6abc Philadelphia App Reviews

Love 6ABC. I love watching 6ABC and the app what is like improved is the interest stories such as the one with Officer Osinky. He and his family are in need and I haven't seen or easily found the information as to where to send donations same when you did your pet stories. It would be great that if after the stories you would have a link or something to direct people who are interested in helping whee we could do so

ABC news channel 6. Just want to say it’s great to watch in the morning and evening, Rick Williams, Sherries Williams at times bring some good and funny humor to the news room and or TV land!, over all I love the news wish there was more news out in stead of repeating over and over, love the consumer reports at your station you put out to beat some of the issues we’re having today! What I don’t like when you have a main coverage to address you end up putting that information @ 11:00 at night, sorry I don’t like that!, I am sure there is other good stuff your able to put out for the summer for families, kids, teens, like parks, movies, “ratings” trips, vacations, I apologize for miss spelling names, not being clear, and hope to here from you again, Thank you!

Line up of active reporters Are and have been those by department are all excellent in their field.. I can say if you can present yourself in a censer way and you can talk the talk, you can walk the walk. Only if I could be young again. I would give them a run for their money or maybe their jobs. Your weather reporter love just a long toss across their roads the could have a catch or out the driveways for a good weekend run !!!

6ABC. I lived in the suburbs of Philadelphia for 53 years. I started watching ABC I guess when I was maybe 15 years old am I moved in 2015 to Texas and I still go back to six ABC. It is by far the best station to watch for all the updates and the correct news yes I live in Texas and it’s somewhat conflicting however you just get used to it they are so good and believe me living down here I see the crew a complete difference so keep up the good work guys and I miss you and I still watch you.

“Amateur Reviewer”. As a rule, in my humble opinion, most of the news, opinions, and comments I find in the screen of my device, reflect quality “Reading Media”. In my humble opinion, the main factors in the Caliber News, delivering process, is the expert and capable “Media Quality Control”. I have never seen in your reports a boring, and/or inaccurate report; as a rule: high Caliber Journalism, excellent Veracity Standards, Quality, and: MEDIA Control; no trash! Congratulations to the souls who make it: possible!

Love 6ABC news!. I do LOVE the story-writing, the videos, and the reporters and anchors! The broadcasts are smooth, informative, and have great elements which set them apart from other news sources. Being able to watch live broadcasts in the app is a bonus! With that said, the app for my phone has been very choppy, especially when I get a call/message, through a story I had been watching. It takes me a while to find/return to the story, then having to watch it from the beginning, not from where I left off. I am also confused as to why Temple University newscasters are on between the live brodcasts. Not everyone is interested in Temple University drama. Maybe an option could be available to watch this broadcast or not. Beyond that, great job!!! Thank you!!

Awful new app.. I hate the new app because it is very annoying to have to scroll through the stories to find an article that you want to read. It actually makes me dizzy. As a previous web developer I'd say it is not user friendly. I doubt if I will be using it. Also I miss the opening screen. I loved the easy to use old app where you could quickly find an article. This maybe just a glitch but the other day the weather wasn't updated. Your site was just showing a weather segment that was 10 hours old.

The best news always delivered with accuracy.. I love how they do updates. They report the news and then they add updates added to the original story. When I was younger I used to always wonder what happened with that person that went missing. Now they have added updates so you know what happened and where they were found. I love Adam Joseph and how he brings his honesty about his home life. Cecilly telling us about her family. This makes you feel like you are a part of their family.

Ant p. This app has gotten horrible and keeps getting worse. I like channel 6 news so it’s bad enough you have difficulty trying to get the channel with antenna on your tv, but the app is a worse struggle. Within the last year with an update I believe, when scrolling through and reading articles, you have like a timer ticking down until the app crashes and closes on you, in the middle of whatever you’re doing. I’d hoped someone would recognize this and repair it with a following update, but it’s recently gotten worse. And this is on two different iOS devices. I feel like I have to search and speed read to get what I want to see before it disrespectfully shuts down my session. Could someone please realize this issue and repair it, or is the message that I should look into other avenues to receive my local news?

The Crime App. Want to know who was shot in Philly? What about an armed robbery? This app is for you. Interested in knowing if the Phillies won? Oh, that almost never appears without having to dig into the app. Im sure I could take time to customize content, but to have the default always be the shock stories and never see something like the Phillies results is disappointing. The new version, with full screen articles, isn’t easy to navigate. When you go into an article, then go back to the home page, it always takes you back to the top, even when the article was further down the screen. You have to scroll back down to where you were. Repeatedly. Annoying.

Ads Open Just By Scrolling Through App. In a recent update, I noticed that as you are scrolling through the news stories, Safari pops up and then redirects to the App Store to an app that was advertised in the news feed. This continually happens every single time while just scrolling through the news feed and it’s starting to get very annoying. I am not purposely clicking on the ads, but merely my finger touches the ad (before the ad even has time to load) as I’m scrolling through the stories and the sensitivity is so high that the app thinks I’m clicking the ad. Can the sensitivity of this be reduced to sense a true (deliberate) “click” to improve the experience of using the app?

Ugh, using this application for the news is worse than the internet browser. The app is glitchy. It barely loads any video stories. It often crashes and loses its place. It’s hard to navigate. Videos that are only less than a minute long struggle to load. The advertisements in the app don’t flow well and lead to a crash. There’s no option to easily refresh a page in the app so it’s a lot of effort to get a story to load. The app has good content when it works and that’s why the app gets 2 stars.

I Luv NYC. I had the pleasure and exciting first trip to the Big Apple when I was only 11 years old and I fell in love. The year was 1955 and over the years I have never lost my love of a little boy that lived in a small coal mining town in Northeastern Pennsylvania. I have been back multiple times but was never able to be there on the most exciting night of the year in Time Square. I was able to do that by taking my 14 year old grandson with me to see 2015 enter this world. It was so exciting and loved by the both of us, we went back to see 2016 & 2017 come in again in the joyous pens in Time Square. At 77, I had to curtail my visits and the Covid Pandemic caught up to me in May & June and I’m now struggling to make it to see the ball drop one last time from my bed. With tears in my eyes, I will say, “I ❤️ NYC!!!!”

Keeps shutting off/ volume is always turned all the way off.. Love channel 6 and watching the live broadcast on the app, but HATE that it turns off in the middle of the episode and I have to continuously restart it.. and the volume is always down.. Other than these things, there is no issue, HOWEVER, these things make it extremely frustrating to use the app.

App needs tweaks. Stories should be listed in chronological order. When Scrolling on left side of home page there are stories I already read and new stories in between old. I have to scroll through all stories to see what I missed. Unless it’s updated with new content, it should be at the bottom not near top intermingled with new. Weather radar maps - at least 2 do not show when clicked every time. Just says ABC news. I should see every one every time. To report this I clicked on “feedback form” and it didn’t load. I tried 3 different times and couldn’t access. This is thee worst app to use. I have left feedback for months and nothing has changed. Feedback form does NOT load

Love the app. I moved to North Carolina after a lifetime in Delaware County, PA. I love the ease of use of the app and the ability to see all the local stories that I missed at home. The broadcast team is very clean and formal and professional in Philadelphia. The stations here I’m sure don’t have the budget for clean sharp announcers. The app makes me feel like I am home even though I’m hours away. I may not have a girlfriend but I have Cecily, Monica,Karen, Jeanette , Monica and Alicia. Hey, I gotta have some eye candy.

PerfectSkipper23. It is very distressing to listen to so many of the news news reporters and even a couple of anchors! Granted the current curricula are not adequately addressing the use of correct grammar and sentences structure, the failure of the persons interviewing the candidates should be alert to hearing correct sentence structure. For the use of a double subject, I.e. “The person, he didn’t….” or “Our students, they didn’t… .” It reflects a lack of respect for their viewers/listeners and the youths who are learning to speak improperly. This demonstrates the failure of the schools they attended. It also reflects the lack of respect the current education community has for upholding standards of excellence! Our broadcasters should not only be diverse, they should also reflect excellence in the field of journalism and communication! Moral standards are deteriorating in the same manner. It’s a very sad state of affairs!

What happened to this app?. I've been using the 6abc app since getting my iPad many years ago. It has the most accurate weather prediction around (sorry they discontinued the separate weather app with the great radar a couple of years ago) and HAD an easy to navigate format that presented pictures and titles and let you click on stories you found interesting. Now all I get it the "loading" circular dot going around on all the titles, no pictures until I click on a story. Often there is only video, no text to read, which requires watching a commercial first. It's too time consuming to get news this way.

Very buggy. If you watch a video, then go to another video you end up seeing one video with the sound of another playing at the same time. Then you have to kill the app to reset it. You also can't turn the sound on until after the video is playing for a few seconds so you always miss the beginning. You have to tap the video then tap the sound icon but you can't do this during the ad or you will get redirected. Lastly, I have seen a few typos in articles which is very unprofessional but the "report a typo" does nothing, they never correct it.

Disappointed in 6abc. I have watched 6abc since I was a child- 50 years to be exact and I’m a white Democrat who has no hate for any race, religion, or other single group of humans. And I believe the recent death of George Floyd was murder. But today I am deleting the app and will no longer was your news because I can no longer accept the sensationalized and discriminatory way the news is presented by the channel and newscasters I once loved. There are no stories of the reality and facts of black lives matter. There are no stories about the travesties our police face on a daily basis, especially in today’s climate. Instead you seem to only care about creating more drama and hatred in our community. Please consider how you’ll feel if you ever need the police and they can’t respond with the tools they need because our news has been so tainted and one sided. Shame on you for not doing your part to improve our country.

July ‘23 - useless. Whoever created this app and approved it should be fired. The app jumps around as the videos load, so you’ll try to be reading one story and it just goes to another. The amount of text to each story is minuscule. I don’t want to watch videos unless I choose. I almost never open this app anymore. And a side note, if you sign up for their emails and click a link to be taken to a story, it opens the app and then you need to find the story. Really just useless. I’ve begun using other providers that are more reliable

Mary O. I appreciate the exceptional delivery of news on 6abc. Jim Gardner is top in his field. Rick-Monica-Cecily are a special team. The writing, the selections of news to share and the reporters both behind the desk and on the scene are superior to all other channels. Kudos to the 6abc President. The sports coverage is wide ranging and first to the story. The weather coverage is excellent. The 7 day forecast is helpful daily. Cecily is smart, smooth and sassy. Thank you to the entire 6abc organization. Congratulations on all of your service to community members in need.

Terrible right wing fear mongering and lies. The app is fine. The reporting, however, has become inexcusable horrible lately. Basically, they just repeat what the cops say and don’t even bother to explain that this is what they’re doing. No “according to police”, no “allegedly”, not even any accounts from non-police witnesses. To a discerning reader, the stories raise more questions than they answer. To the less discerning reader, these recent stories just serve as propaganda, making people think the city is overrun with violent criminals that must be stopped AT ALL COSTS. Nevermind that the people the stories are about are often literal children, unarmed and harming no one. This is not reporting the news. This is acting as a mouthpiece for an increasingly problematic police force with a track record of lying to the public about what happened until they’re caught in the lie. I’ve been a channel 6 viewer for many, many decades. They were the best in Philly for so long. I’m not sure what’s happened but it’s become an embarrassment that should not be allowed to call what it does journalism. They should change their tagline to “there goes that news integrity!”

New interface is terrible. Whenever apps tout a redesigned interface, I always update my iPad first to try it out. I'm so glad I did because this update is a huge regression. I have no interest in the tiles and heavy focus on videos. I just want a list of articles and a thumbnail like before so I can choose what to read. Now I have to load each article by scrolling through each tile individually for a painstakingly long time just to figure out if I'm interested in it. I'm deleting it on my iPad and keeping the old version on my phone. The new version is so bad it's perplexing to me that anyone actually decided to use it as a finished product. Looks like I'll be getting my news elsewhere on my iPad. Good riddance to this terrible "upgraded" app.

Can’t change location in weather tab. The 6ABC app seems to work fine except for one thing, in the weather tab, the location button and the arrow to change location is the top center of the screen on the iPad, but it’s behind the menu bar, I can’t get to it. Either the menu bar ( the one that says Home, Weather, News, etc) should be moved to the side or the location button, or both to opposite corners. Nothing should be behind the menu bar.

Feedback. Good afternoon, I am a loyal viewer of 6ABC however I have notice even today when you are giving advice on who to check on during this heatwave you put Animals first on the list Then children then the elderly may I ask that you change it so humans are always first when you are listing in any event who to look out for. It’s discouraging that whomever is writing this consider Animals more important than the elderly and Children. Makes no sense and I am a life long animal owner and advocate but come on let’s get this right !! People are more important than animals so correct the list to show humans first then pets Thank you shame I have to say this but geez my grandmother and daughter are first and for most then my pet

The old version was much better. I don’t want to sound like someone who simply hates change, but the new version is horrible compared to this new one. I’m simply not a fan of the constant scroll or having to set up the news stories I want to see. How about this, if it’s news report it to me. And when you report it to me do so in an impartial format. The reporters have been doing entirely too much reporting of their thoughts and feelings on subject matters, you report it and I’ll make up my own mind as to which side I’ll believe in. It used to be called an editorial when the editor let everyone else know his thoughts, now you think it’s news whether you agree or not with what’s going on in the world, as a reader and viewer let me inform you of something, I DON’T CARE HOW YOU PERSONALLY FEEL ABOUT ANYTHING, please simply report the FACTS, and bring back the old format, and before you write me off at an elderly grouchy person, I’m 43 I work for a living, and I have my own mind in which to make choices. I am downloading the NBC 10 app, looking at the preview in the App Store it looks so much better. Goodbye ABC 6. You have just been replaced, I’ll keep watching the reviews to see if they post this one, I doubt they will since they only post the news that’s slanted their direction.

Used to be a contender. I loved - past tense - the channel 6 app. Yes, sometimes it took time to load, but you got that pretty picture of the city, while it loaded. Once loaded everything was a click away. You wanted weather? There was a tab for weather and boom, all the info at your fingertips. You wanted the headlines? They were at the top of the page, just click the link. Now - you have to search and it is not user friendly. Yes, I can just get the news I requested, but I made a mistake to do notifications and the home screen of my iPad was filled. What I miss most was looking at the radar on the map. The weather is just telling some of the details that the plain old Apple weather app has. Changing the app was like if someone changed the theme song to Action News. Somethings should not be messed around with.

Press conference coverage. Was watching a live press conference of Jay Wright announcing his retirement. Near the end, someone from the university said in the background “two more questions and we’ll wrap up”. After this, a well known media personality was in the process of asking a question when a commercial for an insurance company followed by another for a pharmaceutical company abruptly appear. When coverage continues, Wright seems to be finishing his answer and then an anchor comes in summarizing the preceding. This was an unfortunate editorial decision considering that the university indicated that the event was winding down. A little sensitivity to the quality of the viewership experience would have reduced the impression of sub par production values in this instance.

Highly manipulative. One of my favorite apps when I'm in the area, but when I'm traveling, the app is useless and frustrating. It gets stuck on the startup screen when I try to open it when I'm in a different time zone. Update: I’ve been using this app for years because I like 6ABC, but I am not deleting it because it’s reporting has been becoming more and more unprofessional and manipulative, relying on sensationalism. In today’s societal climate, that’s irresponsible and dangerous. The straw that broke the camel’s back was today’s headline about someone arrested with felony charges for underpaying 43 cents for a Mountain Dew. That’s not what happened. He was arrested for his third strike. He is a repeat offender. That’s what the three strikes law is for. Regardless of whether someone agrees with that law, report it accurately! 6ABC’s headline is anti law enforcement. Shame!

Loyal to 6ABC but the app is terrible. I’ve been a 6ABC news watcher my entire life. I follow all the socials, I downloaded every version of the app and the weather app when it was available. I’ve had nothing but frustration with all of them. The weather app always crashed. On the news app, I get news alert pop ups on my Home Screen, and when I click on them, it doesn’t take me directly to the story, it takes me to the app Home Screen, and there that headline doesn’t exist! Lately, I get “happening live” alerts. Like today, Biden discussing the stimulus bill. I click on it, and I have to watch a 30 second ad before the “live” video begins! Then, I try to play the video in “full screen” mode by clicking on the arrows to maximize the video, then turning my phone sideways - and when I do the video crashes!! I start it again and have to watch a 30 second ad AGAIN! There’s no option to skip the ad, the ad finishes and Biden is walking away from the podium. What’s the point?!? I’d be better off reading the newspaper at this rate.

Review Channel 6. I don’t feel that the printed news is updated as regularly as the live reporting…I check this online report and find the same stories 2-3-4 days in a row!!! I feel I miss out on soooo much not catching a live broadcast!!! I really miss Jim Gardner and had hoped he would occasionally be doing some feature stories but haven’t seen any so far??? Although I miss Jim, I TREMENDOUSLY enjoy Brian Taff at 6pm and Rick Williams at 11 pm!!! 2 fantastic guys with great broadcasting skills and fantastic interviewing talents!! Channel 6 is awesome!!!!

Just Deleted the App. It is a shame that 6 ABC decided to clog up their website with their new revamp but the new site is unusable and is LOADED with automatic videos and NO ARTICLES so I deleted the app and will stick with NBC 10, CBS 3, and Fox 29 to get my local news. Change does not bother me but when something is as unusable like the new 6 ABC Philly news site then I have no problems deleting and forgetting about it. So long Channel 6 ABC Philly, used to be a good site but not any longer. Do not “fix” something that is not broken but you can continue to become irrelevant like the majority of other “news” sites.

PainInTheB. The videos are not easy to play. The thumbnails ok, but click on the article and attempt to watch the video….forget it! You first are forced to watch at least 40-60 sec of ads, then, 9 times out of 10, the video doesn’t play- just a black screen. Exit and try again? Not till you watch another LONG set of ads, only to get black screen again. Exit again and I just watch the thumbnail videos and read lips. Terrible. Not user friendly for customizing news you want to see. ABC has become so black-centric now, it feels forced. There ARE many other ethnicities besides black.

Freezing IPads For ABC Written Review. So wrong of the Dangerous Extremist Democrats. Abuse of Political Power endangering US citizens long term and the beginning of the Fall of the United States and Democracy as we know it caused by the Justice Dept and FBI. The lack of an investigation of President’s son’s wrongdoing with Foreign Countries by the FBI and the Justice Dept and the mild media reporting authentic news of Hunter is appalling. The priorities of prosecution and for what are so wrong. Regardless if your a Republican or Democrat, it must hurt to see a former President being held on a possible crime, and a son of a sitting President not being held for wrong doing of accepting money from another Country.

Interrupting the View. Why not continue the View where it was interrupted when you get breaking news. Mondays show was cut short for bridge collapse with politicians trying to be in the spotlight all of which could have been done during regular news hour. Today it is being interrupted with weather reports for areas far away. The problem is that the report is repeating the same info over and over. I look at the View every day. I hate that this is the only time abc can report an issue. 6abc is my station, but I am not happy this week.

ZERO star rating worthy. I used to constantly go into the Ch6 app for news and especially weather and radar maps and traffic. I avoid using your app now. I cannot stand it. The design is horrible, I’m constantly having to scroll, which inevitably your finger hits some stupid ad or something you didn’t want to open. This happens several times before you get to what you want to read. That’s if you can find what you want to read. You broke something that did not need fixing. I want to be able to visually scan news articles and tap on the ones I want to read, none of this scrolling ..scrolling ...scrolling junk. I cannot Emphasize how much I dislike your app. Very disappointed.

No good. I’m having such trouble with this app, I really have from the beginning. Ads that don’t play when you open a news video to watch, so you go back to the Home Screen, choose it again and it happens again. Most times I have to close out the entire app and reopen to play any news item because the adds just don’t work. Also I’ve noticed you can hear the reporters just fine but in many videos if they are showing a clip of someone else you can barely hear the audio of the person. It is so frustrating.

Too many push notifications. I like staying up to date with Philadelphia news with the best channel in the city. The app itself is not that bad but the notifications are honestly annoying. They start at 6-7am and will get them periodically through the day for stupid stories that are not important. Then there was the 3pm,6pm and other times that has a recap of the day. Push notifications should be breaking news only not stories that they want people to read. I have the abc7 app as well and they send no where near the amount of notifications that 6abc does. There are weeks that I will not get a notification from them because they will only send a notification when it’s a big national story or local breaking news unlike 6abc that sends like 10 notifications every weekday.

I love Action News. I love reading the news on this app but feel some reporters need to give a little more attention to editing their news stories. Typos are commonly seen. In my opinion, perhaps because I’m a teacher, I feel that should be a rarity in journalism. When a reporter adds to a previously published report they sometimes do not make a transition with the new information meaning they just add a few sentences of an update to the top of the previously existing news story and then publish it. The thought that comes to my mind is the reporter rushed to put out a story rather than make sure it is done well. I grew up watching Action News and now faithfully read it every day on the app. I will continue to do so but hope I will see an improvement in your reports.

Your site is too labor intensive! This is a want not a need. Just how many times must one have to put their password or other information to prove it is really them. Just how fast must a customer be so they don’t have to start over because they were kicked off for not being able to keep up with the computer........? A mere machine which is designed to serve a select few.

Consider, if you will.... For the past several years I have felt that I was living in The Twilight Zone! Where could I go to catch a break? Channel 6, action news. Friendly faces, pleasant voices, NEIGHBORS! Then came COVID . Very local. Very scary. Again, I went to Action News to get news from my neighbors. Reliable. Steady. When children were getting caught in the crossfire of gunfights, when the horror of George Floyd’s death was shown and the whole world recoiled , your station showed how the people most affected felt in a series about living with death sitting on the front step! So grateful. News about our neighbors. I feel so supported by your team. It would be awful to go through these crises to crises days and not have some place to go to sort things out. Cecily, I prayed for your lost dog !So happy for your reunion! When you told Chester county viewers to get to their basements, we all did what you said. The tornado was mere miles from where we live! Thank you! Lisa Vitarelli, your interesting segments about local life or just really interesting developments or places made me want to watch the news at 4 ! Karen Rogers it was fun to go to places with you and Lisa, if only virtually! You weather guys ! So accurate. You don’t have to stand in the rain and rotten weather for my sake. I have windows! Jim Gardner, I have been with from early on. My father and I watched the 11:00 o’clock news together. When you said good night, he said, “ God bless you!”. I’m so annoyed that all of your names are hard for me to retrieve . There was a young African -American woman who did the weather and then joined Karen in FYI. I miss her! Ducis! I can only say, SUPERBOWL! You got through the sports drought amazingly well. I look for you at noon. As my father said, God bless you, neighbors! Meg

Terrible app. Probably one of the worst news apps I have ever used. I have had it on my mobile devices for several years now and it rarely loads properly. The weather never is up-to-date anymore, as it loads the weather from the previous week. Also, The way things are laid out with the story you are interested in on the right side of the screen and other stories on the left, it is hard to read the story that you want to.I like the stories that I read to take up a full page and not just a little portion on the right hand side. The main problem though is this app consistently fails to load properly and fails to update.

don’t like new format. Takes too much time to get through all the “silent talking heads.” Thank goodness they are silent! I liked the format that showed the different stories along the side, then I could pick those I wanted to read. Now we have no choice but to go through picture after picture after .....etc., ad nauseam. If I can find another news station that will give middle to southern New Jersey news I will delete 6ABC and change. Or if not, go old fashioned, and go back to the (gasp) radio! But I will definitely leave 6ABC in its present format.

This App work flawlessly.. I’ve had this app on my phone for a few years now I never noticed any real major issues. The only thing that sort of annoyed me were the endless paid ads, but I do understand that’s how the new station makes revenue. it’s interesting how people complain about how the app doesn’t work how it’s frozen and glitchy. They failed to mention how old their devices which matters ironically this app runs flawlessly with no glitches no frozen video all of the various categories in the app work and of course the ads are still there and will always be there. I don’t see what the complaint is. It’s not the app. It’s their device before you blame the app. Maybe you should look at your phone because it matters. Keep up the excellent work iPhone 17 Pro Max

Not the best!!. First- if you want to watch any videos on the app- you are forced to sit through a 30 second commercial- so- no matter how much revenue Action News brings in- they will always be looking for more at the viewer's expense! Next- I guess I'm older- and fondly recall when journalism was defined by a fully complete story- so many times on this app a "story" is "reported" with barely any details! A headline grabbing sentence- but I'd say 75% of the time- reading the "article" provides no real additional details- and then in successive posts to the app by the Action News "journalists"- that's it! No further details are ever provided! They went to college and received a journalism degree for this? It's as laughable as calling Cecily Tynan a "meteorologist" because she can read some cue cards- researched by a true meteorologist! Lastly- and I will use the most recent example of what I feel is irresponsible reporting- they often have a story about something that may be possibly dangerous- this time it was some sort of chocolate flavored energy drink powder that, apparently, people are snorting to get a better buzz. Thanks Action News! I would have never known about the existence of the product, nor would I have ever thought a better "buzz" could be obtained if one "snorted" the product! And I'd guess you also educated numerous teenagers about the product as well! You could almost say your app provided free advertisement for the product! I'm sure the position Action News will take is that the story was meant as a warning- but some things are better left unsaid! All I can say is- what passes today as "journalism".would have failed to pass muster let's say- 10 years ago? The editorial staff would have never allowed such incomplete information to be published! Oh well!

Current version uselessness. Want to watch this full screen? Forget it. First let’s start with the survey. It starts with an overlay which you have to click on while the video plays helplessly in the background. If you try to take the survey, it becomes a full screen mess and completely covers the screen. I force closed and started all over again. Now there’s no survey. Wahoo! Click to enlarge so when the phone is rotated you can see it full screen and you’re ok till you actually rotate the phone. Then the video you’re trying to watch disappears and the screen is completely black. It’s not playing anywhere in the background. There’s no doing to go along with the now fully black screen you’re now stuck with. Think rotating the phone back to portrait will correct it? Nope. Pure black screen except now it’s black in portrait mode. I’m about to delete it. At least the NBC10 app works. You’ll get a Honda ad with any content you try to view there but at least I can see the weather for the approaching Nor’easter there.

Ruined a good app. The new update ruined a perfectly good app. Instead of having everything at your fingertips and being able to select what item you want to see, now you have to scroll thru page after page of photos of stuff that may not even interest you. Think I’ll be switching to a different local news source. Update 12/23: Now having the videos each try to run while you scroll is beyond annoying and slows down the already bad interface. I want a news app, not the worlds worst PowerPoint presentation. I only wish I could give negative stars and the way the rating is sinking on an hourly basis, I'm not alone.

Old app was better. Weather page, outside of current weather, features tend to be dated or outright old. News focus isn’t on area news any longer but other shuttle agendas. Example: Philly action news covers nearby Delaware, but there wasn’t word one on the multi-alarm fire in the areas largest food processing plant, shutting it down or the others that were burned around the country recently. You would think a news item that would effect future food supplies would be a priority in the current climate! Walter Cronkite we miss you.

Too Politically Bias. 6abc news really needs to remain ‘NEUTRAL’ when posting political stories. You should be ashamed of yourselves for many of the stories you post about our President. And you should be more ashamed of what you DON’T post about him...record high stock markets, fair trade, tax breaks, etc.. You need to remember that half of America voted Trump and are pleased with his accomplishments thus far. But you support the left instead of being non bias. Purely DISGRACEFUL!!! I’ve lived in the Philly area all my 58 years and have always watched Action News...UNTIL three years ago. Not anymore! I’m sure you’ve lost ‘many’ other viewers for the same reason. You asked for my opinion...you got it!

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6ABC App Problems. This 6ABC App is terrible. Since the latest update it got worse instead of better. I constantly have to start from the beginning since reading a story or looking at a video causes the app to crash. It is slow loading articles and many do not even come up! Too many commercials and repeated stories! Audio and increased screen size do not work on many news items. I think it is very annoying to have to go back and forth to finish something you start to read, see or hear! FIX IT or get rid of it!

App Constantly Crashes. Every time I try to read an article in this app, it crashes. It essentially makes the app useless for anything other than reading headlines. I’ve tried deleting and re-downloading, checked for updates, etc. Now I’ve given up on it entirely, and will be getting my local news elsewhere. Perhaps they should spend less money on the THERE GOES THAT NEWS VAN AGAIN adverts and more on app development.

Impossible to read. These new updated versions of the app make it totally impossible to read the news. After about 5 mins of the app being used, it wants to degrade and become sluggish and unresponsive. It gets to the point that my iPad won’t even shutdown. All other news apps that I use(like NBC10 and others) do not have this issue. There is definitely a malfunction. Hoping the developers can see this as I’m not getting any help from the tech support. ONE STAR UNTIL IT’S FIXED AS ITS USELESS FOR ME.

Needs bugs worked out. Not as easy to navigate as previous app. I liked previous app that had phila, NJ, and national news tabs that were easy to see. This app takes a long time to load and some links do not open. I don't like the additional advertising either. Ugh, just when you have something you like, they want to change it!

Go back to the old format. Go back to the old format. It’s hard to see the stories when pictures overtake the screen. Give back the option to read the text and then go to pictures and full story if desired. I’m planning to switch to another app at this point. Thanks

MRepetski. This app could be better organized but it is my fav news and app. What is really surprising is how often the articles are poorly written in structure, misspellings and repeated wording or words in the same sentence. I don’t know how slim policies are with editing app news, but sometimes the writing is bad. Anyway you are my local news and the best app of the four choices, but can you maybe section topics of interest? It’s just very basic. Thank you

Recent problem. I used to be able to scroll through your news stories on my Apple 6S phone. But in the past few weeks when I try to do so the site shuts down. I may be able to get through half the stories but soon thereafter the app turns off. August 8 The app continues to shut down unexpectedly even though note with updates said this was being fixed.

Glitches and Ads. As far as providing news, the app is great. However, there are many glitches and ads that are sensitive to touch and take you out of the app. Currently, this app closes out while reading and article which is frustrating. Also, when trying to look at the radar, it never works. I’ve tried to delete and reinstall but that hasn’t worked. The Accuweather app is much better for weather.

Adam Joseph and Melissa Magee Outstanding. WOW!!! What an amazing job Adam and Melissa did tonight working together to report the dramatic weather that was thrust upon us. I have been watching channel 6 news for over 50 years and was blow away at Adam and Melissa’s performance. What incredible teamwork, collaboration, and knowledge. I was incredibly impressed!!! Keep up the great work and thank you.

About the employees. I’ve been watching channel 6 since I was a teenager. I cried my eyes out when Jim O’Brien died, he was my favorite! He always made u laugh even when u were in a bad mood with his soupy weather! 😂 but I stayed with channel 6 cause you still had All the other guys & girls, they all rock! Keep up the good work! Btw I am now 62 so I’ve been a fan for 46 yrs! 😁 👍🏼 your fan for life! Cheryl Nickel

Help!. I love the channel 6 Action News app, but lately I can’t “just read the article. The video starts with an ad and if I “X” it off, I lose the article and have to start the app all over again-and again I have to listen to the ad. If this is how it has to be from your end, (and I do understand the $$$ part) I won’t be visiting as often.

Helpful but not all “news”. This app is great and keeps viewers up-to-date on what’s happening. Most information is relevant. However, the breaking news alerts aren’t always critically important. It’s wonderful that a family of kids got adopted in California but I didn’t need a text about that. Getting texts at 10 pm about non-critical information gets annoying.

Good for news but crashes always. I have always used this app to read the news, but for the last few months the app on my iPhone 8+, and on my iPad crashes after reading about 5 or 6 stories. Then I have to go back in and find where I left off, then it may crash again depending on how many more stories I read. It’s really annoying and I’m getting ready to switch to another new station app that does not have this issue.

Uninstalled App. I watch 6abc news frequently. When I don’t. I expect to be able to go to the app to see and read about the news. I have an iPhone and I don’t if this happens to anyone else but everytime I’m on the app it just goes off out of nowhere. I can be in the middle of reading or watching a video and it goes off. Then I have to start all over again and look for where I left off. It happens everytime. I’ve had this app for a while, but now I’m finally getting rid of it. Switching to another news station.

What’s with the app crashing so much??. I love to follow the news in Philly and the tri-state area although i no longer live in the area. Anyways, the app is crashing a lot. Not sure what happened with the latest update but it seems to have been more of a downgrade rather than upgrade. Can you please fix it?

Not a fan of the new update. Actually enjoyed the older version of the application. Everything that was going on and was on the news was right in front of your face. Now you have to search by each article. When ask others who share the same application they agree that the older one was so much better!

Great app except.... I view and use this app many times a day. It has the stories I want and need to keep up with. I’m pleased that in the last year there’s less and shorter advertising to wait through if I want to see a video story! I check in to the 6 news app quite a few times a day.

Happy with this app. I watch channel 6 news mostly. So this app is a good fit to fill in the blanks and give me what I want when I want it. It’s not prefect but almost. In general, most apps have something that really irks me, but this one does not irk me! I can’t say I’m too happy with the recent update. I prefer the older way of scrolling through.

Top Notch News. Channel 6 abc gets me through every day! The weather reporting is not only the most accurate but Adam, Cecily and the rest of the weather team are truly concerned for their viewers safety and well being. The app itself provides all the access I need to local and national news. Thank you!

Weekend news. 6ABC is our way to keep on tune to what’s happening daily and when away. However we’re disappointed that weekend news is not as current as weekday news. Sure it’s due to those responsible are off then but wish someone else could do that job.

News review. Always love 6 ABC. on Tv, on my phone or laptop. It feels like family so it makes it a little easier to hear the bad news. Also love the fun stuff as well. Cecily at the zoo, Thursday’s at the shore. Adams adventures in the spring and fall. I get up at 4am for work so before I even get out of bed I turn the morning crew on to start my day.

Will no longer open. I have had this app for years. 6 ABC has always been my go to news, but the app will no longer work. I tried removing it and downloading it again several times, but it just keeps spinning and nothing will open in the app. So disappointed.

Annoying!. When I am on the home page reading a story or reviewing the weather, it keeps switching to the page multiple times which shows all the options you have a choice of viewing. So very annoying to have to keep switching it back to the story I was reading! Not sure what is causing this but would like to know if others have this problem.

Best of the best 💜😃. I love channel 6 news because they feel like family & that means a lot. Keep up the good work everyone. Another thing I like about channel 6 is it’s not a revolving door. I know everyone & trust what they are saying & are not afraid to admit a mistake & quickly fix it. Thank you everyone from in front & behind the scenes. Your the absolute best 💜😃

Video automatically plays. I just want to read the articles but the video automatically plays the sound. Even when I mute the sound, the videos with advertisements at the beginning still have sound and you never know when it’s going to happen. I also don’t like choosing the stories either, just let me scroll through and see all the articles.

Five Stars. Channel 6 ABC Action News deserves a five Star Review with excellent Journalism and on the ground news reporting and a excellent Weather Team I have been watching Action News since it’s Conception with the excellent New Team of Larry Kane, Joe Pellegrino, And our beloved weather Man Jim O’Brian forever in our heat’s taken to young. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Best in news delivery. I only watch 6ABC for news reports I think they are honest in their reporting and trustworthy. When I turn on my IPad it's the first place I go to find up to date news. Their weather reports are usually accurate, keeping in mind that the weather can change at the drop of a hat. I'm glad to have this on my IPad in addition to the news at 4 and 10.

Channel 6 News in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.. Channel 6 is absolutely the best news broadcasting station in Philadelphia. The weather and sports are terrible as well as the people who deliver them. Keep up the fantastic job. I have watched Channel 6 for most of my life, and I’m now 74 years old. Thank you Channel 6!!

Love it but it glitches. I love this app. It is well organized and easy to use. I have other news apps but I prefer this one to the others. The worst part of this app is that it glitches multiple times when I’m reading the new. I then have to go back into the app and find where I left off.

Always has bugs. The videos like to crash often, or not sync up. For example, the sound from the weather report is running while the add before the segment is still playing. I also feel like it should be updated more often, I.e., the same newsfeed for two days in a row? There can’t be that little news out there. Besides that, it’s still my main news app.

Used to be simple...... Liked the look and feel of the app before the latest update, a few scrolls down and you could see every headline. Now, each headline is a scroll and has become more time consuming to operate on a daily basis.. I like the fact that they keep the updates rolling, but the new interface takes away from the simplicity of the app which was a more useful design.. well it’s gotten to the point that I haven’t used the app in a few days due to the new look, I’ll be deleting it following this review. I’ll miss you 6abc!

Weather video crashes, too many commercials. I have been writing to 6ABC about the weather video crashing for over a year & although the app has been updated, this issue has still not been fixed. I agree about the commercials. Too many & they are too long. Should be an option to skip the ad after a few seconds. Too much coverage of animal cruelty. I never want to see these stories. I don't open or read them, but just seeing a headline is upsetting.

Ejacqulinne Daily App News Fan. I Live 6ABC NEWS, I watched it on tv during my mother and Grandmother’s Enjoyment also. We watched 6am, 12noon and 6pm. We often watched 11pm also but not as often They are no longer here, but I continue to get my daily accurate news from Philly Channel 6 (6ABC) But now with my app on my computer it my phone, I love the Breaking News updates.

It’s ok.. You have to look at all the stories instead of just being able to have a glance at a few. Also hate the fact that some kind of video is playing even when I shut auto play off and kills the music I might have playing on my phone.

Weather section stinks. If I could give it no stars I would. The weather part of this app is if no use at all. Does not show the current video forecast that was in TV which was most helpful. In fact it never seems up to date now for even the stills. PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK!!! Was so much better the way it was before this change.

Daily news glitch. The stories are brief but accurate. However, the pictures that are suppose to address the story are often jumbled by the end of the day. So when I read the top stories later in the day I recognize that picture actually belonged with a different story from earlier in that day Wasn’t sure if you were aware.

Not an improvement!. The 6abc app has always been my go to news app. Now instead of being able to load weather for multiple locations, you can only load one. In addition, text obscures part of the weather. Interesting stories are buried at the bottom of the app and overall, it is much less user friendly and visually appealing. The changes did not improve the app at all.

Angela A.. Love getting up every morning and watching 6abc news before I go to work to know the traffic and the weather and helps me keep me on the go,I’m a healthcare worker and I need to know how the weather is and how the Roads are before I get to work. Sincerely Angela A, CNA for Kresson view Center boy he’s New Jersey

I don’t like it. It’s too complicated, I just want to see the weeks weather and I have to go searching for it, it’s not even available Under the weather section. I liked it when you were able to see the weeks weather on the chart like before.

6/23 update: Frustrating to use!. The 6/23 update just makes the app HARDER and more frustrating to use. This is NOT the way to browse for news stories; all the additional scrolling just makes me give up and close my IPad. And MORE bad: The traffic map is hard to find, plus it’s now smaller than before and on the weather page, you can no longer save multiple locations, which was handy if you wanted to see the conditions along an extended road trip. I’m a 40 year Action news viewer on Tv, but you’ve now lost me on your app.

Good app, but problem with watching video. When I’m watching a video and I turn my iPhone 12 pro max to the right or left, the app automatically stops playing the video I was watching. I did not have this problem with my old iPhone, which is the iPhone XS Max.

Read the 1 star reviews. The app creator should read the 1 star reviews. It would be nice for the creator to use some of the negative review complaints to redo the app and make it more enjoyable. The original app when first launched was much better than this newer version that freezes, don’t load videos on the home page etc. When you don’t listen to the people who use this app is when you lose them to another news app. If that’s what you want then don’t change it.

ABC action news. I lived in Pa. all my life, 76 years , we move to Fl last year , with keep up the good workof the things I miss the most , other than family is Action news . The morning team especially , Matt , Tam , Dave & Karen , no news team cam match them. My husband always said when Karen was on , there’s my girl!! We enjoyed Jim Gardner , Cicely & Rick , keep up the good work, I check the news on line every morning !

If you like biased reporting this app is for you !!. EVERY story / update on Donald Trump is negative and Kamala Harris is positive. How can this be? Any stories about the current high inflation rate? How about the international crises? How about the wide open border and how illegals are draining the resources that should be going to US Citizens ? How about questions on why these things weren’t fixed when Harris was in office? No such stories or questions. Just always negative on Donald Trump. I deleted the app and won’t ever install again. I get my news now from Steve Kelley from Fox 29.

6abc. Deleting this app. There is too much movement on the screen and it makes my eyes funny. I do not like I cannot find a list of articles by title. The old app was better as it sorted articles by category... international, national, entertainment, Philadelphia etc. easier to choose what to read. Not giving it any stars. Has to give it one or the review wouldn't send.

Frustrating. What is frustrating is that there are so many in-article ads. Worst of all, they do not seem to load until you scroll down toward them and then the article text you have been reading will jump far off the screen and I ALWAYS have to scroll around searching for the text. Usually another ad loads in the process and you don’t know whether you were above the ad or below the one you see on the screen. Fix it WPVI!

The news I trust ‼️. I’ve been watching channel 6 news for as long as a knew what a TV was. I’m talking about my mom, my mom’s mom my father’s mom yeah a part of my life... but I have to be honest what I enjoy the most is seeing the crew grow Cecily and her boys, Jamie and her boys, Tamala and her boy, Ducis what a name I love it, and everyone else is great .. God Bless and goodnight 😴

6ABC review. I have always loved watching 6abc news. That is my preferred news station. Unfortunately, Comcast stopped providing the channel to our area. We are very upset and annoyed and angered by that decision. We were not even asked for our thoughts even though we pay outrageous fees for the Comcast service. Outrageous fees! Many in our area are angered by this sudden and abrupt change. If 6abc has any influence on Comcast, please exercise it. They should not be allowed to have total control of our viewing. In regards to the 6abc app, it’s a bit challenging because the Comcast service is sketchy and constantly interrupted. That too is frustrating, thanks to Comcast. Always a fan of 6abc! Not pleased with Comcast.

Needs some data checks otherwise good. For the most part this is a good app. But they often have story titles that send you to totally unrelated stories. This happens often. They need to check what changes they make to assure they are correct. It’s sometimes comical but often frustrating. And please learn how to spell. Other than that a good news, sports and weather source for the Delaware Valley.

I had to cut my cable as I haven’t worked since March because of COVID 19. I have an antenna and I’m able to get channel 10 and 3 but cannot get channel 6 because you have to have cable, how sad I have been watching channel 6 my whole life, I just turned 77 and I’m lost without my news people and favorite shows.