Just played with it a little bit now and there are sooooo many sources of news to choose from. Looking forward to keep using it.
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Boo!!! Apple News is NOT a Feedly killer after all
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I'm just wishing I could get it working on my iPad Air. It let me pick feeds and just crashes now. *sigh*
This just raised this app way up in my opinion. That was the one thing I was hoping we could do. I can really see myself using this a lot...
Good catch. I'm surprised Apple didn't make this easier to do within the News app. I'm guessing it's the typical Apple 1.0 version, it's barebone for now and will expand over time.
Got to settings>General>Language & Region>Region then select United States, then force reboot the phone and it'll appear. I'm in the UK and that's how I got it to show. surprised i had to do this though as a few of the channels listed are for UK papers.
Thanks for the tip!
But for some reason, MacRumors refuses to be added to News app no matter how many times I tap on "Add to News". Is anyone else having this issue?
I can't add anything in general. I know MR folks are looking into adding their site to News soon.
News is very unstable in this beta for me. Search is not returning anything, adding a new channel doesn't work from within News.app and so on. Hopefully, the next beta will be better. I really wish Apple would provide updates to their stock apps via the App Store.
I just thought of this very thing earlier today. In fact, I'm gonna submit this idea to the iOS team.
News App just auto crashes for me. At first setup was fine it didn't really render the way it looked at WWDC but now all it does is force quit abruptly whenever I open it. Anyone else?
I like the App overall but the "For You" articles are showing mostly sports articles but I want to see more tech and fitness articles. Seems like no matter how many articles I like, the for you articles are not curating properly
My biggest disappointment with it is that during the keynote, they made it seem like everything would be formatted really nicely, and remove all the junk. Instead, the vast majority of articles, you click on it and get a small snippet, then a link to "read full article" and it just pops up a Safari container. Thanks, I could have gotten the original ad-ridden thing myself if I wanted to.
I was thinking the exact same thing. I hate when I have to click a second time to read an article and then there's a ton of ads and really teeny fonts.
So you can't add paid magazine subscriptions like you can in NewsStand? Is that not a step backwards... If this app is replacing NewsStand surely it needs to support paid subscriptions and have a "News" section in the App Store!?
I know, I hope this gets added in along the way. It just makes so much more sense as a newsstand replacement.
Yep, same here. Started randomly doing so today. Was fine yesterday.
I don't understand all the negativity. The app is in its FIRST beta and people are hating it. You guys realize this isn't even an initial release product yet right? News sources will utilize this and make formatting and things appropriate for it as we get closer to launch and as the first year cycles through. Flipboard wasn't perfect on day 1 either....