FOX19 NOW App Reviews

Worst App Ever. This is seriously the worst app on my phone. The search is absolutely terrible - like I can type in the exact headline I get on a push notification and still not find the article. The ads are horrendous and often take over the whole page. So I hardly ever take the time to open for an article - just read a headline. I was hopeful for the latest update because it was a major UI change but now I can’t clear the red circle notification on the top of the app icon on my home screen no matter how many times I come in to clear the notifications page in-app. So I’ll probably end up deleting the stupid thing.

Where’s the story?. The alert is that tomorrow’s commute may be disrupted due to a fire. After sitting through the app commercial there is no such story. Of course, this is expected by the channel that interrupts new broadcasts of Jeopardy and 25 words or less to bring us news about the Bengals that nobody cares about.

Use another local app.. Every page you go thru on this app, you MUST watch a 30 second ad. So it will take you 5 minutes to find a story you want to read about. Use another local news app.

Too many ads. I used to like this app. Now there are too many video ads. They play automatically. The sound plays even when my phone is muted. Ads are one thing but video ads that automatically play are another. Can’t find a setting to stop it.

App doesn’t detect the internet despite it being available. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app and it still doesn’t work. It still shows the same error message “No Connection- Internet connection not detected. Please activate it and try again.” Internet is active through both Wi-Fi and cellular network. This app is trash until it gets fixed.

Video ads. Video ads should be optional. When sitting in a place that is quiet and just wanting to READ the news I shouldn’t open an article for some loud video to play. Using the app less than I use to because of this.

Was good then became nagggggggg. Was an excellent app until they got pushy. Attached a install now banner that gave you no option not to install the lightening whatever. Would stay there hiding what I used to enjoying, news stories in a unhindered view.

New update horrible. You guys need to go back to the look of the old app. This new look is horrible. It’s confusing and it looks awful. It now looks like those ads at the bottom of the page you never click on that say things like “ See what this actress is up to now” but you don’t dare click on because your afraid. Change is not always good Fox19!

Liked the last version better. I don’t appreciate opening up your new app to find a line of pornographic images in between each category at all. Not happy at all about that. Please correct the issue and clean up your app or I will be deleting it. Anyway, I liked the old app much better.

Don’t like the new print size.. there is a way to make the fonts (print) size bigger, but I see no different & the print is much smaller than it was on the old app, even on the largest font size.

No way to view older articles?. I see no way to view older articles. So when I want to send someone an article from last week it can’t be done. Why would you block people from accessing these older stories?

Too many “notifications”. I am removing the app because there are way too many irrelevant notifications.

I hate the new version. The recent update has made this app awful!! This use to be my go to app for local news but now it is laid out so clustered and doesn’t have images with each news story on the main page and it doesn’t refresh as often as it used to! I think I’m going to have to delete it! Please go back to the old version!!

Tornados and goes to commercial. Was watching for my area in Indiana and Tornado in my area. Steve was going over that location near Yorkville and it cut to commercials. When he came back on he had moved on to a different location. Happened twice so far. 😡

Irritating newsreels. Please let me know if there is a way to turn off the newsreels that automatically come on when scrolling through the news feeds. Short of silencing the phone, which also silences incoming calls and messages, there’s no way to turn off the audio from the newsreels. Thanks in advance.

Web site channel 19 wxix. Web site does not flow as ice as the old site. Looks poorly designed

Why Change a Good Thing!. I loved the old app, not sure why the change, but it was not for the better. The areas look dated, don’t load properly, and the weather area is terrible. We lost information and the look of the technology seems like it back in time. Very disappointed and will likely switch to a different local station.

Video auto play. Stop playing video automatically every time I go into a news article.

Clergy. This is my go to channel for all my latest fast news as I am most of the time rushing out. I need to exactly when it’s going to rain, sleet, snow, or a pleasant sit outside day. I need to know about my Bengals, reds, bearcats basketball and football. I get that with “19”. So keep up the good work!!

New update doesn’t work. The new update broke this app. The homepage won’t connect to the internet. The other sections that do connect only have a few new articles, with a bunch listed as months or even years old. Plus they got rid of trending now, which was my favorite section. Aesthetically, the old version looked nicer and was easier to view.

Searching for contest entry. Have looked everywhere to find the “Field of Dreams “ contest to enter to no avail 🥴Your web page is sorely lacking in ease of use

New version. Previous version was better. You can’t fwd a story and sound defaults to on when u play a video. God forbid you’re looking at your app in a meeting and click on a story with a video.

Does not work. Used to rely on the old app. The new app has never worked on my phone, despite uninstalling and reinstalling several times. Deleted and using a different news source.

New view. I do not like the new view of the website. Change isn’t always good!

Updates. The updates you made have made the app completely unfriendly for users. It will be better to remove and use other local apps. I’m sorry, I’d prefer to use FOX19, but the new version is awful.

O’Brien Disapproves. So, I submitted a review that was less than glowing. Curiously, it was removed without explanation. The end-user’s feedback, I believe, should be welcomed; it should be considered a public service. Something had to be said about the glut of digital rabbit holes one is met with after tapping the shiny, little icon. I mean, who could resist, right? And who doesn’t love a frying pan upside the head in the form of an unbelievably intrusive ad right out of the gate? “All news sites have ads”, you might surmise. Of course! But an ad before the reader even has time to select one of the many vacuous articles? That’s just plain silly. And don’t get me started on the minefield of bad grammar and odd (mis)use of punctuation. My cat is a better writer.

Great app, very informative. Love it but I hate that the sound comes on if you click a story. I wish the story would come up and then you have to hit the sound to turn on.

Down near the bottom. The only reason this isn’t a one-star review is that their local news is sometimes a little better than other local news outlets. Otherwise, the app is poorly constructed and maintained, and almost never fixed. The present update does not load on my IPad. The last version could never load current news versions without first loading, and then unloading, the video update section. Other comments about commercials are right on.

New App. The new app is much harder to read than the old one. Top headlines do not stand out as much. All the stories seem to run together and it hard to find the stories I previously looked at because all the stores look the same at a quick glance

App does not work. There are more commercials on this app than most regular tv channels, and the political are getting ridiculous. app for about two years with occasional upgrades, in my old and new phone with no problems. AboutThere are two months ago it crashed, I’ve deleted, reloaded multiple times the past two and it still doesn’t work, will not open, even though it’s supposed to be an updated version. I give up, apparently it’s no longer compatible with iPhone.

Can’t swipe to next article. We used to be able to swipe right to get to the next article. That isn’t working any longer. Please fix this to work. Otherwise other apps are easier to use. I am a fan of Fox and would like to continue to use the app. Thank you.

Latest version- TERRIBLE. I used to think the WLWT app was the worst news app for Cincinnati’s major news stations. Not anymore! Folks, this app was good, why’d you change it? Check out WCPO’s news app to see a user-friendly news app (no, I’m not affiliated). PLEASE revert to your previous version!

Great news, too many commercials between each story!. I like the news, but a commercial ( often the same one over and over) is a bit too much.

GO BACK TO THE OLD APP. Your old app was much better and easier to navigate. Stories are repetitive. Sports are full of old stories. No high school football scores. The old app had it broken down into categories that were easier to find what you were looking for. Way too many ads in the new one. Probably going to dump this one for channel 5 or 9 or 12 to get my news. Love fox 19 but this app is horrible.

Stop with the adds. Stop with all the pop up adds! Seriously it’s a pain to try and read everything with the constant adds

What Happened??. It appears as if your attempt to upgrade/redesign the FOX19 app “looked a lot better on paper.” The app rarely opens for breaking news alerts, not to mention that accessing the homepage is nothing short of painful. Please make an effort to correct these issues. Anything would be a great improvement over what is offered now.

Not worth installing…. Don’t know where to start. Not enough local news, way too many ads for games that take up the entire screen for far too long, lots of reposts on national stories.

To Many Ads. Watching their channel now on TV through cable. Trying to watch live and continual ads.

Fox 19 awesomeness. You folks have an absolutely awesome news and weather program. I watch ONLY FOX19. Your news and weather teams are great. You’ve got a winning compilation of people. Watching them is like extended family. God bless everybody at Fox 19!!

Advertisement. I understand the need for advertising but this is at a whole new level. It went from silent ads to very loud ads that you cannot turn off or mute. If you don’t want to be surprised by a loud ad avoid this app. There are other news apps that provide news with less intrusive advertising

App not opening. Having issues with this app opening. Had an iPhone SE it wouldn’t open on an now have a new iPhone 13 pro it still not opening on. It seemed to open up one time and now won’t open. Used to be my favorite go to news app.

Too many ads. Way too many ads to look up simple news and weather

Bad decision. This use to be my primary go to app, but this update leaves me looking for a new one. The new format is horrible. The font and layout seem like it was developed 10 years for my old Blackberry! Way too many ads and just an overall flop. I can’t imagine who looked at this as an update and thought it would be a good idea to release it.

Please. Please remove the news broadcaster that covered the three-year-old Hispanic girl missing in Cincinnati this morning Amber alert. That’s the worst voice I’ve ever heard in my entire life. She struggled reading. How can you put her on prime time? Let her get some experience please don’t do that to your viewers again.

App is ok but the ads are not. Popup ad prevents me from reading many articles when I’m about halfway thru. No way to close it. Don’t have the patience to wait it out. It’s one of those ads that says it’s doing something to your phone to trick you into tapping on it.

Looking for sports?. With all the sports teams both professional and amateur you would think they would get up to date coverage. Not the case at all here. Even if you go to the sports section it is all very old stories and what coverage they do provide is horrible. Come on 19, step up the plate, Opening Day is just around the corner.

Local updates for free. Switched to this from the Enquirer app since that kept cutting me off from articles around mid-month. Same news, no membership requirements.

Crashes on Traffic Section. App crashes immediately when trying to open traffic.

Find a different app if you want to get news around the Cincinnati area.. Butler County (West Chester or Liberty Township) had a fire around 11:30 on Sunday, Feb. 15. Nothing on the Fox19 news site. When you find the “Sections” carefully placed along the bottom of the screen, you get a menu along the left side. Please, go ahead, select “Butler County”. Then, look quickly because it is mere seconds and then the only image is all the ads. I took the Fox19 weather app off my phone for the same reason. I looked at ads, not news or weather. My advice is - select a different Cincinnati news feed app until there are vast improvements made to this Fox19News app. You will be much happier. Maybe, maybe, there will be improvements and the app will be useful. For now, not.

Why Japanese Commercials. Why must I listen to Japanese commercials when I open the app? It plays at least twice. If I have to see a commercial at least make it in English! I am ready to switch news apps for this reason.

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App will not open. Keeps crashing after update

Crashes on iPhone and iPad. This version won’t load on my iPhone or my iPad

6.2.9 update. Updated just now. It doesn’t work. When opening from icon it rolls right back to the icon.

Crashes all the time.. Crashes as soon as you open it.

Crashes. App updated today. Won’t open without crashing.

Awful since the update!. I miss the old app. Was so much easier and everything was categorized just right. Now everything is all over the place and just awful. Will be deleting and finding a new app.

Latest Update. I just uploaded your latest update and now I can’t even get the app to open!! Some bug fix, it broke it!!!

I need larger letters ( font ) or a bold dark letting or print type rather than this small light. 😔😞☹️

Old web design was better. I am not liking the newest version of your news website. The story bullet headlines not as good as good as prior web design.

Too many ads & commercials. Compared to other apps there are so many ads & commercials. Unfortunate b/c it’s a good station for news

Update. Do you ever update this app. It has had the same news reports for the last week. Very poor.

Can’t open. I updated the app yesterday and now when I open the home page appears for a few seconds then the app closes.

Fox19. Fox19 is a cut above the rest!! The best of the best, I never watch anything else!! 👍😊

App tracks your location.. Application will not load unless location services is turned on. So much for privacy!

The insane amount of pop up advertisements makes this application unusable.. The insane amount of pop up video advertisements makes this application unusable.

Report the facts!. No emotions on politics, just report facts. Tough for mainland media these days but if you did We The People would have the correct information. Stop the lies.

Do not update. Updated just now, does not open, goes right back to home screen, don’t do the update

Hate the new update!. It’s to find the stories and there aren’t pictures to go with each story.

Terrible. If you want the news you don’t want this app. Always a day to two behind. I had this app for a couple of years and now deleting it

Doesn’t work. Can’t get app to open, and notifications never work. App is fully updated iPhone 13pro

Barely functional. Horrible app. Looks like a crappy geocities page. Can’t even get to the volume toggle on live video stream because too many things overlapping it.

Worse app ever. Way too many ads! You can’t watch the live stream because it breaks out for ads every 6 to 7 mins ! I deleted and switched to channel 9

Love Fox 10. Love Fox 19 Especially morning tv news

Hijacks the audio on app start. Once you open the app, it immediately hijacks the audio channel but doesn’t play any audio - even if you’re just reading the headlines. Surprised it made it past review.

not opening. Just downloaded the newest fix and it still does not open on my I-pad.

Terrible layout. The app is much more difficult to use. The layout is not reader friendly.

Update. Every time I click on the ap the logo screen shows up then closes down. What’s up with this update? Not working at all now!

New app layout. The new layout of this app is terrible. I have asked many people what they thought and they agree. It’s to the point a rarely even use it anymore.

Swing.......and a miss!. Change can be good if it works. Change for the sake of change is a nuisance. Change that renders something inoperable is STUPID! I’ll be rewarding your efforts of wasting my time by deleting your app.

Ads. I remember why I keep deleting this app. Everytime I want to open the app for a story I have to watch a 15-30 ad.

Layout. Don't like the new layout. And sometimes the grammar is really bad in the headlines so it’s either misleading or confusing.

Update not good.. This update takes forever to appear when you tap on it.

Seriously just want breaking news. I’ve adjusted the settings and gotten zero results. Unless stupid Super Bowl tidbits = important breaking news and, I’m mistaken. All I want is actual NEWS. Sports and lifestyle doesn’t count people.

App update. Frustrating. Have to click through two ads before I get the news feed. Stories won’t close unless I hit X or back twice

Good App. Very good to be up to date with all news

Nope. So many ads now with update you can’t even get to the news. Deleting

Traffic app. I rely on your traffic grid every morning for planning my route from NKY into Cincinnati. It longer display any traffic data on it’s display grid. Useless, fix it.

Auto play. You need to provide a way to disable auto play audio of ads NOW or I will uninstall this app!

90% scam ads. Not a news site. Just a way to present ads. 1 news article to ever 10 ads. Awful

Where’s the news?. I can’t even get to the news anymore. Completely inundated with adds! I deleted the app. News 5 it is!

Only shows commercials. Shows the news from hours ago when it used to be current then, then says playback error.

Tiffany Belle News from this past Thursday Night !. I still can’t find the TIFFANY Belle story ! Thank

I can never get this to work right. I can always get the commercials but not the news

Changes are not an improvement. I don’t like the new tiles. Most stories are video. I don’t want video. I want to read the story. I’ll be deleting the app. I can go to the web page if I want.

Hard to rake. Ads are intrusive Dont want to watch news, want to read it.

Difficult. The new version won’t load on my iPhone X. Can’t read anything at all

Ads are terrible. The video ads are terrible when opening the app. It has made this app completely useless. Deleting it immediately.

Easy. Very easy to use , love it

Rating. I enjoyed the app a lot more before the recent changes, (not better) but I LOVE FOX19 NEWS.

The new format is not user friendly. The previous format made it easier to get the latest updates. This version is too busy.