ABC NEWS

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

About this app

News from Australia’s most trusted news source ABC NEWS.

Ratings and reviews

It's now the ONLY one of my six news apps that doesn't support dark mode. The help page admits it's a very highly demanded function; it has been for years, and the app seems to have been reskinned from the ground up twice in that time, so it would've been trivial to implement. Apparently the iOS version supports it, so it's not like the editorial content would pose problems. No, the fact that this elementary function is missing can only mean the product managers are either arrogant or clueless.

Since the last format change, I'm seeing an emphasis on Stories rather than News - sort of defeats the purpose of using a news app. It's harder to get a sense of what the top news items are now since the new format jumbles the topics - Human Rights proceeds Gambling. Then it's COVID-19 and then Disaster Relief, which can lead onto Stabbings, Birds and finally Nuclear Energy. My own experience is now less engagement rather than more, followed sadly by a search of alternative news sites....

No Find In Page option! Don't reorient your phone from portrait to landscape (or vice versa) as this pathetic app then loses its place and sends you right back to the top of the page. And FFS don't reorient your device while playing a video either, as it spits the dummy completely, taking you to a random page - what fun! Oh and there's no History function, so you'll handily never be able to easily find even the very last article you were reading, lord forbid something from yesterday. UNINSTALL!

What's new

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