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

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.

Sorting preferences - This app needs the ability to sort by release date. I searched one topic and I want to see the lastest. Its November and I'm seeing articles from May at the start. I had to scroll through May, July, August in random placing. I'd like newest first not 5 or 10 places down. With how tech savy Google is they at least be able to do that.

Terrible usability. Pathetic design. Opens pages in itself rather than the browser of your choice even if you enable such option. Instead of rendering pages in a uniform way (text size, colors, content extraction, etc.) in a similar manner to Microsoft News, it shows the pages with all the unnecessary stuff, including ads and auto-starting videos that ruin the experience and cookie alerts that waste your time (one more time, because you have to go through them both in this app and your browser if you tend to visit the same pages). The bottom tab bar wastes the precious screen real estate, and if you choose to browse by topic, then your also get the static top bar to make it even worse. Last but not least, forget about mixing regions and languages, e.g to get news in English for a county that does not speak English. The same goes getting news from multiple countries or regions at the same time.

What’s new

· Bug fixes and performance improvements