Appreciate the convenience of staying fully informed while on the move. The AAP gives a Headline which I can clip on for the full story, or leave till I have more time, etc Great knowing immediately the local headlines, wrecks, as well as important national news. I’m a believer👍
I enjoyed the access to local news headlines, and I appreciate that the news stories were never behind a paywall. However, this app made my phone’s performance abysmal! The app constantly refreshed in the background, even after disabling this option in settings, and unavoidable full-screen animated ads (with embarrassing sound) popped up at random intervals. Extremely frustrating, and there’s no paid ad-free version available. Save your phone and just pin the WLOX homepage to your home screen!
This new update isn’t as user friendly as the previous one. The colors and the set up seem distracting. It just kind of irritates you look for what you want to see first. It also freezes up, you have to close it and reopen. Sometimes change isn’t always the best. Also couldn’t rate the app in the actual app. That link doesn’t do anything. I had to go to the App Store.
The problem with the app is when I turn my iPhone sideways to view a picture or video I can’t go back, the app freezes. I have to completely close the app and reopen it to continue. Very frustrating. And I realize the news has to advertise, but do I have to see one EVERY TIME i view a video? I have to admit that I don’t watch as many because of the ads. Thank you for letting me air my thoughts.
The new version uses a font that is not as reader-friendly. It’s much slower to load, and the ads are placed too frequently and are distracting. In general, I find WLOX doesn’t update the news as frequently enough. There has to be more stories that are of local interest. Instead of the same news with no updates,!there could be more inspirational local coverage. Perhaps the most ironic and frequent negative aspect is the message of “there’s no news,” which in find is more frequent at night and on weekends.
Football is over; all I see are JUCO or High School football choices. What about Basketball, among other things. Coast teams have been trying to get to Jackson, but I can’t seem to find anything about them. Hard to support them if we don’t know where/when they’re playing next.
I am so proud of how well our local reporters articulate what is happening in our community. They do it with such professionalism and most of it is impromptu which makes so so much believable, “ no fakes in our news casters.”
I use this app everyday and I recently downloaded the newest update. It looks like a disorganized, jumbled mess. Often the same story featured several times and there is no clear division and eye appeal to the dividing lines between stories as they are listed on the main page. Also with the recent storm in the Atlantic there should be an update on the main page with current Speeds and forecast.
I don’t know why but the app locks up on Apple TV. It gets stuck on a casino screen, it sits there so long the screen saver comes on. I usually put it on while I’m getting dressed for work. I don’t have time to keep going in and out of the app to make it start again. The whole reason I got the Apple TV was because WLOX wasn’t available in the Vizio App Store. I would give this app 0 stars if I could. The locking up drives me nuts.
I do not like having to go thru an add to get to the news. TV is ok but on your web site an ad is aggravating . In my case, I had a bad experience with America factory and it’s a waste of time navigating thru the ad. Do you have a premium app that by-passes the add?
WLOX is where I start my morning. The content is lackluster, and stale. Quite a bit of the current content is months old. The weather part is only somewhat helpful now since they removed the live morning report. Really enjoyed watching Wesley, he had a lot of enthusiasm. Near Zero on the saints. My time on the site has gone from 15min to 4min, then it's on to AppleNews.
I don't want to see an add breaking up every sentence of every news story and prefer not to read the news at all if that'a what I'm going to get. Would even prefer to pay for news and not get the add interruptions, but, doesn't seem to be an option.
Too many ads! Can’t tell the news stories from “sponsored content”ads. Too many ads interruptions!!! Wish I could go back to old app. Will probably delete this whole app. Makes it Too much trouble to try to see the local news!
This “news outlet” that claims to be unbiased and equally representative is ACTUALLY openly racist. Notice the capitalization differences. “Black” is NOT a proper noun, and by capitalizing it and not “white”, you are a prime example of how media drives separation in the masses for profit. Shame on your company and I will no longer follow such racist bigotry. What a joke.
Can you possibly add a setting to increase the font size? I can barely read articles unless I have my glasses with me! Thank you! Pam T. Pascagoula, MS
The new update is awful. It is confusing. It's hard to separate the headlines. It repeats headlines/news on home page. Mixes old news with new news. As a result, I have now started going to the Sun Herald app to get my daily news. I pray to God that they do not screw up the wlox weather when they do an update for it.
Will not work unless location access is given. Why does the app require location access to just read the news? And, just like last time I had this app, it’s slam full of ads. No thanks, I’ll be deleting again.
Ever since the update the app freezes on the loading screen with a circle just going round and round. I hope this gets fixed soon cause I loved the app before the constant freezing
Not user friendly. Continually freezes up trying to open. Will not open to the notification story when opened using notification link. Poor overall update
Your latest article about a new hotel coming to Waveland and the ground breaking ceremony doesn’t mention where on 90 it’s being constructed or where the new almost completed Express Oil location is.
The old WLOX app was not very good. This one is a hundred times worse! It’s hard to follow which stories are actual news and which are just click-bait. It’s very disjointed in the presentation and has too many adds.
Your new news app is more than useless. It has no logical order and if this app was paper, it would not even make a good mullet wrapper. It should be flushed. Since giving the app zero stars is not an option, you get a one.
Since previous updates, when I select a story, the download stops around halfway and that’s it. I never see the story. I have a really nice frame and title, but no content. Same on the WDAM app
Was prompted tonight to download the new app when I opened it to read the news - now it won’t open - have tried over the past few hours. Deleted and will try to download and see if if that works.
Still don’t like. You get maybe a few news stories mixed in with a bunch of ads made to look like news stories. “ mom in tears plays app and wins big”.
I liked the previous version of the app much better, this is a step backwards. It looks like a cheaper version. I enjoyed the trending stories section, why was it done away with?
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