KIRO 7 News App- Seattle Area App Reviews

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Good for traffic updates but seriously needs work. I use this for traffic updates but otherwise it’s unbearable. The notifications are worthless. Sometimes it loads your story. Sometimes not. Lots of sports spam and always a video ad. KIRO wants to load a video ad before each news story regardless of data/WiFi so they don’t care if some people are on capped plans or slow connections. Then, most of the time, the story you’re clicking on the notification for doesn’t load and can’t be found 🤷‍♀️. There are way too many sports notifications and no way to turn them off 🤦‍♀️ And people with the app probably don’t care about on air stories and don’t want notifications about stories coming up on air. Keep what is in the app local to the app. And let me mention again that there are major issues with the video ads and notifications.

Terrible. This app is beyond bad. It crashes frequently, pulls up the wrong article from the the headline notification banner, and freezes up constantly. When you see a notification banner about a breaking news story and try to open, it goes to a blank a blank screen and sits there thinking about it indefinitely. Ive deleted it twice, then downloaded it a third time hoping things were fixed but they’re not. I’m deleting it again permanently. Don’t waste your time with this. WORST APP EVER!!!

Last Software Update: THUMBS DOWN. They took away the “back” button.....now you have to hit the Home button to go back after reading an article, then navigate back to where ever you were at. Q13 here I come

Up to date. Reliable. Ch 7 is the best. Always on top of the most current news. Like all the rest too many commercials.

Could be better. This use to be my ‘go to’ local news app. But it seems they take the weekends off because news is rarely updated. And most of the time the Ads are the only thing loading

Streaming. Way to many ad banners for kiro tv. I have counted as many as 7 after you go to commercial. Even then I have to click “ watch live three times to get back to the news only to find they are half way thru an article I was interested in. Also some of the anchors are very biased and don’t do a good job of investigating. Jesse Jones is about the only one who thoroughly investigates.

Love the content, not the app. Hi KIRO7 - I'm nothing without Michelle, Tracy T. Matthew, Tracey and Nick in the morning! This whole week the KIRO News App on my i-pad, Firestick, AND PrimeTV is not working. It goes through the same 3 commercials then gets stuck. I’ve uninstalled on all of my devices and then reinstalled the app. Still getting stuck on the same commercials. I’ve tweeted to make you aware. I have sent you a DM as well. Still nothing. Help?!?

Boomer app. Severely outdated, videos won’t load after full 30 second ads, numerous article editing errors (titles, misspellings, incomplete sentences, high school-level errors). No links within article body for reference or further reading, pictures are usually stock photos and not of article content. Good thing it’s free.

Top News Stories. I like the app and reporters; however, I think more headlines for stories would be appropriate. I live in Spokane and keep up with West side news every morning with a good cup of Joe. Thanks guys!

Kiro 7 news. Really enjoy checking out the news here. The only complaint I have is it takes a long time before they change some stories. Same stories for days

Atrocious app and website. Quite honestly one of the worst it was cancerous ways I’ve ever seen to run an application and or a website. Links don’t even go to themselves. It’s nothing but a toxic waste island of Clickbait and ads. Or whoever made this website or decided to make it this way is one of the worst human beings in existence of all humans don’t ever download this app or go to this website because it is the worst in the history of the Internet.

App Keeps Crashing in Late 2021. What a drag. I’ve used this app for several years perfectly satisfied, but the last 2-3 months, it keeps crashing. It crashes even after i reload it from the APP store. It crashes on my phone and on my iPad. Guess I’ll have to switch to a competitor’s app, sorry!

Completely non-functional and abandoned.. Even on a brand new installation, for the past month or more, all this app does is display a message that the “App could not be started”. I would have used the “App Support” link before leaving a review, but App Support is a page reading “Sorry, the page you are looking for cannot be found.” If anyone is actually paying attention to this app or its users, please note: it’s very broken.

Appreciate knowing the news at home while away. I am a snowbird in the winter. My family and friends are there with you during this crisis . I am grateful that I can watch live news feeds as well as getting news alerts sent to my devices. Thank you so much for all you do and helping me and others to stay in the loop with the news in Western Washington.

Won’t launch after 8.4.4 update. Weather section is great. News is poorly written often leaving out basics that are important to the story. With latest upgrade, app won’t launch on my old iPhone 6.

Latest version will not auto rotate from landscape to portrait like earlier versions.. Your current app requires the user to constantly rotate their device, rather than having your app written in a way that would auto do it. Your older versions dead, and most other news outlets still do. This will mean for me, I will use you as a last resort.

Notifications. Many times when I get notifications on my phone of a particular story I click on the notification expecting to be directly taken to that story, it doesn’t work and I end up on the main page. I’m not intimidated searching for it

Great Coverage. I have several news apps and this is by far my favorite. I like the layout and the content is easy to select.

Outstanding.. When I miss seeing the news it’s really great to come to this app and get caught up. I’ve been a fan for a very long time and appreciate you all.

Good local news contents, terrible video experience. This is the only app I have (I have many dozens, to the amusement of my wife) where I routinely end up with several videos playing at the same time because of unwanted automatic play - this should never happen, and it should not even be possible. I also have to wait for the long ads to finish before I can change the orientation from mouse movie size portrait to full screen landscape, and even that requires a tap instead of just working in response to holding the phone sideways. The video experience destroys the overall experience, sorry.

Best news App. I worked all day don’t have time to watch tv this app is the best way to catch the latest news around the globe.

Review of mobile website. I use the radar portion of the news app frequently on my iPad. With the updated news app, when I select weather-radar, the app frequently closes down — after several tries I usually am successful (after multiple app closures) in viewing the radar. VERY FRUSTRATING!!!!

Notifications. I do Enjoy The News from KIRO - But when I get notifications sent to my phone that I want to read and I tap on it. It opens your app then I have to hunt for the info. Which I usually can’t find. It is very frustrating. Today I was wanting to read about T- Mobile and couldn’t find it anywhere. You should have a - Search section.

Forced to watch video when I want is to read story. Reworked app forces you to watch video of story before you can read the text of the story. Often, I just want to read the story not see a reporter reciting the story. The latest rework of the iPad version of the app will not let you just read. I liked the old version of the app much better.

Frustrating. When I click on a notification for news, I have to sit through ads. Often cannot even find articles on alerts I click on.

Where is “Live”?. When I open the Kiro app and ckick on “Live”, I hope to view a recent broadcast. Not so fast. What typically appears is a screen with”We’ll be right back”. OK, when? Rather wait for an unknown amount of time, I close out and seek another station. That said, why doesn’t Kiro have a loop feed from the most recent ‘live’ newscast? At least that would provide some information rather than a pointless screen.

Way to many ad’s and lagged site.. I love the people on KIRO seven but this site it a joke. Not well put together! Way to many adds and when you click on specific news topic’s it frequently directs to ad’s or lag’s.

Where did it go?. Often I will click on a breaking news banner then to not be able to find it on the app. Very annoying.

Videos are annoying. First, I resent having videos begin playing unprompted and having to scramble to figure out how to make them go away. I use the app to READ news, not watch/listen. It’s annoying when I’m a room with other family members or when people are trying to sleep. Second, could you please add a swipe left to exit the article? I shouldn’t need to X out every time. Third, the app should be viewable in landscape mode. This app needs some serious work.

App orientation. Up until a couple weeks ago, I was ble to view the articles in both the landscape and portrait orientations. Now the app immediately closes when I have my device in the landscape orientation. I can view it only in portrait. I prefer landscape because it is easier to read.

Cry babies. My biggest complaint is about the constant “Breaking News, call Dish and DEMAND that they bring back KIRO”. This is just pathetic. If Dish dropped you, they dropped you. Get over it. It shows your poor judgment when you constantly use this ad in the middle of stories. It is just ridiculous to also use the ad as the main “Breaking News” story. There are more important stories than you.

Correct your app. The previous app turn phone to view was way more user-friendly. The pull down to watch is like a one point in the minus. I hope you fix it and make it more user-friendly

Incomplete News Stories. It seems the news stories posted are not complete. When reading them they have very little information and end abruptly... more like an expanded headline than an actual article. Please post complete articles and not condensed versions to the app.

Great for Local News, Horrible App. Whoever thought it was a good idea to randomly start blaring videos while using this app needs to be fired. The app is essentially unusable in many settings unless you make sure your speaker volume is off. I’m not sure why it’s so hard to make a good local news app, but I suppose their budget is stretched thin. It’s not just KIRO.

ADs. I am tired of the ads at the bottom of the screen. I even turned them off at google and they still return.

Fonts are too small to read. Something has changed on this app. The fonts have gotten very small. I have tried to adjust them but have not been successful. Also there frequently is not much new or updated news on this app. Make the text much bigger or at least adjustable and add more content and I will once again enjoy following the news on KIRO.

Awful. This is an example of how NOT to design a news app, their site is the same. Not designed as much as thrown together. It’s as if they hired a friend of a friend to put this together for experience instead of actually paying someone who knows what they are doing and has an eye for a good user interface and a professional looking app. Sponsored content is not clearly marked.

Sad. Unfortunately all you get with this app are commercials about how well they all know the area! 10 minutes of that then. “ we will be right back”. Maybe 2 minutes of news then back to commercial and we’ll be right back! I never watched other local news but have to look for something else now!

App is clunky and glitchy. The app has issues when you try to turn the phone 90 degrees to get a full screen. Also, the fact if you have to turn away for even a few seconds to answer a text, your forced to go through the same stupid 30 second ad before the stream starts again. FRUSTRATING!

COVID-19. Thank you for covering the Pierce County Public Heath Department news conference. It was well covered & professionally presented by the PIerce County Health Department panel. Thanks for covering South Sound so well. Kudos to ALL involved... I appreciate in your regular coverage as well & that you are reporting facts. I think it is important that we don’t react with fear ...especially of the unknown! Good job, KIRO crew!!😊👏😊👏

Notifications go to ads. When I click on the notification I receive on my iPhone or iPad, I get numerous ads and the news article seldom comes up. It’s ridiculous. This app functionality simply has to be improved in order for me to get the news that I need. I expect intermittent ads. But give me access to the news!

Great for local news updates. However, the National & World News section seems to be just sports lately… I’m not sure if that is deliberate or a glitch. It would be nice to have actual world news in that section though.

Not to bad. The app is great for watching live feed. Weather is updated. Stories are quick. The only complaint I have is the person who reports the traffic is terrible at doing it

Best channel in Seattle. ❣️. I am so angry at CBS and Dish. We can’t change from dish to whatever and sign another contract. I hate greed and both parties are guilty. 50 years ago I started watching 7, watched Steve get balder ( I liked his cookie duster ) and his sharp wit. Debra Horne always out in all kinds of weather and her beautiful voice telling her story. Darn it I miss you!

Used to be great… Used to.. Used to be great, but then auto scrolling issues and now with the latest update, when I click on a notification it opens it up for a split second and then goes to the home page of the app. Then the story I had clicked to open is NOWHERE to be found in the app. It happens EVERY time. Deleted the app and reinstalled but it didn’t help at all. Now completely useless.

Live streaming links don’t work. I still don’t know how to live stream. I click the live stream button, it takes me through several commercials, starts a previously recorded afternoon broadcast, goes to commercial again and plays it non-stop I have to click ‘live’ repeatedly before it finally starts playing, Mossi g about 4-5 minutes of news. Please fix this.

Great news alerts, unable to search. I love how the app alerts new news but once in the app there is no search function. When there is an error pulling up a story from my notifications I can’t search for it and the notification is gone. Disappointing you can’t search for a news article in this app. It’s like they’re in control of what you see.

This app is awful!!. The app is awful. It’s difficult to navigate and I’m honestly tired of having to watch a full 30 second ad before every story I watch. The other stations alternate or give you an option to skip the ad, why doesn’t Kiro do this. As a news consumer I feel like you are wasting my time in order to make a quick buck on some internet ad revenue. I’m going to King 5... bye bye Kiro 7!!!

Been waiting for a major update. This app is archaic. The developer needs to listen to its users. You can’t zoom in of pictures to look at detail better. Why mention anything in your news if you can’t look at what you are talking about? To the developer, do your research and take ideas from other apps and their abilities.

This app is an insult.. I just got a notification on my watch, that if I change my name legally to Subway, I could win sandwiches for life. This was such important braking news for KIRO news to send me, it had to be sent to my watch! You are a bunch of clowns and an insult to the entire Pacific Northwest. I can’t believe you would abuse your viewers trust, for a crappy advertisement. App deleted, I will never use it again, now watching channel 13, 5, 4, or just PBS for my news!

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Kiro TV. Great app.

Nicely done app. Love the new redesigned app. August 2015. Very slick.

It’s good.. It’s good for news.

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Thankful, but.... I’m watching 6th consecutive anti Dino commercial. I use this app on my streaming device, and because I’m a cord cutter I am thankful that I can still watch news in the morning. For goodness sake please find some new advertisers!! I’m so sick and tired of watching same commercial over and over and over!

Excellent. I landed USA in 1992 and watching this channel I enjoying to see the latest news at this channel Y Kausal

Add. When I try to get to a news story an ad, video and audio, begins. I have hearing aids that are connected to my phone. The audio is too loud and annoying. I would like the option of at least muting the sound before it starts blaring in my ears.

The worst. Your app is the worst. Example: my phone gives me a headline of a story on your app, I click on it to see the story and then I DON’T. It doesn’t go to the story , it goes to an ad on the app then the story I’m wanting to read or watch is nowhere to be found. THE WORST!

Using this app leaves you wondering if it’s news or hype. So among the news stories I found human interest stories of the house actors live in. Several of these actresses have been dead for over a year. So this tells me they don’t care about accuracy or truth.

Freezes constantly. I’ve had this app for years, and it worked great until about 6 months ago. Now it freezes constantly, can barely get through one news story without it freezing. Using an iphone 10 with the latest ios version

Too many Ads!!. When I want to follow a Breaking News notification, I DO NOT want to sit through 1-3 advertisements first!!!! Anywhere else I can understand- just not when you’re trying to get a breaking news situation. Sorry KIRO. We were avid KIRO only watchers, but we’ve switched.

Screen size small. For whatever reason your app has now shrunk the screen size to use only 1/2 of my tablet size. Wasn’t always like that. Please fix

Horrible. What a waste of time. Nothing but ads, good luck finding what you’re looking for. Spent an hour waiting for redundant ads to complete, never saw the report at all. Stories that are so imbedded with promos that you can’t follow any story to completion, nothing but clickbait. Leave this one behind and avoid the frustration.

Would be nice to ACTUALLY use the app instead of it redirecting to website!. What’s the point of having the app if the notifications send me directly to the website instead of the app. On rare occasions it uses the app. Is it only around to notify me of articles?

Good News Station. As an out of stater trying to keep up on the insanity of what is going on in Seattle, I rely on KIRO to provide the on the ground reporting I need, devoid of CNN and Fox News spin. And your mayor is beyond insane...

Too busy. Too busy. Flash news goes away when you tap the tease.

Lousy app. This mobile app, Roku app and the internet version all had been down for many days. For a news platform this is unacceptable, especially when you bill yourself as a 24/7 news entity!

Important to me. Thank you for reporting on building fires. There has been a lot of them.

Unusable. The KIRO website is unusable in the Facebook app because it's so busy trying to load ads, excessive unrelated content and play video. When it finally does manage to load it pops over a full page ad that tries to redirect to this app. I installed it just to leave this review. Your user hostile tactics are not appreciated.

Allard and Millman. Nick Allard and Michelle Millman are the reason I watch. If they ever leave. I’m out. The banter and warmth they bring to traditional news programs are why I even watch the weather and news.

Enjoy. Reliable news.

Incomplete app. Entices with a headline but you have to drop everything and turn on the tv to get the story WHO can do that. Or says streaming now and it isn’t. And always have to watch an ad first. You are too commercial. Love Seattle Times app and Komo.

Videos. I don’t like all the commercials when it is a video. I only like when I can read the story. As soon as a video shows up, I turn your app off.

The Best!!!. Thank You for great News!!! I am from Seattle..... now in East Wenatchee. I always appreciate your excellent coverage.

Why send fake news bits about Covid updates?. Sorry, wrote once privately to you. But ‘___ new deaths and \ new cases as ‘notifications all the time is upsetting! I swipe and end up at same link all the time! Stop tue panic , we know CV is bad. Stop making fake ‘notifications’ please...

Font Size Stuck. Set font size to max and now cannot change back to smaller.

Inconsistent. I bet I’d love this app if it worked consistently. It either disconnects or freezes way too often. When it plays music during commercials, sometimes it never stops and won’t go back to programming.

Problems with app. Can’t find where to report an issue with the app. Commercial(s) tend to take over screen after opening app. Tried removing and reinstalling app but didn’t work. Can’t watch this app right now.

Has lost a lot of it’s usefulness. I rarely use this app anymore because the video constantly overlaps the content, even after the ads have finished. It’s hard to read a story 1/4” at a time, which is about the space between the video overlay and the ad at the bottom of the screen.

Last update broke the app. Worked fine before, but last update broke the app. It starts, but does not load the news stories. Blank page with Kiro logo at top & an ad at the bottom.

Criminal deterrent. The system in Seattle is a direct results of a non deterrent system . The shooters in Seattle are a perfect example of a system where repeat offenders are on the streets knowing that there is minimum result to there actions

Sends notifications on things I specifically turned off. Why do you send me Seahawks scoring notifications when I have notifications for all sports turned off? I record games and don’t want to see them!

Important updates. Get a synopsis of all things new

To many of the same stories. There are duplicates to the news being reported which leads to frustration in looking for more news

Steals and Deals segment. Please get rid of the Steals and Deals segment. It just doesn’t work and it detracts from your quality programming.

Ads seem like the live news. Love KIRO! Can’t stand this app! 3-5 minutes of commercials for two minutes of news and sometimes just the load page for what seems like a lifetime. I hate paying for cable but I do miss how much easier it was to watch the news.

Hate it. It gives you an alert for a story with a 30 second ad and then the video never loads. It’s useless, and I’ve just now deleted it. No point in having a useless app taking up data/space on my phone. F-u, Komo! Neither watch you on tv nor your app.

Live news works half the time.. I would love this app to work since I prefer this station to king 5. The entire app is also not readable. The live button is super tiny and goes to a black screen half the time. Nothing live about that.

Part of my life. I expect KIRO to be there and depend on them to be part of my day. Thank you

Unfortunate. Yesterday I discovered this app had used over 2 gb of my cellular data in less than 2 hours while running in the background. That’s almost half my monthly allowance. Bye bye Kiro news! Had to uninstall the app.

Pretty worthless. This app is terrible to navigate, full of ads and commercials, and the live stream is a joke. They’re always on commercial or they force you to watch ANOTHER commercial. Just go online and read the articles if you want to know what’s going on locally. This app is a total waste of time and cannot be relied upon.

Erroneous links. When clicked on a story, it didn’t show up. Instead something else unrelated show up. Very frustrating

Dropping out iphone. Dropping out

Too many videos. Less videos and more reading articles.

Bugs bugs bugs. I used to get most of my local news via this app. Unfortunately, it no longer runs smoothly. It stalls and crashes repeatedly. I am disappointed to have to find a new place for my local news.

No search function. I saw a story on TV and went to the app to find out more but the story is nowhere to be found and there is no search function to find it. So far this app is useless

What happened?. This app used to work seamlessly, but as of late, it’s just a mess, and it keeps getting worse. Videos should NOT automatically play. Stories should not disappear. Whoever is currently maintaining the app needs a new job. Please make it go back to the simple and seemless way it used to be. 🙏🏻

Obviously Biased. The station is obviously biased. Everything they report is slanted to the left... The same goes for their editorial comments. A shame as they used to REPORT the news and let the READER/LISTENER decide for themselves what was important... Now each and every reporter/anchor craft their comments to support the leftist stances.

Views. The service does more to support the liberal agenda. I have to admit that KIRO does support the conservative side on their am radio. I don’t trust or quote KIRO news app. Clearly they don’t just tell the news they slant it towards the left.

Feature story is hidden. Sometimes the feature announced in the alert is hidden in the article.

Weather app. When you changed the app you totally ruined it. Much too much need to navigate through it. Also ads that are distracting and frustrating. Overall not very helpful. I used to tell others about the great feature that KIRO offered but now I express my disappointment.

Notifications are useless. Everytime I have ever clicked on a notification about breaking news, I am taken to the app’s home page and not to the relevant news. Most of the time I can’t even find the article by searching manually. I just deleted the app. What’s the point in having it?!

Push alerts. When a push alert comes through on your cell phone and it is selected the alert doesn’t always take you to the story that was just pushed

Bravo KIRO. Local mainstay always doing great reporting. There isn’t a single local news channel that has a ‘great’ app (no offense) but yours is by far the best. King5’s in 90% ads.