Says it supports dark mode, but all articles open in an internal browser with regular white backgrounds, even when chrome supports dark mode. Edit: it's been another year, still no dark mode support. There's a setting for it, but as soon as you click on any article it opens up in a black on white internal browser/chromium window, instead of actual chrome. Not to mention its the only app where suggested contacts for direct share cannot be hidden, despite being many years old. The worst Google app
Ads are all over the place, including videos that play when using mobile data despite having enabled the data saver mode. As of now, Google news has used ~4GB of mobile data, more than 10 times what Youtube has used, even with limited use during the day.
This Google news app does not use system default app as default browser. It uses its own internal unknown browser(maybe with not up to date security). My default browser is chrome with forced dark mode. It works fine with the left-swipe Google app (with news recommendation). They should use the default browser setting in this app.
Lately if you accidentally click an ad you cannot use the typical Android gesture swiping from left to right in order to back up to the article. It seems to be designed to make it harder to navigate away from advertisements. Which is exactly what it is.
Pop-widget Needs work because it Never works when the app is closed or if you haven't used it in a while and has to be refreshed. It can be really annoying. It would be nice to get pop-up notifications
Update #2, 9/19/22: Around 8/21 I posted a 2-star review based on the fact that if I look at Google News for 20 minutes it so, Google News causes my phone to reboot. I updated on 1/2/22 that I was having the same problem. Now it's 9/19/22, and the app still causes my phone to reboot, but sometimes it now halogens after using it for 5-10 minutes. HELP ME GOOGLE! Please fix your app. Thank you.
The saved stories for later cannot be deleted later I've tried deleting them any times they go away for approximately 10 seconds then reappear I have sent a few feedbacks through the help section but no one emails me back so be careful with this app if it has this glitch it may have other glitches hopefully none that are stealing your data and bank accounts.
Google News is an excellent aggregator, but it does take some work to get it set up. For publishers who put up a paywall, make sure to click the three dots next to the article and click Stop showing from publisher. Once you have your news feed curated and favourite sources followed, it provides an excellent at-a-glance picture of all current news. Surprisingly, it's very good at showing news on both a community and international level at the same time.
Eddie H (Hymanator)
2022-09-19
The built-in browser doesn't go into dark mode when you read the full article, making the "dark mode" setting useless. The only workaround I found was to uninstall the app and use the website version instead. Just make sure you enable the Chrome flag settings to force every website to go into dark mode.
Vasilis Katsoris
2022-09-19
When I click on a notification it NEVER opens the article. It just opens the news list. My device runs a pure android version and I have no software installed that interferes with notifications or ad blockers. Please fix this finally....