Microsoft Start App Reviews

VERSION
27.7.420112601
SCORE
4.6
TOTAL RATINGS
86,361
PRICE
Free

Microsoft Start App Description & Overview

What is microsoft start app? The Microsoft Start app is your one-stop app to stay informed, productive, entertained, and inspired. Stay up to date with stories tailored to your interests and stay in the loop with important updates and timely notifications. Search the web, check the weather, shop for necessities— even groceries— all without leaving the app. With Microsoft Start you can explore the world around you. Find restaurants, discover places nearby, and learn more about what your community has to offer. Have fun with hundreds of free Microsoft classic games, plus read the latest sports news and follow trending streamers. Sign in with your Microsoft account and sync your content and preferences across devices, wherever you go. Start now!

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App Name Microsoft Start
Category News
Published
Updated 12 January 2024, Friday
File Size 231.78 MB

Microsoft Start Comments & Reviews 2024

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Reward program changed, poor customer service. I mainly use this app for their points and cash back system. The cash back system glitches out frequently and often doesn’t recognize any locally owned businesses. There is no manual override to submit a business name. When the app does glitch out in terms of cash back, support offers no help. They’ll email you, making you do the legwork of proving your case. But then they just don’t reply, closing your case. (Seriously, it’s a multi-billion dollar company, and you’d think they could give you .05 back.) I’ve lost out on over $1.50 cash back now. (which sounds petty, but why even do the effort of uploading receipts if I lose 15% of every transaction?) Their points system was fair, but then they recently changed the system so it will take twice as long to earn any gift cards. And on top of it all, their daily headlines are trash.

Great news, bad app. Microsoft News is fantastic for news. But the app never save settings about news preferences and even when you set them again, the categorization of articles is often poor. For example, I cannot find any possible way to permanently disable news about sports, entertainment and especially royals. When I finally do disable these (until the next time the app starts), the app saves that I’m logged in, but ignore my preferences. An because of poor categorization, things like sports, entertainment and royals ends up jammed under trending or possibly Asia or Africa. The result is, at least one in 3 articles I’m presented are tabloid rubbish. I can’t imagine that MS would need more than one person on duty at a time to properly sort and filter articles.

Get rid of ‘UP NEXT’!! I keep accidentally hitting that and losing place in article.. The touch controls do not work well on this app. Also this app needs the ability to turn off ‘Shake to leave feedback”. The slightest fart and something pops up asking for me to leave feedback. Super annoying. Plus we can never pickup where we left off in an article. Touch the wrong part of the screen and your taken elsewhere. When you go back to your place in the article it is not saved. EDIT: The touch navigation controls on this app is absolute trash!! Deleted: collects way too much data on people. No thanks

Has one terrible flaw. The news feeds are good, but there is a terrible flaw with this app; you can scroll and scroll, see a few articles you want to read, find one to open. You read it, but when you go back, it always takes you to the very top again, and it refreshes, so you have to scroll and scroll to get back to where you were, but the refresh has changed everything so the other articles you wanted to read are gone. Very frustrating

Broken. 2 stars because their “Scan And Earn” feature for scanning store receipts for small $ rewards has been broken. It brings up the camera and lets you scan a receipt but the app doesn’t do the OCR text recognition of the receipt store name, item prices, etc. This has been broken for a while now. Apparently I had reviewed this app before when it was called Bing News. Microsoft has rebranded or repurposed this application ID in the Apple App Store multiple times. Bing News became MSN News and then now it’s called Start which is kind of a collection of MS things.

Still haven’t gotten my cash back. I sent a ticket to microsoft last month (February) and all I received what is an automated email saying that someone would get back to me. I still have not had a response from anyone. I had noticed I had $20 cash for that I had forgotten about from signing up with something. And that it was ready to be cashed out since September 2022. So I got excited and went ahead and type in my email address to cash it out to my PayPal. However, I did not realise that I had typed in my email address incorrectly by missing one letter. It says that my cashback was sent. However, I did not ever receive it. I need someone to fix this asap! This is so road that I should wait one whole month for someone to respond back to me. Kittie

Fantastic App, but man, are the News Articles Biased. The interface and aesthetics of the app are phenomenal, however, I wish that Microsoft gave us the ability to choose who we actually follow on the web. Set aside any feelings you have about politics/etc., and just focus on what would make the app better for the end user. I personally don’t align with any political party, but can tell when developers favour certain news organisations over others. I wish Microsoft would allow me to choose whoever and not choose whoever I want in regards to subscribing when using the app. I like to follow certain websites when scouring the web for news and this app doesn’t allow me any customisation whatsoever on that front. Until this happens, I will keep this uninstalled from my device. 5/5 app interface 0/5 customisation 2.4/5 overall review +0.5/5 because Apple doesn’t do half stars Thanks for listening!

App just keeps getting worse. Update: apparently the developers don't read the reviews. This thing has gotten worse. Open the app, swipe through two or three articles and CRASH! C'mon, folks! Do better! My complaint before was that each time the app loses focus and then is brought back to the foreground, it resets itself. This means that you have to scroll through all of the stories to find where you were; assuming you remember. Now, when I try to share something via Twitter or Facebook (on my iPad Air), the pop up window loses focus while I'm typing and I have to start over again. Definitely going to look for a replacement now. The app owners apparently don't care and definitely don't test their product.

First review. I have been using the Microsoft Start app since it came public. I found it’s one of the only apps that I’ve been able use to get my Bing points. Using a Start app to get Bing points is a little complex and buggy at times. While I like the all in one app for news, shopping and receipt scanning here are a few drawbacks… I getting points takes much more time now. Sometimes you get points on clicks and sometimes nothing. Sometimes you can click through the trending news and click click click and get points, sometimes nothing at all and you have to come back later in the day to finish. In the last few days, I had the app freeze up on both iPad and iPhone. While I could clear history for the day and week without a problem the app crashed when trying to clear the longer dated history, i.e. 4 week history and all history. This was replicated on my iPhone and iPad both and this maybe due to limitations of the RAM or sandbox memory but hopefully this information will help to may the app better in future updates. Thank you Microsoft support teams for all you are doing.

Microsoft search engine has gone soft. It works like any other search engine. But they have a future that you can’t disable or turn off as a user, it’s the AI search I wish this can be turned off, but it will never be turned off. It’s a feature that they have for the app it’s unable to be disabled. Even they have Microsoft rewards program last year was the best they had so many points that you can earn on Xbox and through the Microsoft edge now they’re lowering their points system either they’re losing money or too many peoples getting too many free gift cards. I don’t know what it is yes take a grain of salt. It is a free rewards program but now every time you earn a point it went from five points to one or two points. no more earning those 10s and 20s or higher points. Everything used to be dead on target, but now that the end of the year is at a end is becoming unstable points or not adding up points in isn’t registering. I’m only in it for the last points I need & uninstalling.

Better on Windows Mobile. Unlike many of Microsoft's other apps, this one is much better on Windows Mobile and full Windows 10 than it is on iOS. Microsoft's News app on iOS is quite clunky and outdated when compared to similar news apps. It jumps into a different window just to show a picture, unlike their own Windows platform app which overlays the image. Navigation is difficult, with the back button way in the top corner and access to my "interest" topics buried in a top menu, instead of laid out with the other "main" topics. One last thing that I find quite confusing in this app - the lack of any useful settings. There is really only a way to sign into an account, and pick a language. That's about it. What about options for video playback? What about text sizes?! What about easier ways to choose and navigate content and interests? What about a dark theme choice!? For Microsoft's "dump windows and build on other platforms" mobile strategy, this sure falls flat. It's a terrible experience.

Excellent app ….. Great app to get the daily news And be on top of our country’s current events. I would like more if it did not have the comments section. Most comments are disgraceful, ignorant and resentful. The people commenting on the news have nothing* better to do than attack the messenger and spit venous saliva. Please close the comments section so I can read the news without the feeling of grief for my country. Thanks

Great News App. This app works very well. I really liked the Apple News app, (in the beginning), but then there became too many articles that where behind a paywall, which was a waste of my time. Plus, it was inconsistent where it would open and load all stories quickly and then open very slowly the next time. Microsoft’s news app has been very consistent at opening fast, very interesting stories/articles, and a well laid out UI. Big fan so far! Keep up the great work Microsoft!!

Wonderful Way to Start and End My Day!. I grew up in the era of the daily newspaper, where each day’s delivery brought so much more than the news, but comics, coupons, sales, games, and more. Microsoft Start has essentially filled that place in my life. I love having an overview of world, national, state, and local news each morning as well as a good measure of personalized topics of interest to counter some of the heaviness I sometimes read. I’ve also been using Bing Rewards for years, so having this and general shopping features baked in has been really helpful to keep me on track. There’s so much more that I could write, but suffice to say that I am very happy with Microsoft Start and how it has continually evolved to bring ever greater value to my day.

I had high hopes. I thought to myself how hard could it be to make a news feed based on personal interests. Surely a company as large as Microsoft could handle such a task. Well I was wrong You allowed me to pick my interests and then when I go to my feed it’s a bunch of stories I have no interest in. political propaganda and other world events are shoved down your throat on this app. if you let me curate my own news feed then do not put stuff you think I’d like into my feed. do not sneak in your agenda under the guise of “oh maybe you’ll find this interesting” well no I don’t because it wasn’t an interest I picked out to begin with.

Disappointed. Over a year ago, my biggest complaint was the repetitive Twitter, and Facebook inclusions that were already in the article. Now we get the same strange repetitions within the article, plus we get more links to things that appear to be an article, but it’s just a click bait ad, I can no longer highlight a word and search the definition, and I can no longer select a picture in an article and zoom in. The video articles I am most interested in, get stuck in a constant buffer but not the one I really don’t care about…those ones load just fine. I no longer get local news for my area, so I have to go back to doing a web search for local news, because the app only picks up neighboring city news. The closest city that I can get news for is 20 miles to the city limit but really the city is more like 40 miles away. I have setup the local news and areas of interest, but it just says “Sorry! No news for this area” Back to using google news now, which is only slightly better. Go back a few updates and you will win me back Microsoft.

Wake up before it’s too late.. Not sure who is running this app. However reading people’s thoughts on Trump in this app mostly saying he should be locked up in jail but why. Don’t you think if he did something wrong that he would be locked up? So yes sounds like a witch hunt. You got to many people on a band wagon or someone controlling bc when I tried to share a comment well guess what it wouldn’t let me. So don’t fall far this. Something is up with this app in my opinion kinda like Jan 6 when trump was set up by a lot of dem people but what do I know. “Trump is not in jail” oh I don’t know bc he is innocent. Huh who of thought. Wake up people before it’s to late it’s MAGA or it’s going to get worse check out Newsmax. Have a good day and God bless America!

This App Has Come a Looong Way!. I’ve used Microsoft news before, but uninstalled due to not having features I find important, especially the widget. Now it’s there and I’m happy as can be with Microsoft News, BUT there is one feature that is lacking; Custom news notifications. I want to be notified when other topics I follow have new stories. My Notification Center and widget are loaded with political stories, but not with what’s important to me too, which doesn’t make sense. Thanks Microsoft News for making a reliable app that I can count on!

Doesn’t refresh. I mainly use it for news as I don’t like Google news trying to view everything in its own browser. This one will take me to the actual site when I click on anything on the news article. However, it never refreshes on the “For You” tab. I click on refresh but it still won’t. I have to click on a different tab, and come back to “For You” tab to refresh. Other tabs are a hit or miss for refreshing. Sometimes they do and sometimes I have to do the same thing for them too. So basically, I am back to using Google News again.

Has issues. I read this every day but...it has issues. Sometimes you click on a story only for another story - the wrong story to appear. They will talk about a video but won’t include the link for it - which is rather annoying. If you click on the picture for the story it will sometimes include other random pictures. The “Good news” isn’t updated often enough - really? It’s that hard to find good things to report? And sometimes the “good news” is depressing. It’s just ok but better than most of the other stuff.

Glitchy and useless. Ever since the last update the app keeps saying error for everything I try to do. I try to check in and it said “see you tomorrow” as if I checked in already. Came back the next day and my streak was ruined so I lost out on the bonus points. Been uploading receipts and when I got to the 6th one it keeps saying error occurred. I can’t obtain anymore gift boxes until this one opens. It’s been like this for a week and my receipts are going to be past the 14 day mark soon making them worthless. Microsoft owes people points for this being THEIR fault and taking over a week to fix the bugs!

(updated) one change is needed. Microsoft needs add at least one of these to significantly improve this app. They are: 1) add the date an article published 2) add a counter that shows the number of since the article was published 3) give us a way to hide an article after we have read it. It is entirely too to difficult to determine how long an article has been showing under an interest. I can't always remember if I have read an article. Whatever algorithm Microsoft uses to find articles related to an interest needs work. For example, I have an interest for cold cases. I get very little information on cold cases. My interest is full of covid-19 coverage. I understand the importance of covid-19 information and have an interest for that. Please limit information not related to an interest. Currently, I wonder why I have interests. *** too many sensational article headings. Otherwise know as click bait. It is too difficult to determine a valid article from clickbait. ***

Microsoft Forces you to use app at times. I don’t need a news app from Microsoft but when I click on some articles from MSN or Google Chrome home page, it forces me to use the app to read the full article. Other times, even if it doesn’t force you then, it does once you try to comment on an article. I go ahead and let it start the app, take me to the article and then try to comment. This doesn’t work since it says I have to be signed in and the sign in button doesn’t work. I can actually sign in under the app but still forces me to try to sign in on individual articles but it won’t work. If I’m signed in on their darn app why do I have to sign in on the article page?? I don’t understand how this huge company can make such a broken and annoying product and predicament. SMH

Old version was much better. This app used to be my go-to for global news. Yet the latest redesign makes created a news app full of unnecessary junk stories and a negative reading experience. For example, the addition of social features makes me feel like I’m on a social app, rather than a news app. The inability to view and zoom in on the news photos, makes the stories less engaging. The reorganization of content aims to direct readers to what the app wants the user to read, instead of what the user wants to read. I encourage the product leads to take a step back and gain a better understanding of what their core audience actually wants in a news app.

Does not change news feed. I’m hoping that Microsoft sees this as their link for support is a dead end. I use start on both my iPhone and Windows tablet. I don’t know how many times I’ve told it to block whole categories but they still show up…in both places. If I tell you I’m not interested in entertainment news, why do you keep adding that to my news feed? Same is true for some other categories. Come on guys, fix this! Update March 2: still the same. I get a lot of entertainment news that I don’t want and sources I’ve blocked turn up anyway. I’m a big Microsoft fan but you guys blew this one. Also the constant scrolling back to the top is wasteful of my time. Why can’t your feed pick up at the last story I read?

This is Bing, Not a News App. What a shady, dishonest update. What was once an application focused on actually displaying news is now a sneaky way to trick people into using Bing. How so? When you load the application, you’re given a nearly identical experience as the Edge browser’s start page. There’s a search box, but if you think you’re searching for news topics, you’re wrong - it’s Bing. Looking for news? Sure, there’s a few headlines on that Edge start page, but the functionally you would expect to find and was central in previous versions is now buried in the third tab. It’s this sort of anti-user practice that build a generation of folks who lack faith in anything from Microsoft.

What did I just download?. Is this a news app? A browser? A weather app? A grocery delivery app? Microsoft just couldn’t quite figure out it’s use case. The dramatic navigational and UI inconsistencies seem to echo this confusion. Some pages have a back button, others don’t. Some pages are native slideovers that you dismiss by swiping. Other pages are websites wrapped in native controls whose tab has to be closed. Sometimes you can swipe backwards to go back and sometimes you can’t. There is a user profile settings page and then another settings page nested within it. Searching just brings up the web bing search results instead of a desired news article. The bottom navbar‘s buttons are identically weighted making it unclear which one is the “front page” of the app. Then there are the functional bugs. For example, progressive pages sometimes fail to load when you pull up for more content (games, looking at you). All in all, I find this app confusing and a bit aimless. It’s got the kitchen sink of features but none of them are implemented all that well.

Love MSN. The MSN news app is easy to navigate through to find the stories that I really am interested in. I have found MSN to be very objective in their news reports. When a mistake has been made the editorial staff will print a retraction/correction with an apology to their readers. The only issue I have is the color of the app tends to blend into the background of my home screen. I would appreciate a change to the color and design to work with a darker background like I have.

New version is awful. Really do not want to see like or dislike options. Not interested in opinions. News is news and is meant to inform. It seems as if you added this feature as a point of entertainment for people. I think that’s sad and essentially adds fuel to the fire in regards to some stories since the opinions written are not informed at all. And many will view some opinions as fact. I think that sets dangerous precedent as we all have come to see over the last couple of years. There better formats for expressing opinions. As far as the layout goes I really preferred it the way it was. Should now be called MSN Entertainment. I will seek out other sources of news.

They ruined it. Use the Web App if you liked it better before.. The major redesign that just occurred that added a bunch of unnecessary stuff like a Bing search bar that Microsoft would like us to use made me search out a replacement. My recommendation is to go to the MSN website, navigate to the “News Headlines” page (which is what the old version of this app basically was) click the share button and then select “Add Website to Home Screen”. It turns out that it doesn’t merely add a bookmark icon to your screen that then pops up in Safari. MSN and some other websites (including APnews) when added to the homescreen like this actually become a HTML Web App. It’s still The Safari engine running it but it opens in its own window and has a custom full screen app like interface. It’s not quite as nice to use as the old app but it’s usable and doesn’t include all the nonsense that was added to the new version. Also less ads. The icon looks perfect right it the spot where the app icon was so you don’t even have to rearrange your Home Screen.

Read aloud is the reason to use this app. I can be walking in the kitchen or in the yard still enjoying listening to the personalized newest content.I hope I can use a voice command to select the news or jump around this must be a totally hands-free discipline the mobile working from home or multitasking while consuming personalized news. The most impressive part is AI voice quality is unmatched anywhere! A great job by Microsoft AI!!!

Outstanding Experience with Microsoft Start!. I recently downloaded Microsoft Start and I’m thoroughly impressed! This app has significantly enhanced my daily digital experience. Its intuitive design and user-friendly interface make navigation a breeze, allowing me to access news, weather, and more with ease. What sets Microsoft Start apart is its personalized news feed. The AI-driven content curation is spot-on, keeping me updated with news that aligns perfectly with my interests and preferences. Whether it’s technology, sports, or entertainment, I’m always in the loop with relevant and engaging stories. The integration with Microsoft services is another huge plus. It seamlessly connects with my Office 365 and Outlook accounts, making it a central hub for my day-to-day activities. This feature alone has boosted my productivity. The weather updates are accurate and detailed, providing all the information I need to plan my day. The search functionality is also exceptional, delivering fast and relevant results every time. I appreciate the app’s commitment to privacy and data security. It’s reassuring to know that my information is in safe hands. Microsoft Start has exceeded my expectations in every way. It’s a must-have app for anyone looking to streamline their digital life. Highly recommended!

One reason. I haven’t experienced any crashes yet as others have. I use this on an iPhone 6 and iPhone 7 Plus. I haven’t watched or read the news for many years since it’s mostly negative and all politics is garbage. I own this for one reason. ‘GOOD NEWS’. It’s about time someone did something like this. I can now skip all the negative bull**** and go straight to the stuff that doesn’t try to pull me down. Then I can skip right over to technology and be done. Super easy.

Awful. I’ll start this review with a caveat: Maybe, because of the ongoing feud between MS & Apple it just doesn’t work too well with iOS. That being said: Things just don’t work. You get a response to a comment and you can’t link back to it to respond. You get responses and you get no clue as to what the response is in reference to. The app doesn’t even tell you what comment is being responded to. It is just an awful, maybe typical Microsoft mess. I’m about to delete the app and forget all about it. It’s probably a perfect example of the many reasons why I prefer Apple anything over Microsoft anything. They just can’t get their act together over @ MS. Just deleted the app. Censorship crossed the threshold of the ridiculous. It’s their app, they can allow and disallow anything they please. But the political bias has become overwhelming.

Biased. First let me say I am a huge fan of Microsoft’s products and although I deleted this app I continue to use many of their products and services. I was excited to try the start app when I first discovered it. But that excitement did not last long. The first thing I noticed was how every news headline or story that was pushed to me was very left leaning. And some leaned so far they read more like Soviet style propaganda rather than news. My second complaint is with the rebate tool. When scanning receipts from certain types of stores, the program will not recognize the store name. Thus you are unable to get credit for that receipt. The first type of store I noticed this with is vaping stores. However, the final straw came today when I tried scanning a receipt for Cabelas. The program recognized the transaction total and date but would not pick up the store name even though the logo and name are clearly printed. With in just seconds of a tenth and final attempt to scan this receipt I get a push notification from the app about how the GOP is blocking gun restrictions. If you are going to make an app that is going to cater to one ideology that is fine. It’s your right, but please state this in the description.

The Worst IOS App from Microsoft. The options to share an article are too limited. Sharing via email provides the MSN URL shortcut, which is almost as annoying as AMP links in Google News. There are no options to open the article in a web browser. To locate the URL of the original site, sometimes I need to enter the title of the article into a search engine. The most annoying issue is when sharing an article via text, the prompt requesting I write a review prevents me from selecting a contact and also will not let me respond to their request. I have no graceful way to proceed and must close the app and then relaunch it.

A PENNY ONLY. This app is so ridiculous and the customer support is even worse. I had contacted customer support after 10 receipts that were scan for cash back we’re talking about purchases I made being way above $50 and I only receive a penny back. I am now on my 40th+ receipt and the most I have received back has been three. Cents, if you’re only giving me a penny it’s gonna take me 100 receipts to receive a dollar I’m not gonna buy 100 items from dollar tree to receive one dollar back. I get more back on my credit card than this if you guys are not willing to give anything more than three. Cents, even after I hit the six receipt reward mark. Then what’s the point of even having the program you’re tell me, Microsoft doesn’t have money to give back. I’d rather just stick with chrome, then to do with this crap.

Microsoft Rewards. I’ve scanned 6 receipts and I still haven’t got my 1,000 Microsoft point reward, although I still have received my 3 dollars I was promised. Over all, the app is great except this one take back. To be honest, I only use this app for Microsoft rewards so I probably shouldn’t be rating it based off of one part of the app. But, I like how you can points reading and the stories are interesting and up-to-date. The shopping mechanism is good as well because of the deals and nice choices you can pick from. I give Start 3 stars.

Extremely disappointed. I am so, so upset about this radical redesign that MSN just did. I have three or four news apps that I check in with a few times a week, but this was the app that I would spend time on nearly twice a day. I loved its simplistic, clear-cut layout. This layout made it stand out from all other news apps. Now it’s ruined because of Microsoft who only took over because its its greedy, never-satisfied, and has a constant Need to monopolize wherever it can. I’m so saddened by this. I did not realize that my innocently pressing “update” would cause this to happen. I’m going to try to give it a chance, but something tells me I’ll be forced to delete it in a week. I can’t believe that Microsoft took over and ruined what used to be one of my favorite apps.

Was okay, now garbage. The redesign of the News app into the new Start app comes with several negatives. First, it's now a nearly indistinguishable duplicate of the Bing app. Second, even when selecting the option to remove news sources, they're not really removed. They remain in the feed and also return to the feed the next time the app is opened. Third, there's no option to stop videos from autoplaying. In this instance, three strikes mean the app is out. I have uninstalled it and will instead use the Apple News app—and this is coming from a fervent Microsoft user.

I really like them now!. I watched the first 3 episodes last night and realized for the first time what a horrible disservice they’ve been given. I believe their story Is the truth. They are obviously very much in love. And next to nothing about Megan’s outstanding work in standing up for the rights of others, her solo work in Africa, her high intelligence and caring nature have been written about. She is constantly referred to in derogatory terms. So wrong! And Harry is obviously an intelligent, caring and sensitive man who also happens to be quite handsome. I loved the pics of their sweet family. And applaud their bravery in leaving the firm in order to save their own family. While watching I couldn’t help but wonder if William and Kate wish it were themselves. Really looking forward to the next three episodes. Also, my husband who never follows the royals watched the 3 episodes straight in a row with me and agreed with my thoughts.

This app is broken. This app has changed dramatically since i first downloaded it and now they dont even care what type of news you are looking at. For instance, under the sports headlines today I saw a headline titled, "LA reaches settlement over alleged at-home Covid 19 test kits".. not too sure what that had to do with sports, that is not the only example of this, there was also "Depressed demand forcing Wisconsin dairy farmers to dump milk", again nothing to do with sports. Additionally, whoever developed this app thought it would be a great idea to have NO end to the headlines under each section, so if you think you are going to get the bottom of page it just keeps loading more headlines whether they are relevant or not. This app has gone down the tubes, its absolute trash now.

Buggy. Like many I downloaded it for the cash back feature. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. It rejects some receipts for very odd reasons. I’ve had receipts rejected because the app claimed it was a duplicate receipt even though I scanned it immediately after walking in my house after making the purchase. I had a new reason today. The receipt was rejected because they only accept paper receipts. It was a paper receipt from the same grocery store I’ve scanned receipts from many times. Sure it’s only a penny but those pennies add up especially if you’re Microsoft and thousands of people are having receipts rejected that shouldn’t be.

Why bother?. This app tries to to be a catchall for your phone browsing use, but in practice just feels pointless. The apps are just a collection of actual apps you can download, but with less functionality leading to frustration and a trip to the actual dedicated app instead of the one in start. Then there are the news articles. The majority are random clickbait headlines with little substance if any at all. Many of them are clearly written by AI and contain repetitive information that might not even be true. There are also plenty of ads masquerading as articles. If you want to use any of the features in start just download the dedicated app for that and use a different news app for everything else. If gpt 4.0 is important to you then use the edge app, but Microsoft puts up so many walls on it I just use the chat gpt app instead with 3.5. TLDR: There’s no real reason for the Start app to exist. Most of the articles feel like something my grandma would share on Facebook and the apps are worse versions of the ones in the actual App Store.

So sad!!!. I’ve had this app since my days of using a Nokia Lumia 1020. Been through a ton of updates. I recommend this app to everyone. Going forward I can’t. I’m not a fan of the new layout at all with the last update. To me it seems just a giant mess. And it made finding news articles even harder to find. I’m here for the news, why do I need to see groceries and everything else. Stop trying to be like apple news. Not everything apple dose is a good thing. As I type this review on an IPhone. I now the irony. I’ll keep the app around play around more with it. Hopefully get use to it. I won’t be recommending it to anyone for awhile. Was one of the best news apps out there and now just like everyone else’s. And not good at it.

Great App. I love this app. Well designed with reactions and comments. I think they could take this even farther with tags that are like reactions, but more informative. They could use tags to select content better. The articles are good and a mix, seems to have much less bias than other news apps. Also, the app has good performance. I'm curious what they do with this next. I feel that there's somethings missing still with the design to make it optimal. But it's the best news app that I've used so far and I experiment with a lot of news apps.

New layout hard to read. The updated newspage is messy and hard to read. The story tiles are arranged in in two randomly staggered columns, which results in a confusing jumble to the eyes. You can’t scan the articles left to right because the headlines don’t line up, and you can’t scan the columns top to bottom, because there is no bottom of the page. This is beyond annoying. Whoever designed it need to go back to Layout 101. Please line up the story tiles left to right to make the page readable again! The content is what it is. This isn’t so important to me because I seek news from multiple sources. But it has to be easily readable or it’s a no-go.

Glitches. Reading article and all of a sudden it disappeared. Couldn’t get it back or at times not even find the article. I’ve also flagged articles that I wanted to follow, and never see them again. And yes, I know the difference between follow and delete. If this was a one time issue I could accept it, but it’s not just one time. It’s been multiple times and over a variety of topics. If it can be posted IT SHOULD NOT DISAPPEAR. Or is that just good old CENSORSHIP and CORRUPTION or someone decided it was not that much of an article. OH SNAP — isn’t that the same thing?

1K bonus point offer is bogus…. Downloaded this to get my first time user 1K bonus points for scanning 6 receipts. Never scanned a single receipt until I got this app. After getting the app, I’ve scanned over 20+ receipts and have yet to see my 1K point bonus. Contacted customer support with all the relevant information they needed, they reply that they want even more info just to do a simple check to see why I haven’t received my points. Seems highly suspect and intentional to keep you running in circles just for a measly 1000 points. If your downloading this for the point bonus do yourself a favor and skip this dud. You’ll be waiting till the cows come home. P.S. This crap app is the EXACT same thing as the Bing app. If you already have Bing there’s no need for this one. Why have 2 apps of the same thing on your phone?

Was once great, but avoid at all costs now. This was my top choice for a news app not that long ago. I relied on it all through 2020, which, you know, was kind of a newsy year. But a few months back they updated the app to include things like user comments on articles, and social media reaction “features” that allow you to 👍 or ❤️ articles. So now each article, let’s say reporting on something tragic, will have hearts and emoticons and a toxic comments section below it, things that don’t belong in a news app, and frankly, don’t look good next to an article about death or disease or war. And all the standard internet comment section junk has reared its head: obvious trolls, even more obvious bad actors, arguments over nothing, and constant “Biden libtard” this and “Trump nazi” that between commenters that have absolutely *no* idea what’s going on around them. Use a different news app. There are a bunch. There were features only this one had, and it *was* the best once. But we never needed Facebook style features in the app, and a quick review of recent history should have let Microsoft know adding these kinds of features does not improve the user experience, but creates a hostile environment rife with abuse and garbage.

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Pretty good. I get the news that I’m looking for

You asked!!. Your app is slow to update. It repeats news items, not once but maybe for days in a row. There is never any new news always repeats itself. As for reviews....you asked for it, I didn’t chase you!!

Very good browser. 1 issue.. We can’t select this app as our default browser on iPhone sadly. Please have this as an option!

Moronic cesspit of the worst opinions, and bizarre censorship. What a terrible app. It pushes out the most trash news (from all sides of politics) and then facilitates the worst comments system, completely unmoderated except for a TERRIBLE automated censor that forbids you from saying WAY too many normal words that would allow you to make a reasonable contextual comment to an article. Absolutely the worst way to run an app. And it’s a shame that Twitter seems to think this is a winning formula for success lol

I like it. Reading the news first thing I the morning, it's great!

Microsoft News. Fair and balanced...quality news

Crashing and errors. This ap crashes continuously and error notice telling me me there is something wrong with my internet connection, when clearly it's working for everything else. This needs a fix !

All news delivered by MSN. 👍. Google News is filter through the minds of Google employees. 🤮

Great app. Refresh rate is good and relevant topics that meet my interest

Please fix the new layout. The app just updated and the new layout is terrible for browsing. I’m not sure what happened to the fonts but it is even harder to scan for news now. The search bar at the top needs to be hidden as it takes up limited screen real-estate with no benefit. I’m also frustrated that space was dedicated to emojis 👍which takes up a whole line of the headline.

Easy. Very easy to use very useful fun quiz’s and stuff to do i recommend to everyone!

Buying. I don’t want to buy any stories but it is a good app if you like to catch up on what is happening out there in our world !

MSN news. It's an excellent easy to use app and superior to many paid digital news mags. I enjoy the msn digital read every morning with my coffee. There is little need for a physical daily newspaper these days though we still get it delivered for my wife who is a slow tech adopter. MSN news is the way of the future.

New update is awful. Used to be my favourite app. But really didnt like the new updates.

Doesn’t really work. I get notifications about news. I open the app and I can’t read the article. I try other articles in the app and they never work. Uninstalled.

MSN news. Great way to stay up to date with what’s going on in the world. And great that the app is on my iPad and phone so I am always able to have a read.

Can’t choose what you see. This app seems to have a very biased leaning in its news sources with no way to effectively block the content you do not want to see. It does say it has an option to “hide” content from sources you do not want to see but this does not work and, instead, seems to multiply the objectionable content.

Too slow loading. Too slow loading. Too much click bait mixed with real news articles and too many adds.

Good job Microsoft or the product manager or the product owner. Updated to the new version, good job. Interface looks much better. Now i will try the news

Excellent news app. Happy how I can leave comments but they should not be censored if they don’t meet the opinions of the censors

Great. Only new to it, But easy to use,,seems like it will be great for quick news notices.

NOT news , is an archive. App has headings that occasionally disappear eg NEWS! To be replaced by local news, but even that is one day out of date or older.

Microsoft News app. Excellent, Awesome, comprehensive news app covering Politics, Sports, Current Affairs, Weather etc.

Cecil Renfield. A good news site, well laid out and legible typeface. I give it a once over daily and more.

News. Too slow to update. The news is happening every minute. You must be up to date by the minute, not a day or 2 late.

Fun Place for News Bytes. I like the articles the have been personalised. Simple interface that connects with the content well.

Great App.. Have had MSN news on my phone for some time, only last week finally installed it on my IPad. Best of all the news Apps that I use, very easy to navigate also.

Entertaining. Keeps me up to speed on life’s little mishaps and uphills. It’s also a very interesting app for down time in general.🧐

Mr. I am able to watch news anywhere and anytime so that’s great and not needed to follow the news you do/did for me. Thanks so much love your program App.

Much improved. Content is much better in the last 3-4 moths. Was getting sick of gossip, entertainment and Hollywood BS stories. Good job! Please drop Daily Mail.

Informative but crashes far to often. Good news despite being biased on issues, very little AFL news. Pictures don't always load and crashes whilst reading or looking at articles.

Regular News. Refreshing to read & listen the news

Forced ads, what’s the point?. The app functions adequately but it’s unpleasant to use with the ads littered throughout the news. There needs to be a paid subscription to get rid of all ads/sponsored content, or else I’m better off using a regular browser with certain useful extensions.

Somewhat annoying.... The news coverage is broad and the layout looks great. Some issues with grammar, also sometimes the photo’s in a story don’t correspond with that story, which can be a little frustrating.

Good stories, shame about photos crashing app. I like how up to date the news stories are, but I usually end up frustrated & going to other sites as it continually crashes or doesn't load photos with the story.

Shows ignored topics. I want to like this app, I really do, but I keep getting news topics about things I have no interest in. I have disabled all sporting news completely and I still get AFL and Soccer on my feed no matter how many times I tap ignore on the topics

Ai. I would like to know that my account can open up my Apple Watch

Wind units are useless. Report a problem system is unusable. Dear Microsoft. Wind speed in this app are presented as metres per second. Useless! Please provide mph, kph and knots as options to choose (like every other weather app!). Also the “report a problem” function is a complete dead end and unusable. Other than that it works but not as well as most apps of the same type(s).

Best news around. No nonsense news. Excellent reporting and selection of stories and facts.

Should have left the app as it was. Horrible format since the update. Not very user friendly, not the same style of news showing up. Disappointed and will look for a new news app now.

What Happened To The 3D Touch Function. I know Apple has changed the 3D function under ios13 but this latest update to your app has removed it all together for those of who unfortunately updated to iOS 13. The 3D function was working before you update this app. Please bring it back. Other apps using the iOS 13 platform have some type of 3D Touch.

Review lachlans thoughts. Don’t really think much about search functions of the app can only see certain items in news feed.

Microsoft news app. Can’t copy news articles to share like you can through safari search, so that’s a huge inconvenience for me. App design and font size needs work, too busy and far from easy to navigate. Tried it out, now deleted it.

Good layout. A lot more accurate than BOM.

I have edge on mobile do you want me to delete it. I have edge on mobile do you want Microsoft or edge

Infuriating. Very often fails to load the pics in the story, you are stuck with the tiny thumbnail version in the headline itself. Has been doing this for as long as I remember, across multiple devices. Forces me to use other news apps instead.

The worst app.. News items are days old news. Do not recommend. Can’t send rating unless I choose at least 1 star. Not worth having.

Was an excellent app now full of rubbish. This news app was simple, easy to use and well stocked with good news articles. It is now clunky to use and full of ‘sponsor’ articles and ‘ads’. You have to navigate past so much rubbish to find a decent story. There are better news apps out there now. In fact they are like what this app use to be. Pity.

Nice to read easy and always up to date. As above

Real news. Has more real news than our national broadcaster. The MSN news website is also my prime source of news.

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Join the Microsoft collective!. Microsoft is just like the Borg. One System to rule them all. It just doesn’t jive…

The most comprehensive browser start page on mobile. Even though I’m not an Edge user, I have to admit that the start page it offers is superior to the competition. It’s refreshing to get it on mobile even though I wish I could change the sources to ones closer to the centre of the political spectrum.

Exellent. Tres réussi cette application jaimes ça quand c’est complet simple y manque de rien tout est dans meme application

Frustrating app. Time to delete this app. When I try to open a news story it takes me to the App Store and won’t show the story I was trying to read .

Not News,Just Another Social Media App. The opinions stated in section of this app come down to “you’re wrong, no, you’re wrong”. The news is a very distant second to the social media megaphone the app offers. It looks like there is no moderation of the comments, so the app is perfect for extremists to sling crap. Any comment supported by thought or fact is quickly called down by name callers.

App itself is great BUT….. I do not want to comment with my full name which comes from my Microsoft profile ! When you login to comment, it uses your full name!! Why Microsoft can’t I use an alias? FIX this !!!

Good. Good

left moderators. i can never comment on stories because microsoft is a left woke corporation. No bad words no hate just a different opinion but i’m censored and can’t post.

Super Excited. I love waking up to the “Smart” - generated location that I live with news, weather and more!! Finally a place that can make a difference in my daily life.

Love the new design.. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add RSS subscription support. It will make this app superior to anything else on the market!! Thank you. Edit: You guys used to have an amazing MSN Weather app. Please at least add a weather section to the Microsoft news app.

Works fine. Works fine but seems a little clunky.

Terrible, can’t copy-paste. Can’t copy any text in this app. Ridiculous soft limitation. Will not use.

Refreshing. Nice to see slightly different direction in news gathering. Not the same as your competitors.

Too big and heavy.. The app is too big and resource intensive. Why not just use the browser.

Canadian Fox News. If you’re looking for a Canadian version of Fox News this is it. Keep that in mind as you read the news. There is another side to their reporting that tends to be less biased.

Best is right here!. You get free Chat GPT-4 with Dalle3 image generation! All the news you’re interested in plus safe internet browsing.

Très d ´actualité. Rapide informations de l’ actualité

Me. I like this App; it’s excellent 👍

Could be better.. it’s an alternative to Google and copilot works awesome as and usually delivers relevant content and information for my queries. I don’t care for showing the number of likes and dislikes a particular article has. It offers no value, it merely divides us more. Microsoft, stick to search and aggregating news, leave the social features out, there are plenty of social media platforms for extremists to spew their views and misinformation. I don’t need another Facebook or Twitter or divisive platform. Keep the likes and dislikes to customize my feed, but showing the quantity is pretty pointless.

No notifications sound. It’s a good source to get your news, but do not count on sound alerts. You get a notification but no sound alerts on iPhone with iOS 16

Reduced reward points. No more reward points for looking at the news. Not very useful anymore

Excellent produit.. Ce que j’aime c’est que tout est centralisé à un seul endroit. On trouve réponse à toutes les questions posées

Ai. T2 is next

MSN APP. This sucks. When u look at a story online n then apply the app the story doesn’t follow. Very frustrating. Going to another site for my news. Bye

Great App. Great app. Every update makes it more useful. Can you please add an option to import or sync my bookmarks?

MSN app review. Could have more updates and more new stories

Fantastic!. Thank you, everybody

Zero Stars. I am very angry that MSN is forcing me to use their app if I want to read an article. Sometimes I can just read the article when ‘expand’ is the choice about how I want to access the article. However at other times I am forced to open the app to read the article. 😡😡😡😡😡

Best news app, but crashes sometimes. Sometimes app shuts or freeze but still the best news app and thanks for not showing pub.

Font size too small. Great app but how do I increase font size?

More garbage from Microsoft. Just want to read news stories, not constantly have to open the app and not get the stories I click on.

You cannot block ads and malware, and after. Reinstallation saved content is half gone. This is ruining my experience with the app and I have zero feedback contacted the support.

BROKEN!!!. After i updated this app… my favourite thing about it VANISHED! I can no longer find the section called REWARDS where i could collect daily bonuses & do news searches … etc This is going to impact my ability to keep a streak going.

Creepy Adverts. Large percentage of the articles are “gossip” in nature. It’s best to subscribe to RSS feeds from more trustworthy outlets. Also, while I understand the advertising need many of the ones I see are from disreputable “companies”, I do not need to see them.

Microsoft News with more garbage and less performance. At least provide the option to launch straight to news tab. Home is filled with ads.

Doesn’t Load. This app is not fast or efficient. Half the articles don’t load. When trying to flip through stories the app has a mind of its own. I wanted to like this app but it doesn’t like me.

Avis perso.. Tant que je vais continuer à trouver ça intéressant et divertissant…

Works well and fast. Have been using this app to catch up with the news that I am interested for more than 2yrs

Love it!. User friendly, great features, everything I need. Better than Google. Definately recommend to try.

Microsoft News. It’s Microsoft everything is good there

MSN has become a waste of time. You cannot scroll through a story without accidentally clicking a hidden link. Constantly having to close webpages you didn’t intend to open is a real pain. Many better news options without all the spam. Don’t waste your time.

The app is clean, concise & easy to navigate. Fast and at your fingertips. Briefing articles is easy, clean and the integration of comment/input from readers and follow/follower is excellent. The interface is clean, and customizable. I removed Apple News, because of article selections and promotion. Start is the Best news app I’ve used.

Start. I don’t like using Start. I much prefer MSN for the layout, etc. Unfortunately, when i got to an article on MSN, I can’t continue reading it unless I hit “continue reading”, “continue on the app”, or “expand article”. Very, very annoying. If I wanted to use “Start”, I’d go there first. Please let us make up our own minds!!!

Some news in between all the advertising. Every other article is an advertisement. What’s the point?

Annoying issue. I genuinely like the app, but there is an extremely annoying bug. When I scroll down the home page, read a story and return to home page, I’m taken back to the top of the home page. I simply want to return to the headline that I just read, so I can continue scrolling down. I don’t want to have to scroll down again to where I just was again. This is a bad enough bug to make me want to delete the app. With every update I hope this problem is resolved. So far to no avail. Come on Microsoft, get your act together.

La meilleure app pour tout. La meilleure app sur iOS pour tout: météo, interêts, traffic, recherches, nouvelles et OpenAI, c’est mon outils et mon app préférée que j’utilise et regarde à chaque fois j’utilise mon iPhone

Bonne présentation. Facile à utiliser et l’abondance des nouvelles

Timely, but too frequent. It would be an improvement for me, if the alerts were less frequent.

Money to win playing games. I Love money to pay my wife and my bills

News. Great wide selection of articles.

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Great news feed!. I never really read the news before I got to college and got an iPhone but now it's part of my routine and this app is easily the best option I've tried. I can customize what I want to see and the standard feed is great. Linking stuff works well but it is slow sometimes. Microsoft news and their bing app are top notch on iOS and I will continue using them

Switched from Apple News. I am Apple News App user, since News+, it has became very annoying. The interleaving or News+ ads destroyed the experience. I was willing to subscribe if it provide real news providers, but they don’t. They are mainly magazines. Come Microsoft News. I read news on Bing (started for Bing rewards.) Now they have an App that is decent. I can read the same topics I selected on Bing (need Bing / Microsoft login.) It carries on from the Windows News app, by I am mainly a life long (but soon disappointed) Apple user. It works well, with no annoyances like Apple News. Now, if they can download articles ahead of time, that would be great. Also to be able to tag articles with like/dislikes to fine tune the topics would be a even nicer. Good start.

Lots is problems lately. I used to like this app a lot, but recently, it is having a lot of problems. When I click on a story, I get an error screen asking me to refresh or restart the app. When I do that, the same problem occurs over and over. I hope this is just a bug that can be fixed in the next release. The way it is now, it is useless as a news reader.

Crashes using Authenticator. I have two factor enabled using MS Authenticator. If I sign in and switch to the app to validate the push message, MS News crashes upon login. The iOS error message states it exceeded 10 seconds? If anyone else is encountering this error, the workaround is to select the option for a different method of validation using text message. Since you aren’t exiting the app to validate the login will be successful. I finally figured this out after waiting a month for it to be fixed.

News App. Two things I wish were different about this app: Smaller Ads that are more contrast to the article and the crowd pleasing arrows at the bottom of the screen that was in the prior version to advance forward and back. The swiping actions is nice but are touchy or don’t always work. I switched over to Apple’s News app to see if it is better but I’ll check back in hopes improvements are coming.

News from a variety of sources. It’s a very good app. The news likely isn’t totally unbiased given the likely users and what they click to read. A person does get news from a variety of sources and I do like that. I like how it is organized but don’t like the way that the first part of the first sentence of an article is now above the photo and the article is below. UGH I so hate that!

News content. 2 Things: 1) Your news categories of Top Stories and US overlaps in content too much. The US category could really use under-reported stories off the AP, local or regional stories, human interest. 2) technology needs to be more than just about electronics. There's other technology out there. A daily spotlight could circulate around targeted subjects: medical, farm and hobby farm, robotics, civil engineering--contemporary and historical. Just too much cell phones and other electronics. I love your site. Check it every morning, several times during work--not so much when I'm socially engaged--and before I sleep. All I'm all it's pretty good reporting. I'm glad you changed it from Weird News to Good News. We all can use more of that. Thank you, Ben Ritch-Smith

Could be better. I like getting up-to-date news on my iPhone. But as I read and scroll through the story, I don’t like how the advertisements are spaced in the article in a way that’s impossible to scroll up without accidentally touching the ad, and then the ad comes up, and I have to quickly hit the back button to get me back to the news story. Very frustrating, as it breaks my concentration on the story! I know that advertising is important, but c’mon!, don’t make it so annoying that it makes me want to skip reading the rest of the story! Which is what I end up doing.

Timely news. I stumbled on this app several months ago and it has become a go to source for timely news. I think there aggravation service is exceptional and I recommend this app if you have limited time and still want/need to stay current.

This app satisfies my curiosity about the world. I particularly liked the reporting on the Arizona races. It was very helpful, because the Republican candidate, lake, seemed invincible. You guys showed me that it would be possible for her to lose. And I didn't want any election deniers. Liars. To prosper at this time. So thank you. If I can ever write for you, I will be glad to.

Needs better local news coverage options. The local news section seldom if ever has any LOCAL news. It merely repeats the same national news information. Why have the option if you aren’t actually going to see LOCAL news. The option to pull up all of the local news stations and scroll through is an awesome feature and it used to work fine in earlier versions, showing several local news stations. Now almost completely pointless. Hope it changes soon.

The receipt scanner does not work well. Have tried the scanner and it doesn’t scan receipts well. I must have scanned the same receipt over 15 times but it couldn’t register the store name though it was in big bold letters at the top as well as in a smaller font with the address right below the store logo name. Needs work

Can’t share news links, but good general news list. I use the app daily as it’s a good general view of all news. There is a button to share a link, but it takes a few seconds to fetch the actual URL (if it gets it at all), so if you click too fast you will share a bad URL. The option should just be dropped. If you really want to share an article, you’ll have to search for it in a browser. The app doesn’t let you select and copy text, so you can’t copy and paste either.

Frustrating app. Using Microsoft start on an iPad is frustrating. After clicking on a tile to read a story then pressing the back button to return, Start repositions you at the top of the Start page. No matter how far down the article link tile was located. Thus forcing you to scroll backdown the page to relocate to where you were before. Repositioning to the previous scroll point is such a trivial thing to program. I don’t understand why they chose this pattern.

The BEST yet!. I really am so grateful for this news app. I have run the gamut of news apps and deleted them all after a year or so: CNN, AP,Reuters, FOX, BBC,NBC, etc, etc. Each had major drawbacks for me and some were almost completely video driven and hey, I can still read! Don't need to watch videos like a child. Anyway, the news is relevant and concise with some quite in-depth stories, which I really appreciate.

First impressions are awful. Downloaded it only due to the fact that they advertised you could get cash back on receipts, well I’ve had the app for 6 months and I’ve scanned every receipt I’ve gotten and not a single one has ever been processed due to the fact that something is conveniently missing when it’s clearly there like the date or store name no matter how obvious it is the app will just refuse to read that it’s there making the receipt useless and not giving me any cash back. Save the time and stress and don’t download.

Poor quality. I've been using this app as a replacement for Apple News and Google News on my iPhone; however, although there has been a very anesthetically pleasing redesign, the user experience is still of poor quality in comparison to the other news apps. It's also very much similar to a browser rather than a news app and the news information is not as interesting or relevant as Apple News or Google News. The App needs more work

Enjoyable refresh of the app makes. I usually use the built in News app for iPhone until I noticed an icon change for Microsoft News and re-checked it out. What a difference this ‘refresh’ has had! Clean, fast and easily adjustable/customizable. Very cool - keep the updates coming with the speed getting faster! :)

Bad iOS experience. I WANT to like it because I’m annoyed by Apple News, but Microsoft (in typical fashion) isn’t sticking with the expected experience on iOS. For example, swiping out of the article doesn’t work; you have to hit the back button specifically. Also, you can’t highlight a word and use the standard iOS tools to look it up in the dictionary or on the web; instead Microsoft has their own awkward and non-standard lookup for the at word. The whole experience is like that. It just doesn’t fit well on iOS. Bummer.

Questionable sources. This app presents strange news articles from questionable sources. Quite surprising for a Microsoft app. One would think that they would select their feeds more carefully, but apparently they do not. After receiving multiple notifications that click through to obscure news, I have decided that this app is all about promulgating click bait in order to make money for Microsoft (as if they don’t already have enough). I deleted it after a couple of weeks.

Shopping for a replacement news app. The previous version of the app was my go-to news app for the past few years. It had a straight-forward, clean design, that allowed me to get to the stories I was interested in quickly, but also introduced me to others in a simple way. The new app feels just like the Apple news app - disjointed and full of non-news ads. You literally have to scroll through a ton of content to get to actual, relevant news stories. So tired of the “dumbing down” of news - why can’t we just read news?! If I want advertising and “fluff” pieces I’ll go to the Apple news app.

Buggy. Downloaded this app after clicking on their advertisement on obtaining points after 6 receipts. I logged in, scanned 2 receipts, and gave me a few cents. After about a few days I come back to scan more receipts but the app tells me to “join now.” I click it, and an error appears telling me there is something wrong. Not to mention I am already signed into my Microsoft account and this “join now” button still appears and I cannot further scan receipts. Also customer support is a complete waste of time.

Suddenly much worse. What used to be an ok-ish news aggregator suddenly has a weird and awkward layout, is harder to navigate or find things in and has even fewer customization options. But a ton more white space on my screen so I can exercise my thumbs by scrolling twice as much. It also assumes, because I'm in Mexico for a week, that I only want to see articles in Spanish, and there's no way to tell it otherwise. So, nice job programmers. I'll just uninstall and move on. Whoever the high schoolers you hired to design this mess had in mind when they did, it wasn't me. Millennial trophies for all of you.

Multiple Complaints!. At first, I thought this was great, but now it’s more than frustrating. First of all, I don’t get extra cash back for those items that are highlighted. The app never recognizes them on my receipt and I just get a measly penny instead. Secondly, my rewards tile on the app constantly goes missing so I mess up my daily streak. I’ve done all the troubleshooting suggestions but still no rewards tile. At this point, I’m just deleting the app. I’d rather use the space on my phone for an app that’s reliable.

Best app I have on phone.. I don’t leave reviews, however, this one is a great app! I have got so many other people to download it, and they love it! This app helped me delete a few others. It does so much in 1 app and so worth it! It’s the one stop app for everything. Really worth it. I recommend this app to everyone.

Great MSN app. MSN app is my go-to for the latest news developments. I find it easy to navigate and the layout is appealing to the eye. I find it dependable at updating latest developments in a timely manner, as I refer to it multiple times throughout the day. The articles are well written and easy to understand and follow. Lastly, I don’t ever recall the app freezing or not updating. They’ve done well with this app.

tec support. solving issues ti keep your data safe from compramized Apps, compramized passwords as well as compramized accounts. Hands down the most understanding tec support ive experencened dealing with so many issues one after another they new exactley how to handle it. Be clear with your issues and problems can be resolved faster.

Much better than news websites. News websites have so many ads and other junk on the page. They take so long to load. The News app is a much experience since articles load faster and there are fewer ads. The two issues that are a pain: when swipe scrolling if the swipe starts where there is a hyperlink it navigates to the link rather than scrolling. Also, sometimes the app blanks out and I have to restart the app.

Overexcited Links. I actually really liked this app, but with a recent version change, now when scrolling through any article, if my finger so much as brushes against a link, it immediately follows it. These articles are all loaded with links, so when scrolling it’s extremely frustrating to be constantly taken away from the article you are trying to read every time you touch a link. News flash! Touching links while scrolling is not the same as tapping a link deliberately while the page is still! Arghhh!!! Otherwise the app is solid.

Finally can start recommending this. I’ve been wanting Microsoft news app to step their game up. In the past, I could never recommend them, they were missing a lot of features that others like Apple news and google news. Loved that they finally adding reactions and thumbs up and down

Incredibly BIASED. Such a shame. This app… they make you install it if you check the Bing news feed easier, but my goodness it’s just a never ending BARRAGE of anti Trump and anti republican info dump constantly. It’s shameless. You never see anything but sympathetic stuff about the other side even when Biden has all sorts of classified leaks, they just report TRUMP all day long. Just cool it please? He isn’t president any longer. Move on and report and push the NEWS to me. I didn’t even ASK this app when they wanted to know my interests for any political topics, I picked tech and video games but all it does is push one sided politics.

Overall very good. The best part of this app is that you can read new stories on paid sites without the same restrictions if you go directly to their website. For example, the Washington Post, limits you to three articles per month, but if you read Washington Post articles on this app, there are not the same limitations. Agree with other review about links not always working.

Microsoft Cash Back. Here’s a tip for using the Microsoft Cash Back portion of the app. Do not buy things only because there’s a promise of cash back. Buy things you’d normally buy and if there is cash back, great. Why? Most of the time the deal will credit fine. Some won’t. And when that happens, you’re pretty much out of luck. Microsoft support will not help and just direct you to the FAQs that they don’t have to pay on every offer.

Bugs. Pic error STILL not fixed: I love the content, but the app has had bugs for over a year that they still haven’t fixed. The photos with the stories often don’t match. There is also a big when sharing a story. The last one opened to a “partial” story, prompting the user to pay to see the whole story, even though the whole story could be read via MSN.

Hide Stories Feature Doesn’t Work. The app has an option to hide stories from specific news sources. This would a great way to stop seeing stories that don’t interest you or even offend you. Except it doesn’t work— at all. I’ve selected this option repeatedly for a handful of junk news outlets that I don’t wish to see, but their content still shows up just as often. Why provide the option if it doesn’t actually do anything? Just remove it. Or better yet, fix it.

Excessive left wing bias. This app is not balanced, which is most clearly seen in the “fact” check section that focuses completely on Donald Trump. Just because a disrupter challenges the made-up narratives of the anti-democratic Democrats and other Washington insiders doesn’t mean said disrupter is 100% wrong. The fact check section seems quite fact free. Left wing opinion is not fact. If Microsoft wants to advocate against a President and a political party, it is disingenuous to do so in a news app and especially in their (un)fact check section.

Terrible Update. I used to use the app to keep up with the news and subjects of interest. The new update makes that process exceptionally more convoluted. Too much clicking around to find what you want. Additionally, it has a terrible new feature, “contextual search” I think it’s called, where if the reader does anything other than swipe fast, a word is highlighted and a pop up comes up, disrupting the reading, to tell you more about the work, and you cannot tap it away. It just highlights another word. Very sad because the previous iteration was wonderful.

Looks like receipts started working again!. Had posted a long review to help the developers track down the receipt credit issue, but came back to retract it. Looks like I’m getting credit for receipts again! Btw, check out the Buy Direct section! The cashback offer is absolutely insane right now🤗

Random Stories. The top news and US news sections are both full of the same few stories and they’re all bizarrely minor local news from random parts of the country nowhere near me. It’s also heavy on the entertainment and sports news, but if there is ever any business news I haven’t seen it. The app is stable and breaking news notifications work so at least there’s that. But the inability for users to curate combined with the terrible algorithm make this my last choice for a quick glance at the headlines.

One of my favorite news apps. I personally love the layout. I like the way the articles are categorized and the fact that new articles are added multiple times a day. I never have any problems with this app and I’ve used it for at least 3 or 4 years on two different iPads. Wish all apps worked this well.

Like the diverse coverage not the comments. I love reading the news, miss the daily newspaper. The articles are good and cover a lot of essential topics. I just really dislike the comments and imogies… it’s SO unnecessary and doesn’t matter what others are thinking about the articles. Can you make a setting to turn off the comments? That would be stellar

.... 1. It continually signs me out and makes me sign back in. 2. It’s impossible to get the link to the original article to view in a browser for times when the app displays things incorrectly or doesn’t display certain things in articles. 3. It should include a history or articles I’ve viewed so I can find them later easily. 4. The favoriting an article process and the process to view saved articles should be easier (1 tap instead of multiple)

Cannot highlight text. After the last update, I cannot highlight text to look up a meaning anymore. This is very essential, because not being a native English speaker, I rely on being able to look up words to quickly understand the article that I am reading. This used to be my go-to news app. If this (minor) issue is not fixed, I might just have to find a different app. Disappointing.

Way too far Left for me.. I took this off my phone yesterday. I received about 7 notifications yesterday (Sunday) that referenced headlines that were very misleading and some that were outright lies. ie. Rubio schooled by Jonathan Karl. I am tired of “news” organizations misleading us. Russia gate lies that lied about Russia involvement in electing Trump. Hunter Biden’s laptop and now 3 balloon excursions by China during Trump. I estimate 95% of notifications I get are negative to Republicans. The lie about Social Security/Medicare is especially irritating. I think addressing the problem now is better than letting it go broke. Tell the truth, it needs to be addressed.

Microsoft Deals - Receipts. If you are downloading this app to scan your receipts, you’ll be very disappointed. You can only scan paper receipts (because Microsoft has a personal vendetta against trees), and even those don’t get accepted. I have had several receipts that were incorrect and many more that the app would refuse to even submit because it said that altered or electronic receipts are not accepted. Well, apparently regular printed receipts aren’t accepted either. As for the rest of the app, it’s generic and offers essentially the same thing as many other apps/websites.

Comprehensive App. Microsoft Start seems to incorporate everything I need from Bing, Bing AI, weather, news, cash back from rebates, and more. Prior to the Start app I primarily used Edge, even though the Bing app is on my phone. The Bing app seemed limited so I just went straight for the browser, since Microsoft Start I use Edge for mobile less and the Microsoft Start app more and more.

Illegally collected geolocation data with proof. As of January 4th 2022 the Microsoft News app whatever language or region that is adjusted started to post Chinese news even though geolocation permissions were not permitted ( language was adjusted to English and region United States). Our trust to the Microsoft Corporation from here on can not continue anymore. I suggest everyone to be extremely careful and start looking elsewhere for non geolocation forced news and of course those who think just because Microsoft issued documents informing that they would not collect data have openly violated that trust. Be aware , be warned.

WHY did you make a good thing awful?. Have used this app for quite some time. It had been my “go to” news source. But I truly hate the new version of this app. It is slow to get open because of the artsy multi-language little graphic piece at the start. And it does not glow easily as before. News is not updated as much I’ve tried it several days and hate it. So sorry to dump it from my home screen but it’s gone ! I’ve tried a couple other news apps and am going to use them from now on.

Limited offline capability, unfortunately.. This is my go-to news app on different platforms, but I am not sure that the news layout is an improvement (less news per screen real estate, more/bigger photos instead of information). The most frustrating bit, though, is the poor offline capability: It is not clear which articles are available offline and it tends to lose the cache if you close the app (instead of purging as time goes by)

So ad heavy I couldn’t tell it was customized!. “Start” is pretty. On Windows or as a launch page, it’s pretty good at curating to the settings. But on iOS, for over a week I thought it just wasn’t picking up (syncing) my preferences. Eventually I realized it’s just so ad heavy that the stories representing my interests get overwhelmed by the defaults (extremely far left sources panicking over social justice and equity in everything.) I haven’t found a way to reduce the ads, and they’re huge. So uninstalling.

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Language English
Price Free
Adult Rating 17+ years and older
Current Version 27.7.420112601
Play Store com.microsoft.axp-ios.BingNews
Compatibility iOS 15.0 or later

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The application Microsoft Start was published in the category News on 11 December 2014, Thursday and was developed by Microsoft Corporation [Developer ID: 298856275]. This program file size is 231.78 MB. This app has been rated by 86,361 users and has a rating of 4.6 out of 5. Microsoft Start - News app posted on 12 January 2024, Friday current version is 27.7.420112601 and works well on iOS 15.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.microsoft.axp-ios.BingNews. Languages supported by the app:

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