The Fox2 app really brings late breaking news and weather to your fingertips! Just one tap and all the latest and greatest unfolds before you. Being able to watch live broadcasts is especially helpful when you don’t have access to a television or computer.
There is very little news and a ton of advertising. And if that were not bad enough, the ads are set up so when you are trying to scroll through a story, you can’t help but to touch an ad. Which then causes the web browser to open. You have to click out of that. Make sure you actually close that web page, and then go back to the app. And if you are not paying attention and being careful, it happens all over again. It is just not user friendly. Filled with click baits. If you want to see their news articles, go to the website.
Until Fox news across the country denounces President Trumps role in the D.C. Capital Insurrection with a full throated pull of any support toward the far right, I will not retain the local news apps, or watch the Trump and far right extremist enabling, which Fox has helped foment over the last 4 yrs of the Trump Presidency. Fox helped fuel the fire and lies. They need to come out and say they were wrong and refrain their hosts and journalists from perpetuating the Trump lies that helped insight the far right furry and violence in DC. Stop the lies Fox! Pull your right wing support and let the world know you will not stand for it. Cumulus Media has pulled their funding and directed their stations to not foment these lies. You can and should also.
Please re-evaluate your criteria for what is worthy of a breaking news alert. I would like to keep notifications on for major news such as interstates closing, officer involved shootings or natural disaster updates. Things that will impact the lives of St. Louis metro citizens. However, 90% of the breaking news notifications I receive on a daily basis consist of nothing but celebrity gossip, tabloid trash. Nobody cares and it has gotten incredibly annoying. Please change this or make your notification settings more customizable to each person.
I enjoy the alerts that get sent to my phone with the latest news. However, this app needs to get updated in the worst way. It CONSTANTLY freezes and crashes when you are using it. It’s becoming more and more frequent I can’t even read an article without me having to force quit the app and open it back up. Hopefully changes come soon or i’ll start looking for a new app to use.
I no longer live in the St. Louis area but still enjoy getting the news from there. Since you have updated the app it won’t let me get past the weather toggle. I don’t need the weather from there just want the news. I had the old app ever since we moved and liked it. Now I can’t get the app because of the weather notifications which I don’t need and won’t let me choose to to use the weather selection. What’s up with that. I have since deleted ur app and moved onto KSDK 5. Your loss
I like the stories about the poor little people who get fired by political powerful people and then fight back. The inspector general in the sec of state office threatened battery against an employee before he interviewed her. Director then agreed. Employee is suing in s Ill fed court. Can’t wait to read more. Thanks
I have left numerous messages about this app constantly crashing on both my iPad2 and my wife's iPad2. I have done a factory reset on both iPads and installed nothing else other than the Fox2 app. My messages have been ignored. I even volunteered to bring these iPads to Fox2 so I could demonstrate the crash in front of them. I have the KMOV app and the KSDK app and these do not crash. It is very aggravating to have to reopen the app only to have it crash within seconds . Very poor coding and even worse support.
Only News channel I truly trust for the facts and real news. Not only informative but interesting. Their local reporting is fact based, and their nationwide reporting is news worthy and interesting. Great Application
I used to really like this app, but is has been freezing up and has been acting very buggy over the past few months. When I click on any alerts that I received over the last few weeks, it will not open the alert after the app opens, I can’t find it within the “top stories” and it will freeze up while I am searching for it.
Overall, a very negative website. I don’t consider this journalism, they just look for the worst story they can find and run it. It’s almost like they go digging around in neighborhoods for someone to complain on camera. Watching the broadcast is just as bad. Mandy Murphy shaking her head when she reads a story. I wish they put this much effort into positive stories.
Lost all of my saved stories with the latest update. When there is breaking news and you have to click to continue reading, the click doesn’t work (nor did it before the update). I have tried to contact them through the app and that doesn’t work either (old and new versions). I give up and will use another app. Tired of fighting it
Fox has become worse than CNN. This is just another AP platform with fake news equal to or worse than Turner Broadcasting System. Requires multiple reloads to just read through the main page. Videos that the articles say are provided are not embedded and if they are there they do not play. I have iPhone 11. this app is junk.
The app was generally good. The last major update introduced bugs including one where the “view more” button doesn’t work. The support channels/requests don’t seem to be monitored, so it hasn’t been fixed in months. So only a fraction of the stories are visible.
This app is garbage. Sound does not work all of the times like others have said if you can even get anything to view/play. When you really want to see something you hardly ever can. I absolutely love when I get a breaking headline or something to ‘watch now’ and nothing loads. I have never wrote a review before but this app makes me frustrated enough to do so.
It has the necessary information but has a homemade appearance and the functionality is not very innovative. Also, videos take forever to load if they ever load.
Very user friendly. Information is easy to locate. Headlines are in a nice bold font making selected articles easy to find. Layout of app easy to navigate.
The app loads video so slowly. Instead of giving option to play video or read text just loads video and slows down the whole app. Don’t have time for every story to load. Bring back the choice to play video or read text. And make it load quicker
I’m not sure if you changed the format for this app, if you did please change it back! The articles letters are huge and all run together horizontally, it’s horrible! This app used to be my favorite, I’ve tried everything to get it back to normal, nothing seems to work.
Be very careful not to touch the screen anywhere close to the numerous ads cause it will take you to the ads page. If you lucky enough not to hit the ad the app will freeze up so you have to force close and restart app. They have the best news on tv but the app is more about ads and not news
Unfortunately this corporate app is usually broken, especially after updates. My favorite is when I press a breaking news push notification and it opens up to a blank screen, never loading the content it sent me. Sigh. On to KSDK CH 5’s app now.
In the morning I would watch this in the bathroom and getting ready, and you don’t hear half the news because it’s “embarked information” you hear the ads 20 times more do you hear the news
I do not like the format of the new app, as titles are hard to read. But it doesn’t matter since it crashes every 2 minutes. It’s always crashed often but since the new update, it is so much worse.
I love channel 2 News I always said they get the news first and plus I love Chris Regnier Fox 2 news love him and how he says his name will love to meet him
Ads take up the entire screen, if you try to scroll you get a tine one or 2 line opening at the bottom to read! If you try and rotate your tablet, half the article text is cutoff. Don’t waste your time with it!
App won’t load on my iPhone with 17.3. Freezes when trying to install. Other news channels in St. Louis load and operate with no problems. Used to be my favorite site, but not anymore. Plus, when trying to confirm, every nickname is taken.
This was my go to app for local news. With every update it gets worse & has the largest most annoying pop up ad of all. Have to watch some videos whether I want to or not. Considering deleting it.
Update: months later and a new iphone the app crashes every time I use it. Goes unresponsive as you scroll the stories. I finally had to delete the app from my phone this version keeps crashing on my new iPhone. I give up.
One more so called news reporting agency that does not report the new unbiased. The new should always be unbiased. We do not need to know your opinion on matters, just report the news factually. Offer your opinions only on articles labeled opinions, leave them out of the news.
Freezes up all the time, the latest update doesn’t work at all, opens with an old video & freezes, needs a complete revision by someone who knows what they are doing!!!!!
The bloated layout of the ads make it nearly impossible to navigate any news story. Whoever stuffed the app reviews with 5 stars must be working for the developer. Absolutely horrible app.
They updated this app and it won’t open at all after the first week. I hate the new update and now that it won’t open I’m deleting it!! I have an iPhone XS or something, so my phone is not outdated yet!
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