BBC: World News & Stories 12+
Live, Breaking, Sport & Video
BBC Worldwide
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- Free
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Description
THE BBC APP: News, stories, videos and live coverage from our trusted global network of journalists.
BBC STORIES: The latest, breaking news headlines, articles and videos, including coverage of world News, UK News, elections, BBC Verify, and more. More stories and videos covering business, innovation, culture, travel, Earth, and much more.
LIVE COVERAGE: Follow live news updates and live global sport in our Live section.
BBC VIDEOS: Watch BBC News videos, BBC Sport videos, and video stories about climate, sustainability, science, health, technology, entertainment, and history.
BREAKING NEWS ALERTS: Sign up for breaking news notification alerts from BBC News, delivered straight to your mobile device.
FEATURES:
• Log into your BBC Account to save articles and videos for later on the app and BBC.com
• Watch videos over both cellular and wifi
• Increase your font size for readability
• Choose dark mode for a dark-background reading experience
• Share stories and videos to social platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp, and send to friends via SMS and email
• Opt-in or opt-out of breaking news push notifications, you decide
ADDITIONAL INFO:
If you choose to receive push notifications, a unique identifier relating to your device will be stored by Airship on behalf of the BBC to provide you with the service. You can choose to unsubscribe from push notifications from BBC in your device’s ‘Notifications’ screen.
Our data processor AppsFlyer collects information on behalf of the BBC for attribution and analysis purposes. You can opt out from AppsFlyer tracking by filling out their ‘Forget My Device’ form: https://www.appsflyer.com/optout
The BBC will keep your information secure and not share it with anyone else in accordance with the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy. To read BBC’s Privacy Policy go to https://www.bbc.com/usingthebbc/privacy/
If you install this app you accept the BBC Terms of Use at https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/terms
What’s New
Version 2024.2.2
Performance updates and bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
A great news app for 2015
It's smooth and stable, I'll give it that, but for a marquee product of a key global news organization, it's incredibly basic. No options for customizing views or content. No search. If I want to know about it and it hasn't been algorithmically curated, tough luck.
The super-chunky new layout doesn't help either - everything looks like it's trying to fill space, adding to the impression that offering information is no longer a priority. And do I really have to scroll back to the top and manually refresh *every* time I open the app?
Advertising insults news stories!
The advertising in this application is extremely inappropriate! I was watching a news video about how a joint venture between BHP and a Brazilian company created a disaster that took out entire towns and killed over 300 people. BHP were held accountable for their actions and charged with negligence! But before the news video started a commercial came up for BHP showing how good of a company they were and how they are the future! This was an insult to the victims and friends and family that are following this story. This has been screen recorded and will be reported to the advertising standards boards in both the UK and Australia. This advertising before news stories sometimes is a contradiction to the story you are trying to watch/read. I cannot support this app when such carelessness in advertising is happening. I will be Pursuing this and fighting for change for appropriate advertising. I will not support this application and will be send ing screen recordings to appropriate news and media organisations to make sure this application changes its insulting advertising!
What have you done?
I never post a review, but the two latest updates are so bad I have to give feedback.
The previous version was perfect, why fix something that wasn’t broken. Each iteration is getting worse.
Few pain points:
- Can’t customise the news, need to scroll through all the irrelevant news - guess what I don’t care about 95% of it just give me what I want to read
- Why replace the iconic red logo?
- UI is a complete mess, it’s so difficult to navigate nor to know what the category. Previously the category was highlighted red, now they’ll all the same colour
- UX is dreadful, super clunky, one of the worse experiences. Open up the sports section and takes me to what appears to be a app within an app, rather than a seamless interaction
- Ads all over the place
To summarise - the app is a complete mess. Stop whatever you’re doing and rollback two versions to a working product.
Suggestion - do an inspect and adapt, read the comments, and use the app yourself. Perform AB testing and you will quickly find your previous versions will score higher. Don’t waste any more millions on this, simple fix - revert back.
App Privacy
The developer, BBC Worldwide, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location
- Browsing History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Browsing History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- BBC Worldwide LTD
- Size
- 77.3 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
- Copyright
- © 2024 BBC
- Price
- Free