I downloaded this because I couldn’t finish an article I was reading in Apple News; the only choice was “continue reading in the app.” Once in the app, the header and footer never go away, significantly decreasing the readable screen area, and distracting me with a search bar on the top, and a collection of buttons on the bottom, none of which I need. Most modern apps hide these things until you change your scrolling direction, and then show them to you momentarily to see if you need them. If you don’t, when you resume reading, they disappear again. I’m not sure what the purpose of sending me to this app is rather than serving me the entire article in the place I’m already reading it, unless it’s for Microsoft to track me. That might serve Microsoft, it doesn’t serve me. The only time I’ll use this app as if I need it to finish an article.

It works like any other search engine. But they have a future that you can’t disable or turn off as a user, it’s the AI search I wish this can be turned off, but it will never be turned off. It’s a feature that they have for the app it’s unable to be disabled. Even they have Microsoft rewards program last year was the best they had so many points that you can earn on Xbox and through the Microsoft edge now they’re lowering their points system either they’re losing money or too many peoples getting too many free gift cards. I don’t know what it is yes take a grain of salt. It is a free rewards program but now every time you earn a point it went from five points to one or two points. no more earning those 10s and 20s or higher points. Everything used to be dead on target, but now that the end of the year is at a end is becoming unstable points or not adding up points in isn’t registering. I’m only in it for the last points I need & uninstalling.

I have been using the Microsoft Start app since it came public. I found it’s one of the only apps that I’ve been able use to get my Bing points. Using a Start app to get Bing points is a little complex and buggy at times. While I like the all in one app for news, shopping and receipt scanning here are a few drawbacks… I getting points takes much more time now. Sometimes you get points on clicks and sometimes nothing. Sometimes you can click through the trending news and click click click and get points, sometimes nothing at all and you have to come back later in the day to finish. In the last few days, I had the app freeze up on both iPad and iPhone. While I could clear history for the day and week without a problem the app crashed when trying to clear the longer dated history, i.e. 4 week history and all history. This was replicated on my iPhone and iPad both and this maybe due to limitations of the RAM or sandbox memory but hopefully this information will help to may the app better in future updates. Thank you Microsoft support teams for all you are doing.