NBC Bay Area: News & Weather App Reviews

just updated the app and the live news video doesn’t work. hopefully it’ll be fixed - I put it in every morning before I leave for work!

The local news provided here is timely and informative, but what’s with the clickbait “articles” following the actual articles? This is a news app! The stories following the news articles should be other news and information, not internet trash. If you need revenue, go with ads from reputable companies. Using clickbait makes the whole thing seem shady and unreliable. Weather is often inaccurate for Mill Valley area.

I am subtracting two stars. Both for annoying navigation problems. When I open the app to see a weather alert, I can never exit out of the weather page. There is no easy link back to the home page. That’s an app 101 first rule of design. Easy navigation. The app also tends to not navigate to the alert when I click the alert and see the article. Instead, it puts me to the main article rather than the alert. The problem here is, the behavior never acknowledges the alert has been seen, making the

I have some reason to open this app every day. If not for temps and weather for anywhere, local and national news.

Are all these news apps white backgrounds because they think they need to simulate a newspaper? KPBS does it best, easy on the eyes.

This app is nearly perfect on iOS and iPadOS. But the tvOS app always lacked push notifications. And it didn’t support the Up Next row. Support for the app has been dropped on Apple TV. Only way to watch NBC Bay Area content now on Apple TV is via YouTube or the main NBC app.

Like most I’m going out of my way to review. Don’t know how and kinda don’t care but the app is very consistent with weather alerts, especially for rain, news alerts and general alerts. Have had no negatives with app.

Very hard to remove ads from the app if you accidentally press on them. There is no obvious “x” to close like on other apps.

It’s ok, but searching is prohibitively difficult- a search for “togo cocktail bill” couldn’t find a story called “to-go cocktails will stick around” also the livestream looks for wifi unsuccessfully even though the rest of the app is functioning on lte/5g, but worst of all the app shuts off if I navigate away and loses where I was. Whoever idea THAT was is just adding to perception that all media companies are eyeball greedy to the exclusion of any concern for user experience. What could be a h

The app is just slow all the time. All the ads will load quickly, but the news text itself will take forever to load.