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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

This is a real step backwards. The old version allowed me to dismiss an article by swiping it; now I need to go through multiple steps to remove it. The background is garishly bright, with no apparent way to change it to something more relaxing for reading in dim light. The topic list is much less useful than before: for example, it include "Sports" at the top level but not the many other more interesting topics (to me at least) that were at the top level in the earlier version. With this version, it seems I need to work my way through multiple options or just choose not to see any more stories from a given source. I used to rely on this app for my morning review, but no longer.

Google should admit failure on this app after so many people show disinterest. The old news app is very organized and help me to browse through headlines with just one glance. I have to spend so much time just to scroll through the scattered news tiles. This is one good example of setting priority on appearance over practicality in designing app. And please do not follow Microsoft's lead to force us into "upgrading" to an inferior product.

I can't use this app. The page reloads when going from portrait to landscape. I prefer to read articles in oortrait but watch videos in landscape. This app does not allow me to do that seamlessly or even easily. I've given up and uninstalled it. Maybe I'll come back and try the app again in a few months to see if thst issue has been rectified.

What's new

· Bug fixes and performance improvements