I like being able to get the major headlines and any breaking news as it happens and The Severe Weather Alerts. I don’t like how some stories lead you to a page that’s 98% dragging you from Ad to A to be anke to read the story. That should be stopped. I know ads pay the bills and are very necessary but some of the stories linked on your website have Malicious links in them. And if your not careful scrolling quickly you’ll hit those scare tactic pop ups made to fool simpler minds into purchasing something. But all in all if you stay on local events only your ok.
The content is updated VERY quickly for metro news. This is one of the few apps where I leave the notifications on. I feel like I know the most important news from Jackson without getting overwhelmed by irrelevant or clickbait stories. The weather section is also a lot more detailed than the basic iPhone weather app
Reading the stories and watching the accompanying videos are fine, but I do not like the haphazard layout of the news page. Since I don’t have a television, I watch on my iPhone or iPad. However, it often takes more than 5 minutes for the Live broadcasts to begin, and sometimes, they never connect. Too many times a reporter gets cutoff in the middle of a story, an anchor will be giving a story that has another story playing on top of it, video stops and repeats what was just said, or it just stops playing altogether. I do like the notifications throughout the day.
Had app for years, real nice would like better weather interactive radar
I appreciate the alerts. I like hearing about what’s going on and we talk about the updates at work. I would like more traffic updates. I would also like a better weather interface when I’m watching for tornadoes. The Hattiesburg news station app has a much easier to read weather interface. The weather interface is the only reason I subtracted a Star.
I Appreciate What You All Are Doing And Thank You All So Much For Keeping Our Community Aware Of What’s Going On Around Us We All Have Lives To Live Not 9 Lives Just One Praying Each And Every Day That God Go Before Us And Keep Us Be Bless
I could only give this app 2 stars, simply because some days it works well and others it doesn’t. Not sure if it’s the broadcast or the app, but some days it doesn’t play at all it simply buffers. Other days it will ply a few seconds, stop and repeat itself and stop. While there are other times 6am it seems they take a 15 or 20 minute hiatus until it comes back on. It’s free so what can you expect. If I paid for it, I would demand a refund because it too inconsistent and unreliable.
More of a complaint than a review. I have all three of our local tv news apps installed. I rarely watch any news and I ALMOST NEVER open any of my 5 news apps. I have push notifications on for all news apps and only read those alerts. After a certain length of time of not opening this app I will get a push that says, “We miss you! Open the app to continue to get push notifications.” NO! Stop making me open the app just to continue to receive notifications.
I think that the app is better than similar apps here in Mississippi. One improvement can be made with the news feed that loads when you want to watch the news it will sometimes load the 5:00 pm news at 9:40pm forcing you too each that instead of being ready for the late news. The feed doesn’t always load properly or on time.
I like the weather information and the maps. I would like to see more info on breaking news stories not just the headline in the body of the story with the all to often tag line “we’re following this story and will follow up as information becomes available “.
I love the app but just one thing I can’t stand. When you get notifications on news once you click on one it wipes out all the others and then you can’t find them. I was hoping to be able to click on multiple ones
My only problem with the app is that STUPID notification I get saying "you're about to stop getting notifications because you haven't opened the app lately". I like headlines & only occasionally actually read the stories if it's something pertinent to me. Get rid of this (or make it an option in the settings) & you can have 5 stars.
I wish the stories would be on a single page instead of scrolling from one story into another story. I suggest instead of that use links to other stories instead of scrolling down into another story. Also I wish the weather radar wasn’t so complicated. When I wanna see a storm coming to my house I wish just seeing the radar only was default.
The recent change of radar format is disappointing. The loop goes back way too many hours. It is very slow loading and doesn’t load most of the time without having to close and re-open the app. The previous app was easy to identify roads and it had a crosshair that could pinpoint an exact location as the view was widened. Please bring back the previous radar app.
Live stream is buggy. Very annoying to watch it and have to watch an ad to rejoin after closing stream to do anything as simple as check the time. No complaints other than this but I don't really use the app for anything else.
I gave a rating of 1, because that’s the lowest rating offered! If I could I would rate this app in the negative. The reason? Pop up adds! Can’t X out of them. You have to close out the app and try again. Sickening. Hate it. I’m on the verge of deleting this app and getting my local news from another app.
What irks me is you send out a notification then when I click on the the story is not there yet. If I’m doing something wrong let me know and I’ll give you 5 stars.
This use to be a great app now half the news stories are video only. I have a tv for that. Also the pop up video ads make it unusable I’m probably going to delete it from my phone
I want local news from a local news affiliate. If I wanted news across the nation I would have selected a national news outlet. More ads than most. Plus, too many push notifications begging for ratings.
I was asked in App to do this so here goes Too many ads Do not care for the was local news is intermingled with National News and Human Interest Stories I am an avid consumer of News but at times that is hard to separate in this app
It’s not a review it’s a correction request please!! And maybe someone corrected it while I am sending this e-mail! It pertains to the news strips that are running below the screen; the news pertaining to Prince Charles. You will find that the word “heir” is incorrect please change it!! you have “air” not “heir”!!! Thank you so much!!
I should not have to share my location with you to be able to read WAPT news on my phone. Where I am is none of your business I will be changing to another channel
Can’t seem to open the app without a video ad starting automatically. I don’t do videos as such this app is gone. I have auto play videos on wi-fi turned off.
Finally deleted it. Like the news articles but despise the Blue Cross Blue Shield opioid epidemic ad that pops up CONSTANTLY! App seems jumpy when scrolling, too.
They need to learn to pronounce and also need to learn to spell on those news banners should have been counts and they wrote County gets worse on news every day
This WAPT 16 News app provides you with real-time access to breaking news, weather, sports, politics and more straight from Jackson, Mississippi. Watch live breaking news when it happens and get live updates from our reporters right from the scene. Get breaking news notifications to be the first to know. Plus submit news tips or email your news photos and videos right to our newsroom and it could be featured on air. Stay up to date with local weather using our interactive radar map. Watch the radar futurecast to see hurricanes, storm warnings, thunderstorms and more. You can zoom in to street level and watch storms as they approach your home and zoom out to view the whole country. Check out our current conditions, hourly forecast and daily videocasts from your favorite meteorologist.
