Google News - Daily Headlines

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About this app

Google News is a personalized news aggregator that organizes and highlights what’s happening in the world so 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 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 personalized news tailored to your interests.

LOCAL NEWS: Explore your community through stories and articles from news outlets in your local area. Customize and choose multiple locations so 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 organizes everything online about a story, surfacing and highlighting coverage from different outlets and mediums. 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 personalized news related to your interests. Take control and customize the articles you see by following the topics and sources 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 you can stay up to date and access the news no matter what device you’re on.

Ratings and reviews

The ads from various news sites have overwhelmed and ruined my ability to enjoy this application. With 75% of my screen space being covered with ads with fake close buttons, I can hardly read any content. There seems to be no effective way to block ads through the app, so I've had to switch to an alternative browser application and navigate to news sites directly. Rendering this app completely useless.

The refresh rate in a recent update makes this app unusable. I don't know if it's a time limit or a percentage of scrolling or if they accidentally overrode gestures so the simple act of scrolling results in a refresh, but whatever it is, it refreshes frequently now. I can barely read the headlines of 4-5 articles before it refreshes again, resetting the view, but the articles at the top section don't update, just everything else does. So, as soon as I find something interesting - refresh!

I like the ability to scroll the widget for the latest world, national, and local news. I like the ability to access one news item from multiple sources within the application. SUGGESTION: The ability to remove pictures on widgets would allow for more of the headlines to be visible on the widget. Therefore, those with poor vision can view more of the headline with font size and zoom features maximized.

What’s new

· Bug fixes and performance improvements