless I tune in live. I’m not always available at her air time. And then if I miss more than 2-3 days of her show, there is literally nowhere online or in-app that I can catch up and binge watch her show. The only way for me to be able to do such a thing is have a Hulu subscription that allows DVR access to record episodes. And then I can’t access a livestream of MSNBC without signing into a TV provider. Same with CNN. I do have a tv provider but my landlord isn’t going to give me his sign in details with his bank account directly connected to it. I’ve been having to use an old account from Spectrum that for some reason works despite the tv part being cancelled. I can understand having to pay some kind of subscription to record a bunch of episodes I want, but 1. News livestream should be free and 2. Accessible without a tv provider, especially if I can go somewhere else and get the news for free. 3. You guys don’t shred the video files of previous episodes so they should all be available.

You can toggle the closed caption button until the cows come home, but no matter you will watch with subtitles.

Again this is happening. I’m signed in with my local service provider but app keeps telling my unable to authorize and to contact cable provider. Not issue with cable provider. Fix please

Can’t log in anymore.

Unusable...get it together guys!!

This app is the worst streaming app I have come across. The freezing and audio drops are CONSTANTLY HAPPENING. I’m talking freezing in the middle of a broadcast every 2 mins or so. I even have to close down the whole app and try to rejoin whatever production I’m trying to enjoy. You guys have to do better. You could do so much more with this app but you’d rather we just stream off of Verizon or the Xfinity app. So be it. PS: It’s very telling that your best reviews are all from 7 years ago.

Don’t bother with is app, it’s Constantly freezing, Sound goes out periodically, unable to watch a whole program let alone 3 minutes (if you’re lucky) All in all, this app is not worth downloading. Watch on YouTube for a smooth viewing.

Given the truly terrible performance of this app - and its failure to improve across iOS versions - I guess I should just abandon it. The sound drop outs, the video freezing, the spontaneous quits. When is msnbc going to fix this? And Apple, why do you permit such low quality software in the App Store? What has happened to your quality control?

Able to stream content about 60% of the time without interruption/freezing regardless of internet connectivity.

In latest version

Seems to work okay on devices (freezes some), but airplay won’t ever work. Of course a native AppleTV app would fix that, but it doesn’t exist.

The on demand option on this app works but when I choose to use the live tv option, it freezes the whole time I’m trying to watch my favorite news show. I hope this is fixed so people can actually enjoy the app.

Aside from all the other issues users have mentioned, the audio continues to drop in the middle of a live stream.

Even though the app always work great for me on my iPad Pro, still too often episodes are not available. This is just frustrating.

Everyone else has covered the issues with this app. Just wanted to at least throw my vote toward MSNBC getting their sh*t together to provide an app that actually works.

I could not login. The buttons down work. I have an iPhone 8. I should not be having these kinds of problems get together MSNBC.

MSNBC has the most articulate journalists and the best of the best news organization. But the MSNBC app continually freezes up with no solution in sight.

There is still no version of this app for tvOS. Completely unacceptable.

Seems like a major TV network could get this right or at least have the money to pay someone to build a basic functioning app?

The app freezes constantly on. My 802.11ac network powered by FIOS - on my 64 bit high-powered Windows 10 laptop, on my old iPad 4, and on my new iPad 6. It would appear that sometime in the past year, MSNBC introduced a new protocol for commercials, which, I think, contributes to the problem. Streaming was far more reliable a year ago. Streaming hims and haws as it gets ready to play these interminably redundant ads. I would also swear that the ad time is even longer than watching the program through the cable channel. At least the ads on the latter tend to be better, more diverse, and, accordingly, more captivating . But, let’s get down to the basics. I got about two minutes of programming before the app started to freeze this morning. That was 18 minutes ago. So, to quote a certain American, “Hasta la vista, baby” to Joe, his team, and everything else that I used to consistently watch on MSNBC whether I was at home or on the road.

When I updated to my Apple TV 4K I was hoping that this app would stream more easily to my television but nothing has changed. It works best if I’m just watching it on my iPad or my phone although it still freezes on occasion with that. I want to just stream it to my television set but as the other reviews say it requires constant babysitting and is so frustrating. I wish they would fix it already. I’d be willing to pay $.99 or even $1.99 for this app to be reliable.

i love that it has chrome cast support but the app is trash. crashes and freezes so often it’s unusable. i tend to resort streaming the news on youtube because the app is such a failure to stay consistent. pathetic support. i see an update and am hopeful they patched things and it just doesn’t work.

The app, which I mostly use on my iPad, freezes when it flips to commercials and freezes when I’m watching live tv and watch more than one show in spite of the fact that I stay logged in to “watch tv everywhere”. I believe the problems are caused by MSNBC not supplying a large enough bandwidth for streaming. Please fix it.

Just doesn’t work

Watched for a couple hours tonight and the video did not freeze once. 👍🏼

It’s insane how this app can only hold a stream for about 1 min at a time. Incredibly frustrating. NEED TO FIX

As many others have said, the stream will always crash after a few minutes of perfection. This as been an issue for many versions now. The stream freezes whether in app or casting.

The amazing thing about MSNBC’s tech and management team is that rather than fixing the app it’s just getting worse. For some reason they are actively working at reducing the number of streamers that can watch their shows live streaming. I call it censorship because they hate live streamers. What I don’t understand is why they even built the app. The funny thing is that they are trying to get people to watch their podcast especially Chris Hayes. Why in the world would anyone watch an MSNBC podcast when MSNBC can’t even make an app that works. Poor Chris Hayes I bet he doesn’t even know he works for a cable news station that actively works to destroy his programming and viewership. What is obvious by all the negative reviews is that MSNBC does not even care about their streaming viewers. It is so disgusting especially today when staying informed is so important. Please everyone flood them with complaints. Hopefully we can crash their servers. Maybe than they will pay attention to the streamers.

This app is the worst... continues to buffer like crazy while CNN is smooth as can be... inexcusable.

Freezes after about 10 seconds

It surprises me how MSNBC continues to have such a terrible app. It constantly gives you error messages that says you aren’t subscribe to the channel when you obviously are otherwise you wouldn’t be able to watch it at all. And it tells you this message after you’ve been watching the app for 30 minutes already. Or there’s no sound, or it takes forever to load, or it doesn’t work AT ALL etc..I don’t understand why they won’t put any money into this app and make it better. It’s an embarrassment to MSNBC and it’s a complete aggravation to the app users

Why this app is still freezing up all the time is a mystery. Used to be my favorite go to app while on the road but I’ve simply given up. It also continually “forgets” the tv provider. Most of the time, you just need to remind the app that you’re signed in but at least once a week, I have to actually log in. Overall frustrating experience.

So, while traveling, I tried to watch my favorite MSNBC shows on my iPad via the app. But most of them didn’t show the episode that aired earlier today. Who wants old news. I don’t.

Very poor. Always stopping, no buffer.

The app has always worked terribly, but at love the announcers and content, so I’ve put up with it. I used to watch it for hours every day, watching all “my shows” in sequence. But now, in the past few days it has gone from bad to virtually unusable. Now If I’m lucky, after five minute of stabbing my finger at every square, every box on the screen, I MIGHT be able to get to the episode and section I want to listen to. And I do mean LISTEN TO!!! Nowadays, I’m having to use it like a radio rather than a TV app. I don’t know how they could have totally disrupted my main source of news input in a matter of days, but somehow they have. If it were possible to give negative stars for a review, I would!

My experiences are as noted in almost every other review. Freezes up, buffers, repeats content, sound and video out of sync, and on and on. Fix it or lose lots of users.

As bad as this app has always been,, hard to believe that the last update makes it even worse.. Still freezes, doesn’t work good on Apple TV.. It even asked me to rate it all the time and even that doesn’t work by clicking on it..

Literally forced to watch this on TV even though they are the most popular cable news network. Where is all of the money going? Where is the support for this piece of c*** app? There are so many things wrong with this but the fact that I don’t have time to list it but I will tell you that the live playback simply does not work. Doesn’t matter the device, the results are the same. Get your app together and stop losing viewers.

Now you can watch for a whole 4 minutes without it freezing!

Love the channel, wish the app worked better. For some reason, the sign-in feature doesn’t want to work about half the time. I press the " get started" button, then I press the "sign in" button, and it goes right back to the original landing page. I can’t sign in, so I can’t watch the episodes. I have a cable subscription, so I should be able to watch this. But, really, why do we need to sign in? This should be available for everybody to watch. It is excluding people who don’t have cable or satellite television. So many of the millennial‘s do not have cable and yet need to be able to see the truth that is presented on this channel every day. Besides, CNN doesn't require sign-in.

My favorite news network that I can’t stream without interruptions living in Manhattan. Makes me watch CNN and makes my head spin that the “tech” news networks design is so inferior.

Obviously no one supporting this app is paying attention to any of the online reviews. The performance is terrible. After 5 minutes it starts buffering and doesn’t stop. The problem is pervasive and noted by many on multiple app review sites. Fix the app!

I was extremely disappointed in the MSNBC app. It loses connection every 5 minutes and I’m constantly closing and the-opening to get thru the news. I’m surprised it’s available for downloading because it’s obviously a broken app. I truly hope someone is working on updating the app, but for now I’m deleting it.

Can’t sign in. Cant use it Completely a failure. How does a major network fail to have a workable app? How do the people who areDeveloping this app have any kind of pride in their work when you get one star?. If it was possible I would give it a negative star.

EVERY SINGLE TIME! No wonder Chump calls them out- so unprofessional so old tech so annoying - I travel, spend half my time reloading app, really sophmorish not to have better tech! Joe Micha Rachel Chris come ooooon guys work it!

What a frustrating app! The only time this works well is during the commercials. When you watch the programs it freezes.

Can you do something to fix the issue of players mg on chromecast? It plays for few mins and goes buffering. :(

Just awful and the worst part is they never fix it properly.

I use the app with AirPlay to watch live on my Apple TV. It is constantly freezing and stuttering. There have been many complaints about this and they are not being addressed. Why not just create an Apple TV app?

Why can’t both sides of real issues be fairly presented for a change instead of the usual drek you portray as truth. The app itself needs a lot of work. It locks up every time I attempt to using it after a few moments so it’s not worth using. While you’re “improving” it why not add some text articles I can read instead of watching the talking heads? All they talk about is what’s scripted by a committee or progressive socialist think tank. It’s kinda shameful ‘ta watch ... know whatta’ mean? It makes me proud to be a thinking deplorable when I can manage to watch what’s presented by this app.

If you can’t get the video to work right, at least give us audio only. It’s called a podcast, and I hear that the technology is relatively simple. Hire me if you’re having problems implementing this. I’m not a licensed tech, but I know enough to get simple stuff to work.

We use airplay occasionally to watch MSNBC live when we travel and have done so for over a year. Now it’s not working. I can only watch and airplay the previously aired videos by airplay but not the live shows. I contacted customer support by email and they were very courteous and tried to resolve the problem, but for now this app isn’t viable. We tried two phones and an iPad. We deleted the app and reinstalled it. We called Apple support. It’s a problem with the app they determined. I rebooted my Apple TV, and my modem and router. Nothing has worked. Maybe MSNBC can fix these bugs soon.

As much trouble as this app has delivering video—the constant buffering, random stopping for minutes at a time and dropping audio—you’d think they’d provide users with a radio experience! It seems the developers are unable to fix this app, as it’s been like this for years, despite multiple updates.

One of the worst rated news app! For a few weeks the app was able to get to the authentication page now it can’t. In fact when I click on sign in to provider nothing happens. This happens with 6.14. I have to watch through the Xfinity stream app. But I can’t watch on demand shows.

Come on. Airplay is still not working. Continues to stutter and buffer. Why still no live stream on the Apple TV app? I look forward to spending lunch watching and I spend most of my lunch attempting to keep the app working

I love the network but hate the app. How is is possible not to be able to fix this long-standing problem? No other live streaming app that I use regularly ever freezes. You are killing viewership!!!

I need to bs able to stream shows. In real time. What good is the day after?

Why haven't you come out with an appletv app? We love watching you everyday but constantly have to reset the feed because it constantly freezes when air-playing it to the appletv. And its not the air play feature because other apps work fine. Just make an appletv app that allows live feed! Please!!!!

The latest version still hasn’t resolved any of the above issues. Please. Please give me a native appletv version. Or allow the xfinity app to use airplay. Come on guys.

Casting is still broken in version 6.14.0

This is the worst streaming app ever. It freezes 90% of the time, looses sound, & I get about 10 mins of clear streaming before I have to reboot it if I’m lucky. Very disappointing!

I’ve already commented that the constant freezing (for years) has been annoying. The apps recent technique to inflate their score is pathetic. In app, a pop up gives you the option to say either you like the app, or you can choose not to rate it. There is no option for “no, I have criticisms.” This is very unprofessional.

I have tried everything. Freezes with Chromecast, AirPlay and just viewing on iPad. Useless. I use CNN APP AL THE TIME. , SMOOTH AS SILK. This is a major impediment to the success of your channel. Please fix soon, I love your programming, but cannot view when I am not at my home cable box.

I am using this app because apparently msnbc is no longer available to be streamed on the Verizon fios tv app. I am disappointed because this was the only channel I watched regularly on mobile devices and now that I can’t watch it in the stable fios tv app, I have to settle for constant freezing. Trying to follow current events is getting frustrating when every few minutes there’s a 10-30 second pause in the apps live feed. I wish they would fix the app before limiting options. Pretty soon I’ll just choose another network to watch. Smh

There is just no excuse for the streaming quality of this app. It’s UNBEARABLE to even watch anymore. What I can’t understand is WHY I just can’t download the app to my Apple TV? Or my PlayStation? It’s absolutely ridiculous.

MSNBC app is the WORST! Constantly buffering/freezes! All of your Updates State “We’re constantly working on creating the best app experience for you. NO YOU'RE NOT! If you were, you wouldn’t have a 1.9% Rating! Fix the issues everyone mentions in their reviews! Freezing, Buffering, Black screen, and keep episodes available longer than a day or 2! When you watch several MSNBC shows, sometimes between so many shows & the freezing and buffering it’s hard get through them before they are removed!

Worst performing app on my phone. Crashes constantly. Pretty worthless.

I keep trying to get my news content from this app - but continues to be technically pointless.... Streaming never works and recorded content is 1/2 a news cycle behind. Advertisers should start paying attention to the ad space they’re procuring.

I love MSNBC but I can’t fathom why this app is as consistently bad as it is. The live stream is unwatchable. No matter the network my devices are from 10Mb to Gigabit bandwidth, the video drops out every few minutes for minutes at a time and often just gives up, goes to black and stays there. Audio also drops out for minutes at a time even if you have video. You’d think someone responsible for maintaining this app would try to use it for 5 minutes in any given day, see the problems, and fix it. The app wasn’t always like this - I’m guessing that their popularity went up in the current political environment and they’re not meeting the uptick in streaming infrastructure and bandwidth. MSNBC, please figure this out and fix it.

I rely on MSNBC for my news. I cannot rely on this app to get that news. Constantly freezing, shutting down, audio not synced with video. You can do better MSNBC. And now it’s taking me 20 minutes to get a s***** nickname to send this. How frustrating can you get

This app constantly buffers. My internet connection is 300/mbps. And it buffers regularly. Anyone have a solution. It only occurs with the msnbc app.

Is this format not a co-production of Microsoft and NBC? One would think that with 2 such giants working together, the output would be great. To the contrary, this app constantly freezes - over and over again while watching live. It is annoying and extremely frustrating. Some of my favorite commentators are on here such as Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews which is the reason I have not simply given up in disgust. Come on, MSNBC, get your act together and present something that actually works!! Pretty please with sugar and sprinkles on top!! JUST DO IT!

This app is just plain frustrating. It streams old shows decently but trying to stream live is nearly impossible. It buffers constantly, freezes constantly and flat out crashes frequently. I love MSNBC shows. I hate the app.

Why don’t you show all the reviews! Fix your app

Besides constant freezing, the title says it. Thought I might be crazy, but this morning another app requested provider validation again and it worked there!

This app is the worst. You name it,it does it.....not reliable at all.Come on MSNBC get your stuff together and please fix this sorry unreliable APP

Utterly frustrating to use. Won’t hold your place in the show you were watching if you have to take s phone call or leave the app for some reason. Constantly loses connection. Have to find your show and episode again! Utterly fickle. Limited number of shows. No way to search other shows. If I could give a minus one, I would! Bad Design. Bad Navigation. Not user friendly.

Downloaded the latest disappointment. Is this app really so hard to get right or is the problem a bottleneck at the server level? Even the MSNBC radio app for Android recognizes there’s a throughput issue and offers a second server.

Works for minutes at a time before it freezes. Thought maybe it was my chrome cast, but have the same result on the phone or iPad. Why bother making a streaming app that barely works?? You should take it down and fix it or just forget it.

I love this app! Love being able to catch up on the news with this app! It works fairly well. No complaints here.

The latest update not only took much longer than other competing new network apps, but the latest update didn’t come close to addressing the major issue of not allowing users to sign-in or stream live TV. Trying to click on “Sign in” & it flashes signaling I clicked, but nothing happens after. As I mentioned, your lack of attention to your app is causing users to turn to competing networks so please make this repair a top priority.

Freezes and or drops program regularly. Almost unwatchable most days. Can’t believe they care so little about fixing it. I assume this since I’ve been trying to use it for over a year and have seen no improvement.

Total nonsense from unhinged, no-talent idiots. Disgraceful

If possible I would give this app no stars. It doesn’t seem to matter where I am (or what network I’m using or whose iPhone), the app freezes every 30 seconds and play for another 15 seconds only to freeze again. Beyond frustrating! Clearly MSNBC should either hire someone who knows what they are doing or just take the app down! Ugh!! I am going o have to watch my news elsewhere! Disappointing!

Can’t access the live stream. It keeps telling me to enable location services. They are enabled. There is no button in the app.

The freezing and constant buffering blows... I can’t.... 🙄 #deletedagain #podcastsrule

Crashes continually, can’t watch terrible app!

Just like everyone else I have the exact same problems with the app. What kills me is that MSNBC refuses to acknowledge the problem and fix it. Really what they are doing is censoring all there live streaming viewers. It’s just unbelievable. Also, they are half owned by Microsoft you would think they could fix the problem. So much for Microsoft.

If you’re going to use the app, replays are ok, but live streaming is just the worst

This is the most frustrating App to watch a live stream. Can’t you all just fix it? CNN’s works perfectly but I want to watch MSNBC!??

Buffer. Buffer. Buffer. Freeze. Freeze. Freeze. I’ve sent a number of requests to support but these problems persist. Interestingly, there is never a problem when commercials are running...

Maybe I’m missing something, but I’m using this app through my Dish account. Why does it need my location? And why is there no way to enter it?

I was delighted to be able to Chromecast live content from this app on my iPad to an Android television not connected to cable. I had no problem in 2017. Sometime in 2018, it just stopped working. I also noticed that it appeared that the advertising blocks were not the same as I what I saw when watching the program through my cable box or through my Tivo box. The blocks repeated the same ads. The program alerts you that you're going to get four minutes of ads. They truncate programming - meaning that you're missing programming. MSNC support has asked me to reboot the router. It has advised me to clear my Safari history (so that I can once again look up my signons for any website for which I choose to use cookies to remember my authentication information). But, even with new iPhone with no prior cookies for MSNBC hangs when casting. But, to be honest, the app freezes even without casting. On the other hand, the live streaming from my Windows 10 PC to the t.v. via MSdisplay has no problem. (The PC uses WiFi for Internet access.) The t.v.'s PBS, Netflix, and Amazon Prime apps stream just fine; it connects to the Internet by WiFi only. The app on my iPad appears to freeze even without casting. So, as far as I can figure, it's the iOS app that's not working.

Why can’t the app developers at MSNBC get this right. I’m a big supporter of the network, but their app is a piece of crap!

Why can’t both sides of real issues be fairly presented for a change instead of the usual drek you portray as truth. The app itself needs a lot of work. It locks up every time I attempt to using it after a few moments so it’s not worth using. While you’re “improving” it why not add some text articles I can read instead of watching the talking heads? All they talk about is something scripted by some committee or progressive think tank. It’s kinda shameful ‘ta watch ... know whatta’ mean? I’m proud to be a thinking deplorable!

A multi billion dollar International corporation that cannot get its digital app content to the public in a working and useful manner. I order lunch using a better app than this one. They should fire their online digital content director and their app development team as a group. This app is Shameful! It also says a lot about the company and their quality standards.

Why can’t both sides of real issues be fairly presented for a change instead of the usual drek you portray as truth. The app itself needs a lot of work. It locks up every time I attempt to using it after a few moments so it’s not worth using.

Live TV not working on the MSNBC app or with Chromecast when casting.

Constantly freezes, shuts down the app is Terrible, I love MSNBC but the App is BAD

I can’t tell you how frustrated I am. I love watching MSNBC but this app doesn’t allow me to watch it with consistency. The continuous buffering and or freezing doesn’t allow me to watch with comfort. This happens on all my devices.

Especially during prime time (3pm to 9pm), live streaming freezes often, sometimes sound is lost. Please please improve the app because we really appreciate MSNBC.

I join others in complaining about this app, live TV is virtually unusable, constant buffering and shutdowns. I have no similar problems with any other streaming apps, including others by NBC. I watch much more CNN online as a result.

I’m still waiting to see a video on this app. All it does is spin. I don’t have this difficulty with other apps so I don’t think it is my system.

Nope. Just like last 4 days. WHY THE F WON'T YOU WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW CAN YOU KEEP LETTING YOUR STREAM BE THIS UNRELIABLE????? I'm SOOOO tired on time wasted troubleshooting to see if I can get this to play. UPDATED VERSION 7/17/18 NOW IT WON'T EVEN START PLAYING AT ALL....just a frozen picture & spinning wheel. God I miss the good ol' days of 10 seconds of programming before it freezes. SERIOUSLY IF YOU WANT TO SPEND TIME CLOSING, RESTARTING AN APP OVER AND OVER FOR NO REASON, THIS IS THE APP FOR YOU!!!!

Casting is still broken in version 6.12.1

We want to be able to watch Chris, Rachel, Lawrence and Brian without having to AirPlay from our iOS devices! The NBC news app with its MSNBC snippets is not enough! And how come MSNBC is the only cable news network that doesn’t offer the live news feature on the TV app?! Come on NBC! GET WITH IT!

I don’t know how something this broken was ever allowed into the public.

I’ve never before written a review for any app, but I find the MSNBC app so frustrating that I don’t know what else to do. The most recent update fixed none of the major problems on iPad or phone, especially when trying to watch the live stream: volume disappears, picture freezes and wheel spins until I give up and close the app, or the screen just goes dark. I have never made it through an entire show without one or all of these problems occurring. Many other stations have excellent apps; you don’t have to c**** new technology here. Particularly in our present moment, you should make MSNBC’s content easier to access, not harder.

I like MSNBC but this app is garbage. You can’t watch a stream for more than 30 seconds before it starts freezing. CNN manages to do this very well. MSNBC, fire your developers and hire the guys that did CNN’s app.

Constant freezing and crashing.

This is the perfect app if you want to watch three minutes of MSNBC at a time

This app is terrible! Streaming is nearly impossible as it CONSTANTLY freezes! Do not download this app!!!

This is the worst streaming app I have ever used. If I was not an MSNBC j**** I would just delete it. Instead, I delete and reinstall, do hard reboots, trying to use it despite having to constantly try to make it function and ignore its pop up messages that say I need to enable location service, connect to wireless, etc, when these are all in place. It is pitiful how little support they give the app and it seems to be getting worse.

If you read ANY of the reviews about this app freezing, they are 100% accurate. Worst streaming app I use. I've tried multiple times to contact the developers before writing a review and nothing they have suggested works. If I didn't want to watch the news as I was getting ready in the morning, I wouldn't even bother trying to stream with this app. But I keep trying... fruitlessly.

This app freezes constantly. It’s terrible

Unusable Garbage. The app store is 10 years old. Is it really that difficult to write a functioning app in 2018?

I could not hate this particular app more if I tried. It freezes at the worst time, then speeds up, then runs audio over top of audio. It’s disgraceful. But what’s worse? They don’t care! It’s ALWAYS been bad, yet no meaningful improvements have been made. Ugh!!!!

I held back on writing a review because MSNBC puts out good information to the public. This app is awful and I wish they'd fix it. The NBC app could be their model. If the news weren't so good, is give it only one star.

Not commentary on MSNBC. This app though is absolutely the worst app I use. Constant freezing and sound cutting out. Too many design issues. Doesn’t compress properly when slide over with another app is initially performed, so content is off the screen. CONSTANTLY freezing. For crying out loud, get a COMPETENT developer! Useless at the moment. Talk to the developer of the ESPN app which performs flawlessly.

I stream Prime, Netflix, HBO and YouTube with no problem. I try to watch the news? Forget it. Constantly stalling for no reason. This app is absolutely ridiculous. Impossible to keep listening to the stream of an argument, a debate or whatever. But since they have you by the nuts, what are you supposed to do? Complain? It’s free. It’s lame though.

This is one of the worst functioning apps I have used. The live stream continually either freezes or the audio disappears. It is incredibly frustrating to be watching a news story and then miss pieces of it because the app glitches.

Don’t waste your time! Because that is all this app is “good” for. It crashes repeatedly and never really succeeds on opening. Too bad because I really like MSNBC content. You’ll find a game or two of solitaire more rewarding than struggling with this piece of app.

Update: A year later, still horrible. No improvements. Apple TV app please! Airplay is unreliable. I’m on fast connection but lags and buffers all the time on iPad and iPhone.

The original app had blogs, but now it doesn't. I would like to see the blogs and articles in the app. Also, whoever decided the app didn't need an Apple TV app dropped the ball. No Apple TV app is a disappointment to me. This app also needs to include the morning and afternoon show lineup in the app

Constant freezing, and having to jump through the hoops to login with my TV provider credentials EVERY SINGLE TIME I OPEN THE APP!! I get frustrated and just open any other news app.

If only this app worked without freezing every 3 minutes...

I’m a loyal viewer of MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, Morning Joe and I would love to continue streaming it on my iPhone or iPad. Unfortunately it’s become a big waste of time waiting for the stream to load. The big pharma commercials (which I hate) are the only programs that come through anymore. Sad. MSNBC, you’re supposed to be the hip tech savvy news producers for digital natives. News is more important than ever before. Please fix you stream. MAKE MSNBC GREAT AGAIN

Thank you for fixing the loader spinner on your last update. Now there is something animated to look at that is not otherwise frozen.

I love the on-air talent that MSNBC employs, but I hate this app. The video constantly freezes. Tried to watch Maddow last night, but missed like half the show with video hiccups.

My big issue is that this is supposed to be an app on my PHONE. So the main purpose of my device is to be on the phone. Or to be able to bring up other apps as necessary. Most every time I’m pulled away from this app to answer a call or pull up another app I have to start the video I was watching from the beginning. Extremely frustrating!

Use to be my go to news streaming app. Till they changed something. Now it’s the spinning wheel of hell. I’m back to cnn app :) which works fine on the same WiFi and cell networks. Come on fix this!!!

My sentiments are as others. No matter if I’m on Wi-Fi or through my LTE connection this app continuously freezes up. I guess this app is a like to have but I would also like to have it work. Please fix it all mighty news giant!

Freezes so much I can’t watch anymore. Don’t understand why there is this problem. Now have to watch CBSN while working out. No freeze problems with that app. No excuse for app that freezes constantly. JS

This app is terrible. Keeps freezing and needs to be reopened. Please fix it!

Cannot get passed account verification, just white screen that sits there. No AppleTV app and even the browser version needs flash.

I get 2 sentences from the live anchor and then it freezes. I’m deleting this app.

Live watch frequently paused and takes quite a bit to load, but never begins live watch again. I am continually having to exit the app and reopen to resume live watch.

It freezes all the time, I LITERALLY mean ALL the time!! It is the worst app I’ve ever used and needs to be fixed. I cannot believe MSNBC doesn’t seem to care about the app failures/bugs.

Crashes constantly, or the audio goes out, or the audio and video not synced, so many issues. Between the issues and the commercials it’s not worth my time, which is a big bummer!!!!!

The app isn’t intuitive. Also, links from other places invoke the app but don’t bring up the specific video. This app is primarily designed for watching as one would a TV; as if you don’t own a TV. They just transferred the experience of a television to an app. I’m not going to watch an hour show to see a small clip.

There is no consistency with this App. One day you open the app at 6 am and all of the previous nights shows are uploaded and available to watch. The next day you open the app up and none of the previous nights shows are uploaded. The streaming is weak when the shows are uploaded. All in all MSNBC needs to do a much better job with this app!

I never write reviews either but this one is important to me. I already have a subscription to MSNBC via my DIRECTV account. However, MS NBC is blocked from DIRECTV access through the DIRECTV app. The only way to access MSNBC with an app is through the intune app which costs about the same per month as a Syrius XM Subscription! I agree with all the complaints in the other review about the inconsistency in service Which is extremely frustrating.

In spite of bad reviews, I just got this app. In the hour that I have been watching, it has frozen seven times!! Currently, I have been able to watch only seven minutes of uninterrupted news. How can a major news network put out such a low quality product?

The app freezes, buffers, crashes constantly during live streaming. Video and audio are frequently out of sync. Sometimes there’s no audio at all. It’s practically unusable. Why can’t you get your act together, MSNBC? Are your app developers even reading reviews or paying attention to user feedback? Your updates have no discernible impact on the app’s poor performance. It’s bad enough viewing on iPhone or iPad but using airplay to AppleTV is the most frustrating. Why not work with Apple to put the MSNBC app on AppleTV? And before you try to blame my WiFi connection, router, internet speed, or anything else on my end, know this: your app is the ONLY ONE that has these problems. CNN, FOX, CNBC, and all others are just fine. Love the content. Hate the app. Fix it!

MSNBC is the worst app ever. Comcast is sabotaging this app and the TV network because they are Fascist Republicans and Russian Sympathizing Traitors protecting Trump. I hope they all die in jail very very soon

Used this app daily on my phone and iPad. New iPad no longer gets video—only audio. Blackened screen. Disappointing. Still works great on phone. Just did iPad software upgrade. Still doesn’t work.

Edit 5/7/2018: taking a star away. This app is decent, but for live streaming, it regularly hangs. If you wait around it _might_ reconnect, but often you need to close the stream and start it again. This happens on multiple devices and on more than one network/ISP. Not sure why this happens, but it's annoying, since I'm far more likely to stream the news than turn on a TV. original review After all the negative reviews about no live stream, I avoided updating, but today I accidentally did it, and it's clear that live stream works.

Why on earth don’t they have an app on Apple TV!? The app constantly freezes or just drops it’s a bit of a mess girl.

Even as a TV subscriber, I was only able to see one show, ONE SHOW, for the entire day of today!! If you are advertising having full episodes of content, at least post more than one show a day. Please.

Why is MSNBC the only cable news channel without an Apple TV app? Also, I really don't like that location info is required for the live stream. After using the app daily for well over a year, all of a sudden I can’t sign in. I just get a blank white screen when I attempt to sign in. I tried following the ‘contact us’ link, but the app simply crashes when I click. It’s as if they do not want the app to work.

Degrades, freezes and buffers constantly

First: Apple, how did this app get past your review process? This is complete c*** that any smaller developer would have gotten a rejection for. Feels like you are bowing to the big companies. MSNBC: this app is crap. * It does not play consistently * Content is not available consistently * It kills battery like crazy * It does not rotate properly * It does not use the audio controls properly Other than sometimes playing the content I want, this app is a complete waste of space on my device. Both Apple AND MSNBC should be ashamed of this garbage.

This app needs some serious work. Cuts out within a minute or two of streaming. It’s 2018, how is this even still a thing?

A video for a show is not playing. A message prompts me to contact " Contact Us". I tried. I can't.

Stops and starts on all my Apple phones and iPads. Too much freezing and missing segments of show

I am a supporter of MSNBC. I believe that they are a shining example of what Journalism can be and should. But as a software developer myself, this app is a professional embarrassment. If I was responsible for this app I would have released it.

I gave it 3 out of 5 because that’s about how frequently videos play on the first attempt. Scratch that, 2 out of 5 is more accurate.

Laggy. Crashes constantly. Previous episodes available randomly. Nothing consistent. Just not good.

Please. I’m begging you MSNBC — fix this app. It’s horrific. The videos don’t work. The live feed doesn’t work. It’s one of the worst rated apps in the entire Apple App Store. There’s no other news or video app that’s this bad. It’s so bad, it’s become a meme. Do you care? I guess not. I’m sure your advertisers will, when they find out no one can see their ads, because your app doesn’t function in any consistent way.

For the love of g** please update your app, constant freezing and completely unreliable, chromecast-ing is a nightmare

The app stalls regularly. The sound goes out. It’s very frustrating. I often switch to CNN because their app works!! There’s no excuse for a poorly performing app. Not these days! Get your act together!

This app is so shoddy, it must’ve been designed by Fox News: Freezes constantly, barely loads 4 minutes at a time. If I want to follow the shows live, I listen to MSNBC International on the radio. Too bad...

I love msnbc. I love Maddow. I love O’Donnel. I hate this app. Freezes constantly even on 50mbps WiFi. Unusable on chromecast: freezes every 2-5 minutes like clockwork. Please fix.

App keep crashing every time I try going live. Logs forever. Please fix it! This issue has been going on for a while now.

Worst app on my iPad. If it opens, it freezes within 10 seconds. I don’t understand how such a popular news outlet could have such a sh***y app.

This app is nice if you want to see a few seconds of MSNBC and then a few seconds of buffering over and over again.

Seriously. How do you manage to make this app work worse, every day? PLEASE FIX THIS. YOU ARE LOSING A FAITHFUL VIEWER. Did you know it doesn’t even connect to “report a problem?” I can now catch video for 6 SECONDS AT A TIME. DOWN FROM 14 A FEW DAYS AGO. GET A NEW APP DEVELOPER.

This app performs terribly. Even with a rock solid, fast internet connection, the app constantly freezes, chokes, rebuffers, overlays two audio streams, etc. Streaming to Apple TV is an additional frustration - instead of being untethered from my device I still have to hold it so I can manage the app whenever it stalls. If it weren’t for the content, I’d purge this app from my iPad and iPhone in a heartbeat. You’d think Comcast must distribute this app as a Trojan Horse so that would-be users will go back to cable. Great content. Terrible app!

I like to watch msnbc in the morning on my iPad. Lately I’ve had to listen to it via the Sirius XM app. This app freezes, stops and repeats snippets, audio and video get out of sync, randomly crashes and video quality degrades. Most days the app is completely unusable. I expect more from a streaming app.

I love the layout and the overall app. However, even when connected to high speed internet (fully) the app crashes and/or freezes constantly. Not sure the problem but this app could be wonderful if the problem was addressed.

Fix this app. The live feed is terrible. Freezes or doesn’t even start. Not a connection or WiFi issue either.

Love this app, but recent episodes for my favorites programs like Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes are usually not available. Making episodes available after one or more days is not sufficient for a NEWS program.

I give his app no stars. It doesn’t seem to matter where I am (or what network I’m using or whose iPhone e), the app freezes every 30 seconds for another 15 seconds. Clearly MSNBC should either hire someone who knows what they are doing or just take the app down! Ugh!! I am going o have to watch my news elsewhere!

Nope. Just like last 4 days. HOW CAN YOU KEEP LETTING YOUR STREAM BE THIS UNRELIABLE????? I'm SOOOO tired on time wasted troubleshooting to see if I can get this to play.

How is is possible that MSNBC churns out update after update of this app and absolutely NOTHING in terms of user experience and functionality has changed? How is it that FOX News and CNN's apps actually work perfectly all the time while the MSNBC app fails consistently and reliably at what it is supposed to do? Why does it suddenly just stop while I am live streaming? It will either suddenly freeze or the video will keep playing but the audio gets muted or the app just blows up while I am watching and I am suddenly looking at my iPhone home screen instead of the live stream. When it freezes or audio mutes, if I force quit and restart the app, it will work for 1 or 2 minutes and I start to get into really listening and it will freeze again! THIS IS BLOODY NON-STOP ALL THE TIME!!! Why is that?? The reason I know CNN and Fox News works perfectly is because I try to listen to all sides with very little bias - I try to balance out with MSNBC, FOX and CNN but the MSNBC app literally forces me to forgo even trying to use it. You are a news organization for Pete's sake! Do you not even care about the fact that a major artery of your news dispensing machine is utterly broken? MSNBC makes me feel like they really don't give a c*** about this issue because by now they HAVE to know what's wrong and should have fixed it!! This has been going on FOREVER with this b***** app and the ratings reflect this clearly... and yet they still continue to churn out update after update which really amounts to nothing more than ineffective sugar pills. But those of us who are really interested and are tuning in to learn about what's going on... this s***** excuse for an app is not delivering even a placebo effect. It delivers ANNOYANCE and FRUSTRATION ONLY! Fox News app is 5 STAR. CNN = 5 STAR. MSNBC = 2 STAR (and I assure you, someone is being very generous in giving this app more than the minimum required 1 star). Please do yourself a favor - if you're truly interested in giving us access to the news in a reliable way: fire your develepment team and get some programmers who can fix this shameful app! Or call someone at FOX and ask them to help you out... recruit some of their dev team. Seriously, your app is b***** embarrassing and a giant disservice to the superb talent delivering the news on the network like Chris Mathews, Ari Melber, Nichole Wallace and Rachel Maddow. FIX THE APP!! Do not deploy another update unless that update fixes the app. At least try. Seriously. Because after over 2 years of this same exact garbage issues, whilst all the while a steady churning out of updates, it is abundantly clear that NO ONE IS TRYING TO FIX THE BLOODY ISSUE! The app format and asthetic mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to ANYONE if the if the thing does not function reliably and consistently! For what seems to be a meeting place for common sense (MSNBC), how the heck is it that you have not come to this conclusion on your own? And what of reputation?? How could you allow your competitors to utterly destroy you by way of their considerably superior and high quality news dispensing app? I didn't sit here and write this novel for nothing or to be insulting for the sake of being insulting. I just want to shine a light on this masterpiece of embarrassment in hopes of igniting the dev team or the management of the dev team to action! Have a little pride. You cannot possibly be proud of this app. Get a clue from Fox and CNN... and Amazon Prime Video and Netflix and MLBTV and HBO GO and ShowtimeAnytime! EVERYONE is doing it perfectly EXCEPT YOU! FIX IT!

I have to agree with nathanph. I have a fiber connection and stream video to multiple devices simultaneously all day every day with no problems. Except for msnbc. Constant freezes and buffering. Unwatchable.

Y’all have the means to fix this video always freezes screen frequently goes black

This has to the worst performing app of all the news apps available on apple units.

They really need to fix this issue. This doesn’t happen nearly as much as the CNN app. Unacceptable.

Love the network, I want to punch the app in the face.

Crashes over and over again. Rewinds and repeats whole blocks of conversation. Extremely frustrating, as I love MSNBC and its commentators. Please just fix the issues and be done with it so we can enjoy the news shows that give us hope that our country is not completely disgraceful and that this is only a small hiccup in our already tainted history.

This is the worst app ever. Just keeps buffering and even after it starts playing it stops after a few minutes. Love MSNBC but this app turns me off.

Video freezes every few seconds even on a WiFi network.

Video streaming is so common in this day and age and yet still I can’t stream MSNBC at all.... constant freezing, buffering, having to close the app and reopen. Whatever team made this app needs to be fired; not just fired though; they need to be blacklisted from ever working on a video streaming service again. This has been a problem for YEARS. The way this app runs makes me want to pitch my phone into a wall at very high speed.

I LOOOOOVE your network, but I must say that your app is THE WORST I’ve ever downloaded to my phone...simply THE WORST!...it just doesn’t work 80% of the time. Buffering on five full bars of 4G LTE service. I’d rather not even have it on my phone anymore because it’s so glitchy. You’re a multi billion dollar company and yet your app creators can’t seem to get this one right...very sad! Fix it or no one will want your app...PLEASE!

Living in a different time zone (HST vs. EST), does not allow for current news, especially when shows are not even available until 1-2 days later. I love all the shows MSNBC offers, but if they aren’t available in a timely fashion, what’s the point in using the app? I realize that ads are needed to pay for broadcasting, but I know all of them by heart. Xyzel, Volvo (my favorite) etc. is a great time to fill up coffee, but happens frequently as show goes on. The app itself has not been a problem...just the timeliness to the viewers, so please pass that along to MSNBC. I have yet to find how to watch these shows in real time, on my devices.😢 Aloha🤙🏽🌴🌺

I don’t understand how in mid2018 there can still be an app they performs this terribly with streaming live video content. You guys seriously have to fix this! And for the love of god, get a dedicated app for Roku, Apple TV etc... com’mon people

Apple, please pull the MSNBC app until they can submit an app that works.

This app went from bad to worse. You need to fire your whole UAT team and shell out more money for systems engineers.

I enjoy watching MSNBC in the evenings. What I don’t enjoy is this garbage app. Constantly freezing and all kinds of other hiccups. Pure trash. Fix your app MSNBC, and while you’re at it, make a freaking Apple TV app. Unless it’s going to work like this one. In that case, don’t bother.

Just doesn’t connect and stream well nor sync over Apple TV.

Surely an organization like MSNBC can put together an app that streams video better than this. Try again.

Why don’t developers improve this app and make it watchable for live viewing? The video freezes constantly and has to load which typically times out. We have excellent internet but this app makes viewing live tv impossible. I see many comments that voice the same issue so why not do better? If you want people to view and enjoy your programming, it should be watchable in all available formats.

Does anyone at MSNBC read the reviews here? They have been extremely negative for a very long time, with reviewers all having similar issues. The first step in solving a problem is admitting that you have a problem. As with most reviewers, this app can barely livestream for a minute before freezing or skipping (latest iOS update on iPhone 7). This has been the situation for a very long time, yet it never gets fixed. With each new tease of a software update of “minor bug fixes,” I think this might miraculously be the update that fixes the problem. Nope, never has and apparently never will. You would think a company co-founded by a large tech corporation could figure out how to stream video over the internet.

You guys. Come on. You know this app is terrible. You know it freezes all the time. You know that AirPlay won’t work for crap. You also know that you don’t have an Apple TV app, and that’s also poor judgement considering everyone else does. I have to (force myself to) watch CNN because at least their app is reliable. Come on. Fix. It.

Live viewing is constantly interrupted to spool even at high speed WiFi. Really unacceptable for news network the size of nbc. Does your business model depend on my VIEWING.your content?

This app is driving me crazy! It freezes, It looses audio and it closes down frequently. The programming is wonderful but it is so frustrating to have it freeze all the time. In this day and age I am surprised that it has not been improved. I am an MSMBC addict and can’t stand all the constant interruptions. Also, when you watch on your phone all day, the commercials repeat over and over. I guess this is not a problem with the app but a station programming issue. Beyond repair

Yes, I troubleshooted. Everything is up to date, cable subscription is valid (that’s about to be cut!), and this App won’t work... NOT EVEN OVER WIFI - ⚰️⚰️⚰️! The webpage has the same issues. Sheesh. Here I come, CNN. Can I give this App #NoStars ???

I praise them for adding the “Live” feature - but not at the expense of losing “On Demand” viewing. Now I can’t watch Rachel Maddow, because they’re not offering previously aired episodes. As for the podcast version, I’m still cheesed-off that they truncate it to the first segment. So what’s the deal????????

Can someone explain to me why there is almost NO CONTENT currently available???

This app is terrible. Keeps freezing and needs to be reopened. Please fix it!

From an network that is supposed to be delivering important, up-to-date, sometimes vital information across all channels, this is easily one of the worst apps on the market. Streams freeze sporadically, no matter the connection. I get kicked out of the app and have to log back in at least once a week, and that process itself is pretty horrible. I was just trying to log back in (after being logged in a few hours ago), and I’ve been waiting on a verification for 10 minutes. Please invest in all your channels. There are people who use this app as their primary source of accessing your content.

So tired of this app’s streams freezing and dropping. Sometimes it forcibly signs out the tv provider. Have given up watching Rachel on regular basis. Please fix. same result on iPad mini 2, iPad Air 2 (the worst), and iPhones. All iOS 11. Less issues on 10. Update after 6.2.1 update: stream still stops randomly when Airplaying. And agree with other reviewers that if app crashes, you have to login. Over and over. Crap app. After .10 update - STILL airplay issues. Argh.

The most recent update from a couple days ago did absolutely nothing to remedy the streaming issues! The app either won’t let you log-in to stream or it just continually tries to load video ultimately freezing or timing-out. Another update is needed ASAP or frustrated users will turn to CNN, etc.

This has turned out to be an unreliable and horrible-performance app. The sad fact that the developers have put little heart into this program is apparent. If I could leave ZERO stars, I sincerely would!! Update as of today June 11, 2018.. immediately after today’s update, the app barely plays any footage at all. SERIOUSLY DEVS, what is going on!? Endless years (7 years!) of users PLEADING for you to fix this app!!

Seriously I don’t get why MSNBC is still the only cable news network that doesn’t have an Apple TV app. And please don’t tell us to use flakey AirPlay or Chromecast. Those transmission methods are not for long term use and are for quickly throwing up something on a device for a bit. The antiquated NBC News app on Apple TV also doesn’t cut it - it doesn’t have everything the MSNBC app offers. Even Fox News has a better app that copied its navigation and functionality off the CNN app. Just hit up the app developer who made that for both of them to redo your mobile app and make your standalone Apple TV app please. SO MANY PEOPLE HERE ARE ASKING FOR IT!

Casting is still broken in version 6.10.0

Worst app ever and it gets worse every day! How is that even possible?!?

This app is the worst. You name it,it does it.....not reliable at all.Come on MSNBC get your stuff together and please fix this sorry unreliable APP

I’m using my iPhone X to watch the app on my Philips TV which has built in chrome cast. App keeps freezing and it keeps shutting off. I sent messages to the support people and they keep saying to restart my app, restart the TV or to restart the internet modem. They definitely need to fix the app. It’s such a shame because we love MSNBC.

It has been months and moving on to a year and MSNBC won’t fix the huge bug I have. So I haven’t been able to use the app for MONTHS. The app won't verify when I'm on my home network. If I switch off wifi, it will verify over cellular. Then I can turn wifi back on and then stream. Live and past show works now. Location services is turned on and allow over cellular is turned on. Tried it again and it now asks to use my TV service saved in Settings but still nothing happens. The app crashes every time. Other apps that verify have no issues. Of course this means I can't use it on my iPad.

I love msnbc. I love Maddow. I love O’Donnel. I hate this app. Freezes constantly even on 50mbps WiFi. Unusable on chromecast: freezes every 2-5 minutes like clockwork. Please fix.

Video constantly freezes and needs to be restarted. This app exhibits this behavior while no other app does. Here’s a takeaway for any executive that winds up reading these reviews: The performance of this app is the primary reason why I’m switching news sources.

Everything is wrong with this app. Videos won't play. Audio doesn't work correctly. Doesn't use any of the built in audio or video features of the iOS device. Doesn't refresh without killing the app. Absolutely terrible experience. MSNBC should be ashamed and Apple should NOT let this kind of c*** on the app store.

Alas. Alas!!! I really want to watch MSNBC, but the app freezes, loads slowly, and is very poor quality video. These are such smart people: why can’t they fix this?

Video freezes and/or lose audio. Why does this happen so frequently?

But it fails so much it is terrible. If you are going to offer live streaming then UPGRADE!!!! This app stops every couple minutes and almost always after a commercial. Also I get a notice every couple of hours that says I don’t pay for this channel with my provider and it stops me from watching all together. I watch this channel at home everyday and I pay for it. I wrote a note to MSNBC’s IT Department but they have not fixed the problem. This morning I am getting a new error. Failure and timeout to log on to their network. I can’t use the app at all. Frustrating. Hello you need an updated platform if you want us to watch. It is really annoying watching your refresh circle go around and around and around. I usually stop the program and restart it. It is faster then waiting for the app to restart on it’s own.

I downgraded this to 1 star from 2 stars. This app cannot deliver a reliable video stream. MSNBC should be concern because it is a reflection on its ability to deliver the news. NBC, if you’re having trouble delivering video then make it audio only or have an audio option. In the meantime, I’m giving up and going back to my awesome BBC iPlayer Radio app.

Freezes all the time. In the past it would recover. Moving in the wrong quality trend.

Can’t figure out why Comcast which owns msnbc wants to have an app that is so terrible. Really, how does this help your bottom line? Video without sound, video that doesn’t match sound, freezing, jumping, rewinding and replaying, and repeating the same commercial 10+times during one hour of news. This doesn’t happen during replay only when it’s live. Can’t figure out why Comcast thinks this is a good thing.

Someone needs to Be fired!!! I’m on full strength WiFi and it still freezes, drops audio and lags. Come on guys, no one in tech support can fix this app?

When I first started using the app it worked with out issue. Over the last few days it constantly freezes on all videos live or recorded. Connection speed has been tested multiple times and is always fine. Please look into. Edit: The streaming of live news has not worked at all for the last few days. Again, it’s not a connection issue.

I never write reviews but this app is garbage. I only gave it one star because no stars isn’t an option.

Pretty much garbage for live viewing. Constant buffering, regardless of bandwidth. Audio will drop while video plays, or video will stop while audio continues, or more likely, both audio and video will freeze for minutes at a time. And it’s been this way for YEARS.

Most people have written about the poor playback quality and reliability of the programming, but advertisers should know that your ads abruptly stop playing as much, if not more so, than regular content. As consumers, we’ve been complaining about this terrible app forever without any meaningful response from MSNBC to fix it. Maybe you’ll have better luck once you realize all your valuable advertising dollars are going down the drain. It’s hard to advertise something if potential customers can’t see the ads.

So many issues. Constant buffering or just stops streaming altogether. I really wish they’d fix their issues.

The live stream on this app constantly skips, stutters and drops connection. Chrome casting is almost impossible lately because it freezes so much. All other video apps stream fine, connection is fast and without issue, but this app misbehaves to a point of frustration. It’s been worse than ever the past week. Streaming and casting msnbc is the one and only reason I even bought an iPad for since they won’t allow on android. This apps performance lately has me just using Sirius on my android to listen to msnbc instead of trying to watch on this app.

I use the app quite a bit and it’s really frustrating when the video freezes and drops out. I wish you’d fix it.

For months I thought it was my Apple TV, my iPad or maybe my internet. I adjusted and fine tuned..everything. Conclusion the msnbc app is just shamefully poor to the point of being useless. It’s main feature is to freeze constantly, Period! You will not be disappointed there, that’s 100% guaranteed.. You never get to relax and just get the news or watch shows in one cohesive flow. Now, I love msnbc and their channel, this is not on them, it’s just this terrible app! My local channels live news apps are better and other national competitors work just fine. I wish they would put some effort and thus show respect to the viewers and their own journalists by getting this right.

I love MSNBC. But this app is making me HATE MSNBC. It is infuriatingly awful. The app constantly freezes, it cuts out, reboots, turns off, won’t connect... and this is all in within one show. I have had no problems with any other apps. Just this one. When I watch Deadline White House, I have to disconnect and reboot the app at least six times. Same with Joe, Ari, same with Rachael, Chris, Lawrence, and Joy on weekends. I’m not being hyperbolic. Six times. In one hour. Every day.. This app is almost making me get to a point where I will no longer be watching MSNBC. That’s how bad it is. PLEASE FIX IT.

I almost never watch the app anymore as it freezes so often that I can’t watch any live stream shows without having to reboot.

The app freezes CONSTANTLY. I have submitted a half dozen error reports and they always claim the issue is mine to fix. Unless you like reconnecting every 10 min (not even exaggerating) then try CNN.

I have been using this app for at least two years now I have found the same problem as the other reviewer posted. Please fix this app!!! Still having problems with this app please fix it!!!!!!!!!

I love to see PIP supported on iOS!

This has to be the worst app that Apple has for us to use. I cannot even follow the news because of how much this app freezes the audio goes out or it just buffers by the time that you fixed it you have missed half of the news conversation. If you’re not going to improve your app please apple delete this from our choices. Bad look MSNBC

Video quality is terrible. Load time is atrocious, constantly freezes, and loses audio. It also will get stuck on a video and the only way out is to hard reset the phone.

What’s wrong with you msnbc? You must know of the problems. Don’t have this problem with the cnn app

Huge difference between this iPhone version and the google play version. I have both. Android version is a thousand times better and also lets you watch most for free.

This is my favorite news network, but the app is AWFUL. It continues to get worse over time and not better, constantly freezing and has to be forced closed and reopened in order to start work. I could have to do this 15 times in a one hour show, ugh please someone fix this app!!!!!!

I love MSNBC but this app is awful. It cuts out, freezes, stutters, even when I know I have a good connection & CNN is working fine. ACK!

This app is the worst and constantly freezes up. This shouldn't be happening every 5 minutes in 2018. They really need to fix this

It has twice the ads of your cable service provider...

Whoever is in charge of fixing this app is obviously asleep at the wheel. There have been terrible reviews for months and nothing has been fixed. I love msnbc content, but app is TERRIBLE

Very confusing as to why so many months or even years NBC can’t get its act together and make a good app for the traveler. CNN, Bloomberg news, FOXNews virtually all of the other major news outlets have nearly flawless streaming capabilities. I guess MSNBC really doesn’t care about having viewers on the road and would rather that we watch CNN or Fox News!

Always interrupts. Always freezes. Always.

This was working for a few months, but now the Cox account log in is broken again. I used to be able to authenticate using my Cox account on the iPad but not the iPhone. Now neither one works. When I get to the “Select cable provider” screen and tap “Cox”, I get a flash of white screen and then it says I’ve successfully logged in. But, I was never shown the screen where I would enter my user name and password. So I get a failure when attempting to play any of the programs.

The screen constantly freezes or the sound disappears for several seconds at a time. It’s not my provider’s fault because I have called them about it. My question is if you have a 2 star rating overall wouldn’t you want to fix what’s ailing it?

Freezes, voice goes out, repeats video. You’re breaking up my marriage. I want to watch msnbc but can’t with my spouse. If I watch you on tv we fight.

I love MSNBC but this app rarely streams for more than a couple minutes before freezing. I always check to see if there is an update...and there never is. I have no problem streaming via other apps. Please fix this app!

I love MSNBC! Rachel,Chris.m,Chris.H, Lawrence, and Ari really gives me the news I need to know. Thank you! JoLee

Routinely freezes, ridiculous.

This app is the only way I have to watch MSNBC live streaming. It has become unwatchable due to the constant stalling and sputtering. Typically in an hour I have to restart the app 8-10 times after it stalls. This is ridiculous. I do not have this problem with any other apps. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app, I have rebooted my iPhone/iPad, I have checked my WiFi signal with my provider and confirmed it’s strong. Please please fix!

Inept coding of App. I would be embarrassed if my name was attached to this failed app. Some apps are simply bad due to poorly thought out production- layout. But then there are those, very rare ones like this msnbc app. It’s all about poor coding. SAD effort.

I am a patient person but this is ridiculous. Within 5 minutes after loading screen loads, picture and audio freezes. I then go to Sirius app and enjoy the program. There is no excuse for this!

What a waste, no live TV????? But Fox News offers it???

Why is it that AM Joy and Politics Nation (the shows hosted by Joy Reid and Al Sharpton) don’t have any previous episodes on the app and why do you take so long to put them up after the shows air and why don’t you ever play them again on your network. As far as I know, they only air once and that’s not the case for most of your other political shows. Chris Matthews’s, Lawrence O’Donnell’s, and Brian Williams’s shows air on the weekend. 🤔🤔🤔

But I hate this app. It crashes constantly, just about every 5 to 10 minutes. It repeats the same commercial continuously. Please fix it and make the user experience. . . useable.

My experiences are as noted in almost every other review. Freezes up, buffers, repeats content, sound and video out of sync, and on and on. Fix it or lose lots of users.

Now, it is officially terrible. It freezes every few minutes. Sometimes, the sound just goes, while the action keeps going. If I really didn’t want to hear the programming, I wouldn’t bother... actually I will do anything to avoid this app. I wrote what is below a few months ago. I often watch with Apple TV, live. It seems the app cannot effectively load ads and loses the connection to the TV. When the app switches back to the phone, it doesn’t load to the phone, and I need to reload the app. Then, when the program comes on it is running one ad, and I switch it to the TV, there is a different ad. Something in this is causing the app to fail, over and over again. Please fix this.

Please either fix this app and or provide an Apple TV app. The streaming is horrible and especially additionally horrible when mirroring onto a flatscreen....PLEASE WE LOVE YOU NEWS SHOWS BUT WE CANNOT TAKE IT ANYMORE DUE TO THE TERRIBLE STREAMING

No longer works for me on iPhone or iPad. I’ve never seen so many problems with an app and doesn’t seem to matter where I’m watching from.

Stops, stalls and sputters for live stream. Miss easily a third of content tapping and closing and restarting. Out of desperation, I decided to watch live logged in on my pc and it has no problems whatsoever. So it’s the app and it’s equally bad on iPhone and iPad. Maybe the problems started when they began asking for your location so they could target advertising instead of just playing the horrible thumpity thump commercial break music. So now we can learn about all the drugs that will give you cancer or make you k*** yourself but your skin will be lovely. Rachel is available as a podcast audio the next day but not all shows are. If content is posted, the archive shows usually play ok in the app.

I too have problems with the audio and video cutting in and out. When I upgraded my phone, it did help a lot as it is a less frequent occurrences. But love watching my MSNBC shows when I’m away from home.

App software doesn’t seem to play well with others. Live feeds via your app on the iPhone don’t seem to work. No one seems to know what the problem is either.

Crashes and Freezes when using chrome as all the time.

How can a steaming app be so horrible? I stream from so many apps that work perfectly. Stream to my phone, iPad, PC, chromecast, Apple TV. Here’s a (limited) list: ESPN, HBO, XFINITY, Directv, Big10 network, CNN, Netflix, Amazon Prime, STARZ, Cinemax, YouTube, TBS, TNT, PBS, Dish Network, FX Now, AMC, CNN, BBC, Showtime, A&E, TNT, MLB, Fox Sports Go, ABC News, NBC News, TV Land, FOX News, CBS news, NFL Network, TruTV, and more. MSNBC is the only app that will drive you insane. When it finally streams (occasionally) just try to chromecast it or use AirPlay. Failure. Tech support responds! Awesome! Somehow they think it’s my internet connection. You’d think that having Microsoft embedded in their name would make them seem internet savvy. You’d be wrong. Pathetic. Stream CNN Instead.

Lose sound and problem freezing. I found that this problem is not only with the app but it also works the same with the station when carried on Cox Cable and Tucson Arizona

Apple TV, got the app, went to settings, typed in code, click on directv, get sent to a page that won’t work so I can’t watch

When it works, it’s great. But sometimes, like today, for example, it won’t play, with no explanation, and no information on how to fix. Irritating.

They get into trouble with the commercials. They replace the TV ads with the app ads and they don’t start and end at the same time. So when you watch with the app, you miss 15-20 seconds of the program when they go back. And the app stalls frequently, usually around the ads but at other times too. It used to be worse. If you watch yesterday’s program, it’s fine. The live stuff is hard for them. You can live stream the audio on tune in and while video is nice, the radio is less troublesome.

OK, where is the live button? Sometimes it’s there sometimes it’s not. And usually not when I go out to walk my dog and it is dark @5:00 pm down here so if no red bold LIVE button I’m shutting it down and going to Rachel’s IPod series. BUT I’m getting smarter every episode I listen to. PERMANENT LIVE BUTTON ✌🏻😎

How can a media company like nbc have such a buggy app?!??! Forget live streaming. I can’t even get it to take my cable info without freezing. So pathetic. Seriously, why? Is no one paying attention over there? Read your app comments.

Very unstable while trying to watch live. It drops completely and Frases the signal frequently. Better for watching previous episodes.

The app disconnects every few minutes, requiring me to resuscitate it 10-15 times minimum per hour. How are you supposed to watch a live-stream when you miss 2-3 minute chunks of it? MSNBC is my go-to news network, but this app is so frustrating it often forces me to use the CNN app instead. (It’s disconnected 3 times while writing this review. Please, please fix it.)

My wife controls the tv so I watch on iPad. I usually give up rather quickly because it loses sound and freezes up, so out of frustration I click on CNN app. NBC needs to fix or just remove app!

Frequent freezing & subsequent crashes. & I have high speed data access WITH an iPhone. So why bother?

Although “location service” is ON, I cannot view live MSNBC.

Although the app may ask you for your cable provider, it bypasses it allowing folks not paying for HD from their cable provider, see shows within 18 hours of airing in high definition. That saves me an additional $20 a month.

After many months... This app is STILL the worst... continues to buffer like crazy while CNN is smooth as can be... inexcusable.

The gold star for overall reporting is BBC.

Clumsey sign in with Verizon. Does not work. Frustrating.

Freezes a lot. Not reliable. Not available on Roku or Amazon devices though, so I’m stuck using this one

We don’t see the ads they are paying you to broadcast because the stream is interrupted more often than not. Then it becomes too frustrating and I turn it off.

Zero stars AAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL across the board! Endless years of a malfunctioning piece of garbage. The developers are clueless, non-caring, and ridiculous to think that the updates that they release ACTUALLY help this app perform... I mean, reallly guys!?!? You claim that each update that you put forward improves app performance. BS!!

No option in settings to enable location services

This up is great especially when you can watch your favorite programs on the go on MSNBC. However the occasional blackout needs fixed . Other than that I highly recommend this to everyone.

Are too long and too frequent but my favorite news channel. They fact check what is put out there.

Too many buffering, interferance, black screen, repetitious ads, etc...

Just when I really want to hear something it freezes every time!!! So frustrating!

MSNBC is a major news outlet. Why such an ok but not great app? Live steam doesn’t stream consistently. New archived show availability is inconsistent. When do last night shows that I missed post? 3am? Sometime tomorrow? Not at all? And then when they do post how long are they up for? 24 hours? 36? All week? It’s a crapshoot. Wish you would pick a formula and stick with it. But clearly there is no formula. It seems to arbitrarily depend on an intern who’s bad at their job. And why oh why is ever commercial break Ray Liotta talking about quitting smoking? I understand saturating the market might have its benefits. But I never smoked. Never will. And don’t need to hear Ray Liotta talk about it a dozen times and hour. Or that other one about opioid induced constipation? How many times an hour must we hear about that?

I just wish that some of my news shows were commercial free but I still really enjoy the app.!

Great app! Love being able to catch shows I missed, or re-watch when they’re especially good. I wish it would be possible to keep more than 1 or 2 shows available. Some weeks, it’s hard to watch everything I really want to see. I have enjoyed seeing repeats on tv over the holiday weekend. Too bad there aren’t more opportunities to see repeats on tv, esp. instead of Locked Up (LOTS of thumbs down!!), or Dateline (way better than Locked Up, just too many).

Nine. Likely would have had more but just quit the app. Now, I love Chantix and Ray Liotta as much as the next person (not at all), and I know no one in authority cares if I see the actual news content when they can make their fraction of a penny killing my battery with ad bombardments, but at least have the decency to show some content to shake things up a little.

SC 400 error with Apple TV MSNBC App when choosing Directv as a provider. Other than this issue, which stops the user from reaching the Directv sign-in page, your programming is phenomenal. Please fix this error so that I can make this a five-star rating.

This app buffers constantly or doesn’t work at all. This is not an issue with any other NBC/Universal network apps, so I’m not sure why it’s so difficult to get this one right.

Stop & go. Stop & go. Needs a tuneup.

At the moment, I’m in rural NC. I just played TRMS, and it played back flawlessly. I even paused it a few times - no freezing, no hang ups. I also became a fan of Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT).

I can have timely access to numerous programs from anywhere

Someone PLEASE fix this app! Freezes every 5 minutes or so, especially when casting to Chromecast. Other apps have NO problems casting. The freaking Disney channel can make a reliable app, so why can’t MSNBC?

Like many others I can’t make it work. Guess I’ll have to go back to CNN.

I am able to sign in, but unable to watch any shows. May you guys please fix this glitch! I am getting some type of error message... I would love to watch my favorite shows and can’t. This is so frustrating!

This app is not worthy to have been released. There is a thing called “process” in software development which includes testing and bug fixing. The team developing this app is clueless and needs to be replaced ASAP.

We are total msnbc addicts...the content is true and up to the moment and being able to watch Katy Tur when I miss her during the day is a bonus. Each live show I watch though freezes up at least 4 times and sometimes more....wish this could improve.

I enjoy watching MSNBC but they’re app just isn’t reliable. It freezes up almost every time I use it. None of the other video apps that I use are as frustrating to use.

I click on the msnbc icon and it comes on with screen being all black for a second then turns off instantly. Please fix.....as soon as possible.

App i have ever used!

All I want for Christmas is to watch Maddow without the feed dropping out. Make my wish come trueeeee

As another reviewer pointed out, the other NBC News app has an AppleTV counterpart. So why not the MSNBC app? I feel that it might address the same issue I have with using airplay from an iPad to watch live MSNBC content, where frequently the stream pauses to re-buffer. Just make this app native to the AppleTV to cut out the middle device. I also agree that their advertisements are annoyingly repetitive, and I’ve lately been seeing ads for Scientology and L Ron Hubbard, which is crazy off putting to see on MSNBC.

Dropout and freezes all the time.

Live tv doesn’t work very well. I most often get a blank screen and I’ve tried logging out of my provider and reloading the app. Very frustrating

Very annoying to read graphs and timelines whenever used on a show since the closed captioning is all over the lower part of the screen. PLEASE make it okay to turn off this feature.