Apple News Survey Results: Regular Use or Not at All

[Felix01 (Felix)]

I would be a lot more apt to use Apple News on a frequent basis if it were also available for the macOS. I don’t spend much time browsing and/or reading routine news on my smartphone…it’s used mainly for text, e-mail and calls of course.

[ddmiller (Doug Miller)]

@kreme

But, I still cannot convince it that I do not want to see news from Fox, NYTimes, CNN, CBS, etc. Not now, not ever. Which is why I use it far less than I would otherwise. My choices on a story I don’t want to see (For examples, today’s “Why British women wear ridiculous hats at weddings” are “love, share, save” and not “never show me anything like this again.” And there is no way for me to see only the things I asked to see without it being intermingled with the crap the app thinks I want to see.

What I do in a situation like this in Apple News is open one of the offering articles. If you look at the top, in the center there should be a tappable name of the site. Say it’s Fox News; tap that banner and it will bring you to all of their articles. On the top right there are icons with a heart and a heart with a slash. I tap the heart with the slash, confirm that I want to block the site, and that does seem to prevent articles from that site from ever showing up again.

[jcenters (Josh Centers)]

What I really need from Apple News is a way to create collections of news sources, and ideally, share them. RSS readers call these “folders,” but you know Apple hates folders.

And a Mac app, of course.

[kreme (@lbutlr)]

It appears the mistake that I am making, if you can call it that, is I want to “dislike” an entire news source, and you can only dislike individual articles.

(NM: I saw @ddmiller’s post after posting this, you can unheard an entire news source… off to go gallumphing through the feeds striking out the offenders!)

[MMTalker]

Apple News is a slow learner. I’ve found that if you keep disliking articles in a genre, it eventually catches on.

Marilyn

[mitchmail (RooneyR)]

I use the App daily on an iPad and like having the wide-ranging coverage. But there’s no pinch-to-zoom in this App!? Huh? Often the text is faded grey or too small. Apple invented the device and pinch-to-zoom!! How about using it in this App?