ABC NEWS

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

About this app

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

Ratings and reviews

Scrolls back up to the beginning of the article if you rotate your phone. Especially annoying if you watch a video clip half way into a long article. If you minimise the app it isn't shown in recent apps and again looses your place in whatever you were reading. Widget often gets stuck or fails to load, now it's been removed all together.

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.

I wish I could rate it higher, but there's one major issue that I run into too frequently to be able to do so. The issue is that when you I am watching a video in full screen and rotate the screen (when I want to see it larger) it kicks me out of the video and makes to go back to the start of the video. So I don't only have to scroll back down the article to find the video again, but I also need to find where in the video I was when I rotated the screen! It's extremely frustrating!

What’s new

Thanks for using ABC News app. This update provides minor design and performance improvements.