Yahoo News: Your Guide to News

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About this app

Yahoo News gives you news that is on point! with free, unlimited access to the stories and topics that matter most to you. Aggregating news from premium publishers, you can keep up with your world through a feed personalized to your interests and preferences. Never miss out on breaking world, national or local news updates, plus read about entertainment, lifestyle and more.

Yahoo News has been bringing readers the latest headlines and hottest trends from trusted sources for over 20 years. Join the millions of people who get personalized news updates from Yahoo News, and access the following benefits.

Yahoo News Features:

PERSONALIZATION: Keep up with the news you care about through a personalized feed that adapts to your interests, while helping you stay informed with the most important breaking headlines. Instantly access the stories, topics and publishers that matter most to you, and adjust your preferences at any time to improve your feed and notifications. Block any keywords or specific publishers you don’t want to hear from, and make your news feed uniquely yours.

CHOOSE FROM MANY PREMIUM NEWS SOURCES: Yahoo News aggregates content from the best global publishers — from CNN and Time to Business Insider, People and Esquire — so you can feel confident that you have access to the best, and most comprehensive news providers out there. Get perspectives from a broad range of publishers, and opt into updates from your favorites.

BREAKING NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD: Get global breaking news headlines that matter to you, wherever you are. Yahoo News partners with international news organizations like Associated Press, Reuters and The Washington Post, that report on the biggest world stories and current events. You’ll never miss a beat.

LOCAL NEWS: We know how important it is to keep up with local news, which is why we’ve partnered with an array of local publishers like the Miami Herald, Charlotte Observer, NY Post and more, so you can stay on top of local politics, news, events, weather updates, crime and other important conversations in your neighborhood.

NO PAYWALLS: Yahoo News is completely free to use. Access unlimited stories from premium publishers, so you can always stay on top of the topics you care about.

DIVERSE RANGE OF TOPICS: Yahoo News is proud to aggregate content from a vast range of publishers. In addition to our proprietary Yahoo coverage of News, Entertainment, and Lifestyle content, you will also get access to the other topics you love like: celebrity, sports, movies & television, music, technology, health & wellness, parenting, style & beauty, travel, home & garden, autos, shopping, horoscope, science, weather and more.

QUICK AI TAKEAWAYS: AI-generated, scannable, bulleted takeaways for articles make it easy to get the most important elements of a story in an instant. Harnessing the power of AI, users can quickly browse the key points of stories and stay in the know.

Ratings and reviews

New layout is trash. Hate the horizontal scrolling, very finicky, either scrolls too fast or too slow, not natural at all. The previous layout was far superior with the simple vertical scrolling and larger images. There was no reason to fix what wasn't broken. Also major breaking news stories don't get featured at all. They get buried with all other headlines. New version is trash.

Have enjoyed the app for years, but the most recent update requires one to change privacy settings on my phone so that they can track my preferences across apps. Tracking to enable personalization should be an option. I am fine without the personalization. The app will not let me use it any longer without my agreeing to change privacy settings. I am deleting the app from my phone. It's unfortunate since it was one of my primary news sources.

News feed works fine. You can customize it to show areas of interest. It has the frustrating habit of sending a push notification with a really interesting headline, but when you open the alert, that news story is not shown. Not even if you scroll all the way down. Half the time it won't even bring up the missing story if you search for the exact title from the push notification. That gets old fast. Also, too many ads mixed in with real news. At least they are now marked as ads.

What's new

HUGE UPDATE: Get the brand new Yahoo News app now. It’s news the way you want it — we’ve added an assortment of new features for the most personalized, relevant and curated news experience yet:

• Feed and customization improvements
• Key takeaways on articles
• Flag to rewrite clickbait headlines
• Block keywords and publishers
• Reading streaks and badges