BBC: World News & Stories

BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

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About this app

THE BBC APP: News, stories, audio, videos and live coverage from our trusted global network of journalists.

BBC STORIES: The latest, breaking news headlines, articles, podcasts and videos, including coverage of world News, UK News, elections, BBC Verify, BBC In-Depth and more. Stories and videos covering business, innovation, culture, arts, travel, Earth, and much more.

LIVE COVERAGE: Follow live news updates and live global sport in our Live section.

BBC AUDIO: Listen to, save, and follow BBC podcasts such as The Global Story and World of Secrets. Browse schedules and live stream BBC Radio 4 or BBC World Service with option to live rewind. From news, politics and culture to true crime, history and science, you can find the latest episodes or dive into the BBC audio archive.

WATCH BBC NEWS: Users in the US and Australia can stream live breaking news from around the world 24 hours a day on the BBC News channel.

BBC VIDEOS: Watch BBC News videos, BBC Sport videos, and video stories about climate, sustainability, science, health, technology, entertainment, and history.

BREAKING NEWS ALERTS: Sign up for breaking news notification alerts from BBC News, delivered straight to your mobile device.

FEATURES:
• Log into your BBC Account to save articles, podcasts and videos for later on the app and BBC.com
• Watch videos and listen to audio over both cellular and wifi
• Follow podcasts and save episodes
• Choose your settings to allow the app to automatically update in the background
• Control audio playback with sleep timer and live rewind
• Increase your font size for improved readability
• Choose dark mode for a dark-background reading experience
• Share stories, podcasts, and videos to social platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp, and send to friends via SMS and email
• Opt-in or opt-out of breaking news push notifications, you decide

ADDITIONAL INFO:
If you choose to receive push notifications, a unique identifier relating to your device will be stored by Airship on behalf of the BBC to provide you with the service. You can choose to unsubscribe from push notifications from BBC in your device’s ‘Notifications’ screen.

Our data processor AppsFlyer collects information on behalf of the BBC for attribution and analysis purposes. You can opt out from AppsFlyer tracking by filling out their ‘Forget My Device’ form: https://www.appsflyer.com/optout

The BBC will keep your information secure and not share it with anyone else in accordance with the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy. To read BBC’s Privacy Policy go to https://www.bbc.com/pages/privacy-policy

If you install this app you accept the BBC Terms of Use at https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/terms

Ratings and reviews

Very disappointed. I can't easily follow a podcast series as I could with BBC Sounds. It keeps defaulting to the home page and doesn't remember what I was listening to. Not only that, but series often don't link correctly. For example, with Science in Acton, I want to listen to the latest episode first, and then when that's finished it should move to the previous one, but it doesn't. Also I can't search podcasts specifically. There is not such a rich selection of them as before with BBC Sounds.

A real pain to use. I'm only interested in podcasts but they're hidden behind two menu clicks. When you switch out of the app it has to relaunch. There's no option to cast podcasts, meaning that I have to use headphones or carry my phone around with me. And it doesn't remember any of my play history from BBC Sounds, so I now have to go through and mark a bunch of my podcasts as played. Bring back BBC Sounds. This thing is so awful that I'm likely to just give up on BBC content because of it.

Total dumster fire of an app. I get why non-licence fee users overseas might not get everything uk residents are able to access but really? This app is absolutely horrendous. I just want to continue following and listening to a bunch of podcasts I enjoy and it's now an afterthought via a tiny section at the absolute bottom of the audio section. No way to cue up podcasts, 'latest' just seems to mean some randomly arranged 8 podcasts that don't update once you've listened to them, total hot mess.

What’s new

You can now highlight text in articles and use your device's built-in look up options like web search and read aloud. This release also includes general bug fixes and improvements.