Wtol First Alert Weather App Reviews

The last update to this app included updates to the notifications. I have turned off most everything except for Tornado, Thunderstorm, Blizzard warnings. I am still getting regular informational notifications. I don’t care that it’s going to be colder today. I only want to know if there is a threat of severe weather. The notifications come at all hours, so if your device is by your bedside, you get to hear the flipping notification sound for the stupid message. Very annoying! You have no control over the “follow me” for a default location. I want my default location to be my city, but it keeps going to the follow me location. I don’t want the app following me. Very poor update in my opinion. I’d prefer to have the old version back. It worked well and adhered to the preferences I set.

I have had this app for forever. But here lately I'm getting notifications that there's precipitation 5 miles from me when there are no storms near me. Radar is working right.

I only want to receive severe alerts I have alerts turned off for every other thing and I constantly get alerts telling me that you’ll need sunglasses or some other garbage like that I don’t want those annoying alerts. If these don’t stop I’m going to have to delete the app.

Since last update, app crashes every time I try to open it

Do not like the new app at all. You complicated a good thing. Sometime less is more. You blew it

I think the app needs an update or something. It has been taking a long time to open compared to before. It just shows the background screen for a while before any of the data loads up.

I loved this app but then they had to change it. Last update added user pictures an a blog section. All I want is the weather.

This new update needs another update. Upon opening, it says it is raining when it is actually sunny(one of the fees times we have had sun the last few weeks). Just had a heavy storm and radar was showing nothing

I liked the previous format but sometimes change is good. My issue is with the fact that now the home screen will not flip on my iPad to view horizontally!

The jingle that plays for this commercial is absolutely atrocious.In my opinion that's greater than annoying...jw

GET THIS APP NOW! It's amazingly helpful!:)

Why do you have to have the title screen always appear no matter if you have the app open already or not? I can understand when you first open the app but if you have it open and go to another app then back you have to look at these 3/4 weatherpeople EVERY time. During recent severe weather emergencies this was quite annoying and a waste of time. If you already the app open why do you have to look at these yahoos and waste time?

I do not like the new version. They took away a lot of the selections I use everyday.

Was a decent app in the beginning but I never got alerts and it was set up and allowed to send them. Then go to check it and now says there is no connection. DO NOT get this app. It doesn't work like its spoused to.

I was very happy with the app but suddenly I have lost access to current conditions like current temp, wind chill, humidity. What has changed and why have they been removed?

Can't believe all the negative feedback! In my opinion, this is a significant improvement over the previous version. It seems to me that it easily provides all the features that the other feedback claims to be missing. Sure, it's new and different so it requires a little familiarization - so for folks opposed to change in general it might be intimidating - but once you get familiarized (takes about 5 minutes), I believe it's excellent.

This is the best weather app for the Toledo area but it constantly freezes. Please fix it soon so I can continue using it. The format is good and the alerts are helpful. The hour by hour forecast is accurate.

I like the bottom nav where I can quickly get to hourly and daily forecasts as well as radar. However I am not fond of the two huge advertising blocks as I scroll down. The Weather Channel's app manages advertising better.

This app used to be my favorite for weather until the update a few years ago. You can only view it in vertical mode, the title screen displays way too long, then forces you to view an add before finally getting to the weather where it tends to freeze. Very disappointing. I keep hoping someone fixes this, but until then, I'll resort to using TWC.

I live in SE MI but rely on this app over ANY other iPhone app. Great crew working at the station to keep us up to date.

Currently the app keeps crashing when I try to open it. It’s been about a week and the app still won’t work.

The video ads are a bit ridiculous. 30 seconds? Really?! Looking for another weather app now.

I have always relied on this app and the First Alert Weather Team, but the app is not nearly as good as it used to be. I hate to say this, but 13 ABC, WTVG’s weather app is now a lot better. They give you the next 6 hours of weather, not 4 hours like your app does. Their radar screen display is larger, they have a closing section and seems to be better organized, even though both apps appear to be designed by the same people. Please go back to your old version and update it, so you are back to being the weather leader you and your app used to be.

New version is terrible . No color and complicated to use. Freezes constantly. Older version was easy to use colorful and no freezes. I'm looking for another weather app. I used this for basic weather. I have another for detailed weather.

Don't dl this app. It gets stuck in "waiting" and won't let you delete. Tried resetting iPad back to factory, nothing works.

I have used the app for a long time and have been very happy with it until this update. The screen will not rotate to landscape. It is very annoying. This use to be a great app. Now we have to wade thru a zillion ads and jump thru hoops just to see the forecast. I will find another app, as this one is very annoying

I love how you guys changed the theme from the 3D Windows that would turn in a circle, to a nice easy friendly dashboard where you can now see all the info all in one place. Now it's just a click away instead of having to turn the 3D Windows it to get to them. Keep up the great work!

What has been changed is very annoying it that it is constantly prompting me to update. Then when I do try to update it tells me the version is not applicable to my device asking to download the App. VERY ANNOYING!!!'

This is my favorite weather app! Great local weather clips and I enjoy the radar no matter where I am in the country!❤️❤️

They got rid of text alerts which I'm not happy about and now their website is awful. I have to connect to Bluetooth to use it and it still does not work!!! I will no longer watch their channel. It shouldn't be that much work in order to get safety alerts

Have went ahead and deleted this app for the last time because in the many months i have had it on lake erie it has never notified me of obvious bad weather. I have three other weather apps that make timely notifications, weather underground; storm; and eweather. I need notifications on the lake and this one never, ever cut it. Bye!

New update is terrible, doesn't open to map as before, a bunch of needless menu boxes. You have to select a menu box to open upon app opening. New daily and hourly forecasts are terrible looking. They just took a great app and made it worthless. App just keeps getting worse with each update. Opens with an ad first, and full of adverts using junk. Menus are crap. When it first came out it was the best weather app out there. Now it's just full of bloat ware and slow.

I downloaded the WTOL News app a while ago and I an thinking about deleting it. Too many times the articles they put on there are too rushed. I have read articles that changed completely because it seem they just want to get the story out there first even if it isn't reported correctly. Also they should get familiar with the counties that their story is in when they post it. FYI WTOL, Marblehead is in Ottawa County not Eerie County. They just need to get the facts straight before putting it out there. They will be awesome when they start doing that!

i would give it five stars but it crashes...never used to

This is very helpful!

No predictor on the radar anymore

This app was amazing prior to the latest update. Easy to navigate, with all of the most important information shown on the screen when the app opened. Now, it's a hot mess. You have to swipe through annoying little boxes to find what you want (or worse, use the complex drop down menu), and when you finally find what you're looking for, the information presented is terribly designed: too much clutter! Looking for a new weather app, which is such a shame because this one used to be the best one out there.

Don't like the "Alert" voice notification when it's not really alert worthy plus hate the audio played with their sponsored adds.

Easy to navigate. Simple and clean interface. Just the start up could be little faster...

Deleted this app do too it's inaccuracy. It was terrible at predicting the forecast. Always wrong

Takes up way to much data to simply check the weather. I opened the app just to see the day and it used 18 MB. In like 30 seconds. Just too much. Also the weekly projections get too busy. I don’t want nor need a video every day just because it’s going to be hot or rain. And then to highlight some days in red and then others not, some days with videos. Made it way too difficult just to see the basic information. At least make options to turn off the stuff that you don’t want.

So good how it track the weather and tornadoes and more! That so cool how I can track weather. I also liked it because it doesn't take up a lot of space.

All of a sudden this annoying Home Depot ad bar appears at the bottom and gets in the way of viewing the content, forget watching a weather video in full screen (panoramic) view, the bar blocks the lower 3rd of the screen so you can't even see the whole video, please fix this, used to not be a problem up until a few days ago!!!

New update is awful! Too many steps to see all the info. Hate the cheap weather icons. Too hard to navigate. Glad I still have earlier version on my iPad. I will NOT be updating it there!

Always somebody crabbing about something !

The huge quantity of ads make this once very useful app practically unusable. Enough already. Please either significantly reduce the number of ads or offer an ad free ($) version.

They took a very well designed app and turned it into an overly complicated mess. I don't care about video of your weather cast, I don't care about anything user submitted, I just want the app to open to the radar, temp, and any alerts without having to navigate menus. You know, like before you dicked with it?

Ads almost daily just to get you to open the app. Ads once you do open the app.

Alert button being pressed for rain showers, instead of being reserved serious weather. Getting as bad as the news cast overusing Breaking News. What happened to the boy that cried wolf?