Most people don’t like change; it usually doesn’t bother me. Admittedly, there’s always a few trade-offs or getting used to that happens with something new. This is NOT even close. I hate everything about it. The look, the login I can skip but still get Alex every single time, the colors, the lack of organization, the lack of content diversity, no personalization, same three to five stories that take a week to change sometimes. I can hardly find any other topics like science and art- just horror headlines. Used to feel like I got an international perspective - now it’s just the same feed as every other news outlet. Can’t view the images by clicking on them and there are far less of them. I know it costs money to create but how did it go so wrong overnight. Wished I didn’t have to have upgraded. So very disappointed, frustrated, and sad.

I have used this app for close to 10 years now! This used to be my preferred way of seeing the events throughout the world. But not anymore! The last two updates, one in Nov last year and the last just this week are terrible in user experience! For iOS, the latest update isn’t user friendly at all. It opens the web pages within the app on a click, which makes it less friendly to navigate back (on iPhone, you can slide from left to right to go back to the previous window). This used to be a feature for “live” updates and stories, but not to the published stories. This app became click here and there — with no ease of navigation like an iPhone app. It also nags you to login on every opening of the app; which is unnecessary! Then comes the layout, omg, it became worse! Previously, there used to be a feature to configure your interest areas and 2 latest news per topic would be displayed in one window: which makes it easy to skim through them quickly (and I believe that increases the chance of a frequent visit to the app!) But now, you have to click on every topic to get the full list of news. I feel bad to be pushed away from my favorite news app. I also heard the same complaints from my younger brother and friends. So, it’s not me alone!

I’ve had a lot of apps and a lot of updates, but this one really takes the cake as one of the worst. Literally every new feature manages to make the app worse and less user friendly. Having to scroll all the way down, rather than easily pan across, the various tabs/subcategories is not intuitive, but this is just one of far too many issues to list. All the negative reviews from the past few days are really telling: this “update” is a huge step backwards. I’m happily switching to another source for my news until it’s fixed. Edit: I have now deleted the app after giving it a second try. The inability to even SEARCH for news articles that are not those “selected” for you is atrocious. And why are there entire sections on particular sports and hardly any news at all about the rest of the world? What a mess.