WIS News 10 FirstAlert Weather App Reviews

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WIS Weather. It’s as necessary for the day as breakfast!

Would’ve been 5 stars but.... Alerts need to be more prompt. Of course I see heavy rain. It’s no good 10-15 min later.

Outstanding. Very good and useful information.🤙🏽

confusing forecasts..... By the weather emojis posted for daily's, you never know what the weather will be. Whether 30% or 100% chance of rain the daily graphics are the same......

Wind speed. I use this app every day and like it a lot. I wish that you would list the wind speed with the temperatures or maybe the “feels like” temperature. Thank you.

WIS Weather Team. Thanks to y’all, I feel safer you guys are on the job

Great. Best weather app ever have

Unreliable. I downloaded this to get alerts and weather updates especially through the night but it’s so unreliable. I rarely get notifications although they are turned on and the forecast are very very wrong. Even throughout the day the weather is off pretty bad. It only changes when the weather changes. It’s never anything we can rely on to plan for outings. Don’t waste your time. Find another weather app.

Weather. Quick results!🌅

Seldom correlated with WISTV weather report. What’s reported on TV is seldom on the app. Today, app said 20% chance of rain, immediately it poured for an hour. I am deleting it and trying another local station.

Ads.. Wanted to see live coverage of hurricane Irma but first have to watch a 21 second ad. Lame.

90% of this app is advertising. Way too many “fake” Alerts. This app should be on CNN. This is one of the most cluttered apps I’ve ever used. As a local weather app it should be more reliable and useful which it’s not. The ads are useless because there’s so cluttered and so many of them.

Daily Weather. Up to date weather and Right on Time advise for enjoying time Outside!

Too many pop up ads. Always popping, always!

Worthless App. WIS get it together... what good is it to have a weather app that doesn’t work in my area when there is bad weather. “Kershaw County?”?

No good. The radar works decently when it loads up. But the daily forecasts are horrible. It will show 0 percent chance of rain and sunny but when you click on it it shows 40 percent chance of rain and cloudy..... it’s almost like one of them has to be right so just put both up there. The hourly forecast changes hour to hour to reflect what’s happening at that moment. I can do the same thing by looking outside.... it’s useless as a forecasting app. It’s great if you don’t feel like looking out a window to see what it’s doing outside at that moment though. Lol.

Crashes and Glitches. I have used this app for several years and no problems. This new update is useless for me. It crashes all the time. I'm running iOS 9.35. I wish I had never updated. Please fix. Thanks for your attention to this problem.

Advertising covers current conditions. Today I open the app six times trying to see the current conditions it was completely blocked by advertisement. What’s the point of this weather app when you can’t even see the current conditions.

Worked great, but update is horrible.. I use the app frequently to check on weather updates in my area and never had a problem until the most recent 6/20 update. Now when I click the app, it just glitches and exits back to my phone’s main screen. Great app, needs to be fixed.

Leave me alone. Don’t want to

They could do better. The app has a lot of glitches and ad pop ups. I just know WIS can do better. But this is SC and they do everything as cheap as they can.

WIS weather. I wish the word “alert” were not used so much. It seems silly and leaves room for misunderstanding. Alert, alert look out for rain. Then we have a few drops. I suggest using other words and leaving “ alert” for important events. Phil Dilly

Kudos. As a senior relying on walking or the Comet bus your weather app is most reliable. I always look out of the window (15th south facing floor) and check the WIS app before going to work. Ps: Still have been unable to figure out where to take shelter in Five Points at a bus stop in case of a tornado alert. Any advice for pedestrians would be helpful. Thank you

Great hourly prediction. I love this app because it is very accurate on its hourly prediction in whatever town I’m in

App Failing & Constantly Crashing. The week of 15 Dec 19, I had to delete and reload the app because it got stuck at the Rush’s advertisement. This week, 22 Dec 19, the app would ask to change location before opening and now today, 25 Dec 19, it won’t open again. 🤷🏼‍♂️ I’m deleting it and moving on to another app.

It’s ok?. This is a nice app & I use to like it. If there are “Weather Alerts” I’d like to see them without ads. It’s obviously not too much of an lAlert” if there’s a commercial going on before there alert is aired..? I’ve found another local weather app that’s more appealing to my my liking so I’ll stick to that.

Constant ads. Along with their news app...constant ads.

From bad to worse. While the issue with “crying wolf” alerts continues (see original review at bottom), another issue with alerts has started. My husband and both have the app with the same location marked as our base. Sometimes he’ll get an alert and I won’t or the other way around. To top this the alerts which are very specific such as rain/storms will begin in _ minutes, are 100% inaccurate. Not one of these alerts in the last week have been correct. I’m not expecting them to be correct down to the minute, but most of these saying rain/storms will arrive in _ minutes we get nothing or it will be hours after the alert, or in some cases it will have already been raining/storming for several hours before an alert is received. …. Alerts not working properly. Issuing alerts for non severe weather. Alerts are meant for urgent/emergent weather, but this app sends alerts for every random thing (such as sunny and warm). It’s sort of like crying wolf. Initially startles you thinking something bad is coming and eventually you begin to ignore all of the alerts. No where in the settings have I allowed non urgent/emergent alerts yet that’s what I get all the time. The forecast is messed up as well. Some days it will show 0% chance of rain on a certain day but when you click on that day to expand it it may show 50% chance in the evening.

Very good 👍. I’m a tween and this is very good for when I need to check the weather for clothes I’m not gonna leave a very long review but this app has weather forecasts and hourly and daily 👍.

Over the moon pleased. Thank you WIS Weather Team for making the weather app so user-friendly. I look forward to reviewing the app before I go to bed and when I wake up in the morning. Keep up the great work and for letting us know when to grab a sweater, umbrella or T-shirt!

Quit working. I’ve had this app on my iPad for years and it suddenly says it’s not available for my Area. Yet I can get it on my iPhone. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled it. I’ve shut my iPad down and restarted it. Nothing works. I’m very disappointed.

Weather. Seems like the radar isn’t accurate

What is a "News Station Alert"?. We download the app to our phones and iPads. The purpose was to check the weather. We also got it for weather alerts, for example tornado warnings, hurricane tracking, flooding, severe thunder storms, and (every so often) snow. Over the last year, the push alerts have become ridiculous! Merriam-Webster defines "alert" as being "watchful and prompt to meet danger or emergency." Today's weather alert was "Traveling to NC or GA? Von has your forecast." What!?! This is what I open the app to learn. I do not want my phones an iPad having push notices stating "A News Station Alert has arrived" to tell me that it will be sunny or drizzling or that - shocker - it will be cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Stop sending these type of alerts! It has become a joke in our house! An alert arrives and, instead of thinking it's a severe storm or tornado, we joke that it's an alert to the wonderful weather! This completely defeats the purpose and effectiveness of an ALERT!! The upsides of the app: layered radar, decent forecasting, and local weather when you travel out of state.

Great way to stay informed daily. I depend on this app hourly to keep me informed about the weather conditions where ever I am….

WIS News 10. Lovely app 100%. I check this app every morning and it helps me so much.

Weather forecasting ok. Weather is fine. Don’t like so many commercials

Great app if you are looking for carpets, not do good if you want to know the weather.. 99% advertisements, 1% information. The worst source for weather updates you could rely on. Plus, get ready to be awakened at 6 am to be told it’s is going to be a nice day.

Weather app. It doesn’t work. It opens up. And just sits there

USC. I refuse to read stories from wis. USC is not UofSC. We are USC. University of South Carolina. The other usc is a region of California. Please quit saying that.

Too many notifications. I’ve enjoyed this app for many years, but the notifications have gotten out of control. It would appear that they’ve included a lot of control over what types of notifications you receive, but they started sending notifications that don’t fit into any of the categories that users are able to toggle off. For example, would “Prepare for warmer weather” fall under the “typhoon” category? There is no category for alerts of uneventful weather, so those alerts that are the most useless and annoying cannot be turned off unless you disable notifications altogether. If that one issue is fixed, I could change my rating from 2 stars to 5 stars.

Too many unnecessary alerts!!. The app itself is a decent app. The issue is all the alerts that don’t warrant an alert. Especially at 4:30 to 7:30 am just to tell me it’s going to rain the weekend, or it’s going to be hot in the summer, or it’s going to be cold in the winter. This is absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary. Has anyone there ever heard the saying if you cry wolf enough times, no one will believe you? And I personally don’t think there should be anything political, including advertisements about impeachment of our President or any other politician. This has nothing to do with the weather. I am deleting the app, and will no longer watch anything on WIS or NBC. I invested about 45 years to your station/network, but have had enough of the one sided reporting that goes on, and all the unnecessary weather alerts. Hope Management is listening and happy they are running their watchers/listeners away.

Almost spam. It used to be good, only sending severe alerts. Now it sends things like “possible rain this weekend” on Monday and “warmer weather coming. “ We don’t need to be constantly interrupted by things like this. And there is no way to turn these notifications off.

Ads before important alerts. I hated getting a breaking weather alert and then being forced to watch a 15 sec video ad before I could see the weather information. I can understand seeing video ads during normal viewing but not with a breaking weather alert. Hey a tornado is bearing down on your location but first let’s look at some carpet. I deleted the app from my device.

Great App, But Ads are a pain. The information that is provided in the app as well as the functionality of it is awesome! However, it does get very frustrating when I’m trying to get the latest updates about hurricanes and serious weather that I have to watch one and sometimes two ads to even get to the meteorologists video. I respect the need for advertising however, I don’t think it should be on those kind of videos.

Wrong. They never get the weather right. I had a roof replacement and was told no rain for the weekend and after shingles were removed and it started raining the whole weekend my ceiling was damaged because of it. Thanks so much for your future cast

Notifications and “ALERTS” have become ridiculous. While the forecasts are useful and the actual navigation of the app is simple, the notifications I get throughout the day are merely click bait. Like one of the other reviewers, this app has become a joke in our household. For instance today, in the a.m. I received “cool start but warming up” but this afternoon I received “mild now but a cool down is coming.” Really?! You mean that during the day it’s going to warm up and then get cooler in the evening? Wow! That’s most every normal day! Also, alerts consist of “Alert: showers today!” Alerts should be urgent, warning of severe weather like storms, tornadoes, snow, ice, etc. the app didn’t even send out a recent tornado warning until a full 5 minutes after the National Weather Service had sent one via my phone’s emergency response system. Please improve your daily notifications and make prompt Alerts for truly urgent announcements.

WIS 10 Weather App. I am a South Carolina native that works in construction all over the South East and beyond. I am proud to say that regardless of my location the weather app hasn’t let me down yet!

Weather we live. We live in a place where people are 65 or much much older; not traveling much. Your specific detail about location of light, sunrise & sunset are the precise information that we, living here, appreciate very much.

I like it!. This is a good app and I would recommend regardless of what the other reviews have mentioned!

Alerts are mostly for advertising cash in their pocket. Way to many alerts diminish the value of critical ones. These guys are putting out alerts now about things of virtually no value so advertisers can get more hits. I will be looking for others who care more about public safety than cash in their pockets. There appears to be no method of filtering useless alerts out on the settings page. I will further now make it a point to not shop at or use any of their advertisers

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Contest. I downloaded this app because they advertised a contest to win a free tablet. Supposedly the only way to register is to open the app and click the contest link from the home page. There is no contest link showing on the homepage. I was excited to try the app and possibly win the tablet, but I hate false advertisements. I'll just keep checking the weather from my Apple Watch.

Radar doesn't work. It's storming at my house now, radar for WIS weather app shows clear skies. An update is needed.

The Best For Free. This is as good as you are going to get for weather apps. The app is the same as many others, it appears the company's just put their name on it and claim it theirs! This one I installed because WIS is local Lexington South Carolina. You search for your local weather channel and they will have their name on this app! Be safe this summer 2012!

Weather. Good weather and radar Free

iPad IPAD IPAD. The thing that would make this better is if it were available for the IPad3,because that would look really cool.

Weather app. It doesn’t work. It opens up. And just sits there

Don't be fooled. A decent free app, but, except for the video links, it is the same as WLTX's app which has been out for months. The 10toGo app has better local maps and radar for direction of storms etc. Plus, there is still no retina support (even the icon is fuzzy - and not well designed).

Keep it basic. Only interested in REAL alerts, not puny announcements about things I have no interest in. If it’s serious, send it. Get with the program WIS! I deleted the app...

Ads.. Wanted to see live coverage of hurricane Irma but first have to watch a 21 second ad. Lame.

Great weather app. Love the new update!!!

Constant ads. Along with their news app...constant ads.

Weatherwoman. While I like some of the features available with this app, it is NOT user friendly. I like the old app much better because you could take a quick look to see where the rain was, what the 10 day forecast was or check watch and warning areas. These features are offered, but you have to jump through hoops to find them. I'm keeping the Charleston channel 2 weather app because it is easier to check Columbia from there, with the exception of temps.

App will not install. Have tried numerous times to install on iPad & iPhone. It downloads about 35% an stops.

Nice application. Cool app, though the gps put me in Red bank instead of Gilbert

Rarely works properly. Do not like the WIS Weather app. Rarely works properly. Very unreliable.

Inaccurate. Since this last update the information is inaccurate and unreliable. The current temp may be 49 but the hourly report may say it will be 60 in the next 30 minutes. It also misses the mark on rain pretty bad. And to top that off I'm on iOS 10.3 (10.0 required) and it still won't let me install the newest update fix. I'm going to find another app and get rid of the bothersome update badge that I can't do anything about if it's not fixed soon.

Review-. Love it

Look Good. The app work great. The new update made look sharp n clean. Nice to know when bad weather is on the way when you not near a tv.

Worthless App. WIS get it together... what good is it to have a weather app that doesn’t work in my area when there is bad weather. “Kershaw County?”?

I love the app. So glad they have a weather app specifically for my home town and hourly updates. Found out about this app on the news

Nice app but. . .. I love this app except for the ads. Very annoying; there are simply too many of them.

Great. Best weather app ever have

Frustrating. This app would be excellent.... However, the click-bait “open me to view useful information!” stuff is annoying. And the only time they give you meaningful information in push, it’s obnoxious. “It’s gonna rain 4 days from now!” 2 hour’s later “hey, we still think it’s gonna rain 4 days from now!” I want to have this app installed. However, with the state of the notifications I hate having it. In fact I typically download for a major event, uninstall, wait until the next one, and reinstall. PLEASE fix this. If you want to give me a push notification, here is a sample of what I want: 8am: “11/2/18: High 80 - Low 65 - 20% Chance of rain”

Wis Weather App. App will not install on iPad

Praise. Y’all are the BEST

Bluetooth access?!?. And why does WIS10NEWS need Bluetooth access???? Exactly what accessories is it trying to connect???

Retired. Great work

Well Developed. Well developed & planned. The UI is friendly to use.

Good app, bad forecast. Ok. So I've held off on writing this, as I know predicting the weather is difficult, and inexact. But...you've left me no choice. The app itself is nice. Easy to use, good layout. But the information is terrible. It seems that its update about twice a day at most. Right now, it's storming outside, and the app says its partly cloudy. Then many times the forecast details will say a good chance of rain, but up top will say 10%. Couldn't ignore the inaccuracies anymore. Fix these and I'll up the rating.

Like it. Wish there was a scrubbing feature.. I like it. I would suggest if there's a way to scrub through the time-lapse, past and future.