Microsoft News

Dec. 11, 2020: update. For some reason, resetting the password in this app is a very tedious process. Doesn’t seem to work well on my iPhone. I’ve dropped my rating by one star until they add Touch ID or Face ID. Oct. 1, 2020 Review: I have used them all, but this is now the very best. The app collects news from a wide variety of reputable sources, including BOTH conservative and liberal perspectives. You can also add your own topics, and you can put everything in whichever order you prefer. You can scroll from article to article without having to go back to the main menu, and these articles will fill almost the entire screen. When you’ve read to the end of an article, you can swipe forward through headlines to skip articles you don’t want to read. That makes it easy to use and efficient on one’s time. Very nice. This app strikes the right balance between text and pictures for the top level menus. The pictures are helpful because they quickly identify what the topic is, but they are small enough to make scrolling quick and easy. The headlines are detailed enough to identify the topic as well. The scrolling both within and between articles is very smooth. The font in the individual articles is consistent throughout as opposed to mimicking the original source. Personally, I think this consistency is a plus. Text is in a clear, bold and easy to read type. (Size is adjustable, but only with three options.) Finally, it is reasonably uncluttered as far as advertisements ago, and that is always a big plus. There are advertisements, to be sure, but they are clearly marked “sponsored“, and when you are scrolling through the articles in order, they are skipped. The only way you see them is if you click on them from a top level category or inside an article. Typically, there is only one per category or article. This seems reasonable to me. Overall, this is really well designed, and is now the very best news app available for those who are looking for reliable information from a variety of sources in a well-designed package. Developers also appear to be reading the reviews, and responding to them when they can. Tip: When organizing your favorites, you will have to put your finger on the selection icon and hold it there for a second or two before you can move it. Another Tip: If you are really interested in international news, you can just change editions. For example, changing to the Canadian edition brings up a great selection of news from across that country within a couple of seconds, much more than you would see simply by adding it as a topic. Very impressive.

This app has a ton of inappropriate advertising. I deleted it because the ads were mean and sexual.

As many others are saying, the news articles are either repeats or old. I used to use this app all the time but have gone back to Google and Apple News because they keep things fresh. I use Ms News a lot less lately. Also, the same issue that happens across almost all Microsoft apps continues to happen: the app will not take a password entered by password apps like LastPass. Absolutely infuriating.

This app gives much better control over articles than apples default news app but still lacks the ability to enlarge the font. I would totally ditch apple nees if MS News had this capability.

Ever since they switched to robot edit chores and content moderators, this app has become dull. Stories stay for weeks

the app constantly lists multiple copies of the same story in the feed. why cant you just fix it...?

Nothing really unique other than my interest in Bing showing up.

App should be named Microsoft opinion page. A news app should alert on facts not some journalists opinions.

Tabs revert to old order every time you go back to MyNews .

I like this news app very much! On my iPhone 11