NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts — FAQ

These Amazon ads on this app is getting ridiculous. Not only its obstructive but annoying to scroll through when it forces a slow scroll through. Edit: Things are getting even worse now. The ads are obtrusive and opens up a new window or an app when you click X to close the ad. Its a fake X that is actually a click on the ad instead of closing it. -10 stars Edit: Developer responded to make app better and fix obtrusive ads. Let's hope it gets fix soon and will bump up stars.

it seems every article I open now has a few sentences of text and then a giant temu ad.a few lines of text and another full page temu ad. I guess they're really pushing the paid ad free version by completely ruining the free version. way to use YouTubes horrendous business model

Ads, ads, ads ads ads. Best app to view ads. Ads with sound inturrupt other audio playing. Almost impossible to scroll without clicking an ad, which then takes you away from what you are looking at. Scroll speed slows down when an ad goes by so you can't miss them. Lots of AI and false stories to keep things interesting, also plenty of out dated news in case you missed it when it actually happend. There are also ads.

Great app.. it keeps me updated in my area, when I don't have time to watch the news on television...

I can finally know what's happening in my hometown! Thank you NewsBreak!

did not provide news or updates at all on local wildfire and evacuation orders..

I turned off notifications from this app but it is constantly having notifications pop up asking me if I want to turn on notifications so I'm going to have to uninstall it so it doesn't pop up while I'm at work

this is app is basically malware. I have the notifications blocked, yet they still show and sometimes take over the full screen while the phone is locked. I'm already tired of the clickbait on every title, but that's more of the publishers rather the app... I assume

Too many notifications, and it eats up my battery.

Most stories are clickbait. "Beloved" actors or musicians die who nobody has ever heard of. Stories baited as local but from far-off countries. Also constant ads. The final straw was a pop up interupting what I was already reading to force me to watch an ad. Then, when the ad was finished, I was forced to watch a second ad. I don't mind watching ads but at least give me 30 seconds between ads to read the occasionally relevant content. Bye

At first, this news app was both interesting and useful. Now it is an AI slop repository. I'm thoroughly fed up.

The news are up to date and on point, very informative.

I can be in the middle of reading an article and the app freezes up and closes the program then reopens back up and not on the story I was currently reading. Makes me very frustrated and angry. You have to fix this bug or I'm unintalling the app. Lately when scrolling down through notifications the video sound starts playing.

fix the app it's still broken every time I try to post an image it takes me back to the news article out of the comments. it's bad enough you get a freaking community guidelines pop up just for a screenshot image of a news article? definitely an app problem my phone gave me a notice and said it has a bug and keeps crashing do you want to try clearing the cache.

Good Information but site can go off-site quickly and you lose the page you are on! Also, app started using annoying, full-page ads that you have to wait to get off-screen and you can't just skip! Often, you can't even go to another app! I had to turn my phone off several times!

This is so frustrating ... trying to read the news in my email ON MY DESKTOP COMPUTER and it INSISTS I DOWNLOAD THE APP TO CONTINUE. When I go there - it's a deadend - I don't need the freakin thing on my phone. No thanks. I'll just unsubscribe instead. Lame.

Can't share articles I read with anybody because the share link requires them to install the app to even read them. Also, the articles in the app are overly saturated with ads, which I suspect is the reason they don't want anyone being able to view their articles (or rather, the articles they aggregate from news sites with fewer ads) outside the app, with a web browser that might have an ad-blocker installed to make the reading experience tolerable.

when ever I try tapping on a link to see a specific video I get redirected to play store and then I get redirected to post I didn't want to see and keeps not letting me see the post I want to see. why does the link have to take me to play store? why can't I just go to the News break link without having to go through play store? it's really stupid!!!

I use this app everyday. more than Instagram or any other news app. so much news.. crazy happening out there that this app is great at reporting. 4 stars bcs the ads are kinda ridiculous. sometimes fighting to read an article can be a losing game, just move on to the next one. sometimes get articles that require a subscription..so u can't finish reading it. no filters for excluding other counties.. so Orange County news get news from up to 8 OC's in the states. tired of reading about Florida!

I used to love this app. It put a lot of my news media in one convenient place. Over the years just keeps getting worse. First, they tried forcing me to be a creator or something. Now they have their premium tier with no advertisements. For people who use the free version, articles are becoming unreadable because of the amount of advertisements, not just from Newsbreak, but the sources, they get their articles from. Further the ads from Edge NYC and Temu are immense and highly repetitive.

I don't know how this app has the high rating it does. It is an ad trap! No paid version available. You get over 50% ads vs news. It annoys you by consistently asking for notifications permissions - even after you keep selecting "no". One of the most annoying new apps I've ever experienced!

Personal info for sale. This app has some interesting news stories (that can be found elsewhere) but wants all of your private information, location, etc, and to send you a ton of notifications. The most annoying part is trying to read a news story but you have to see all the ads every paragraph. This is just an app to push an agenda.

this app tried to take over my tablet. picture on picture overlay used by advertisements from this app changed my tablet settings. I had to work like crazy to get control back i deleted it from all my devices

AVOID!!! STEALS INFORMATION AND ACCESSES PHONE WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION! Several more months and still zero response regarding this clear data safety issue. They offer "AI" in attempt to placate users, but apparently they're as intelligent as they're AI is, if they believe that works. While on the subject, they're "AI" isn't so intelligent if one can't view the results. Developers have not responded to that either.

I like the news information but every comment anyone puts it's a violation of community guidelines. Too much censorship on observations and it's not even offensive. No freedom of speech so I uninstalled it. Can't have challenges, debates, or civilized conversations.

fix the app it's still broken every time I try to post an image it takes me back to the news article out of the comments. it's bad enough you get a freaking community guidelines pop up just for a screenshot image of a news article? definitely an app problem my phone gave me a notice and said it has a bug and keeps crashing do you want to try clearing the cache.

Too many ads and there's massive shadow censorship especially in the comments.

You click on an article of interest and other articles come up instead. A waste of time! App will be deleted.

every time I try to watch something it goes to a different article than the one I was trying to watch

I'm done. You touch the screen to scroll to read a story without even touching ad and 2!!! screens of an AD open up then they DON'T CLOSE until you close the app completely. Open app back up to read original story and its gone. I'm ticked off. This whole thing should be in caps. Thats how annoyed I am with News Break. Pretend it is and insert curse words too. Bye......