Google News – Daily Headlines

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About this app

Google News is a personalised news aggregator that organises and highlights what’s happening in the world so that you can discover more about the stories that matter to you.

With Google News, you’ll find:

YOUR BRIEFING: It can be nearly impossible to keep up with every story that you care about; Your Briefing makes it easy to stay in the know about what’s important and relevant in your world. It updates throughout the day to bring you the top local, national and world headlines, plus personalised news tailored to your interests.

LOCAL NEWS: Explore your community through stories and articles from news outlets in your local area. Customise and choose multiple locations so that you can know what’s happening near you or wherever home is.

FULL COVERAGE: Dive deeper into a story with multiple perspectives. The Full coverage feature organises everything online about a story, surfacing and highlighting coverage from different outlets and media. With just a tap, you’ll uncover how the story is unfolding and how everyone is reporting on it.

STORIES FOR YOU: The For You section delivers personalised news related to your interests. Take control and customise the articles that you see by following the topics and sources that you care about.

ACCESS FROM ANY DEVICE: Google News is designed to meet the needs of users with different phones and levels of connection. When your connection isn’t strong or you need to save data, Google News will continue to work smoothly by slimming down the size of images and downloading less data. Articles can be downloaded over Wi-Fi to save for later when you are offline.

Do you prefer to access your news on your laptop or desktop? Pair the Google News mobile app with our desktop website, news.google.com, so that you can stay up to date and access the news no matter what device you’re on.

Ratings and reviews

used to be a good app. now not so much. too many items hidden behind pay walls. need a way to suppress those. I don't want large pictures in the feed index. this recently changed. I want to read the news not look at pictures. I'm not sure if there is another app that does this but I'm looking. 8/23 now borders on useless. no mini cards at all. I want news not pictures

I HATE that I had to get rid of the Google News and Weather app. I loved the weather widget, and there are none like it that show you in one row the weather for the next few days, with the highs and lows. Also, can't find a good app to show you the weather in the app quickly for the temp, humidity, precipitation and wind nicely. FINALLY, where are the Local sections? Those were my favorite pieces...

Each new incarnation of Google news has been more tedious and less intuitive than the last. First swiping away articles disappeared, now the articles are grouped by topic. While this is great in theory, entire topics can't be removed at one time. For example, if I'm not interested in reading about the stock market crash, I have to give all five of the associated articles a "thumbs down" individually. It is also no longer possible to designate non-preferred topics in the feed. To use the stock market example again, the prior option of, "not interested in stories about the stock market" has been removed. I feel that I'm now spending more time clearing out the things I don't want to read than accessing articles of use or interest. The lack of scrolling in the widget is also disappointing. On a brighter note, the new app is pretty.

What's new

· Bug fixes and performance improvements